i'm assuming they did this for a reason, you know, like to win the x-prize
kinda like how the next gen prius is trying to get a real 4 passenger car with 100 mpg, for that x-prize, by switching to li-ion batteries, and tuning the engine..
you have a very limited experience with Mysophobic people, huh. some of them won't use any toilet, public or belonging to themselves without cleaning it first, they also wash their hands a lot, but some get really uptight about toilets.
its more or less rare, and highly associated with OCD, but i've always wondered why there are 'paper' toilet seats in some rest rooms, are you really that worried about germs on your ass? what about touching other paople's bottoms?
if there was some deadly disease that transferred from butt to butt, i'd a be more pragmatic about it, but realistically the worst thing to touch on a person is their hand, the next worst place is their mouth. typically toilets are cleaned with harsh, ugly chemicals, and as mythbusters showed, the toil seat was the cleanest sample site in their lab.
IIRC, they also compared dog saliva to one of the mythbusters to see if human or dog saliva had more bacteria, not sure about that... maybe someone else will remember clearly.
You could have infected your system with malware already then.
"I download music for free."
Ditto.
"I download porn for free."
You HAVE malware installed already, i can tell, the first thing hackers figured out how to do was make free porn into system compromises.
Don't deny it, I ASKED a paid hacker back in 2006 how easy it was to hack me, and he only laughed.
"I download operating systems for free."
no promise this keeps you safe from malware given 1, 2, and 3.
"I download software for free."
You could easily be downloading a dancing pig, don't expect FOSS to be immune, there have been numerous attempt to get malware into trusted repositories, windows based FOSS is just asking for trouble, because usually the source requires a 'paid' compiler package from Microsoft, do you really trust that mafia hackers didn't set up and pagerank that software just to get a malware vector for their paid hackers?
"Why shouldn't I expect antivirus software to be free as well?"
your free malware/av software is virtually guaranteed to be impotent. if major players like mcaffee can't keep up with crap from 2006, why would free software do so? if free software was capable, why does google who loves FOSS write it's own in house malware/av scanner? Right now only one anti malware company 'promises' the ability to use computer techs to FIX your malware problem, over the internet. guess who? comodo. with their 'pro plus' firewall, it's not even a normal AV suite, it's from a corporate security firm, that rolled out a free as in beer firewall, and eventually figured out how bad the AV/anti malware industry was getting. no it's not free, but at $40 a year it's priced to sell.
so what do you do with people who download porn, play online game sites, want the dreaded cursors from hell, or intentionally install this shit on their siblings computers, just to piss them off...
hey i know good passwords can help that last, but what about a shared machine... if they've got an account and can install software... they can hose the whole machine with the right download...
then what about the people who want to download illegal content from shadey sites, like say, every frickign warezable video game and all the hacks for them, especially the ones that contain stealth rootkits...
god, you have no clue what it's like to admin a system where people actually use software or websites and think EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T PAY YOU IT'S YOUR JOB TO FIX THEM WHEN THEY BREAK.
yeah live in your perfect world where you don't run afowl of any security exploits.. you'd do a better job as an admin if you had 2-3 junker machines behind a full stateful inspection firewall (i recommend a hardened Linux from scratch install) and went out looking for bad sites, and bad software, and actually TESTED the various pay/free software to SEE what works and what doesn't.
you might get good at reflashing bioses when they get hosed by malware, instead of stupidly thinking that stealth rootkit your nephew got from a porn site, couldn't possibly have infected the BIOS when there ARE ONLY 3-4 BIOS makers on the market, and infecting them to auto reinstall malware is nowhere near impossible, as long as you don't corrupt any critical parts of the bios image...
well, comodo's got a new service, it's not free, with their 'pro plus' firewall, that guarantees that if you get malware, a paid security guy will remotely fix your machine for you.
i can just imagine blackhats abusing this to try and cripple the product, but if it i'm strongly considering requiring all my relatives who run afowl of malware get the service so i don't have to fix their computers anymore.
i don't see any on google image search, but a DIY project is pretty easy.
first you have to decide What an asshat is, is it a hat that looks like someone's behind?
is it a hat that looks like a behind, with another hat on top of it?
whichever design you go with, you need an easily worked with material that either is the correct color, or is easily painted or colored correctly, after working with it.
i don't have any good material suggestions, besides using fabric (easily dyed) and cotton batting inside, and sewing the fabric to the correct shape, a bit of work, and cotton can lose it's shape,... still i couldn't think of any easier material...
well, with the dancing pigs problem, universal java exploits (i mean JRE exploits not javascript here) it could be you're telling people to move to a platform where sophisticated anti-malware doesn't exist, with the fallacy that 'it's linux, it's not targeted by hackers'
of course, pure linux exploits don't exist, but an exploit of a p2p application written in java or python, oh heck, even a bad site, that runs a java exploit as part of say 'free movie downloads' it's possible to write once, run anywhere code that can equally infect mac and linux desktops that thanks to the dancing pigs problem relies on closed source, 'feature' software that doesn't come 'default' with linux, but which they're going to install the first time a website doesn't work without it.
all the most popular bittorent software all comes in a 'universal' language, either java or python... and they're all in the 'multiverse' repositories... making them easy for linux users to install...
sure, in a write once, run anywhere situation, you can't do as much to a linux machine, as to a windows machine, but the basic stuff, but depending on what the hacker hopes to do, it could be super simple.
I know a cat hater on a a farm, cats are pretty inevitable if you have a farm...
he prefers.22 caliber guns for the elimination of cats, he also owns a.45 but the noise level is too great, lower caliber is always better for small animals, for mice, a pellet gun is probably the preferred caliber, if you can manage to catch one with say, infrared goggles.
Well, the good news is influenza and norovirus are both weak, short living virus strains easily killed by detergents. so no matter what you got sick with, basic soap will kill it.
there are some spore based viruses and even, organisms that are virtually impossible to destroy.
but you didn't get sick with any of those, so you don't have to worry about really decontaminating it.
actually, there were a few really bad, really slow mp3 players out there. I remember trying 3 players before i found one that worked the way i wanted it to. but then i was using my 486 until i got a laptop with a Pentium 120.
oh yeah, and i had 48 MB of ram, the maximum my system supported. RAM can make a huge difference, with badly coded software...
you have a lot of questions but here is the point.
at night time the wind dies down to the point where wind turbines generate 0 power. the whole point is that they can compress air in existing underground caves, near municipal wind farms, to run them after dark.
I'm worried about long term side effects, 1200 PSI is a lot of potential energy, and cave systems, even an airtight system as this must be, are underground and usually there are things above it, in this case, prime iowa farmland. if the cave blows a gasket, you probably don't lose much, unless it happens to take the hill the windmill was on with it.
worse still, if you take down a farmhouse loaded full of farmers and get sued.. yeah the risk is low, and it saves using coal... oh and BTW because the power comes from the grid, the wind farm can be in one place, the cave system turbines in another location... (eg: using the same turbines to fill the caves as to create power at night)
but still, I'd feel safer with a atomic power plant in my backyard than a giant cave system being used to compress and store air to make power at night time.
"the majority of code simply doesn't parallelize well."
but the first thing that will get ported is that nasty website that strobes your screen and keeps you from doing anything with the computer through JavaScript/whatever.
just imagine how fast those nasty sites can strobe the screen with 1000 cores!
"Take, for instance, the huge success of mp3's. There was a time not so long ago when people were limited to playing music off a physical CD. This wasn't because there was no desire amongst computer users to listen to digital files that could be stored locally or streamed off the internet. It was because computer users did not know yet that they had the desire to do it. But technology advanced to the point where a) processors became fast enough to decode mp3's in real time without using the whole CPU"
I started making mp3s with a 486 DX 75mhz
I could decode in real time on a 486 DX 75 as i recall encoding took a bit of time, and i only had a 3 GB HDD that had been an upgrade to the system...
Mp3s use a asynchronous encoding algorithm, more CPU to encode, than to decode, if your MP3 player doesn't run correctly on a 486, then it's because they designed in features not strictly needed to decode a MP3 stream.
Oh hey, I have an RCA Lyra mp3 player, that isn't even as fast as a 486, but the decoder was designed for mp3 decoding.
Ogg decoding uses a beefier decoder, that's half the problem getting ogg support in devices not made for decoding video streams.
yes, but if you have 1000 cores each with 64k of cache, then you start to run into problems with memory throughput when computing massively parallel data.
memory throughput has been the achilles heel of graphic processing for years now. and as we all know, splitting up a graphic screen into smaller segments is simple. so GPUs went massively parallel long before CPUS, in fact you will soon be able to get over 1000 stream processing units in a single desktop graphic card.
so, the real problem is memory technology, how can a single memory module consistently feed 1000 cores, for instance if you want to do real-time n-pass encoding of a hd video stream... while playing a FPS online, and running IM software, and a strong anti-virus suite...
I have a horrible horrible ugly feeling that you'll never be able to get a system that can reliably do all that. at the same time, just because they'll skimp on memory tech or interconnects, so you'll have most of the capabilities of a 1,000 core system wasted.
it's different when you're just reading data, VS writing data, and these benchmarks compared power usage while writing gobs and gobs of data.
flash memory chips can use 5X as much power to 'write' data as they do to 'read' data, oh and hey if you're reading the same old data over and over, why not just have it in ram, and just not spin up a drive or read flash memory at all?
oh and wear leveling can be designed around keeping as few chips powered up as possible, you just need to reserve a bit of flash memory to cache a wear leveling pattern, so it knows when to power up and down which chips... trying it's best to keep data sets on the fewest chips, again this is a bot more complex than basic wear leveling, so it's not tro be expected on early SSDs...
the problem is that while attemting to hit the 'event horizion' of the gravitational effects of the next solar system, you're faces with exponential gravity drag. eg: for every meter you travel, your distance is slowed, based on your toal distance from the sun, and the percentage of gravity well pulling you back, since gravity wells extend to infinity and the next neared gravity well is 2 light years away, you need continuous thrust or else in ~150 years (it really depends on the speed you got to, i was basing this on comets, which have iirc 100-150 year orbits) the exponential effect of gravity will not only have completely slowed your craft to 0 (the first 75 years maybe) then it reverses your speed at an accelerating pace until you reach the terminal velocity of your craft directly back towards your own solar system.
so you need at the minimum some soret of propulsion ssytem that activates every 25-50 years to accelerate you back to a reasonable escape velocity, until you hit the next gravity well, and if you're not going to the next closest solar system waits until you slingshot away from the next solar well, to the next one rinse repeat...
based on this voyager 1 should come back into our solar system within the next 150-200 or so years, it will never be able to escape our own solar system, with only a 'final' slingshot from one of the larger outer planets...
man i which i had a super computer to do the exponential gravity based on real data from comet (escape speed, return velocity everything we know of comets) data so i could pinpoint the exact year voyager 1 comes back to 1 AU.
silly star trek got it wrong voyager 1 is coming home, because gravity has an infinite distance, or at least far enough to bring comets back, no space vessel without a significant propulsion system is ever going inter planetary.
Well, at least, without destroying the sun in a mater/anti matter conversion process to allow the gravity of the next solar system to attract them.
destroying the sun and all the planets to go interstellar is a bit to far, in my book.
"until japan showed that there is a lot of uranium up there. That makes it very different. That gives us power to build and launch Giant Robotic mecha"
fixed that for you, there is also a lot of titanium, to make the giant robots out of.
Duh, you just build a machine that creates a complete copy of yourself at the destination in 10 million years from now when it gets there. the plus side, is you don't even need enough fuel except to decelerate the device when it gets there.
as long as you can make a reliable computing device, capable of cloning yourself at the destination, complete with memories, oh an maybe give it enough fuel to come back, make a third clone of you with both the original memories, and the memories of visiting there, and then you can stand by the crumbling remains of the world where apes rule the planet and humans are slaves to them and you can scream "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
as for power, as long as the navigation and time keeping computer uses a low enough power requirement, a nice, atomic battery based on the decay of radioactive waste can keep the system ready to start of the main generator to start up the cloning machine/ etc...
and then the kids will all start saying 'that's so next week' when they get 1,239 packages that they ordered over 56.4 years, and they come in a courtesy semi trailer, ordered by date of opening them!
but what happens, when a scientist takes advantage of this service, and sends himself everything he patented over his 120 year life span,courtesy of his life extension drugs he sent himself before he patented them, marketed them and became the first googlbillionaire for having every technology advance for the next 120 years patented!
yeah, that's just great and when everyone does it we'll wind up with 1.7 trillion years of scientific progress compressed into 7 weeks, and then people realize the drugs that make you live 6,789 years also makes you incredibly stupid, and then we all become hapless homer simpsons, for the next 6,789 years, because everyone took the drugs the sent themselves and everyone else, before anyone tested the long term results.
except, they're primarily marketing the technology as a 'power' solution for RFID, they haven't got approval to sell the product for use as home solar power, and they have a lot of plans, and no customers. that's never a good business model, especially since you switched from an in house, proprietary manufacturing to some untested system using inkjet printer hardware... how long will these devices last, even if they can be printed on plastic... if they're targeting RFID devices, i got a feeling they don't even know this themselves, and are uncertain about 'long term' power providing solutions....
what kind of yields are they going to get? inkjet nozzles may be commodity, but they wear out, is that the problem they ran into with their 'proprietary' system and then they decide "hey let's use discardable inkjet printer heads instead of fixing the problem!"
if each head can only make reliable products for one production run, how environmentally friendly is it really? especially if the plastic media it's printed on cause wear and tear every time it flexes, and makes the product wear out in weeks, instead of the 'years to decades' conventional PV can last...
if the product is really solid, and doesn't get killed off by energy moguls afraid of cheap energy, it could be everywhere in a few years, but what are the odds that this company doesn't get bought out, the product marketed only for RFID where they don't give a damn if solar replaces batteries, and the tech never makes it to uses where it would compete with conventional energy company profits...
ah an you're being insightful. the problem is, how do fraudsters eliminate the radioactive isotopes released into the environment by atomic testing?
i suppose, you could put the organic paint in a centrifuge, until the atomic elements starting aligning by atomic weight, and use geiger counter to isolate the radioactive bands.. but you'd use a lot more paint, it would be very expensive to produce, so only someone counterfeiting a multi million dollar painting with an idea of who they'd be conning...
no, the truth of the matter is, they're just panties scented with the popular perfumes that are in vogue with highschool girls, with a statement that they're used' but it's rteally just marketing, it's much cheaper to buy perfume, spray it in a pair of cheap panties and package it in a machine as 'used' panties. actually using used panties would be gross, it's all about the 'image' people think they're really used by high school girls, and the perfume makes the buyer shell out the equivalent $80 got a $4 item, they think because it's perfumed that it's been warn, especially since the machine has big signs saying so!
most likely the item was dreamed up by some yakuza thug, of how to turn $4 into $80. I bet it's quite profitable.
yeah, i love airline security. "why would a person risk their job by taking your (insert valuable here)" that you didn't put in carry-on because you weren't aware oh how often airline baggage theft occurs. It happens 1billion times a day, every time a person packs cash, BECAUSE the damn machine goes 'bing' and the clerk who works alone there, took was harry Houdini and made the 'special lock that any airline worker can open' disappear.
the stupid machine tells workers when people pack something worth stealing! how could you not think of a way to steal that stuff when everyone there does it anyways. (no I've never had anything stolen, because if it's worth anything it goes in my carry-on)
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for the 2 passenger unspecified wheel config?
i'm assuming they did this for a reason, you know, like to win the x-prize
kinda like how the next gen prius is trying to get a real 4 passenger car with 100 mpg, for that x-prize, by switching to li-ion batteries, and tuning the engine..
"People do not tend to clean toilets for free."
you have a very limited experience with Mysophobic people, huh. some of them won't use any toilet, public or belonging to themselves without cleaning it first, they also wash their hands a lot, but some get really uptight about toilets.
its more or less rare, and highly associated with OCD, but i've always wondered why there are 'paper' toilet seats in some rest rooms, are you really that worried about germs on your ass? what about touching other paople's bottoms?
if there was some deadly disease that transferred from butt to butt, i'd a be more pragmatic about it, but realistically the worst thing to touch on a person is their hand, the next worst place is their mouth. typically toilets are cleaned with harsh, ugly chemicals, and as mythbusters showed, the toil seat was the cleanest sample site in their lab.
IIRC, they also compared dog saliva to one of the mythbusters to see if human or dog saliva had more bacteria, not sure about that... maybe someone else will remember clearly.
"I download movies for free."
You could have infected your system with malware already then.
"I download music for free."
Ditto.
"I download porn for free."
You HAVE malware installed already, i can tell, the first thing hackers figured out how to do was make free porn into system compromises.
Don't deny it, I ASKED a paid hacker back in 2006 how easy it was to hack me, and he only laughed.
"I download operating systems for free."
no promise this keeps you safe from malware given 1, 2, and 3.
"I download software for free."
You could easily be downloading a dancing pig, don't expect FOSS to be immune, there have been numerous attempt to get malware into trusted repositories, windows based FOSS is just asking for trouble, because usually the source requires a 'paid' compiler package from Microsoft, do you really trust that mafia hackers didn't set up and pagerank that software just to get a malware vector for their paid hackers?
"Why shouldn't I expect antivirus software to be free as well?"
your free malware/av software is virtually guaranteed to be impotent. if major players like mcaffee can't keep up with crap from 2006, why would free software do so? if free software was capable, why does google who loves FOSS write it's own in house malware/av scanner? Right now only one anti malware company 'promises' the ability to use computer techs to FIX your malware problem, over the internet. guess who? comodo. with their 'pro plus' firewall, it's not even a normal AV suite, it's from a corporate security firm, that rolled out a free as in beer firewall, and eventually figured out how bad the AV/anti malware industry was getting. no it's not free, but at $40 a year it's priced to sell.
so what do you do with people who download porn, play online game sites, want the dreaded cursors from hell, or intentionally install this shit on their siblings computers, just to piss them off...
hey i know good passwords can help that last, but what about a shared machine... if they've got an account and can install software... they can hose the whole machine with the right download...
then what about the people who want to download illegal content from shadey sites, like say, every frickign warezable video game and all the hacks for them, especially the ones that contain stealth rootkits...
god, you have no clue what it's like to admin a system where people actually use software or websites and think EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T PAY YOU IT'S YOUR JOB TO FIX THEM WHEN THEY BREAK.
yeah live in your perfect world where you don't run afowl of any security exploits.. you'd do a better job as an admin if you had 2-3 junker machines behind a full stateful inspection firewall (i recommend a hardened Linux from scratch install) and went out looking for bad sites, and bad software, and actually TESTED the various pay/free software to SEE what works and what doesn't.
you might get good at reflashing bioses when they get hosed by malware, instead of stupidly thinking that stealth rootkit your nephew got from a porn site, couldn't possibly have infected the BIOS when there ARE ONLY 3-4 BIOS makers on the market, and infecting them to auto reinstall malware is nowhere near impossible, as long as you don't corrupt any critical parts of the bios image...
well, comodo's got a new service, it's not free, with their 'pro plus' firewall, that guarantees that if you get malware, a paid security guy will remotely fix your machine for you.
i can just imagine blackhats abusing this to try and cripple the product, but if it i'm strongly considering requiring all my relatives who run afowl of malware get the service so i don't have to fix their computers anymore.
i don't see any on google image search, but a DIY project is pretty easy.
first you have to decide What an asshat is, is it a hat that looks like someone's behind?
is it a hat that looks like a behind, with another hat on top of it?
whichever design you go with, you need an easily worked with material that either is the correct color, or is easily painted or colored correctly, after working with it.
i don't have any good material suggestions, besides using fabric (easily dyed) and cotton batting inside, and sewing the fabric to the correct shape, a bit of work, and cotton can lose it's shape,... still i couldn't think of any easier material...
well, with the dancing pigs problem, universal java exploits (i mean JRE exploits not javascript here) it could be you're telling people to move to a platform where sophisticated anti-malware doesn't exist, with the fallacy that 'it's linux, it's not targeted by hackers'
of course, pure linux exploits don't exist, but an exploit of a p2p application written in java or python, oh heck, even a bad site, that runs a java exploit as part of say 'free movie downloads' it's possible to write once, run anywhere code that can equally infect mac and linux desktops that thanks to the dancing pigs problem relies on closed source, 'feature' software that doesn't come 'default' with linux, but which they're going to install the first time a website doesn't work without it.
all the most popular bittorent software all comes in a 'universal' language, either java or python... and they're all in the 'multiverse' repositories... making them easy for linux users to install...
sure, in a write once, run anywhere situation, you can't do as much to a linux machine, as to a windows machine, but the basic stuff, but depending on what the hacker hopes to do, it could be super simple.
linux isn't kryptonite to good hacker.I know a cat hater on a a farm, cats are pretty inevitable if you have a farm...
he prefers .22 caliber guns for the elimination of cats, he also owns a .45 but the noise level is too great, lower caliber is always better for small animals, for mice, a pellet gun is probably the preferred caliber, if you can manage to catch one with say, infrared goggles.
Well, the good news is influenza and norovirus are both weak, short living virus strains easily killed by detergents. so no matter what you got sick with, basic soap will kill it.
there are some spore based viruses and even, organisms that are virtually impossible to destroy.
but you didn't get sick with any of those, so you don't have to worry about really decontaminating it.
actually, there were a few really bad, really slow mp3 players out there. I remember trying 3 players before i found one that worked the way i wanted it to. but then i was using my 486 until i got a laptop with a Pentium 120.
oh yeah, and i had 48 MB of ram, the maximum my system supported. RAM can make a huge difference, with badly coded software...
you have a lot of questions but here is the point.
at night time the wind dies down to the point where wind turbines generate 0 power. the whole point is that they can compress air in existing underground caves, near municipal wind farms, to run them after dark.
I'm worried about long term side effects, 1200 PSI is a lot of potential energy, and cave systems, even an airtight system as this must be, are underground and usually there are things above it, in this case, prime iowa farmland. if the cave blows a gasket, you probably don't lose much, unless it happens to take the hill the windmill was on with it.
worse still, if you take down a farmhouse loaded full of farmers and get sued.. yeah the risk is low, and it saves using coal... oh and BTW because the power comes from the grid, the wind farm can be in one place, the cave system turbines in another location... (eg: using the same turbines to fill the caves as to create power at night)
but still, I'd feel safer with a atomic power plant in my backyard than a giant cave system being used to compress and store air to make power at night time.
"the majority of code simply doesn't parallelize well."
but the first thing that will get ported is that nasty website that strobes your screen and keeps you from doing anything with the computer through JavaScript/whatever.
just imagine how fast those nasty sites can strobe the screen with 1000 cores!
"Take, for instance, the huge success of mp3's. There was a time not so long ago when people were limited to playing music off a physical CD. This wasn't because there was no desire amongst computer users to listen to digital files that could be stored locally or streamed off the internet. It was because computer users did not know yet that they had the desire to do it. But technology advanced to the point where a) processors became fast enough to decode mp3's in real time without using the whole CPU"
I started making mp3s with a 486 DX 75mhz
I could decode in real time on a 486 DX 75 as i recall encoding took a bit of time, and i only had a 3 GB HDD that had been an upgrade to the system...
Mp3s use a asynchronous encoding algorithm, more CPU to encode, than to decode, if your MP3 player doesn't run correctly on a 486, then it's because they designed in features not strictly needed to decode a MP3 stream.
Oh hey, I have an RCA Lyra mp3 player, that isn't even as fast as a 486, but the decoder was designed for mp3 decoding.
Ogg decoding uses a beefier decoder, that's half the problem getting ogg support in devices not made for decoding video streams.
yes, but if you have 1000 cores each with 64k of cache, then you start to run into problems with memory throughput when computing massively parallel data.
memory throughput has been the achilles heel of graphic processing for years now. and as we all know, splitting up a graphic screen into smaller segments is simple. so GPUs went massively parallel long before CPUS, in fact you will soon be able to get over 1000 stream processing units in a single desktop graphic card.
so, the real problem is memory technology, how can a single memory module consistently feed 1000 cores, for instance if you want to do real-time n-pass encoding of a hd video stream... while playing a FPS online, and running IM software, and a strong anti-virus suite...
I have a horrible horrible ugly feeling that you'll never be able to get a system that can reliably do all that. at the same time, just because they'll skimp on memory tech or interconnects, so you'll have most of the capabilities of a 1,000 core system wasted.
it's different when you're just reading data, VS writing data, and these benchmarks compared power usage while writing gobs and gobs of data.
flash memory chips can use 5X as much power to 'write' data as they do to 'read' data, oh and hey if you're reading the same old data over and over, why not just have it in ram, and just not spin up a drive or read flash memory at all?
oh and wear leveling can be designed around keeping as few chips powered up as possible, you just need to reserve a bit of flash memory to cache a wear leveling pattern, so it knows when to power up and down which chips... trying it's best to keep data sets on the fewest chips, again this is a bot more complex than basic wear leveling, so it's not tro be expected on early SSDs...
oh wait, i just thought of a problem...
the exponential gravity well problem.
the problem is that while attemting to hit the 'event horizion' of the gravitational effects of the next solar system, you're faces with exponential gravity drag. eg: for every meter you travel, your distance is slowed, based on your toal distance from the sun, and the percentage of gravity well pulling you back, since gravity wells extend to infinity and the next neared gravity well is 2 light years away, you need continuous thrust or else in ~150 years (it really depends on the speed you got to, i was basing this on comets, which have iirc 100-150 year orbits) the exponential effect of gravity will not only have completely slowed your craft to 0 (the first 75 years maybe) then it reverses your speed at an accelerating pace until you reach the terminal velocity of your craft directly back towards your own solar system.
so you need at the minimum some soret of propulsion ssytem that activates every 25-50 years to accelerate you back to a reasonable escape velocity, until you hit the next gravity well, and if you're not going to the next closest solar system waits until you slingshot away from the next solar well, to the next one rinse repeat...
based on this voyager 1 should come back into our solar system within the next 150-200 or so years, it will never be able to escape our own solar system, with only a 'final' slingshot from one of the larger outer planets...
man i which i had a super computer to do the exponential gravity based on real data from comet (escape speed, return velocity everything we know of comets) data so i could pinpoint the exact year voyager 1 comes back to 1 AU.
silly star trek got it wrong voyager 1 is coming home, because gravity has an infinite distance, or at least far enough to bring comets back, no space vessel without a significant propulsion system is ever going inter planetary.
Well, at least, without destroying the sun in a mater/anti matter conversion process to allow the gravity of the next solar system to attract them.
destroying the sun and all the planets to go interstellar is a bit to far, in my book.
"until japan showed that there is a lot of uranium up there. That makes it very different. That gives us power to build and launch Giant Robotic mecha"
fixed that for you, there is also a lot of titanium, to make the giant robots out of.
and mount lasers on it. you forgot the lasers, that was a shark fin right, you didn't specify!
Duh, you just build a machine that creates a complete copy of yourself at the destination in 10 million years from now when it gets there. the plus side, is you don't even need enough fuel except to decelerate the device when it gets there.
as long as you can make a reliable computing device, capable of cloning yourself at the destination, complete with memories, oh an maybe give it enough fuel to come back, make a third clone of you with both the original memories, and the memories of visiting there, and then you can stand by the crumbling remains of the world where apes rule the planet and humans are slaves to them
and you can scream "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
as for power, as long as the navigation and time keeping computer uses a low enough power requirement, a nice, atomic battery based on the decay of radioactive waste can keep the system ready to start of the main generator to start up the cloning machine/ etc...
give the man a break, google calculator defaults to saying "299 792 458 m / s" the m being 'meters' but miles is also designated with an m.
and then the kids will all start saying 'that's so next week' when they get 1,239 packages that they ordered over 56.4 years, and they come in a courtesy semi trailer, ordered by date of opening them!
but what happens, when a scientist takes advantage of this service, and sends himself everything he patented over his 120 year life span ,courtesy of his life extension drugs he sent himself before he patented them, marketed them and became the first googlbillionaire for having every technology advance for the next 120 years patented!
yeah, that's just great and when everyone does it we'll wind up with 1.7 trillion years of scientific progress compressed into 7 weeks, and then people realize the drugs that make you live 6,789 years also makes you incredibly stupid, and then we all become hapless homer simpsons, for the next 6,789 years, because everyone took the drugs the sent themselves and everyone else, before anyone tested the long term results.
except, they're primarily marketing the technology as a 'power' solution for RFID, they haven't got approval to sell the product for use as home solar power, and they have a lot of plans, and no customers. that's never a good business model, especially since you switched from an in house, proprietary manufacturing to some untested system using inkjet printer hardware... how long will these devices last, even if they can be printed on plastic... if they're targeting RFID devices, i got a feeling they don't even know this themselves, and are uncertain about 'long term' power providing solutions....
what kind of yields are they going to get? inkjet nozzles may be commodity, but they wear out, is that the problem they ran into with their 'proprietary' system and then they decide "hey let's use discardable inkjet printer heads instead of fixing the problem!"
if each head can only make reliable products for one production run, how environmentally friendly is it really? especially if the plastic media it's printed on cause wear and tear every time it flexes, and makes the product wear out in weeks, instead of the 'years to decades' conventional PV can last...
if the product is really solid, and doesn't get killed off by energy moguls afraid of cheap energy, it could be everywhere in a few years, but what are the odds that this company doesn't get bought out, the product marketed only for RFID where they don't give a damn if solar replaces batteries, and the tech never makes it to uses where it would compete with conventional energy company profits...
ah an you're being insightful. the problem is, how do fraudsters eliminate the radioactive isotopes released into the environment by atomic testing?
i suppose, you could put the organic paint in a centrifuge, until the atomic elements starting aligning by atomic weight, and use geiger counter to isolate the radioactive bands.. but you'd use a lot more paint, it would be very expensive to produce, so only someone counterfeiting a multi million dollar painting with an idea of who they'd be conning...
no, the truth of the matter is, they're just panties scented with the popular perfumes that are in vogue with highschool girls, with a statement that they're used' but it's rteally just marketing, it's much cheaper to buy perfume, spray it in a pair of cheap panties and package it in a machine as 'used' panties. actually using used panties would be gross, it's all about the 'image' people think they're really used by high school girls, and the perfume makes the buyer shell out the equivalent $80 got a $4 item, they think because it's perfumed that it's been warn, especially since the machine has big signs saying so!
most likely the item was dreamed up by some yakuza thug, of how to turn $4 into $80. I bet it's quite profitable.
yeah, i love airline security. "why would a person risk their job by taking your (insert valuable here)" that you didn't put in carry-on because you weren't aware oh how often airline baggage theft occurs. It happens 1billion times a day, every time a person packs cash, BECAUSE the damn machine goes 'bing' and the clerk who works alone there, took was harry Houdini and made the 'special lock that any airline worker can open' disappear.
the stupid machine tells workers when people pack something worth stealing! how could you not think of a way to steal that stuff when everyone there does it anyways. (no I've never had anything stolen, because if it's worth anything it goes in my carry-on)