Almost certainly, and about as likely, it seems.:(
I'd also really like a nice, fairly inexpensive PPC970FX workstation (or better yet, just a motherboard only) from IBM that I can pop Linux on. There's a developer's board available, but 'fairly inexpensive' doesn't quite apply. *shrug*
Think power requirements, then you'll see why I'm not thinking Athlon 64. The Pentium M is really quite amazing along those lines. The only thing that competes with the Pentium M at the clockrates it runs at are the PowerPC970 chips, and they only beat out Intel & AMD in vector operations.
Technically, but not really. USB 2.0 is 480Mbps, Firewire (IEEE1394.a) is 400, but due to latency and protocol issues, Firewire is almost always faster, often _much_ faster than USB 2.0.
That doesn't even include IEEE1394.b, which is 800Mbps. Unfortunately, these devices aren't of the newer flavour of FireWire.
You will also certainly find major speed differences in different sets of USB & FireWire chips & drivers, so you'd have to benchmark the things to find out for sure.
I'd like them to make a dual core Pentium M, add the latest SSE stuff (SSE3?), an on-die, dual channel memory controller, a HyperTransport bus, and sell it for the desktop crowd.
The RDF (Reality Distortion Field) prevents one from taking conscious note of the differences between this new version and the original, so you really don't _mind_ Han & Greedo firing simultaneously (that's what I've heard this new (third) version shows). Good ole RDF!
If Kerry doesn't take PA, he's _not_ going to win. He can do without Oregon (though he'll have to take at least one other swing state), but without PA, no chance whatsoever, unless he takes pretty much every other swing state, which I don't see happening. It's fun and scary playing with those online Electoral Vote calculators.
You were the prick for calling OSS developers monkeys.
Seriously! C'mon, how hard is it to remember:
Tails = Monkeys
No Tails = Chimps!
Get it straight, people.
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I didn't mean about me - you said "or anyone else's," which is pretty ridiculous, IMO.
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I'm not about to take your word, or anyone else's word, on this subject
Okay, then, keep that mind closed; something might get in there.
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These are a completely different design (which is the whole _point_) than regular reactors. Pebble bed reactors have small 'pebbles' (billiard ball-size) with little flecks (0.04", if I remember correctly) of Uranium in them - putting them in the pebbles keeps them spread apart, and makes it (dare I use the word) 'impossible' for a meltdown to occur, such as Chernobyl. There is no radioactive water or cooling rods in this design, and the pebbles are designed for a million year life, plenty of time for the radioactivity to lose its lethality, so storage of the used pebbles is _much_ easier than with current nuclear reactor waste. The university in Beijing that has been developing this has had a plant running for around ten years, with no problems, and, as mentioned, shut down the cooling system to prove that it's safe.
This is a really great development, and I hope it gets presented accurately in the press. The Wired article is very well written, though the blurb on the cover about the relationship between these plants and hydrogen is completely bogus. There is no more relationship between these plants and hydrogen than there is between any other power source and hydrogen.
Let's see...big ocean in the direction countering the motion of the earth to catch those solid state rockets? Relatively warm weather for year round launches? Lots of flat, inexpensive land?
Welcome to Texas. Much cheaper land than Florida. Splash your solid state boosters in the Gulf, keep the launch center far enough inland to be relatively unscathed by hurricanes. And if one of them boosters happens to hit land, well, hell, son, don't worry - it's just Texas.:)
"Even if they're labeled free sex and beer." or something like that.
And lemme tell ya, if it's labeled 'Gravity - Do Not Touch,' DON'T FREAKIN' TOUCH IT! (that sentence proves there's still a use for the caps lock key, you losers)
For a possible scenario of what could happen in that type of situation, see the short film, 'This Guy Is Falling.' Great little flick. Might still be able to catch it at atomfilms.com. (sorry, too lazy to check and karma whore with a link)
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I think you got that backwards.
Almost certainly, and about as likely, it seems. :(
I'd also really like a nice, fairly inexpensive PPC970FX workstation (or better yet, just a motherboard only) from IBM that I can pop Linux on. There's a developer's board available, but 'fairly inexpensive' doesn't quite apply. *shrug*
Think power requirements, then you'll see why I'm not thinking Athlon 64. The Pentium M is really quite amazing along those lines. The only thing that competes with the Pentium M at the clockrates it runs at are the PowerPC970 chips, and they only beat out Intel & AMD in vector operations.
Technically, but not really. USB 2.0 is 480Mbps, Firewire (IEEE1394.a) is 400, but due to latency and protocol issues, Firewire is almost always faster, often _much_ faster than USB 2.0.
That doesn't even include IEEE1394.b, which is 800Mbps. Unfortunately, these devices aren't of the newer flavour of FireWire.
You will also certainly find major speed differences in different sets of USB & FireWire chips & drivers, so you'd have to benchmark the things to find out for sure.
Have you checked the power consumption of an Athlon 64 lately?
I'd like them to make a dual core Pentium M, add the latest SSE stuff (SSE3?), an on-die, dual channel memory controller, a HyperTransport bus, and sell it for the desktop crowd.
Is that too much to ask? *sigh*
How many times have you been arrested?
The RDF (Reality Distortion Field) prevents one from taking conscious note of the differences between this new version and the original, so you really don't _mind_ Han & Greedo firing simultaneously (that's what I've heard this new (third) version shows). Good ole RDF!
Yes, but they won't be 'cars,' and humans won't be flying them.
...with a very illegal laser canon, of course. :)
Too bad they didn't film it _behind_ a blue screen. At least the parts with Annakin.
my father named one of my sisters after Dejah Therece
I hoped he spelled it 'Dejah Thoris.'
Your father wouldn't happen to be a mathematician specializing in n-dimensional geometry, would he?
Geez, get with it, man! It's all ball bearings, now!
SVG and CSS both were passed on because they weren't adaquate to meet our needs.
:)
Well, if one were to use Microsoft's implementations of SVG & CSS, I totally agree.
That reminds me - I found a new tree in the forest yesterday.
I think I'll name it 'George.'
If Kerry doesn't take PA, he's _not_ going to win. He can do without Oregon (though he'll have to take at least one other swing state), but without PA, no chance whatsoever, unless he takes pretty much every other swing state, which I don't see happening. It's fun and scary playing with those online Electoral Vote calculators.
Seriously! C'mon, how hard is it to remember:
Get it straight, people.
I didn't mean about me - you said "or anyone else's," which is pretty ridiculous, IMO.
I'm not about to take your word, or anyone else's word, on this subject
Okay, then, keep that mind closed; something might get in there.
These are a completely different design (which is the whole _point_) than regular reactors. Pebble bed reactors have small 'pebbles' (billiard ball-size) with little flecks (0.04", if I remember correctly) of Uranium in them - putting them in the pebbles keeps them spread apart, and makes it (dare I use the word) 'impossible' for a meltdown to occur, such as Chernobyl. There is no radioactive water or cooling rods in this design, and the pebbles are designed for a million year life, plenty of time for the radioactivity to lose its lethality, so storage of the used pebbles is _much_ easier than with current nuclear reactor waste. The university in Beijing that has been developing this has had a plant running for around ten years, with no problems, and, as mentioned, shut down the cooling system to prove that it's safe.
This is a really great development, and I hope it gets presented accurately in the press. The Wired article is very well written, though the blurb on the cover about the relationship between these plants and hydrogen is completely bogus. There is no more relationship between these plants and hydrogen than there is between any other power source and hydrogen.
Let's see...big ocean in the direction countering the motion of the earth to catch those solid state rockets? Relatively warm weather for year round launches? Lots of flat, inexpensive land?
:)
Welcome to Texas. Much cheaper land than Florida. Splash your solid state boosters in the Gulf, keep the launch center far enough inland to be relatively unscathed by hurricanes. And if one of them boosters happens to hit land, well, hell, son, don't worry - it's just Texas.
What, you mean like k5 has? Gosh, that'd _never_ work!
Hey, some archaeologists seek ancient treasures to defeat Nazis with!
> Could be interesting.
Don't bet on it.
"Even if they're labeled free sex and beer." or something like that.
And lemme tell ya, if it's labeled 'Gravity - Do Not Touch,' DON'T FREAKIN' TOUCH IT! (that sentence proves there's still a use for the caps lock key, you losers)
For a possible scenario of what could happen in that type of situation, see the short film, 'This Guy Is Falling.' Great little flick. Might still be able to catch it at atomfilms.com. (sorry, too lazy to check and karma whore with a link)