It's pretty good for all the keybindings you need for FPS games like Q3 or COD, the problemI had with it was it limited me in the Q3 games where you have to use all those multikey sequences to get things like strafe jumping and bunny hopping to work properly. I could never make the long jumps or ledge grabs with the N50. That stuff makes a difference when you are playing with a bunch of skilled opponents. For other games than Q3 engine ones, it's really nice to have macros for some of the more complex stuff and radios calls. My N50 thumbpad got glitchy quick, maybe the N52 has better contacts.
++ on the Razer, I've got an old boomslang, I did tweak the rollers by adding some heatshrink tubing over the shaft area that contacts the ball, it was slipping too much, the tubing added a little friction.
I went with a 3ware 7506-12 PCI-64 card. It supports up to 12 parallel IDE drives. For drives, I did the rebate thing, kept buying Seagate 300GBs over a few months whenever Frys or some other shop had them for under $100. (they can be had for that now without rebate) I have a Dual A2200 Motherboard , Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 with 64bit PCI slots. Right now I've got a 6 drive array that dupes all my individual drives, I'm testing the system for reliability and stability before I move live data to it. I will have to move this to a bigger case when I add the 2nd set of 6 drives. The controller can only handle 2TB per array, so I'll have 2 RAID-5 arrays on it. I'm going to get a Coolermaster Stacker, it will fit 12 IDE drives using 3 of their 4 drive modules. Each module has a 120mm fan for cooling. For power I'll upgrade to a Dual 12V Ultra 550 supply. It has 2 12V supplies of 17A each, enough to spin up 12 IDE 7200 drives and run the CPUs. If that supply gets too hot, I can put in a 2nd ATX supply in the Stacker. I havent seen any sort of failover supply option for ATX from facter, that would be nice.
For OS.. well, right now it's XP, mainly because that's what the system was running before I put in the RAID card. But it does have a few things in it's favor. It will network well with my other Win32 machines. It works the the OSX machine as well. I figure now that I have the hardware faults mostly covered with the RAID5, my biggest risk is filesystem corruption. The tools for XP recovery are well developed and several vendors offer file recovery tools. For Linux EXT3? what happens if something blows up the filesystem? I dont want to be picking around in a 2TB drive array, trying to pull files out one node at a time.
The XP will of course be severely neutered, no Media player, no IExplorer. This system wont have direct access to any outside network. I'm thinking of setting up a 2nd network of Gig-E links on a different IP range just for mass storage. Most systems/users will only have read access since this is archival and media storage.
To grow that sort of yield of corn requires large amounts of fertilizer. This is usually in the form of ammonia, which is produced by the Haber process. This uses natural gas as feedstock.
Last time I looked, DDR PC2100 2GB DIMMs used 25W each. so each Opteron has 100W for the CPU + 100W for the RAM on a Quad board. That's just power dissipation by the part, the switching power supply is at best 80-90% efficent, so add 20-40W per CPU.
Use heat pipes or water loops to external heat exchangers. The internal air volume is more or less sealed, all the cooling happens externally. The radiators could be as big as the entire external size of the container, ie several dozen car multicore radiators with electric fans pulling outside air over them. If you're willing to run at outside ambient + 20F or so, it's reasonable. You wont be overclocking, but Opterons are probably happy at 130F (54C) even your hard drives would be OK with 55C. No air-chilling required.
Coal plants can be built with scrubbers that clean out all that toxic crud. It's just that they aren't because then they wouldn't make as much money operating them.
Besides, all the pro nuke people wouldn't have something to point to and say, "fission plants are cleaner than coal"
Same here.. The day they start deleting any show that I designated as 'Save until I delete' is the day they stop getting my subscription $$ for my DirectTivo and Series I
You reading this Tivo?? Because that's the day you die.
Netstreams is not just sending the music data down the wire like a Telnet session, they're doing a lot of time management and synchronization as well. http://www.netstreams.com/Documents/StreamNet%20Te chnology.pdf Note that this is room-room delay, not stereo left-right jitter, 1ms there would be intolerable. Anything more than 50uS is probably discernable by a trained listener with an audio test program. The average listener might be able to hear 500uS phase shift L-R, but I think it'd only show up in headphone listening. After all, the speed of sound is 1100ft/S in air, that means a 1ms delay is equivalent to 1 ft difference in speaker placement. 100uS is about 1-3/8" As long as it isnt jittering around by +/-50uS on a frame-frame basis I doubt even an audiophile could tell in a double-blind test.
yep, because unrestricted duplication will never happen. The machines will be tightly controlled with DRM the likes of which the music cartel cant even imagine.
The programs for creating objects will become a new currency of a sort. Of course 'real' objects will become much more valuable than nano-assembled imitations. And imitations they will be, the cost factor to exactly duplicate something down to atomic structure will insure the machines make 'good enough' copies, the programming alone to duplicate some sort of hetrogenous biologically created structure, such as burl-wood, or gems like opal will make 'true copies' unaffordable. But nano copies will have all sorts of copyright and licensing restrictions since their creation is going to require programming, and lots of it.
Perhaps the first crude assembly machines wont have these controls, but as they are refined, the controls and economy that is built up around developing programs to run them will insure strong DRM built right into the object itself. The structure will probably have RFID technology built in throughout so that articles can be scanned and verified as being non-counterfeit at any time.
It's also doubtful that open-source will have much of a space to play in, the creation of assemblers will be strictly controlled in the interests of 'global security' and the codes necessary to even start an assembly process will be protected like military secrets. Leaks or hacks will also be treated as threats far greater than any sort of hacking today.
Any attempt to build a rogue assembler will probably be treated to preemptive strikes much in the way that an attempt to make WMD are treated today.
So in other words, things will be pretty much status quo, except you'll be able to get really cheap consumer goods made in the USA once again.
Witht he proper scrubbers, Coal and oil fired generating plants are clean. It's the 'grandfathering' of all the old dirty plants and new construction that is done under weakened air quality laws that spew all the heavy metals into the air. It could esaily be fixed, but that would reduce profits and we cant have that now..
You're only counting the fuel rods themselves, the entire reactor vessel is waste. All the cooling pipes are contaminated, the gloves worn by the techs that handle the fuel, etc. There's a lot of non-fuel grade waste produced by a plant over it's 30 year lifetime. Those wastes have half-lives in the 1y-10Kyr range. There are a lot of radioactive isotopes produced as a byproduct of fission, these are non-useful, and some are biologically active, in that, they can get into the food chain. The volume of this stuff is huge.
Every car out there has a large lead-acid battery that gets replaced every 5 years or so. Compare this to nickel-metal Hydride cells that are rated to last 10 years. Nickel's a much friendlier metal to recycle than Lead. The reason Ni-Cd are not used is the Cadmium is a toxic heavy metal.
And you dont think the modders will have a version out that patches the game back to the original state within days of the re-release?
Hell, now you're going to see all sorts of sexual add-ons to games since this was so popular.
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"First, the protaginists name, Bentley Dean, leads me to believe that a prequel will at some point be written about this man's previous career in the adult film industry."
Sounds to me like a play on another author's name, Bradley Denton. He writes GOOD anti-hero stories, look for Blackburn or One day closer to death.
Only the G4 series can do endian swaps. The G5 cant, that's a big part of the reason for the Virtual PC delay. It relied on the G4 endian swap operation for speed. They had to come up with a method to emulate that for the G5.
You dont know much about Macs, only the latest iMacs and the newest Mini are non-upgradable. The G3 and G4 towers have upgrades for the CPU and videocards. Of course you can add more memory or bigger hard drives.
The G5's dont have CPU upgrades, yet, but I'll bet they will become available in the next year.
The problem with that is, it doesnt sell the maximum number of games. That's where the profit is. The more consoles out there, the more games can be sold when they come out. It's in the munfacturer's interest to sell as many consoles as fast as they can produce them to get the games sales.
Here you sit in a tiny box all day and wait for a deer with a specific tag to come into view. The deer come around because 9 months out of the year there is a deerfeeder downrange of your little box. You then shoot said deer with a high power scoped hunting rifle propped up with a stand.
Yeah, the only real challenge is writing out the check for the 'deer lease'
That number does not make a distinction between old-growth forest which is bio-diverse and mono-culture treefarms which have very limited habitat for anything but genetically-engineered fast growth pine trees.
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It's pretty good for all the keybindings you need for FPS
games like Q3 or COD, the problemI had with it was it
limited me in the Q3 games where you have to use all those
multikey sequences to get things like strafe jumping and
bunny hopping to work properly. I could never make the long jumps
or ledge grabs with the N50. That stuff makes a difference when you
are playing with a bunch of skilled opponents.
For other games than Q3 engine ones, it's really nice to have macros
for some of the more complex stuff and radios calls.
My N50 thumbpad got glitchy quick, maybe the N52 has better contacts.
++ on the Razer, I've got an old boomslang, I did tweak the rollers
by adding some heatshrink tubing over the shaft area that contacts the ball,
it was slipping too much, the tubing added a little friction.
I went with a 3ware 7506-12 PCI-64 card.
It supports up to 12 parallel IDE drives.
For drives, I did the rebate thing, kept buying Seagate 300GBs over a few months
whenever Frys or some other shop had them for under $100. (they can be had for that now without rebate)
I have a Dual A2200 Motherboard , Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 with 64bit PCI slots.
Right now I've got a 6 drive array that dupes all my individual drives, I'm testing
the system for reliability and stability before I move live data to it.
I will have to move this to a bigger case when I add the 2nd set of 6 drives.
The controller can only handle 2TB per array, so I'll have 2 RAID-5 arrays on it.
I'm going to get a Coolermaster Stacker, it will fit 12 IDE drives using 3 of their 4 drive modules. Each module has a 120mm fan for cooling.
For power I'll upgrade to a Dual 12V Ultra 550 supply. It has 2 12V supplies of
17A each, enough to spin up 12 IDE 7200 drives and run the CPUs. If that supply
gets too hot, I can put in a 2nd ATX supply in the Stacker. I havent seen any sort of failover supply option for ATX from facter, that would be nice.
For OS.. well, right now it's XP, mainly because that's what the system was running before I put in the RAID card. But it does have a few things in it's favor.
It will network well with my other Win32 machines.
It works the the OSX machine as well.
I figure now that I have the hardware faults mostly covered with the RAID5, my
biggest risk is filesystem corruption. The tools for XP recovery are well developed
and several vendors offer file recovery tools. For Linux EXT3? what happens if
something blows up the filesystem? I dont want to be picking around in a 2TB drive array, trying to pull files out one node at a time.
The XP will of course be severely neutered, no Media player, no IExplorer.
This system wont have direct access to any outside network.
I'm thinking of setting up a 2nd network of Gig-E links on a different IP range
just for mass storage. Most systems/users will only have read access since this
is archival and media storage.
Best to leave that strap attached, a big tube can re-acquire a charge after time.
Especially if it's been on for a long time before you shut it down.
To grow that sort of yield of corn requires large amounts of fertilizer.
This is usually in the form of ammonia, which is produced by the Haber process.
This uses natural gas as feedstock.
Last time I looked, DDR PC2100 2GB DIMMs used 25W each.
so each Opteron has 100W for the CPU + 100W for the RAM on a
Quad board. That's just power dissipation by the part, the switching
power supply is at best 80-90% efficent, so add 20-40W per CPU.
Use heat pipes or water loops to external heat exchangers.
The internal air volume is more or less sealed, all the cooling
happens externally. The radiators could be as big as the entire
external size of the container, ie several dozen car multicore
radiators with electric fans pulling outside air over them.
If you're willing to run at outside ambient + 20F or so, it's
reasonable. You wont be overclocking, but Opterons are probably
happy at 130F (54C) even your hard drives would be OK with 55C.
No air-chilling required.
As opposed to total Corporate control?
At least the voters can have some influence in a democratic system.
Getting any control over a privately held corporation is pretty much impossible
Coal plants can be built with scrubbers that clean out all that toxic crud.
It's just that they aren't because then they wouldn't make as much money operating them.
Besides, all the pro nuke people wouldn't have something to point to and say,
"fission plants are cleaner than coal"
And what if there is a strong spectral line corresponding to the light given off by say.. ionized mercury or sodium?
Natural light is going to be basically blackbody radiation coressponding to the temperature of the luminous object.
Same here..
The day they start deleting any show that I designated as 'Save until I delete'
is the day they stop getting my subscription $$ for my DirectTivo and Series I
You reading this Tivo??
Because that's the day you die.
'Australia doesn't have any large carnivores.'
The local crocs might disagree with that.
Netstreams is not just sending the music data down the wire like a Telnet session,e chnology.pdf
they're doing a lot of time management and synchronization as well.
http://www.netstreams.com/Documents/StreamNet%20T
Note that this is room-room delay, not stereo left-right jitter,
1ms there would be intolerable. Anything more than 50uS is probably discernable
by a trained listener with an audio test program. The average listener
might be able to hear 500uS phase shift L-R, but I think it'd only
show up in headphone listening.
After all, the speed of sound is 1100ft/S in air, that means a 1ms delay is
equivalent to 1 ft difference in speaker placement. 100uS is about 1-3/8"
As long as it isnt jittering around by +/-50uS on a frame-frame basis I doubt
even an audiophile could tell in a double-blind test.
yep, because unrestricted duplication will never happen.
The machines will be tightly controlled with DRM the likes
of which the music cartel cant even imagine.
The programs for creating objects will become a new currency of a sort.
Of course 'real' objects will become much more valuable than nano-assembled
imitations. And imitations they will be, the cost factor to exactly duplicate
something down to atomic structure will insure the machines make 'good enough'
copies, the programming alone to duplicate some sort of hetrogenous biologically
created structure, such as burl-wood, or gems like opal will make 'true copies'
unaffordable. But nano copies will have all sorts of copyright and licensing
restrictions since their creation is going to require programming, and lots of it.
Perhaps the first crude assembly machines wont have these controls, but as they
are refined, the controls and economy that is built up around developing programs
to run them will insure strong DRM built right into the object itself. The structure
will probably have RFID technology built in throughout so that articles can be scanned
and verified as being non-counterfeit at any time.
It's also doubtful that open-source will have much of a space to play in, the creation of
assemblers will be strictly controlled in the interests of 'global security' and the codes
necessary to even start an assembly process will be protected like military secrets.
Leaks or hacks will also be treated as threats far greater than any sort of hacking today.
Any attempt to build a rogue assembler will probably be treated to preemptive strikes
much in the way that an attempt to make WMD are treated today.
So in other words, things will be pretty much status quo, except you'll be able to get
really cheap consumer goods made in the USA once again.
Witht he proper scrubbers, Coal and oil fired generating plants are clean.
It's the 'grandfathering' of all the old dirty plants and new construction
that is done under weakened air quality laws that spew all the heavy metals
into the air. It could esaily be fixed, but that would reduce profits and
we cant have that now..
Welcome to Burningman.
For those who have never been, no explaination is possible.
For those who have, none is needed.
You're only counting the fuel rods themselves,
the entire reactor vessel is waste. All the cooling pipes are contaminated, the gloves worn by the techs that handle the fuel, etc. There's a lot of non-fuel grade waste produced by a plant over it's 30 year lifetime. Those wastes have half-lives in the 1y-10Kyr
range. There are a lot of radioactive isotopes produced as a byproduct of fission, these are non-useful, and some are biologically active, in that, they can get into the food chain. The volume of this stuff is huge.
Every car out there has a large lead-acid
battery that gets replaced every 5 years or so.
Compare this to nickel-metal Hydride cells that are rated to last 10 years. Nickel's a much friendlier metal to recycle than Lead. The reason Ni-Cd are not used is the Cadmium is a toxic heavy metal.
And you dont think the modders will have a version out that patches the game back to the original state within days of the re-release?
Hell, now you're going to see all sorts of sexual add-ons to games since this was so popular.
"First, the protaginists name, Bentley Dean, leads me to believe that a prequel will at some point be written about this man's previous career in the adult film industry."
Sounds to me like a play on another author's name, Bradley Denton. He writes GOOD anti-hero stories, look for Blackburn or One day closer to death.
Only the G4 series can do endian swaps. The G5 cant, that's a big part of the reason for the Virtual PC delay. It relied on the G4 endian swap operation for speed. They had to come up with a method to emulate that for the G5.
Non-upgradable?
You dont know much about Macs, only the latest iMacs and the newest Mini are non-upgradable. The G3 and G4 towers have upgrades for the CPU and videocards.
Of course you can add more memory or bigger hard drives.
The G5's dont have CPU upgrades, yet, but I'll bet they will become available in the next year.
The problem with that is, it doesnt sell the maximum number of games. That's where the profit is.
The more consoles out there, the more games can be sold when they come out. It's in the munfacturer's interest to sell as many consoles as fast as they can produce them to get the games sales.
They need to take it to the next level, have rolling tabs that let you scroll thru the cache for that tab. That would be sweet, sort of threaded-tabs.
Guess you've never been deer hunting in Texas.
Here you sit in a tiny box all day and wait for a deer with a specific tag to come into view. The deer come around because 9 months out of the year there is a deerfeeder downrange of your little box.
You then shoot said deer with a high power scoped hunting rifle propped up with a stand.
Yeah, the only real challenge is writing out the check for the 'deer lease'
That number does not make a distinction between old-growth forest which is bio-diverse and mono-culture treefarms which have very limited habitat for anything but genetically-engineered fast growth pine trees.