Well, you workstation user, the big problem is that a lot of these fast boxes will be servers. When the power goes out it is nice to have the server reboot itself when the power comes back on. If the server does not reboot itself then a human has to find out and come touch the machine.
If people are "producing more than they consume", then someone is stealing some of the product of their labour.
Huh? It's easy to produce more than you consume under reasonable conditions. For example: beans, rice, and greens have almost all nutrients. In a rice-growing climate one family can grow many acres, much more than they need. So who's stealing?
They're just creating wealth. This is not a zero-sum game where one person must lose if another gains. You're not sharing your great-grandfather's log cabin with all of his descendants, are you? Wealth can be created.
Actually, here in Minnesota it's awkward getting enough water to grow rice. But I can grow a larger amount of beans and trade with someone in a rice-growing area who is doing the reverse. Or I can sell the extra beans here in exchange for the value token called "money" and send some an acceptable amount of the value token to the rice farmer in exchange for the rice.
"The first time the English introduced the longbow during the Hundred Year War, the English knights were outraged that commoners would strike the first blow in battle. Then, as time goes on, they realise it's a really useful technology, and acceptance spreads."
The acceptance was probably made easier because there were now fewer knights, and the armed commoners greatly outnumbered them. Not that anyone would argue with a properly armored knight.
Incidentally, the new "Timeline" book is a sci fi look at the past which also shows a little of how much we've forgotten. It's just a flying horse...move along, nothing to see here...
That's quite an assortment. What you want depends on your needs and on the characteristics of the choices. As for NT, the availability of source for many of these things will be nice for research activities.
Beowulf is one of a family of parallel programming API tools. Programs must use the API to accomplish parallel programming.
SCI is fast hardware with support for distributed shared memory, messaging, and data transfers. Again, if you don't use the API then no gain.
DIPC is distributed System V IPC. Programs which use the IPC API can be converted to DIPC easily, such as just by adding the DIPC flag to the IPC call.
MOSIX is the most general-purpose. Processes are scattered across a cluster automatically without having to modify the programs. No API needed other than usual Unix-level process use. Allows parallel execution of any program, although full use requires a parallel program design.
Nope. At 300 feet down in our own ocean, the oxygen and nitrogen in sea-level air become toxic. The way the gases behave in the chemical reactions in our bodies change even at that pressure. With special gases and a lot of time, divers can go below 300 feet. But not much further.
There are fish at 15,000 feet in our oceans, but their biochemistry is obviously tuned differently than ours is. Perhaps we could get down to 15,000 feet with liquid-filled lungs, a lot more research and experimentation with delivering oxygen, and a huge ship to carry gases and a suit which keeps us warm.
But 15,000 feet is only three miles. Jupiter's atmosphere is thousands of miles deep. Pressures become huge. Look, but don't touch.
Remember that new neurons are continually attaching themselves to your brain and learning what to do. This technology just promotes a little growth to a new device.
Where in the brain it is put will probably affect how it is activated. If it were put in a "hearing" area you might activate it by trying to listen in a certain direction. If it were put in a "language" area you might activate it by thinking of a certain concept or phrase. If it were put near the facial muscle control area you might activate it by grimacing a certain way...at least until you learn control of that one new "muscle" (like learning to close one eyelid without moving other muscles -- you start by moving a lot of muscles until you find the right one).
And it's the rate of firing, that rate of change, that's the key information... Maybe someday it'll just be so simple, there'll be nothing to it. But not today. And it won't be tomorrow, either."
As others have noted, this is a 1998 article. It was not "tomorrow" but rather the following year that experimenters showed images decoded from the optic nerve of a cat. So right now we know how visual signals are encoded, and could encode/decode visual images. We just need a couple of extra optic nerves with wiring...
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Many gene sequences and proteins are in many organisms. It is possible that a similar gene sequence and a similar protein is indeed in your body. If you've ever licked your finger and it tasted like chocolate, you may be in violation of this patent.
It's not the two-VCR problem which stops people. Look in today's paper at all the $100 VCRs. The average home user just isn't interested in copying tapes.
Try this link to Pioneer DVD-Recordable. Says it can record data or video disks. Notice this is an industrial branch of Pioneer, not consumer products.
Notice that it's probably a consumer division of Pioneer which is running the commercial showing a dual CD/CD-R device for copying audio CDs. I don't see that device on their Web sites, although their CD-R recognition is apparent in this Pioneer article about consumer CD-R uses.
Try this link to Pioneer DVD-Recordable. Says it can record data or video disks. Notice this is an industrial branch of Pioneer, not consumer products.
Notice that it's probably a consumer division of Pioneer which is running the commercial showing a dual CD/CD-R device for copying audio CDs. I don't see that device on their Web sites, although their CD-R recognition is apparent in this Pioneer article about consumer CD-R uses.
Yup. We still go to movie theaters for some shows and some reasons. Big screen, better sound, more companions..
The movie makers are making more money because now we're willing to pay a little for a movie we didn't think was worth the expense of a theater visit. So the video retailer gets a little money from many people and the movier makers get a little money from people who probably would have never paid to see the movie in a theater.
Sure, I could use my VCRs to copy rented videos. The few movies worth watching several times are cheap enough to buy. A little more money for the movie makers.
I use my VCR to time-shift a few favorite shows to times when it is convenient to watch them. That's of value to me, and the advertisers get me to see their commercials eventually.
No you can't patent that, it is obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art that Microsoft has over-innovated the field of computer-generated failure.
Broadcasting noise will just add more noise. The "may" in your statement is simply false.
The "collision" which you are hoping for can only happen if you transmit exactly the opposite of the signal which an antenna will receive, such that the original signal and your opposite signal arrive at that antenna at exactly the same time. However, you have to send your opposite signal before the target antenna receives it, you have to send your opposite signal from the proper distance and time for it to reach the target antenna at the proper time, you have to send exactly the opposite signal so you have to listen to the original signal before the target antenna listens to it, and your cancellation signal only works at that single target antenna -- every other location just hears more noise. That's why when some government jam shortwave signals what the radios hear are various mixtures of noise. You can hear the same thing on a crowded AM/Shortwave frequency.
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Well, you workstation user, the big problem is that a lot of these fast boxes will be servers. When the power goes out it is nice to have the server reboot itself when the power comes back on. If the server does not reboot itself then a human has to find out and come touch the machine.
They're just creating wealth. This is not a zero-sum game where one person must lose if another gains. You're not sharing your great-grandfather's log cabin with all of his descendants, are you? Wealth can be created.
Actually, here in Minnesota it's awkward getting enough water to grow rice. But I can grow a larger amount of beans and trade with someone in a rice-growing area who is doing the reverse. Or I can sell the extra beans here in exchange for the value token called "money" and send some an acceptable amount of the value token to the rice farmer in exchange for the rice.
The acceptance was probably made easier because there were now fewer knights, and the armed commoners greatly outnumbered them. Not that anyone would argue with a properly armored knight.
Incidentally, the new "Timeline" book is a sci fi look at the past which also shows a little of how much we've forgotten. It's just a flying horse...move along, nothing to see here...
I work around problems with reader postings. I expect better of the /. editors.
Please use time puns which do not resemble spelling errors. Then we'll know when to complain about that there than then confusion which thou throw.
There are fish at 15,000 feet in our oceans, but their biochemistry is obviously tuned differently than ours is. Perhaps we could get down to 15,000 feet with liquid-filled lungs, a lot more research and experimentation with delivering oxygen, and a huge ship to carry gases and a suit which keeps us warm.
But 15,000 feet is only three miles. Jupiter's atmosphere is thousands of miles deep. Pressures become huge. Look, but don't touch.
Where in the brain it is put will probably affect how it is activated. If it were put in a "hearing" area you might activate it by trying to listen in a certain direction. If it were put in a "language" area you might activate it by thinking of a certain concept or phrase. If it were put near the facial muscle control area you might activate it by grimacing a certain way...at least until you learn control of that one new "muscle" (like learning to close one eyelid without moving other muscles -- you start by moving a lot of muscles until you find the right one).
Many gene sequences and proteins are in many organisms. It is possible that a similar gene sequence and a similar protein is indeed in your body. If you've ever licked your finger and it tasted like chocolate, you may be in violation of this patent.
I'll patent my children. I don't think they'll be happy with the royalty payments, but my lawyer says they are necessary.
And we don't need manned exploration, just exploration and development through whatever techniques are appropriate.
How about: It's Space-Time. You run off the end of space, there's no time there.
At least now there's Deja.com so the Usenet stuff can be searched.
I await the Red Hat patent on a computer which automatically redesigns web sites on a regular basis.
Please repeat your argument again, substituting videotape for CD or DVD. Now how does your prediction compare with what already happened?
It's not the two-VCR problem which stops people. Look in today's paper at all the $100 VCRs. The average home user just isn't interested in copying tapes.
No, no, no. Things which we don't have at home.
Notice that it's probably a consumer division of Pioneer which is running the commercial showing a dual CD/CD-R device for copying audio CDs. I don't see that device on their Web sites, although their CD-R recognition is apparent in this Pioneer article about consumer CD-R uses.
Notice that it's probably a consumer division of Pioneer which is running the commercial showing a dual CD/CD-R device for copying audio CDs. I don't see that device on their Web sites, although their CD-R recognition is apparent in this Pioneer article about consumer CD-R uses.
The movie makers are making more money because now we're willing to pay a little for a movie we didn't think was worth the expense of a theater visit. So the video retailer gets a little money from many people and the movier makers get a little money from people who probably would have never paid to see the movie in a theater.
Sure, I could use my VCRs to copy rented videos. The few movies worth watching several times are cheap enough to buy. A little more money for the movie makers.
I use my VCR to time-shift a few favorite shows to times when it is convenient to watch them. That's of value to me, and the advertisers get me to see their commercials eventually.
No you can't patent that, it is obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art that Microsoft has over-innovated the field of computer-generated failure.
The "collision" which you are hoping for can only happen if you transmit exactly the opposite of the signal which an antenna will receive, such that the original signal and your opposite signal arrive at that antenna at exactly the same time. However, you have to send your opposite signal before the target antenna receives it, you have to send your opposite signal from the proper distance and time for it to reach the target antenna at the proper time, you have to send exactly the opposite signal so you have to listen to the original signal before the target antenna listens to it, and your cancellation signal only works at that single target antenna -- every other location just hears more noise. That's why when some government jam shortwave signals what the radios hear are various mixtures of noise. You can hear the same thing on a crowded AM/Shortwave frequency.
I like the Fiat example. At what point is a company a government entity and thus different restrictions apply?