Wow it use to be (yes I'm that old) a case on slashdot that people would at lease do a cursory google before opening their ~~mouths~~ reply box http://lmgtfy.com/?q=threadrip...
That is sort of the whole point of the Valve VR lighthouse system. You walk around a physical space and the position of your head matches one to one with the virtual world. The controllers are your hands. It isn't a huge step from that to lighthouse capable gloves/bodysuites etc.
Or you can always combine it with something like the Omni Virtuix if you prefer not to wait for that.
It's not just brick walls you need to worry about but cricket balls as well....
I highly doubt it exists but I leave open the option to being proven wrong that there is an identifiable bit of my dna that codes for "won't be able to duck in time in 7th grade and ends up with a crooked nose".
As far as I understand it, a hypersonics trajectory is much easier to follow than an ICBM. Look at it this way, hypothetically imagine the USA wanted to launch a strike on Iran or North Korea. It launches 100 hypersonic missiles, they more more or less in a straight line since changing course they lose a lot of speed. Both Russia and China are able to easily able to see they are flying at installations in the respective targets.
Compare this to an ICBM, it launches up, floats around the world mostly cold and then comes down with 144 warheads from each one. You don't want to wait to see where they are striking since if you did need to retaliate the strike could greatly cripple you. The only reason MAD works is that everyone know that attacking each other would be suicide, so ICBM's launch here, they launch there, pass each other before completely destroying both (or more) nations.
I read a thread on reddit where people were playing it on the rift and basically the entire UI, computer terminals etc were unusable. Also those cinematic bits where the game moves your vision around is really disorientating within the rift. Add to that a couple of bugs that require the unit to be recalibrated a couple of time an hour and you have enough reasons to axe it.
Rift support was probably one of those "nice to have" things but meant more work so it was simpler just to drop support.
You know fusion is easy? The youngest person to build a working fusor was 13. Here is a DIY you can build at home as long as you are happy with working with high voltage. http://makezine.com/projects/m...
The big problem with fusion is making it produce more energy than you put in, and most of the science points to it just having to be done on a bigger scale than we have done so so far. Of course building big has it's own issues and considering the paperwork issues just to get ITER started shows the problem many governments have working together on a project of that scale.
You got it with the second line. Clouds don't mean water and it depends on the conditions on the planet. For example clouds on Jupiter can contain Ammonia ice, Ammonium hydrosulfide and others etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... (and yes water at some levels)
Well then, I guess the decision to be uneducated and ignorant will serve them well <snip>
Yup serves them right for choosing to be born into abject poverty without access to schools, sanitation or even clean drinking water. Bet they won't do that again! </sarcasm>
I'm on my third natural keyboard, I've been using them exclusively since my first system in 1997. (I'm not counting the ones I forced work to buy so I can use them there as well BWAHAHA) and the previous two both had to be replaced due to user error.
The first the number pad stopped working after a mate spilt a glass of lemon and vodka into it and didn't tell me and when i pulled it apart to clean it since the keys where sticky, the trace came off attached to the spacer.
The second died when I spilled diet coke in it, but I did the right thing, took it apart, washed it with distilled water, then dried it with a hair dryer melting the keys >.
Had the current one for a number of years, I would replace it if I could find a natural keyboard with mechanical keys but I am yet to find one. (If you know of one with the same form factor that has mechanical keys I will give you internet hugs, but a comfort curve isn't enough sorry.)
Because when I move house/change providers I don't get to keep my IP unless it is from a block and then I move the entire block. Phone numbers are portable (at least within the same SZU (Standard Zone Unit) in Australia) and you can port between providers, or even preselect calls to connect to multiple providers for different calls. I could send some calls out my primary provider and some out Joe's isp, and still want my caller id to be ok. When it comes to voip calls there are rules in place about updating ACMA caller id lists but there is are huge hurdles to do it, and the little guys generally don't or if they do, simply mark it as a non geographic location and never update after that.
But the biggest issue is that there isn't a direct Customer -> Call terminator link. There may only be 2 national terminators that then have interconnects with smaller players who in turn resell to a number of others and you Joe's shack ties onto the bottom somewhere. All of the players tell the guy below them that caller id is their responsibility, so they don't check what the clid is when you send it, since they don't know what numbers you are responsible for. We have a VOIP provider that pretty much told us as long as we only send numbers we own there isn't a problem.... the day we realised it was amusing taking two mobile numbers of our staff, spoofing two calls between their mobiles and joining them while listening in at the same time. "Hi Steve how are you going?" "Not bad? You" "Yeah just out at dinner, what's up?" "Um yeah about to go to the movies, how can I help?" "Er you called me didn't you? Did you pocket dial me?" "No you called me, I saw your incoming number" etc etc...... Call back again 5 minutes later with a third mobile number incoming to both of them, then again with people they are with... rinse repeat while they try and work out what is going on.
Yeah but that is because the bodies are fibre glass, look rubbish and don't perform as well as the cars they are copying (weight strength etc). Building a carbon fibre shell is something else entirely. You are getting most of the benefit that the cars you are copying and you are using the best material. Sure you might not get the strength of a cross woven sheet but it will be a damn sight better than what is available now.
And the whole idea isn't of getting a Gallardo for cheap, it is to build an incredible looking car that is unique, one of a kind, and performs better than the current options available to modders.
Automated cars means all that wasted time consumers spend paying attention to the road can be redirected to Google services and ads.
But really where the big money will be, is space mining. Teams of Autonomous vehicles, with enough smarts not to get stuck making Google doodles on the moon.
I live in Perth (the capital of Western Australia not the UK one) I'm 20 minutes drive from the city centre, 15 minutes drive to wonderful beaches, and 10 minutes drives in several directions to bushland remote enough that if I had a heart attack while walking they would never find the body.
Australia is a big empty place, your biggest dangers (apart from hitting a roo, or dozing off and driving into oncoming road trains (single lane 110kmph YAY)) is not making it to the next petrol station. Its ok in urban areas, but as soon as you leave metro... better make sure you know your fuel efficiency.
But if you do stray off a main road, even by accident, its not like there is any space to turn around. Up in shark bay we pulled off onto a beach carpark and went down a sudden incline over the shells. No way to turn back and the only way was forward and hope the loop put you back somewhere else. Long story short sedan started to bottom out so we lost our nerve and tried to turn around. Big mistake, soon as we left the compressed trail we sank to the chassis at all 4 wheels. No reception, had hike through the bush back to the main road to hail a tourist bus to get the townsite to send out a truck to pull us out.
You obviously haven't driven in Australia much.. Google maps
See how you are driving through national parks and farmland before getting back to an urban area? Well Apple maps just takes you through a different national park and dumps you there. 45C is also 113F. And there is no phone reception or water.
And people have already been stuck for 24 hours
Seriously. Name one single thing that makes the HTC OneX a better phone than the Galaxy S3. Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.
The Camera. Being able to record 1080p video and take 8M photos is huge if you have a kid. Trust me, you want nice photos you can blow up or view full screen but you also want to record incase they do something cute? Now you can do both. Single biggest reason I can not move to another phone.
My wife has the XL with 4g, and I'll admit that is probably a better buy than my One X since I don't seem to get as much benefit from the quad core chip but it is a pleasure to dev for too.
Other "better" things start to get subjective and include the 25gb bundled drop box for two years, but I really do prefer the build quality on the One series compared to my mates S3. His feels cheap and plastic in comparison. Finally I know I'm going to get flamed for this... but I actually do like sense. >.> yes I know point and laugh but it is nice to use for my mid 30's self. Oh and that screen.... <3
Ah also one thing that is forgotten since many people still have rotational harddrives as well, SSD's are silent. Current system is very quiet without any mechanical disks, I don't feel like I have a high pitched turbine sitting on my desk anymore.
Agreed! I've gone a step further though. The system I built in May has 32GB of mem, 3 SSD's, no optical or spinning disks. Swapfile is off.
As a dev box it is incredible to not have to wait on the system any more, and for anything that is larger and not often accessed such as raw video file, music and isos (MAPS subscription before I get accused), that sits on the NAS. Considering 512GB SSD's are not that unreasonable now, I don't see my self buying hardrives for a desktop or laptop in future.
The way I see it my first WD 120GB hardive back in the P3 days set me back $440 wholesale, so drives are just super cheap these days by comparison;)
Actually just to clear up a small correction, although the universe is 14 Billion years old it is actually 46 Billion light years across due to duper expansion in the few instances after the big bang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size.2C_age.2C_contents.2C_structure.2C_and_laws
(please feel free to insert any and all required weasel words to satisfy your pedantic requirements "to the best of our knowledge", "as theorised", +- etc)
Tight fitting glassware, a thermometer, and a source of heat you can control allows you to capture the liquid that boils off at exactly 100 C. You boil off organics etc first, raise temp slowly, collect vapors that phase change at 100C, that is your safe to drink water, and toss out the stuff that is left behind eg water with lots of heavy metals (these can also make you very sick). Repeat several times if heavy contamination suspected or to be extra sure.
My Summary was poorly worded, yours is better. Yes I was more interested in data surviving as opposed to specifically my data. There are several thought experiments I'd love to explore but thought the summary was already getting too long, Everything from short term events where people are more or less ok initially, and after a period of time the world tries to return to normality, to civilization is destroyed and what is left when we get rediscovered.
I joke with my wife that in 10,000 years time an archaeologist will dig up a horders house and then write a paper about how we all held plastic drink bottles in such high regard we would line our walls with them, and the poor of us would only have a few in our dwellings.
The post should have been more clear, I wasn't specifically talking about my data, but any data. If it hit today, what would be left of the wealth of knowledge that exists and how can we plan to save it?
I was thinking even more mundane than this, the dyes in CDR's are only semi stable, Fill a cdr, leave it on a desk where it gets sun through a window for a week, try and read back data. My experience is that you'd get pretty much nothing. I suspect a burst of high energy particles/x-rays and everything else that would bombard the earth would have a similar effect?
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Wow it use to be (yes I'm that old) a case on slashdot that people would at lease do a cursory google before opening their ~~mouths~~ reply box http://lmgtfy.com/?q=threadrip...
I'm pretty happy with my 7820x, massive jump from the 3820 particularly for VR. Really depends what you want to do with it.
That is sort of the whole point of the Valve VR lighthouse system. You walk around a physical space and the position of your head matches one to one with the virtual world. The controllers are your hands. It isn't a huge step from that to lighthouse capable gloves/bodysuites etc. Or you can always combine it with something like the Omni Virtuix if you prefer not to wait for that.
It's not just brick walls you need to worry about but cricket balls as well.... I highly doubt it exists but I leave open the option to being proven wrong that there is an identifiable bit of my dna that codes for "won't be able to duck in time in 7th grade and ends up with a crooked nose".
As far as I understand it, a hypersonics trajectory is much easier to follow than an ICBM. Look at it this way, hypothetically imagine the USA wanted to launch a strike on Iran or North Korea. It launches 100 hypersonic missiles, they more more or less in a straight line since changing course they lose a lot of speed. Both Russia and China are able to easily able to see they are flying at installations in the respective targets. Compare this to an ICBM, it launches up, floats around the world mostly cold and then comes down with 144 warheads from each one. You don't want to wait to see where they are striking since if you did need to retaliate the strike could greatly cripple you. The only reason MAD works is that everyone know that attacking each other would be suicide, so ICBM's launch here, they launch there, pass each other before completely destroying both (or more) nations.
I read a thread on reddit where people were playing it on the rift and basically the entire UI, computer terminals etc were unusable. Also those cinematic bits where the game moves your vision around is really disorientating within the rift. Add to that a couple of bugs that require the unit to be recalibrated a couple of time an hour and you have enough reasons to axe it.
Rift support was probably one of those "nice to have" things but meant more work so it was simpler just to drop support.
The big problem with fusion is making it produce more energy than you put in, and most of the science points to it just having to be done on a bigger scale than we have done so so far. Of course building big has it's own issues and considering the paperwork issues just to get ITER started shows the problem many governments have working together on a project of that scale.
You got it with the second line. Clouds don't mean water and it depends on the conditions on the planet. For example clouds on Jupiter can contain Ammonia ice, Ammonium hydrosulfide and others etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... (and yes water at some levels)
Well then, I guess the decision to be uneducated and ignorant will serve them well <snip>
Yup serves them right for choosing to be born into abject poverty without access to schools, sanitation or even clean drinking water. Bet they won't do that again! </sarcasm>
The first the number pad stopped working after a mate spilt a glass of lemon and vodka into it and didn't tell me and when i pulled it apart to clean it since the keys where sticky, the trace came off attached to the spacer.
The second died when I spilled diet coke in it, but I did the right thing, took it apart, washed it with distilled water, then dried it with a hair dryer melting the keys >. Had the current one for a number of years, I would replace it if I could find a natural keyboard with mechanical keys but I am yet to find one. (If you know of one with the same form factor that has mechanical keys I will give you internet hugs, but a comfort curve isn't enough sorry.)
Well digging through some of the other pages I image it is stuff like this that he objects to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/inde...
Because when I move house/change providers I don't get to keep my IP unless it is from a block and then I move the entire block. Phone numbers are portable (at least within the same SZU (Standard Zone Unit) in Australia) and you can port between providers, or even preselect calls to connect to multiple providers for different calls. I could send some calls out my primary provider and some out Joe's isp, and still want my caller id to be ok. When it comes to voip calls there are rules in place about updating ACMA caller id lists but there is are huge hurdles to do it, and the little guys generally don't or if they do, simply mark it as a non geographic location and never update after that. But the biggest issue is that there isn't a direct Customer -> Call terminator link. There may only be 2 national terminators that then have interconnects with smaller players who in turn resell to a number of others and you Joe's shack ties onto the bottom somewhere. All of the players tell the guy below them that caller id is their responsibility, so they don't check what the clid is when you send it, since they don't know what numbers you are responsible for. We have a VOIP provider that pretty much told us as long as we only send numbers we own there isn't a problem.... the day we realised it was amusing taking two mobile numbers of our staff, spoofing two calls between their mobiles and joining them while listening in at the same time. "Hi Steve how are you going?" "Not bad? You" "Yeah just out at dinner, what's up?" "Um yeah about to go to the movies, how can I help?" "Er you called me didn't you? Did you pocket dial me?" "No you called me, I saw your incoming number" etc etc...... Call back again 5 minutes later with a third mobile number incoming to both of them, then again with people they are with... rinse repeat while they try and work out what is going on.
Yeah but that is because the bodies are fibre glass, look rubbish and don't perform as well as the cars they are copying (weight strength etc). Building a carbon fibre shell is something else entirely. You are getting most of the benefit that the cars you are copying and you are using the best material. Sure you might not get the strength of a cross woven sheet but it will be a damn sight better than what is available now. And the whole idea isn't of getting a Gallardo for cheap, it is to build an incredible looking car that is unique, one of a kind, and performs better than the current options available to modders.
Automated cars means all that wasted time consumers spend paying attention to the road can be redirected to Google services and ads. But really where the big money will be, is space mining. Teams of Autonomous vehicles, with enough smarts not to get stuck making Google doodles on the moon.
We don't bother with anything as common as sand up in shark bay
I live in Perth (the capital of Western Australia not the UK one) I'm 20 minutes drive from the city centre, 15 minutes drive to wonderful beaches, and 10 minutes drives in several directions to bushland remote enough that if I had a heart attack while walking they would never find the body. Australia is a big empty place, your biggest dangers (apart from hitting a roo, or dozing off and driving into oncoming road trains (single lane 110kmph YAY)) is not making it to the next petrol station. Its ok in urban areas, but as soon as you leave metro... better make sure you know your fuel efficiency. But if you do stray off a main road, even by accident, its not like there is any space to turn around. Up in shark bay we pulled off onto a beach carpark and went down a sudden incline over the shells. No way to turn back and the only way was forward and hope the loop put you back somewhere else. Long story short sedan started to bottom out so we lost our nerve and tried to turn around. Big mistake, soon as we left the compressed trail we sank to the chassis at all 4 wheels. No reception, had hike through the bush back to the main road to hail a tourist bus to get the townsite to send out a truck to pull us out.
You obviously haven't driven in Australia much.. Google maps See how you are driving through national parks and farmland before getting back to an urban area? Well Apple maps just takes you through a different national park and dumps you there. 45C is also 113F. And there is no phone reception or water. And people have already been stuck for 24 hours
Seriously. Name one single thing that makes the HTC OneX a better phone than the Galaxy S3. Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.
The Camera. Being able to record 1080p video and take 8M photos is huge if you have a kid. Trust me, you want nice photos you can blow up or view full screen but you also want to record incase they do something cute? Now you can do both. Single biggest reason I can not move to another phone. My wife has the XL with 4g, and I'll admit that is probably a better buy than my One X since I don't seem to get as much benefit from the quad core chip but it is a pleasure to dev for too. Other "better" things start to get subjective and include the 25gb bundled drop box for two years, but I really do prefer the build quality on the One series compared to my mates S3. His feels cheap and plastic in comparison. Finally I know I'm going to get flamed for this... but I actually do like sense. >.> yes I know point and laugh but it is nice to use for my mid 30's self. Oh and that screen.... <3
Ah also one thing that is forgotten since many people still have rotational harddrives as well, SSD's are silent. Current system is very quiet without any mechanical disks, I don't feel like I have a high pitched turbine sitting on my desk anymore.
Agreed! I've gone a step further though. The system I built in May has 32GB of mem, 3 SSD's, no optical or spinning disks. Swapfile is off. As a dev box it is incredible to not have to wait on the system any more, and for anything that is larger and not often accessed such as raw video file, music and isos (MAPS subscription before I get accused), that sits on the NAS. Considering 512GB SSD's are not that unreasonable now, I don't see my self buying hardrives for a desktop or laptop in future. The way I see it my first WD 120GB hardive back in the P3 days set me back $440 wholesale, so drives are just super cheap these days by comparison ;)
Actually just to clear up a small correction, although the universe is 14 Billion years old it is actually 46 Billion light years across due to duper expansion in the few instances after the big bang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size.2C_age.2C_contents.2C_structure.2C_and_laws (please feel free to insert any and all required weasel words to satisfy your pedantic requirements "to the best of our knowledge", "as theorised", +- etc)
Tight fitting glassware, a thermometer, and a source of heat you can control allows you to capture the liquid that boils off at exactly 100 C. You boil off organics etc first, raise temp slowly, collect vapors that phase change at 100C, that is your safe to drink water, and toss out the stuff that is left behind eg water with lots of heavy metals (these can also make you very sick). Repeat several times if heavy contamination suspected or to be extra sure.
My Summary was poorly worded, yours is better. Yes I was more interested in data surviving as opposed to specifically my data. There are several thought experiments I'd love to explore but thought the summary was already getting too long, Everything from short term events where people are more or less ok initially, and after a period of time the world tries to return to normality, to civilization is destroyed and what is left when we get rediscovered. I joke with my wife that in 10,000 years time an archaeologist will dig up a horders house and then write a paper about how we all held plastic drink bottles in such high regard we would line our walls with them, and the poor of us would only have a few in our dwellings.
The post should have been more clear, I wasn't specifically talking about my data, but any data. If it hit today, what would be left of the wealth of knowledge that exists and how can we plan to save it?
I was thinking even more mundane than this, the dyes in CDR's are only semi stable, Fill a cdr, leave it on a desk where it gets sun through a window for a week, try and read back data. My experience is that you'd get pretty much nothing. I suspect a burst of high energy particles/x-rays and everything else that would bombard the earth would have a similar effect?