That's why you drink 8 glasses of water a day, to piss them out. At the Kidney center, they have to hook people to a machine once a day to 'piss' them..
Needless to say, if you could only take a leak once a day, you're going to have lots of nasty stuff in your system all day. And probably not gonna drink your 8 glasses of water a day either, so you concentrate all the wastes in your system.
The 2nd article points out that the engine is for use with space payloads, you dont have to carry your oxidizer while in the atmosphere, reducing vehicle weight and increasing payload. Now, getting to Mach 7.6 to light one of these off may take a railgun, something that rules out living payloads, but good for launching cheap infrastructure into LEO.
POV ray is based on the DKB (David K Buck) raytracer for the Amiga, Way back in '87 or so, I found it and talked a friend into porting it to DOS. He and another friend ran a BBS called You Can Call Me Ray where the original raytracer and a lot of data files are stored. After a move, the BSS went defunct, but the POVray team picked up the ball and continued work on the project. I remember doing traces that took almost a week on my 286-287 system in 1990. NT-REAL (not a trace of reality) was a great image, I used it as a background on my Sun for a long time.
Skylab came down uncontrolled because NASA budget cutbacks ended missions to it and the orbit decayed to the point of no return. NASA never provided a system for an orderly bring-down
Mir was brought down by an unmanned Soyuz, as planned and on-target.
Last I heard, the thinking on Tunguska was that it was either a chunk of CO2 ice or Methane Ice that made it down to about 1 mile above ground before breakingup and vaporising. The Methane hypothesis also mentions the possibility of a HUGE fuel-air detonation...
Re:A long-term Austinite's view of SXSW...
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The Interactive tradeshow was pretty dead.. I really wanted to wear my F*cked Company shirt just to rub it in, but figured I'd get kicked out.
Bruce Sterling's party was pretty good, better than last years, so it wasn't all bad. If you're in town, hell, run on down, it's still going on.
From the web page: "Additionally, you shall operate your Segway(TM) HT only in accordance with the guidelines provided to you by Segway."
I guess that means no Segway/halfpipe tricks... But what if you do, will they take it away? How about if soneone takes it apart and posts the link to pictures on Slashdot??
At the same time he gave RedHat, Corel, SUSE, and every other distro... When he GPL'd it.
You can charge whatever you like like, you just can't put any other restrictions on what people do with it.
If the heatsink has fallen off in shipping, you can bet ther is going to be a lot of other damage to the rest of the PC. A 1 lb chunk of metal with sharp corners bouncing around inside a PC case is going to tear up the boards, cutting traces and breaking components. I've seen several machines, Intel and AMD that this has happened to, total loss, call the shipper and file a claim..
I wonder about the same thing, who in their right mind would buy anything with 'As Seen On TV' sticker on it..
To me that is just the long version of 'crap' , every product 'As seen on TV' is trash, why on earth buy a product that you know will be cheap and shoddy? Is it an IQ test? If you buy things that you see on TV you must be stupid, especially if they have to remind you that you saw it on TV in the first place.
A picture of the Fujitsu Robot>
Anyone got any better links than the one paragraph ones??
I did notice that Rodney Brooks is a Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. I wonder how much of COG is in the new robot??
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IIRC a can of coke has about 39 grams of sugar,
a typical chocolate bar has about 25, if you've
got to have carbs, make them good ones, I dont miss the sugar in soda, but there is no such
thing as carb-free chocolate. Now Hersheys..
yukkk, I'd go for the good stuff, Dove bars are
much better, if you must have a chocolate fix
and cant get the really good Belgian or Dutch stuff. Too much paraffin in Hersheys..
Re:Too Neat for a Real Workshop - Photos
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Hmmm. I see no static control at all, no wrist straps, no static mats, no ionizers, I hope the air conditioning is off when they build boards...
Thus the term 'sweatshop' Although the ionic contamination of the solder pads from sweat and skin oils wont help either...
The only way I can see to do it, is to integrate the RAM with the processor, hence you will not have a CPU in your system, just a lot of processing nodes on a bus or series of busses, need more CPU, add another PRAM (Processor-RAM) module. need to do lots of floating number work?, add some FPRAM, RAM with extra FP units. The OS will have to do the work of allocating the threads and managing the communications, the motherboard may start looking more like a cross-bar switch, probably optical to handle the bandwidth and avoid crosstalk, also allows easy broadcasting.
Checked out the latest Alteras?
http://www.altera.com/products/devices/apex2/ap2 -i ndex.html
One thing you get with a FPGA, parallelism, you can have as many execution units as you have gates to implement and if you need more, add chips, you do have to pay the IO penalty, but it can work out to single cycle operations without any of the pipeline stalls you get in a general purpose processor.
The other nice thing, most if these parts are reprogrammable, so algorithm tweaks are possible.
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That's why you drink 8 glasses of water a day, to piss them out. At the Kidney center, they have to hook people to a machine once a day to 'piss' them..
Needless to say, if you could only take a leak once a day, you're going to have lots of nasty stuff in your system all day. And probably not gonna drink your 8 glasses of water a day either, so you concentrate all the wastes in your system.
The 2nd article points out that the engine is for use with space payloads, you dont have to carry your oxidizer while in the atmosphere, reducing vehicle weight and increasing payload.
Now, getting to Mach 7.6 to light one of these off may take a railgun, something that rules out living payloads, but good for launching cheap infrastructure into LEO.
I think Dan Farmer did NT Real.
h tml
q _cg_raytraci ng.txt
Here's a couple of links..
Early History of POV
http://www.povray.org/working-docs/id000007.
An old FAQ with more references
http://gpp.netfirms.com/3dgraphics/fa
POV ray is based on the DKB (David K Buck) raytracer for the Amiga, Way back in '87 or so, I found it and talked a friend into porting it to DOS. He and another friend ran a BBS called You Can Call Me Ray where the original raytracer and a lot of data files are stored. After a move, the BSS went defunct, but the POVray team picked up the ball and continued work on the project.
I remember doing traces that took almost a week on my 286-287 system in 1990. NT-REAL (not a trace of reality) was a great image, I used it as a background on my Sun for a long time.
Think you got that backwards bub...
Skylab came down uncontrolled because NASA budget cutbacks ended missions to it and the orbit decayed to the point of no return. NASA never provided a system for an orderly bring-down
Mir was brought down by an unmanned Soyuz, as planned and on-target.
Last I heard, the thinking on Tunguska was that
it was either a chunk of CO2 ice or Methane Ice
that made it down to about 1 mile above ground before breakingup and vaporising. The Methane hypothesis also mentions the possibility of a HUGE fuel-air detonation...
The Interactive tradeshow was pretty dead..
I really wanted to wear my F*cked Company shirt
just to rub it in, but figured I'd get kicked out.
Bruce Sterling's party was pretty good, better than last years, so it wasn't all bad.
If you're in town, hell, run on down, it's still going on.
My wife wants me to put the Linksys WAP11 in a big stuffed Tux...
Know where I can get a big enough one? Those Linksys boxes are pretty big..
Hope it wont hurt the 802.11 range too much.
From the web page: "Additionally,
you shall operate your Segway(TM) HT only in accordance with the guidelines provided to you by Segway."
I guess that means no Segway/halfpipe tricks...
But what if you do, will they take it away?
How about if soneone takes it apart and posts the link to pictures on Slashdot??
Ya know, a pipebomb would also take out most electronics in a 25ft radius...
Survival Research Labs is what inspired Battlebots.
At the same time he gave RedHat, Corel, SUSE, and every other distro... When he GPL'd it.
You can charge whatever you like like, you just can't put any other restrictions on what people do with it.
Replace the CD mechanism in a jukebox
with a Plextor reader??
Is there a nice automated ripper that pulls track info and builds the ID3 and all just from dropping a CD in the tray?
Here's a G4 card that plugs into a PC or anything with a PCI slot for $4000 .h tml#pricing
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/crescendo_720
The Catch: You have to write the device driver for the Motorola MPC107 PCI bridge chip.
IIRC Motorola started out as Galvin Mfg.
They made a battery pack so that you could take your house radio with you in your car.
If the heatsink has fallen off in shipping, you can bet ther is going to be a lot of other damage to the rest of the PC. A 1 lb chunk of metal with sharp corners bouncing around inside a PC case is going to tear up the boards, cutting traces and breaking components. I've seen several machines, Intel and AMD that this has happened to, total loss, call the shipper and file a claim..
I wonder about the same thing, who in their right mind would buy anything with 'As Seen On TV' sticker on it..
To me that is just the long version of 'crap' , every product 'As seen on TV' is trash, why on earth buy a product that you know will be cheap and shoddy? Is it an IQ test? If you buy things that you see on TV you must be stupid, especially if they have to remind you that you saw it on TV in the first place.
A picture of the Fujitsu Robot> Anyone got any better links than the one paragraph ones?? I did notice that Rodney Brooks is a Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. I wonder how much of COG is in the new robot??
Subject: 911 GOD HELLP US!!!
A Prediction:
A Mr. Xinoehpoel will be visited by many uniformed me with automatic weapons and taken before an Inquisitor..
His future becomes hazy beyond this point..
Kindof would suck to be in the minority of those who were executed for crimes they did NOT commit eh??
Nope Gw's been packed of to Lousiana for a vacation while Cheny takes care of business..
IIRC a can of coke has about 39 grams of sugar,
a typical chocolate bar has about 25, if you've
got to have carbs, make them good ones, I dont miss the sugar in soda, but there is no such
thing as carb-free chocolate. Now Hersheys..
yukkk, I'd go for the good stuff, Dove bars are
much better, if you must have a chocolate fix
and cant get the really good Belgian or Dutch stuff. Too much paraffin in Hersheys..
Hmmm. I see no static control at all, no wrist straps, no static mats, no ionizers, I hope the air conditioning is off when they build boards...
Thus the term 'sweatshop' Although the ionic contamination of the solder pads from sweat and skin oils wont help either...
Good luck to them...
The only way I can see to do it, is to integrate the RAM with the processor, hence you will not have a CPU in your system, just a lot of processing nodes on a bus or series of busses, need more CPU, add another PRAM (Processor-RAM) module. need to do lots of floating number work?, add some FPRAM, RAM with extra FP units. The OS will have to do the work of allocating the threads and managing the communications, the motherboard may start looking more like a cross-bar switch, probably optical to handle the bandwidth and avoid crosstalk, also allows easy broadcasting.
Checked out the latest Alteras?2 -i ndex.html
http://www.altera.com/products/devices/apex2/ap
One thing you get with a FPGA, parallelism, you can have as many execution units as you have gates to implement and if you need more, add chips, you do have to pay the IO penalty, but it can work out to single cycle operations without any of the pipeline stalls you get in a general purpose processor.
The other nice thing, most if these parts are reprogrammable, so algorithm tweaks are possible.