It is nice to see that the IA64 chips finally will be distributed, but why on earth are they using PC100 sdram? The first few versions of the IA64 chip is probably not going to be the fastest beasts alive, but why use that old ram?
With Intels strong relations with rambus, you'd expect them to use Rambus memory, which has quite a bit better performance than older standards. Seems like it will be able to run with quite a bit of ram, though. that is pretty cool.. I think I want one. Not much disk space, though. Will need a bunch of external disks
Anybody heard the fps rate in Quake 3 for one of theese things?;)
Does anyone know how much these cables would save (in the way of line loss) over ordinary copper power mains?
Don't have a wire table handy and the answer should be generally interesting.
according to the article the power loss (produced by heating) is about twice as large as the power you'll have to use to cool this cable down. You'd have to use a lot of power to cool down the system in the beginning, but as superconductors don't emit very much heat this is likely to decrease after the initial freeze.
One kilogram of antimatter let loose anywhere on the surface of the Earth, or in the atmosphere, will be enough to destroy an entire continent.
And I mean thoroughly destroy, like vaporize. That at least was what my sub-atomic-physics professor told me, and he works at Cern. He knows
what he's talking about.
Any macroscopic amount of antimatter is so hideously dangerous to handle, that I can't imagine that it will be stored or produced anywhere on or
even NEAR the Earth.
One kilo of this stuff is obviously enough to blow uip quite a lot, but not a continent.
What if we started to manufacture this stuff in earth orbit, and of some reason there was a huge leak, would this destroy a bunch of sattelites? I guess that this could actually be a bigger problem, than killing 200.000 people (even though that would be a pretty bad idea)
This is just what I've been waiting for. Now I can take my PDA out of my pocket and tell people that I pay money by the minute to host a website from my pants
you want a wigwam in your pants?;)
seriously.. I kinda like the way my Ipaq (or rather the Ipaq I'm borrowing from work) is running linux. hehe.. the best thing is that I'm the only one around that is using linux, so I'll probably going to get to keep the little thingy.
But why would anyone want to sniff the mouse? Keyboards, I can understand, but what useful information could you possibly get from a mouse?:)
If you would like to do exactly the same as the user before you. Say that the person you are listening to logs on to a w2k server right after a boot. Then all you needed to do was doing a cold start, and resubmit all the data you received 10 minutes ago, and you cold do whatever he did. not that you wouldn't be able to do this by reading through the key-log, but...
Who would use such a keyboard on servers, though. The real problem would be with lazy sysadmins, who logs on to their workstations with admin rights.
One of my teachers (believe it or not, I am studying Business and management) actually used to work for the NSA, but quit after 5 years working for them. Now he is one of the most recogniced computer teachers in Norway.
Once when I talked to him about computer security he told me that it actually was quite simple to listen to fibre-optic signals, all you had to do was having a really sensitive sensor, and bend the fibre slightly, and maybe even cut a small crack in it, and a portion of the light would pass out, and right into your receiver.
Now if all communication used encryption you still would not get anything usefull. However you could get anything that passed unencrypted.
Isn't the bigger problem a power issue? A tethered robot would have a hard time keeping balance much less be able to run. With current battery technology and assuming a reasonable running time between charges i believe that the dino's weight would be too great for it to lift itself off the ground. Not to mention what seems to be a lack of battery space.
If this cool little thing is supposed to be used in museums battery life should be no problem. They could solve the problem simply by programming it to recharge itself from a "feeder station" every 60 minutes or so. This would even make it look like the little thing was looking for food.
Guess what I'm going to try and build with my lego tomorrow...
How about you come up with an AI as intelligent as a squid before you start having nightmares of rampaging intelligent dinosaur robots.
uh.. when the robots get as intelligent as a squid I'd be very very scared. The squid is actually a very intelligent animal, with capabilities exceding most of the other animals living in the sea. The squid is probably the most intelligent animal in the world if you don't take mammals in consideration. It is even smarter than most of the mammals.
Btw.. I think I've found something that would be nice to work with.
To be honest; I do not know everything about quantum mechanics, but why on earth would we want to turn those things on? If quantum computers are solely dependent on the laws of quantum physics (Laws we do not yet fully understand, btw) then it ought to be impossible to affect the computations, and no power is needed. That is unless we would like to receive the results in a way readable to humans.
If we figure out how quantum mechanics really work it should be possible to achieve this stuff, but I seriously doubt that we will get to see it before we are all dead.
After the "computer" has gotten it's input it should be able to continue to work without power (I imagine), and we wouldn't need power before we wanted to read the results.
I do not think that anybody will ask me to help them designing such a computer.
I wonder how they are going to program this computer, but I sure would like one of those
during a computer crash your soundcard detected the words "Damn microsoft". This is not allowed by the contract you have signed with microsoft. This seems like a great violation of the license, and Microsoft is forced to take action.
Your agreement with microsoft has hereby been cancelled. You are allowed to use this software for another month, after that time it will self destruct.
We hope that you in the future will help us promoting the wonderful world of Microsoft programs, and not ever again curse windows for crashing.
You might apply for a new contract after 12 months
Well, I've never heard about a weapon doing this, but one of the reasons why it is illegal to use boats near of shore oil platforms is that there is such a risk. If there of some reason is a huge gas leak your boat might sink. Never heard of it happening, though. It sure would look rather strange.
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umm... not to say that I am a huge fan of the Chinese government, but here goes..
I seem to recall a Sovjet spy plane that got forced down over the US about 20 years ago, do you really think that USA handed that plane back to Sovjet?
when you compare the leaders of the two countries, I am not to sure about who is the nice guy.. George Bush certainly seems like a nutcase to me. Actually most people in Norway are rather scared about what he might do.
To return to the subject of the huge building thingy I would only like to say that it sounds like a pretty stupid idea. Okay, it might work, but I'd feel rather stupid if I owned a building with 100.000 people in it and it suddenly fell to the ground.
nope, there is no linux for the hp 48 calculator series. You could try Shell-OS, though.
It is a linux/unix clone with some functionality (grayscale, multiprocessing etc.)
It need a 32 kb memory card in port one.
It's even got it's own filesystem:)
URL:
http://www.multimania.com/shellos/
It is kinda cool
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It is nice to see that the IA64 chips finally will be distributed, but why on earth are they using PC100 sdram? The first few versions of the IA64 chip is probably not going to be the fastest beasts alive, but why use that old ram?
;)
With Intels strong relations with rambus, you'd expect them to use Rambus memory, which has quite a bit better performance than older standards.
Seems like it will be able to run with quite a bit of ram, though. that is pretty cool.. I think I want one.
Not much disk space, though. Will need a bunch of external disks
Anybody heard the fps rate in Quake 3 for one of theese things?
according to the article the power loss (produced by heating) is about twice as large as the power you'll have to use to cool this cable down.
You'd have to use a lot of power to cool down the system in the beginning, but as superconductors don't emit very much heat this is likely to decrease after the initial freeze.
One kilo of this stuff is obviously enough to blow uip quite a lot, but not a continent.
What if we started to manufacture this stuff in earth orbit, and of some reason there was a huge leak, would this destroy a bunch of sattelites?
I guess that this could actually be a bigger problem, than killing 200.000 people (even though that would be a pretty bad idea)
seriously.. I kinda like the way my Ipaq (or rather the Ipaq I'm borrowing from work) is running linux. hehe.. the best thing is that I'm the only one around that is using linux, so I'll probably going to get to keep the little thingy.
not that you wouldn't be able to do this by reading through the key-log, but...
Who would use such a keyboard on servers, though. The real problem would be with lazy sysadmins, who logs on to their workstations with admin rights.
One of my teachers (believe it or not, I am studying Business and management) actually used to work for the NSA, but quit after 5 years working for them. Now he is one of the most recogniced computer teachers in Norway.
Once when I talked to him about computer security he told me that it actually was quite simple to listen to fibre-optic signals, all you had to do was having a really sensitive sensor, and bend the fibre slightly, and maybe even cut a small crack in it, and a portion of the light would pass out, and right into your receiver.
Now if all communication used encryption you still would not get anything usefull. However you could get anything that passed unencrypted.
Guess what I'm going to try and build with my lego tomorrow...
The squid is actually a very intelligent animal, with capabilities exceding most of the other animals living in the sea.
The squid is probably the most intelligent animal in the world if you don't take mammals in consideration. It is even smarter than most of the mammals.
Btw.. I think I've found something that would be nice to work with.
It should be no problem to use the hp48 as a remote control for your gadgets (as long as they don't use any of the new IR protocols. ( such as irda) )
just have a look at www.hpcalc.org, and you'll find a few working remotecontrol utils.
why on earth is this modded to Troll? I think it was a interesting post, probably not todays best post, but by no means a Troll.
that one is simple.
6x9 = 42 base 13 +2
== 54
To be honest; I do not know everything about quantum mechanics, but why on earth would we want to turn those things on? If quantum computers are solely dependent on the laws of quantum physics (Laws we do not yet fully understand, btw) then it ought to be impossible to affect the computations, and no power is needed. That is unless we would like to receive the results in a way readable to humans.
If we figure out how quantum mechanics really work it should be possible to achieve this stuff, but I seriously doubt that we will get to see it before we are all dead.
After the "computer" has gotten it's input it should be able to continue to work without power (I imagine), and we wouldn't need power before we wanted to read the results.
I do not think that anybody will ask me to help them designing such a computer.
I wonder how they are going to program this computer, but I sure would like one of those
during a computer crash your soundcard detected the words "Damn microsoft". This is not allowed by the contract you have signed with microsoft. This seems like a great violation of the license, and Microsoft is forced to take action.
Your agreement with microsoft has hereby been cancelled. You are allowed to use this software for another month, after that time it will self destruct.
We hope that you in the future will help us promoting the wonderful world of Microsoft programs, and not ever again curse windows for crashing.
You might apply for a new contract after 12 months
Well, I've never heard about a weapon doing this, but one of the reasons why it is illegal to use boats near of shore oil platforms is that there is such a risk. If there of some reason is a huge gas leak your boat might sink.
Never heard of it happening, though. It sure would look rather strange.
umm... not to say that I am a huge fan of the Chinese government, but here goes..
I seem to recall a Sovjet spy plane that got forced down over the US about 20 years ago, do you really think that USA handed that plane back to Sovjet?
when you compare the leaders of the two countries, I am not to sure about who is the nice guy.. George Bush certainly seems like a nutcase to me. Actually most people in Norway are rather scared about what he might do.
To return to the subject of the huge building thingy I would only like to say that it sounds like a pretty stupid idea. Okay, it might work, but I'd feel rather stupid if I owned a building with 100.000 people in it and it suddenly fell to the ground.
sounds like you would need a quite big heat sink if you wanted to overclock it that much, then :)
nope, there is no linux for the hp 48 calculator series. You could try Shell-OS, though. It is a linux/unix clone with some functionality (grayscale, multiprocessing etc.) It need a 32 kb memory card in port one. It's even got it's own filesystem :)
URL:
http://www.multimania.com/shellos/
It is kinda cool