Isn't 1 joule defined as the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water 1K?
Anyway, my prefered way of "visualising" the enormous energyoutput is to tell people just how many km^3 water you would be able to boil (starting at 0 C (fluid) ), but anihilating half a kilogram of antimatter (resulting in a kilogram of matter being anihilated). But since I'm aparantly not remembering my physics right, would someone post the correct amount of water?
Cool. But that doesn't help out the spectators, if they were to get any benefits of it. Unless you want to spend a ton of money for head-up-displays and wearable computers for all spectators.
You a mirrored setup as in most lasershows? Kinda like this: http://www.laser-light-show.com/syst.htm
"Total system cost is only $8995 complete (Low power 5mw). Medium power 50mw system $9995 complete. High power 100mw system $10,995 complete. Includes Pent III desktop computer. Laptop available at additional cost"
Not entirely sure that this is a bargain... hehe:-)
Maybe you could work out somekind of "handicap" for the program. The bigger the handicap the better hints you'd get. All new players start out with a handicap of, say, 100, and as you play, the computer works out how "good" you are, and manipulates the standard of the hints it gives you. Of course this requires you to register with the computer, but hey - what's the harm in that?
When I read the article the first time, the counter (at the very bottom) said 865 visitors, now (~50 minutes later) it says 4589. That's obviously not enough to slashdot the server, so let's show them what we can really do - slashdot the server. Or just slashdot the fastcounter.bcentral.com server (they're the ones hosting the counter):-)
Copy/paste from another post I made earlier. Maybe you too should drink a couple of cups of coffee:
"It _is_ a digital dartboard, as you can see by looking at the pictures: 1) The board has obvious cavaties: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/proj board.jpg 2) I've never noticed anything like this on a regular dartboard: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/boar d.jpg"
It _is_ a digital dartboard, as you can see by looking at the pictures: 1) The board has obvious cavaties: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/proj board.jpg 2) I've never noticed anything like this on a regular dartboard: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/boar d.jpg
Read the article, look at all the purdy pictures and _then_ post:-)
Not because I can play darts - I probably couldn't even hit the board - but because it's cool. I wonder if you could do something similar for a pool table. It would probably be quite a bit harder, as you'd need to be able to recognize each ball rather quickly. Maybe you could even build a program to recognize each ball and suggest the best shot and project it onto the table? Something new to do for these guys:-)
"2. So you have a 8 million transistor chip (CPU), and a 7 million transistor (graphics) and 2 million transistors (sound, disc, etc.) on one chip. That's 17 Million transistors- that's gonna be a huge fucking die size. Whatever you save by selling an all in one system you eat by the cost of the huge @#$#ing die, higher failure rate, heat issues, etc. A big expensive chip is not condusive to low-end markets. "
The AthlonXP has 37.5 million transistors and has a die size of 128 mm^2, the Geforce4 has 63(!) million transistors (don't know the die size of that one), but hey - just because I spent 3 minutes checking the facts at the manufacturers websites doesn't mean that I'm right - I'm sure that that 8 million transistor chip is correct along with the 7 million tranistor GPU is correct as well, I just don't know what cpu and gpu you are refering to. Of course the two forementioned chips get quite hot, but hey - they still work, and die shrinks tend to solve some of the heat issues (I think).
"3. The NForce isn't a single chip, it's a set of chips. Yeah, they could put a CPU as part of the package, but why would mobo makers put a surfacemount cpu on a board that would obsolete inventory every 6 months? Why not put a socket on and let the distributors and retailers worry about what CPU to ship with it?"
The Hammer is supposed to contain the northbridge on die, so you could probably do the same for the southbridge as well (put it in/on a socketable chip) giving you the option of upgrading that as well.
So, you believe that after arriving, the settlers will declare all other star systems rogue terrorists and declare that El Ron Hubbard is the one true God, and that all non-believers will have to be killed? Or something to that effect.
"So best actor is determined with your dick?"
No, but I didn't say that. How did you come to that conclusion? Don't project your tendencies onto others.
"sure NK would love to marry someone whose sole goal in life is to sit in front of the web and surf all day."
Good - then I know who to contact about a potential marriage. While I'm out, I could pick up a bag of "sense of humor" for you, what do you say?
I have in fact seen both movies, so I do actually know what I'm talking about.
"The effects [of MR]were cleaner and more natural and more impressive all-around [than LotR]"
Hmm... so you think a 3" tall Kylie Minogue singing in front of an OBVIOUSLY fake starlit sky (did you even SEE what symbols the stars showed?) is more natural than say - 4' hobbits hugging a 6'6" wizard? I sure as hell didn't. The special effects of MR are good, but nothing compared to LotR. The best effects of LotR are the ones you don't notice. The effects of MR can best be compared to the firework of Gandalf at the party, but even then, they aren't as good.
The music (songs) of MR is better, hands down, but that's probably just because I could recognize words and sing along with many of the songs; since I can't speak elvish, this is impossible for me to do with the songs of LotR. Wether the score of MR is better than that of LotR I don't really know - I didn't much notice the scores of LotR or MR, and I usually only notice scores, when they suck the life out of a movie/scenes.
Hugo Weaving vs Nicole Kidman? Kidman is the better actor and aparently singer, and I know who I'd rather have sex with, be in a relationship with and marry (and since I'm a heterosexual man, that means Nicole Kidman - plus she's probably rich, so I could just sit at home and surf the net all day long). I personally believe that Hugo Weaving was a wrong choice for Elrond, as he can't quite shake the image of Agent Smith.
Is Moulin Rouge better than LotR? In my oppion - no, but oppinions are like assholes - everyone has one. In my oppinion "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0211915) is a better movie than Moulin Rouge all round, but Amélie is not as good a movie as LotR all round.
Does anyone else dislike the term "unAustralian" (or whatever nationality you please)?
Other than the annoyance, that it doesn't have a good "feel" to it, I don't see a problem with it. What I do see a problem with, is when people say something like "[insert country] is un[insert other country]n". First time I heard/saw it used, was (I believe) when the former president Bush said something like "Iraq is un-american"... well - duh! What next? Squares are un-round? Used in the wrong context, anything can sound stupid.
"It is a miraculous feeling when you trust in the Lord, nothing can ever go wrong."
I guess that explains the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, IRA/Orange Order etc. Religion in general and christianity in particular is probably the biggest cause of war and misery in the history of man, and you're trying to convince me it's a good thing?
Here I am, in love with my neighbour (but don't have the guts to say anything), and you go marry a beautiful geek. I don't know you, but trust me when I tell you: "I hate you!"
gdyas wrote:
"It's when creationists push for that delusion to be the basis of other's lives through law and forced creationist teaching in public schools that I get indignant."
wberry wrote:
"Not only does this statement reply to something I did not say, it's a misrepresentation of the push for Creationism in education. As an aside, the real reason for the push is to guarantee that students are aware that some people disagree with evolution and why. All they want is a descriptive (not persuasive!) treatment of both schools of thought in the classroom. If evolution is so obviously true this should not be a problem."
Following that train of thought, why is it, that schools aren't teaching "anti holocaust" history? How about "Why I joined the Ku Klux Klan, and why you should to" in social studies? "How to perform female circumcision, and why it's a good thing" (would look real good in class)? "Satanism - how to sacrifice a child"? "How to have sex with a goat"?
What creationists are trying to do, is to teach others about their religion (christianity/judaism) - why can't they settle for that being taught in classes about religion? Why do you feel the need to push YOUR religious beliefs onto people of another religion? How would YOU feel, if your children were forced to learn about one of my suggested topics? I think "outraged" would be close to home. Evolution isn't a religion - it doesn't involve any kind of deity, it doesn't invole a 'set' text that can't be changed, it doesn't set down a set of guidelines for behaviour - in other words, it lacks any of the things, that define religions (perhaps excluding primitive shamanism). And, evolution is being examined and taught by people of all kinds of religious persuasions, just not people who are stupid enough to belive everything their religious text says. My favorite to quote in that regard is that most every religion has a prime rule that says "don't kill - ever!", and yet later they all go on to say "you can kill, if [insert insane reason here]" - don't tell me, that an omnipotent deity would make that kind of blunder, not to mention - why would such a being even need us to punish people? I think a 5,000,000 ton rock appearing 2 meters above an infidels head with a sign attached to it saying "don't [insert deadly sin here]" would be a lot more effective, than "if you don't behave, then you'll go to hell when you die" if you had just seen someone get squashed by a 5,000,000 ton rock with a sign attached saying "behave, or else!" to it.
But hey, I'm just a cynical infidel who don't believe in religions - but I do belive, that there IS one or more deities out there.
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Isn't 1 joule defined as the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water 1K?
Anyway, my prefered way of "visualising" the enormous energyoutput is to tell people just how many km^3 water you would be able to boil (starting at 0 C (fluid) ), but anihilating half a kilogram of antimatter (resulting in a kilogram of matter being anihilated). But since I'm aparantly not remembering my physics right, would someone post the correct amount of water?
So, you have 128 MB of RAM and a 4.5 GB harddrive?
:-)
Oh, you meant GigaByte and not Gigabit. Maybe you should drink some more cofee
Cool. But that doesn't help out the spectators, if they were to get any benefits of it. Unless you want to spend a ton of money for head-up-displays and wearable computers for all spectators.
"Think HMD .."
Is that some kind of blindfold?
You a mirrored setup as in most lasershows? Kinda like this: http://www.laser-light-show.com/syst.htm
... hehe :-)
"Total system cost is only $8995 complete (Low power 5mw).
Medium power 50mw system $9995 complete.
High power 100mw system $10,995 complete.
Includes Pent III desktop computer. Laptop available at additional cost"
Not entirely sure that this is a bargain
Maybe you could work out somekind of "handicap" for the program. The bigger the handicap the better hints you'd get. All new players start out with a handicap of, say, 100, and as you play, the computer works out how "good" you are, and manipulates the standard of the hints it gives you. Of course this requires you to register with the computer, but hey - what's the harm in that?
When I read the article the first time, the counter (at the very bottom) said 865 visitors, now (~50 minutes later) it says 4589. That's obviously not enough to slashdot the server, so let's show them what we can really do - slashdot the server. Or just slashdot the fastcounter.bcentral.com server (they're the ones hosting the counter) :-)
"Al made one of these for Sam in an episode of Quantum Leap :o)"
Which, of course, only Sam could see, because it was a holographic projection into Sam's mind, right?
Quantum Leap was cool. I especially enjoyed the episodes where he ended up in a woman.
Copy/paste from another post I made earlier. Maybe you too should drink a couple of cups of coffee:
j board.jpgr d.jpg"
"It _is_ a digital dartboard, as you can see by looking at the pictures:
1) The board has obvious cavaties: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/pro
2) I've never noticed anything like this on a regular dartboard: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/boa
Say five "hail cofee" and two "ave computer".
;-)
It _is_ a digital dartboard, as you can see by looking at the pictures:j board.jpgr d.jpg
:-)
... hehe
1) The board has obvious cavaties: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/pro
2) I've never noticed anything like this on a regular dartboard: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/boa
Read the article, look at all the purdy pictures and _then_ post
Not that I bother doing that of course
Not because I can play darts - I probably couldn't even hit the board - but because it's cool. I wonder if you could do something similar for a pool table. It would probably be quite a bit harder, as you'd need to be able to recognize each ball rather quickly. Maybe you could even build a program to recognize each ball and suggest the best shot and project it onto the table? Something new to do for these guys :-)
"2. So you have a 8 million transistor chip (CPU), and a 7 million transistor (graphics) and 2 million transistors (sound, disc, etc.) on one chip. That's 17 Million transistors- that's gonna be a huge fucking die size. Whatever you save by selling an all in one system you eat by the cost of the huge @#$#ing die, higher failure rate, heat issues, etc. A big expensive chip is not condusive to low-end markets. "
The AthlonXP has 37.5 million transistors and has a die size of 128 mm^2, the Geforce4 has 63(!) million transistors (don't know the die size of that one), but hey - just because I spent 3 minutes checking the facts at the manufacturers websites doesn't mean that I'm right - I'm sure that that 8 million transistor chip is correct along with the 7 million tranistor GPU is correct as well, I just don't know what cpu and gpu you are refering to. Of course the two forementioned chips get quite hot, but hey - they still work, and die shrinks tend to solve some of the heat issues (I think).
"3. The NForce isn't a single chip, it's a set of chips. Yeah, they could put a CPU as part of the package, but why would mobo makers put a surfacemount cpu on a board that would obsolete inventory every 6 months? Why not put a socket on and let the distributors and retailers worry about what CPU to ship with it?"
The Hammer is supposed to contain the northbridge on die, so you could probably do the same for the southbridge as well (put it in/on a socketable chip) giving you the option of upgrading that as well.
So, you believe that after arriving, the settlers will declare all other star systems rogue terrorists and declare that El Ron Hubbard is the one true God, and that all non-believers will have to be killed? Or something to that effect.
Is it just me, or could that actually be a title of an XXX-rated movie?
"So best actor is determined with your dick?"
No, but I didn't say that. How did you come to that conclusion? Don't project your tendencies onto others.
"sure NK would love to marry someone whose sole goal in life is to sit in front of the web and surf all day."
Good - then I know who to contact about a potential marriage. While I'm out, I could pick up a bag of "sense of humor" for you, what do you say?
I have in fact seen both movies, so I do actually know what I'm talking about.
... so you think a 3" tall Kylie Minogue singing in front of an OBVIOUSLY fake starlit sky (did you even SEE what symbols the stars showed?) is more natural than say - 4' hobbits hugging a 6'6" wizard? I sure as hell didn't. The special effects of MR are good, but nothing compared to LotR. The best effects of LotR are the ones you don't notice. The effects of MR can best be compared to the firework of Gandalf at the party, but even then, they aren't as good.
"The effects [of MR]were cleaner and more natural and more impressive all-around [than LotR]"
Hmm
The music (songs) of MR is better, hands down, but that's probably just because I could recognize words and sing along with many of the songs; since I can't speak elvish, this is impossible for me to do with the songs of LotR. Wether the score of MR is better than that of LotR I don't really know - I didn't much notice the scores of LotR or MR, and I usually only notice scores, when they suck the life out of a movie/scenes.
Hugo Weaving vs Nicole Kidman? Kidman is the better actor and aparently singer, and I know who I'd rather have sex with, be in a relationship with and marry (and since I'm a heterosexual man, that means Nicole Kidman - plus she's probably rich, so I could just sit at home and surf the net all day long). I personally believe that Hugo Weaving was a wrong choice for Elrond, as he can't quite shake the image of Agent Smith.
Is Moulin Rouge better than LotR? In my oppion - no, but oppinions are like assholes - everyone has one. In my oppinion "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0211915) is a better movie than Moulin Rouge all round, but Amélie is not as good a movie as LotR all round.
"Of course, I think he had enough screen time to qualify for best actor, "
That may very well be, but for a best actor nomination, you have to be the LEADING character, and Gandalf is nothing more than a SUPPORTING character.
Does anyone else dislike the term "unAustralian" (or whatever nationality you please)?
... well - duh! What next? Squares are un-round? Used in the wrong context, anything can sound stupid.
Other than the annoyance, that it doesn't have a good "feel" to it, I don't see a problem with it. What I do see a problem with, is when people say something like "[insert country] is un[insert other country]n". First time I heard/saw it used, was (I believe) when the former president Bush said something like "Iraq is un-american"
"It is a miraculous feeling when you trust in the Lord, nothing can ever go wrong."
I guess that explains the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, IRA/Orange Order etc. Religion in general and christianity in particular is probably the biggest cause of war and misery in the history of man, and you're trying to convince me it's a good thing?
D'oh! Mistook Powerlinekid's post for yours:
9 87 896
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=27804&cid=2
Just saw her picture. That's not fair!
Here I am, in love with my neighbour (but don't have the guts to say anything), and you go marry a beautiful geek. I don't know you, but trust me when I tell you: "I hate you!"
"I'm not a dork, I'm a geek. Ask my girlfriend."
Geeks don't have girlfriends. You are at most a technically gifted person, who has a girlfriend.
gdyas wrote:
"It's when creationists push for that delusion to be the basis of other's lives through law and forced creationist teaching in public schools that I get indignant."
wberry wrote:
"Not only does this statement reply to something I did not say, it's a misrepresentation of the push for Creationism in education. As an aside, the real reason for the push is to guarantee that students are aware that some people disagree with evolution and why. All they want is a descriptive (not persuasive!) treatment of both schools of thought in the classroom. If evolution is so obviously true this should not be a problem."
Following that train of thought, why is it, that schools aren't teaching "anti holocaust" history? How about "Why I joined the Ku Klux Klan, and why you should to" in social studies? "How to perform female circumcision, and why it's a good thing" (would look real good in class)? "Satanism - how to sacrifice a child"? "How to have sex with a goat"?
What creationists are trying to do, is to teach others about their religion (christianity/judaism) - why can't they settle for that being taught in classes about religion? Why do you feel the need to push YOUR religious beliefs onto people of another religion? How would YOU feel, if your children were forced to learn about one of my suggested topics? I think "outraged" would be close to home. Evolution isn't a religion - it doesn't involve any kind of deity, it doesn't invole a 'set' text that can't be changed, it doesn't set down a set of guidelines for behaviour - in other words, it lacks any of the things, that define religions (perhaps excluding primitive shamanism). And, evolution is being examined and taught by people of all kinds of religious persuasions, just not people who are stupid enough to belive everything their religious text says. My favorite to quote in that regard is that most every religion has a prime rule that says "don't kill - ever!", and yet later they all go on to say "you can kill, if [insert insane reason here]" - don't tell me, that an omnipotent deity would make that kind of blunder, not to mention - why would such a being even need us to punish people? I think a 5,000,000 ton rock appearing 2 meters above an infidels head with a sign attached to it saying "don't [insert deadly sin here]" would be a lot more effective, than "if you don't behave, then you'll go to hell when you die" if you had just seen someone get squashed by a 5,000,000 ton rock with a sign attached saying "behave, or else!" to it.
But hey, I'm just a cynical infidel who don't believe in religions - but I do belive, that there IS one or more deities out there.
"Jesus Christ is the only thing that matters, because he brings new life to mine which was once meaningless, stale and stagnant."
Isn't that sort of like patriotism? "MY country is better than YOUR country, because I was born in THIS country!"
I'm not sure, that someone as supposedly non-selfish as Jesus would be too happy to hear his name used in such a selfish manner.