Have you never seen The Thing (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084787) with Kurt Russel??? Thawing ANYTHING you find on Mars is the LAST thing you want to do!!!
"[...]Once upon a time there was the 4004 CPU. When it grew up it became an
8008. Then it underwent plastic surgery and became the 8080. It begat
the 8086, which begat the 8088, which begat the 80286, which begat the
80386, which begat the 80486, and so on unto the N-th generation. In
the meantime, RISC chips happened, and some of them are running at over
100 MIPS. Speeds of 200 MIPS and more are likely in the coming years.
These things are not going to suddenly vanish. What is going to happen
is that they will gradually take over from the 80x86 line. They will
run old MS-DOS programs by interpreting the 80386 in software. (I even
wrote my own IBM PC simulator in C, which you can get by FTP from
ftp.cs.vu.nl = 192.31.231.42 in dir minix/simulator.) I think it is a
gross error to design an OS for any specific architecture, since that is
not going to be around all that long.[...]"
A pharmaceutical company [can't remember which] has a patent for the gene that causes breast cancer. In other words, if you want to know, if YOU have breast cancer (or testicular cancer, which I believe are caused by the same gene) in YOUR OWN BODY, you (your doctor) have to pay the company money (I think it's ~1,900 UD$) to get the dna-screening. Not because that's what it costs, but because that specific gene is patented.
If that is true, then it more or less proves my point - 800 gigabytes per site is NOT and unless they start using funny math never WILL be between one and two terabytes.
A quick glance at a retailer-list of hard disks tells me that the biggest drive available is 160 GB (IDE100). You need between 7 (1,250 GB) an 13 (2,080 GB) of those. The biggest SCSI drives are 73.4 GB. You need between 14 (1,041 GB) and 28 (2,055 GB) of those.
That's one HELL of a hard drive rack!
Or maybe the customs official is speaking out of his ass, and the 1 - 2 terabytes are per person and NOT per computer.
"[...] gratis software is only gratis if you do not value your time."
So, if I offer you 100 dollars gratis, it's not gratis, because it takes time for you to take the money?
Applying basic reasoning (which is of course time consuming, and therefore not gratis) I come to the conclusion that if someone offers me gratis software, it's gratis for me, beause I don't have to give him anything in return. No - I can't give him 5 minutes, because it's not something I have to give or spend.
Because if you think those minor items (ignoring China for a second) are big - think about the US.
If you say stuff like "I think it would be cool, if someone hijacked Air Force One and crashed it into the White House", you'll probably end up in jail (couting the seconds right now). Saying something like: "Ahem . . . in this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive Taliban regime . . . we are thankful that our leader isn't the spoiled son of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations, has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents, and uses war to deny people their civil liberties" you'll probably end up being stoned to death by an angry mob, before the FBI/CIA/NSA/et al lines you up against the wall for execution.
And if you even dare speak out against the current "war against terrorism" - well, I think you know what will happen. And don't you dare look like an arabian!!!
Free or open software is about coding, not about freedom of speech, or software that cost nothing (if you do not value your time).
That is your oppinion, not a blatent fact. To me, free and/or open software is about freedom of speech, just as it to some extent is also about gratis software.
As a programmer I value free and/or open software, because I can learn from them, and because it is a way for me to express myself, just like artists express themselves through their art.
As a software user, I value free and/or open software, because it is often gratis, and because I "know", that even if the author of the program decides to discontinue support of it, it will probably still be able to get support for it, as there are probably some knowledgable people using it, who knows just how to fix a problem, be it a work-around or a patch for the program. I am yet to see a user-created patch for Windows 3.1...
Linux being a communist OS? Nope, hardly. Is it a marxistic OS? To some extent - maybe you should read up on marxism and not just go with the McCarthyism definition of everything socialistic being evil.
Actually it wouldn't - here's why:
1) While the towers would look quite impressive, I doubt there would be many people actually working on the site at any given moment.
2) To terrorize people, you have to give them the impression, that you can kill them at your own convinience.
Blowing up at 1 km tower and killing three people won't do that. Sending two planes into two towers where roughly 50.000 people work WILL terrorize people.
You can rebuild a 1 km. tower, but you can't rebuild the sense of security lost, when someone blows up a work place of 50.000 people and kills 4.000 people in the process.
Kinda curious. If both codexes are supposed to use 910 kb/second, and they were used to encode the exact same slice of film, then how can they end up at different filelengths?
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Have you never seen The Thing (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084787) with Kurt Russel??? Thawing ANYTHING you find on Mars is the LAST thing you want to do!!!
Maybe that has something to do with it?
Are you sure it isn't based on NetBSD?
This thread even has MS Bashing:
On 1992-01-31 06:26:53 PST
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You mention OS/360 and MS-DOG as examples of bad designs
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=12595%40st ar.cs.vu.nl
Date: 1992-01-29 05:23:33 PST
"[...]Once upon a time there was the 4004 CPU. When it grew up it became an
8008. Then it underwent plastic surgery and became the 8080. It begat
the 8086, which begat the 8088, which begat the 80286, which begat the
80386, which begat the 80486, and so on unto the N-th generation. In
the meantime, RISC chips happened, and some of them are running at over
100 MIPS. Speeds of 200 MIPS and more are likely in the coming years.
These things are not going to suddenly vanish. What is going to happen
is that they will gradually take over from the 80x86 line. They will
run old MS-DOS programs by interpreting the 80386 in software. (I even
wrote my own IBM PC simulator in C, which you can get by FTP from
ftp.cs.vu.nl = 192.31.231.42 in dir minix/simulator.) I think it is a
gross error to design an OS for any specific architecture, since that is
not going to be around all that long.[...]"
True, but you did write:
"The author states that the first generation of their chip will be a 512 million bit device. i.e. 64Mb. That doesn't seem like a lot to me..."
Since "million" and M[ega] is the same, you might not have written 512 Mb, but you might as well have.
A pharmaceutical company [can't remember which] has a patent for the gene that causes breast cancer. In other words, if you want to know, if YOU have breast cancer (or testicular cancer, which I believe are caused by the same gene) in YOUR OWN BODY, you (your doctor) have to pay the company money (I think it's ~1,900 UD$) to get the dna-screening. Not because that's what it costs, but because that specific gene is patented.
This was covered on 60 Minutes some time ago.
"[...] and persuaded engineers to replace the UNIVAC's black exterior with the gray-beige tone that came to be the universal color of computers."
Just goes to show, that even great minds make cockups from time to time!
If that is true, then it more or less proves my point - 800 gigabytes per site is NOT and unless they start using funny math never WILL be between one and two terabytes.
That's one hell of a list! I've never seen that many warez sites before - and most even have all the good stuff.
.sib
I am of course refering to your
A quick glance at a retailer-list of hard disks tells me that the biggest drive available is 160 GB (IDE100). You need between 7 (1,250 GB) an 13 (2,080 GB) of those. The biggest SCSI drives are 73.4 GB. You need between 14 (1,041 GB) and 28 (2,055 GB) of those.
That's one HELL of a hard drive rack!
Or maybe the customs official is speaking out of his ass, and the 1 - 2 terabytes are per person and NOT per computer.
To redo 5 pm to 7 pm on april 27 1989.
True, but since the poster posted the same starting prefix, it doesn't really matter; 512 Mib != 64 Mib just at 512 Mb != 64 Mb.
Unless M or b are 0, in which case it would be true.
"One important factor has remained roughly constant: the cost of semiconductor real estate, at about $1 billion per acre of processed silicon."
That's the first time I've seen real estate more expensive than in Japan.
b = bit
B = byte
512 million bit does NOT equal 64 million bit.
64 MB.
Just be glad you didn't write mb, cause then I'd have to flog you as well!
"[...] gratis software is only gratis if you do not value your time."
So, if I offer you 100 dollars gratis, it's not gratis, because it takes time for you to take the money?
Applying basic reasoning (which is of course time consuming, and therefore not gratis) I come to the conclusion that if someone offers me gratis software, it's gratis for me, beause I don't have to give him anything in return. No - I can't give him 5 minutes, because it's not something I have to give or spend.
"Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so."
Because if you think those minor items (ignoring China for a second) are big - think about the US.
If you say stuff like "I think it would be cool, if someone hijacked Air Force One and crashed it into the White House", you'll probably end up in jail (couting the seconds right now). Saying something like: "Ahem . . . in this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive Taliban regime . . . we are thankful that our leader isn't the spoiled son of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations, has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents, and uses war to deny people their civil liberties" you'll probably end up being stoned to death by an angry mob, before the FBI/CIA/NSA/et al lines you up against the wall for execution.
And if you even dare speak out against the current "war against terrorism" - well, I think you know what will happen. And don't you dare look like an arabian!!!
Free or open software is about coding, not about freedom of speech, or software that cost nothing (if you do not value your time).
That is your oppinion, not a blatent fact. To me, free and/or open software is about freedom of speech, just as it to some extent is also about gratis software.
As a programmer I value free and/or open software, because I can learn from them, and because it is a way for me to express myself, just like artists express themselves through their art.
As a software user, I value free and/or open software, because it is often gratis, and because I "know", that even if the author of the program decides to discontinue support of it, it will probably still be able to get support for it, as there are probably some knowledgable people using it, who knows just how to fix a problem, be it a work-around or a patch for the program. I am yet to see a user-created patch for Windows 3.1...
Linux being a communist OS? Nope, hardly. Is it a marxistic OS? To some extent - maybe you should read up on marxism and not just go with the McCarthyism definition of everything socialistic being evil.
"*We've got enough empty desert for a ton of these."
... I think it'll way a whole heck of a lot more than a ton, so just how are you gonna fit a single one of them in the desert?
Well
Not only that, but that's assuming that the plant will only last a single year.
Lets assume it will last 20 years, and it will cost another 670M AUD during that 20 year period.
That means it will cost 67M AUD/year.
100 MW average.
100 MW * 24*365 hours = 876 GWh.
67M AUD / 876 GWh = 0.00007 AUD/kWh over a 20 year period.
Now - paying 0.007 cents/kWh isn't that bad. Even if they charge 10 times as much as the actual cost to produce it, it's only 0.07 cents/kWh.
Of course, these are some rather big assumptions.
Actually it wouldn't - here's why:
1) While the towers would look quite impressive, I doubt there would be many people actually working on the site at any given moment.
2) To terrorize people, you have to give them the impression, that you can kill them at your own convinience.
Blowing up at 1 km tower and killing three people won't do that. Sending two planes into two towers where roughly 50.000 people work WILL terrorize people.
You can rebuild a 1 km. tower, but you can't rebuild the sense of security lost, when someone blows up a work place of 50.000 people and kills 4.000 people in the process.
Remember that - it's easy to rack up kills, when you start out shooting your teammembers.
Kinda curious. If both codexes are supposed to use 910 kb/second, and they were used to encode the exact same slice of film, then how can they end up at different filelengths?
20.7 MB/910kb/second = 186 seconds divx
29 MB/910kb/second = 261 seconds VP3
Or are the file-headers etc not counted when you says something is xx kb/second?
Oh come now! What can huge magnets do to your tiny little electical pace mak ... uhm ... never mind.
Ehh ... I don't get it.
Are you saying being 3/4 something can't be done?
halfbreed + fullblood => 3/4
Or did you want him to put something like 5/7 Cherokee?