We are world leader in the manufacturing of Quantum-Optical RAM and storage. In one cubic millimeter 3.2GB of non-volatile memory are contained. The devices do not employ any mechanical or moving parts.
Just to note, there would be a different type of mechanical technology - quantum mechanics.
If the memory can be scaled in all tree dimensions, a sugar cube sized 1 cubic centimetre is 3 TB. Even if the 1 mm cubes have to be separated by 1 mm for interconnects, that's 400 GB per cm^3.
As a listener of Coast to Coast AM, mainframe technology being so far removed from the PC world that I live in, it's no shock to hear that mainframe people are actually greys. A few months ago I met one of these people, who works with mainframes in car manufacturing. He has a matte grey skin and huge slanting black eyes. Not only did he confirm cars are made with alien knowledge, but he explained that he routinely worked with a number of 70 Gb files presumably with jobs that process large chunks of these files. On my PC I get impatient with data sizes greater than 0.7 Mb.
All the same the next notebook computer I buy (within 2 years) will probably have enough performance to compete with the lowest end of today's mainframes, at least on a cost/benefit decision point. Business growth is just not at the pace of Moore's law. It's likely mainframes on the inside are nothing but obsolete PCs brought back from the future on a hardware recycling program. You know how these greys operate.
So if it happened at Apple or Google, would it get the same writeup at Slashdot?
I get you. There's this study about what people are interested in, and even a minor incident at Microsoft is making waves. An occurrence at Apple or Google is like the flap of a butterfly's wings - the hypothetical hurricane might not happen, but Microsoft is like a spinning top. It's metastable, and that's what MS stands for.
The real fun happens when you touch the top and see what it does. Once Microsoft gets wind that something might have to be done, look out. They might unleash a software package to diagnose diseases, or a mouse that gives you scheduled vaccinations.
So is that what IT workers will be trying to explain to their prospective employers: "If you outsource, you could end up with a life threatening disease"? It's the price of doing business.
$2100 is just not even close to the total cost of ownership. Disks will not come cheap. If you don't want these expensive platters to become frisbees you need to buy a big UPS to keep your system running all the way through.
Now, if multiple sessions are not supported well, you have to accumulate large amounts of data before writing one disk. This means lots of hard disk space and lots of time assembling data as well as a pretty good scheme to structure the data so that it can be searched because there will be so much.
Once you burn a disk, you have to dedicate a computer to that task for quite some time. Afterwards, just to be sure, you have to verify the recording for errors.
Then you have to hope that your disks are forwards compatible with future drives because as far as I've heard no standard has been established for such a disk.
Let me introduce y'all to a newfangled style of mathematics called ultrafinitism where infinity is just not cool. The first Skewes' number is e^(e^(e^79)). It kind of gives you an idea of how much storage you need to process certain quantities of things.
With this database suddenly all files are compressible to 32 bytes. A 1440 Kb floppy disk can store 46080 MD5 hashes. If each hash represents a file that is on average 10 Mb, the floppy disk can store 461 Gb on average.
This is quite useful for archival purposes.
The whole idea of information versus random noise is really apparent when you compare which MD5 hashes have personal significance to the set of all possible hashes.
Also Flight of the Bumblebee. But this may be the very reason the heavy bee can fly so paradoxically.
Stairway to Heaven, Wind Beneath my Wings, Bird on the Wire.
The theory is that it's all about flapping. How would I know? "What was Emilio doing on the floor?" "Flapping." (Kill Bill Vol 2). Maybe flapping isn't enough after all. I just wouldn't recommend flying in stall conditions.
Given the high taxes I pay, I want to see space weapons and a better military. I mean, the taxes are collected regardless of where it goes, so it may as well go into something phenomenal, intriguing, controversial, scandalous, attention-getting, or sexy.
What we think is real is often an elaborate hallucination
Pardon me, but the word "hallucination" seems very misleading. More preferable is the word "choice". We choose simplifying assumptions so that we can reason without getting bogged down with details that in the end tend to yield minimal effects.
Take toilet paper as an example. If you choose to work out the exact mathematical and physics model of toilet paper, you will still come to the same conclusions about effective procedures in cleaning. These simplifying assumptions are so useful in everyday thinking that we apply them until they lead to problems. Then instrumentation becomes more economically tempting.
A hallucination on the other hand is more of a belief that is taken even if it may be false - such as an Aries believing to be a Gemini.
Evolution could have been the product of the creator stacking the dominoes so the right tap made it all happen
So if it is found that God doesn't play with dice, it's only because He plays with dominoes?
I've set up some domino chains. If I want to drop the last domino early, I could go right to it and knock it down. Why would God wait for all the dominoes in a grand sequence to fall one at a time? On the other hand if I have a pile of dominoes and I was really lazy, I couldn't make a special sequence just by putting all the bricks into a bag and dumping them. I have to place the slabs one at a time, which shows how much control I have over every step. If God wanted to achieve an end, it wouldn't make sense to just start from a highly organized beginning as would be required and then let chaos reign.
Not exactly bricks - it's better to just fill a chamber in the case from a bottle of compressed CO2. The problem is, this chamber will inhibit the heat sink when empty. As a result, liquid coolant is better than solid coolant.
Slashdot Mirror
The history of Al Quaeda has been long indeed.
Lucky for us all, there's the Church-Turing thesis.
Clearly, cassette tapes were the first killer app.
We are world leader in the manufacturing of Quantum-Optical RAM and storage. In one cubic millimeter 3.2GB of non-volatile memory are contained. The devices do not employ any mechanical or moving parts.
Just to note, there would be a different type of mechanical technology - quantum mechanics.
If the memory can be scaled in all tree dimensions, a sugar cube sized 1 cubic centimetre is 3 TB. Even if the 1 mm cubes have to be separated by 1 mm for interconnects, that's 400 GB per cm^3.
the box as specced will cost nine grand just for the memory?
Ah, but you may still be in the market when I point out this word: lease.
Google plans to "destroy" unindexed information by indexing it.
We seem to learn more and more every day.
Google is black hole. That much has been known, but now we know just how black holes destroy information.
It just goes to show the Internet is a bit like hamburger meat - you can't tell what you're getting involved in. Where's the trust?
It can now be hypothesized that Klingons evolved from mice.
As a listener of Coast to Coast AM, mainframe technology being so far removed from the PC world that I live in, it's no shock to hear that mainframe people are actually greys. A few months ago I met one of these people, who works with mainframes in car manufacturing. He has a matte grey skin and huge slanting black eyes. Not only did he confirm cars are made with alien knowledge, but he explained that he routinely worked with a number of 70 Gb files presumably with jobs that process large chunks of these files. On my PC I get impatient with data sizes greater than 0.7 Mb.
All the same the next notebook computer I buy (within 2 years) will probably have enough performance to compete with the lowest end of today's mainframes, at least on a cost/benefit decision point. Business growth is just not at the pace of Moore's law. It's likely mainframes on the inside are nothing but obsolete PCs brought back from the future on a hardware recycling program. You know how these greys operate.
So if it happened at Apple or Google, would it get the same writeup at Slashdot?
I get you. There's this study about what people are interested in, and even a minor incident at Microsoft is making waves. An occurrence at Apple or Google is like the flap of a butterfly's wings - the hypothetical hurricane might not happen, but Microsoft is like a spinning top. It's metastable, and that's what MS stands for.
The real fun happens when you touch the top and see what it does. Once Microsoft gets wind that something might have to be done, look out. They might unleash a software package to diagnose diseases, or a mouse that gives you scheduled vaccinations.
So is that what IT workers will be trying to explain to their prospective employers: "If you outsource, you could end up with a life threatening disease"? It's the price of doing business.
The article is kinda interesting seeing as how an entire case was brought back. If only a bottle was taken, it would have just gone under the radar.
$2100 is just not even close to the total cost of ownership. Disks will not come cheap. If you don't want these expensive platters to become frisbees you need to buy a big UPS to keep your system running all the way through.
Now, if multiple sessions are not supported well, you have to accumulate large amounts of data before writing one disk. This means lots of hard disk space and lots of time assembling data as well as a pretty good scheme to structure the data so that it can be searched because there will be so much.
Once you burn a disk, you have to dedicate a computer to that task for quite some time. Afterwards, just to be sure, you have to verify the recording for errors.
Then you have to hope that your disks are forwards compatible with future drives because as far as I've heard no standard has been established for such a disk.
Let me introduce y'all to a newfangled style of mathematics called ultrafinitism where infinity is just not cool. The first Skewes' number is e^(e^(e^79)). It kind of gives you an idea of how much storage you need to process certain quantities of things.
"bother to watch"
Isn't entertainment so troublesome? I mean, we could have such fulfilling lives if civilization wasn't being constantly rammed down our throats.
But the real question is if they can make tiny pyramids
Oh yeah? They built the real ones.
With this database suddenly all files are compressible to 32 bytes. A 1440 Kb floppy disk can store 46080 MD5 hashes. If each hash represents a file that is on average 10 Mb, the floppy disk can store 461 Gb on average.
This is quite useful for archival purposes.
The whole idea of information versus random noise is really apparent when you compare which MD5 hashes have personal significance to the set of all possible hashes.
The know my profile already.
Also Flight of the Bumblebee. But this may be the very reason the heavy bee can fly so paradoxically.
Stairway to Heaven, Wind Beneath my Wings, Bird on the Wire.
The theory is that it's all about flapping. How would I know? "What was Emilio doing on the floor?" "Flapping." (Kill Bill Vol 2). Maybe flapping isn't enough after all. I just wouldn't recommend flying in stall conditions.
How medieval! I suggest a tricorder.
Given the high taxes I pay, I want to see space weapons and a better military. I mean, the taxes are collected regardless of where it goes, so it may as well go into something phenomenal, intriguing, controversial, scandalous, attention-getting, or sexy.
How exciting! A letter! I'd better write back. Here I go.
...
Darling,
What we think is real is often an elaborate hallucination
Pardon me, but the word "hallucination" seems very misleading. More preferable is the word "choice". We choose simplifying assumptions so that we can reason without getting bogged down with details that in the end tend to yield minimal effects.
Take toilet paper as an example. If you choose to work out the exact mathematical and physics model of toilet paper, you will still come to the same conclusions about effective procedures in cleaning. These simplifying assumptions are so useful in everyday thinking that we apply them until they lead to problems. Then instrumentation becomes more economically tempting.
A hallucination on the other hand is more of a belief that is taken even if it may be false - such as an Aries believing to be a Gemini.
Evolution could have been the product of the creator stacking the dominoes so the right tap made it all happen
So if it is found that God doesn't play with dice, it's only because He plays with dominoes?
I've set up some domino chains. If I want to drop the last domino early, I could go right to it and knock it down. Why would God wait for all the dominoes in a grand sequence to fall one at a time? On the other hand if I have a pile of dominoes and I was really lazy, I couldn't make a special sequence just by putting all the bricks into a bag and dumping them. I have to place the slabs one at a time, which shows how much control I have over every step. If God wanted to achieve an end, it wouldn't make sense to just start from a highly organized beginning as would be required and then let chaos reign.
Not exactly bricks - it's better to just fill a chamber in the case from a bottle of compressed CO2. The problem is, this chamber will inhibit the heat sink when empty. As a result, liquid coolant is better than solid coolant.