gah. this is supposed to be perfection ? i can think of a million ways google news could be better. 1. too bloody cluttered. whats with all the blue links and one line of black text in plain text mode with gigantic amounts of whitespace at the right hand side? godammit. i want a series of boxes with a SINGLE link for each story. Use ALL the space on the page. maybe a small . at the side of each story which allows me to pull up a list of URLS but thats it. 2. the picture based news page looks like netscape.com whats with the crappy layout ? make it better. netscape.com is annoying as hell, and is probably the worst from a usability standpoint. 3. feedback sucks they used to have feed back forms on their page, now they have email only links. whats up with that ? i *liked* the forms. no need to pull up a web client, login to email and send it off. 4. country specific bullshit. i dont want google.co.uk just because i route my connection thru JANET. i dont want google.de or google.ca just cause the fucked up system thinks im in germany or canada cos thats where my internet2 connection is routed thru at that moment....i want google.com dammit. i dont want country specific censoring. fuck that.
actually teflon is easily abraded since it doesnt stick...mechanical acton is used to bind it to other materials and it doesnt last when scraped.
Of course you can try building the entire house out of teflon....
cant you use ONE high end video card like the nvidia pro series, run it at 2048 x 2048 or some such resolution and use a video splitter with the 4 monitors and use zooming and x/y pan or whatever to display 1/4 of the screen on each of the 4 displays ?
that way you dont need 4 high end video cards, software tricks, hardware or any other crap.
the point is broadcast services can reach hundreds of thousands of users but they dont have to. because hundreds of thousands arent listening in at the same time and even if they were, multicast on local TX repeaters would handle it more efficiently with less power output than the hundreds of megawatts they might be using across the entire country.
Make CNN broadcast into CNN.com and you suddenly have more efficient communications which dont logjam the entire system.
he's arguing for the entire spectrum to become the internet with smart nodes..which makes perfect sense. two way communication with the same power limit on everyone from TV stations to the average user would require a helluva lot more local nodes but would be waay more efficient than the crappy monopoly situation we have now.
1 *want* to see five billion TV/radio stations accessible to me all at the same time as im driving down the interstate the same way i can see five billion web pages when i search google.
easy. just remember that you dont have to eat the signal all at once. Take the relevant 10 seconds of the 40Ghz signal and process it with a fast DSP over the next 2 minutes. sure its not real time but it converts the problem from an expensive hardware one to a software one.
do you HAVE to transmit at 40GBps 24 x 7 x 365 ? Does slashdot HAVE to send TCP/IP packets out to everyone on the planet all the time or only when a HTTP request comes in ? My guess is that at 40 gigs/sec you could transmit the relevant signal and repeat the beam every 10 minutes or so for a TV show. let the TV recievers take the signal every 10 minutes, process it and spread the decoding time out as the user is watching the show.
The idea is to broadcast smarter and not necessarily all the time like todays current equipment which is crude in comparision.
yes and where are you going to dump 132MB/sec coming off the PCI bus ? no hard drive or raid array on a PC can do that and no network can support that without using the PCI bus. motion.sourceforge.net sounds like a better idea.
hmm..doesnt seem to but it might. delaware allows it to be used freely with not restrictions.. dont know about other states. http://www.delcode.state.de.us/title16/chapter049. htm
not necessary...just follow the good old earthworm principle...convey the cuttings thru the body of the bot and leave them behind. earthworms done leave any significant holes..they use uncompressed space in the soil and theyre sufficiently long and narrow/slender.
WD tests its drives out and sends the ones which passed with flying colors to dell, compaq and other OEMs. the drives which barely scraped thru go to compusa and frys. so get WD's only if you buy from dell, compaq etc. driveservice and storage review are the best for real rankings.
so..the bigger your head is the more intelligent you are ? if that was true wouldnt there be some evolutionary trend towards larger and larger heads ?? pre homo sapien men were considerably larger and had more cranial capacity. they dont seem to have the extra computational capacity to go with it however.
ok...im throwing out a guess here...some sort of linear particle accelerator facility or some other crap that requires huge quantities of data for temporary buffer storage or analysis. or some nut cases version of a secure digital storage library with no moving parts. if its in space you have all the shielding you need if you bury it under several tons of rock/ice. I'm assuming you want around 1024T bytes of storage in the future which would be decent if its a physics experiment.
Should not be too difficult technically. i'd build it in the form of :
dual CPU mobo with 1 terabyte of memory with 8 cards of 10Gbps fibre channel (to survive radiation/EMP) networking gear. x 1024
assuming minimal boot from a solid state flash drive and the terabyte of memory can be addressed as a linear block if the CPUs are 64 bit, the dual procs should give enough capacity to saturate a 80Gbps (10gigs/sec) uplink. connect em all in the form of a hypercube and ensure that you have at least 8 different routers connected to each port of a single node. if any memory modules die, the ECC on the mobo (and chipkill type tech if you have it) should take care of it. If the CPUs die you loose 1 TB of storage. If 1-2 network adapters die any decent OS (like Linux) can isolate em. Since youre using at least 8 different routers PER mobo, a router dieing will reduce interconnect bandwidth (by 10Gbps) but wont isolate any nodes.
Multiply this entire setup by 3 if you want extreme redundancy and mirror the data 3 times on 3 different hypercubes. Not a real problem. Mobos should be cheap (use MIPS or similar low powered/low heat 64 bit CPUs), memory reasonably expensive, 10Gbps ethernet cards + routers cheap, a small UPS+PSU per mobo should also be sufficiently cheap (you get integrated UPS+PSUs now). If you want this setup to survive power failures simply add 1 TB flash per node and write to it if the UPS throws an alarm. Controller software for the hypercube is easy to write if you know what your doing..i did something similar which can be adapted for exactly this setup a while ago.
agreed. the slashdot (& kuro5hin) moderation systems do seem to work well. i dunno how well it would work in real time on an IRC system tho...but its far better than randomly banning entire friggin countries.
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gah. this is supposed to be perfection ? i can think of a million ways google news could be better.
1. too bloody cluttered.
whats with all the blue links and one line of black text in plain text mode with gigantic amounts of whitespace at the right hand side?
godammit. i want a series of boxes with a SINGLE link for each story. Use ALL the space on the page. maybe a small . at the side of each story which allows me to pull up a list of URLS but thats it.
2. the picture based news page looks like netscape.com
whats with the crappy layout ? make it better. netscape.com is annoying as hell, and is probably the worst from a usability standpoint.
3. feedback sucks
they used to have feed back forms on their page, now they have email only links. whats up with that ? i *liked* the forms. no need to pull up a web client, login to email and send it off.
4. country specific bullshit.
i dont want google.co.uk just because i route my connection thru JANET. i dont want google.de or google.ca just cause the fucked up system thinks im in germany or canada cos thats where my internet2 connection is routed thru at that moment....i want google.com dammit. i dont want country specific censoring. fuck that.
actually teflon is easily abraded since it doesnt stick ...mechanical acton is used to bind it to other materials and it doesnt last when scraped.
Of course you can try building the entire house out of teflon....
cant you use ONE high end video card like the nvidia pro series, run it at 2048 x 2048 or some such resolution and use a video splitter with the 4 monitors and use zooming and x/y pan or whatever to display 1/4 of the screen on each of the 4 displays ?
that way you dont need 4 high end video cards, software tricks, hardware or any other crap.
the point is broadcast services can reach hundreds of thousands of users but they dont have to. because hundreds of thousands arent listening in at the same time and even if they were, multicast on local TX repeaters would handle it more efficiently with less power output than the hundreds of megawatts they might be using across the entire country.
Make CNN broadcast into CNN.com and you suddenly have more efficient communications which dont logjam the entire system.
he's arguing for the entire spectrum to become the internet with smart nodes..which makes perfect sense. two way communication with the same power limit on everyone from TV stations to the average user would require a helluva lot more local nodes but would be waay more efficient than the crappy monopoly situation we have now.
1 *want* to see five billion TV/radio stations accessible to me all at the same time as im driving down the interstate the same way i can see five billion web pages when i search google.
easy. just remember that you dont have to eat the signal all at once. Take the relevant 10 seconds of the 40Ghz signal and process it with a fast DSP over the next 2 minutes. sure its not real time but it converts the problem from an expensive hardware one to a software one.
do you HAVE to transmit at 40GBps 24 x 7 x 365 ? Does slashdot HAVE to send TCP/IP packets out to everyone on the planet all the time or only when a HTTP request comes in ? My guess is that at 40 gigs/sec you could transmit the relevant signal and repeat the beam every 10 minutes or so for a TV show. let the TV recievers take the signal every 10 minutes, process it and spread the decoding time out as the user is watching the show.
The idea is to broadcast smarter and not necessarily all the time like todays current equipment which is crude in comparision.
awesome.
yes and where are you going to dump 132MB/sec coming off the PCI bus ?
no hard drive or raid array on a PC can do that and no network can support that without using the PCI bus.
motion.sourceforge.net sounds like a better idea.
also LML's mpeg 4 compression board will do it but its $600 or so.
neato
awesome.
yeah but the point is that they are professionals..they should be opening the hard drive in a lab and imaging it with a MFM microscope.
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compliments of uspto.
have a look at the paper/ final-n iac.pdf
:a lpr es.pdf
http://engineering.eng.rowan.edu/~marchese
or look at the presentation here
http://engineering.eng.rowan.edu/~marchese/fin
maybe we can have an audio interview next time ? the answers were shorter than the questions.
cool. nice set of aircraft designs. integral rotor designs are not optimised tho.
>---M----< would be optimised.
nice design..but will it hovwer? it looks like a regular prop plane to me with the props in the wings shaped like lawnmower blades.
impressive. would be really great if you can build it into a stereo system which is capable of recognizing objects.
alternatively try bots.b ot/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pat.murphy/rc
has a NS bot.
hmm..doesnt seem to but it might. delaware allows it to be used freely with not restrictions .. dont know about other states. http://www.delcode.state.de.us/title16/chapter049. htm
interesting...lots of financial and other data types but not much linguistic data.
not necessary...just follow the good old earthworm principle...convey the cuttings thru the body of the bot and leave them behind. earthworms done leave any significant holes..they use uncompressed space in the soil and theyre sufficiently long and narrow/slender.
WD tests its drives out and sends the ones which passed with flying colors to dell, compaq and other OEMs. the drives which barely scraped thru go to compusa and frys.
so get WD's only if you buy from dell, compaq etc.
driveservice and storage review are the best for real rankings.
so..the bigger your head is the more intelligent you are ?
if that was true wouldnt there be some evolutionary trend towards larger and larger heads ?? pre homo sapien men were considerably larger and had more cranial capacity. they dont seem to have the extra computational capacity to go with it however.
ok...im throwing out a guess here...some sort of linear particle accelerator facility or some other crap that requires huge quantities of data for temporary buffer storage or analysis. or some nut cases version of a secure digital storage library with no moving parts. if its in space you have all the shielding you need if you bury it under several tons of rock/ice. I'm assuming you want around 1024T bytes of storage in the future which would be decent if its a physics experiment.
Should not be too difficult technically. i'd build it in the form of :
dual CPU mobo with 1 terabyte of memory with 8 cards of 10Gbps fibre channel (to survive radiation/EMP) networking gear. x 1024
assuming minimal boot from a solid state flash drive and the terabyte of memory can be addressed as a linear block if the CPUs are 64 bit, the dual procs should give enough capacity to saturate a 80Gbps (10gigs/sec) uplink. connect em all in the form of a hypercube and ensure that you have at least 8 different routers connected to each port of a single node. if any memory modules die, the ECC on the mobo (and chipkill type tech if you have it) should take care of it. If the CPUs die you loose 1 TB of storage. If 1-2 network adapters die any decent OS (like Linux) can isolate em. Since youre using at least 8 different routers PER mobo, a router dieing will reduce interconnect bandwidth (by 10Gbps) but wont isolate any nodes.
Multiply this entire setup by 3 if you want extreme redundancy and mirror the data 3 times on 3 different hypercubes.
Not a real problem. Mobos should be cheap (use MIPS or similar low powered/low heat 64 bit CPUs), memory reasonably expensive, 10Gbps ethernet cards + routers cheap, a small UPS+PSU per mobo should also be sufficiently cheap (you get integrated UPS+PSUs now). If you want this setup to survive power failures simply add 1 TB flash per node and write to it if the UPS throws an alarm. Controller software for the hypercube is easy to write if you know what your doing..i did something similar which can be adapted for exactly this setup a while ago.
agreed. the slashdot (& kuro5hin) moderation systems do seem to work well. i dunno how well it would work in real time on an IRC system tho...but its far better than randomly banning entire friggin countries.