Me thinks your analogy to guns is a little skewed.
First of all, I have never seen a gun that was designed to shoot only one type of target or a narrow range of targets, ala todays hardware dependent frequency generators for transmittors.
Second, if such guns had existed, do you really think that we would have the freedom to use them the way we do now? I mean seriously, no manufacturer would design the weapon to shoot month old babys, right?
Just a little food for thought. FYI, I don't condone restriction of freedoms. But along the lines of free speech amendment, just because you have the right to say (transmit) what ever you want, doesn't force other to listen (receive). With that in mind, radio receivers are not currently smart enought to have selective "hearing" so in light of not forcing everyone to have to listen to your bable you should be restrained from babling in our ears.
of software radio is the ability to modify the code and tromp all over someone elses legally protected frequency range. Some of the big nonos include sending on ATC (air traffic controll) frequencies and numerous other military and civil service bands.
Someone corect me if I am wrong, but couldn't the transceiver be built with hardware filters on those bands and thus sidestep the issue of broadcast interference? I know this is not as nice as having a fully programmable software radio transmitter, but otherwise I really don't see the FCC granting any kind of production licensing for these.
buy a few IDE raid cards and set them up raid one? This impliments a full mirror of data on the raided devices. Then perform burnin on the raid device.
Note: I have never implimented raid and am not an expert, so this idea would need to be independently verified.
regarding your monoculture comment: I think your perspective on this is to narrow. As an example, consider the question of who is "good looking". Some males might believe that the tall, long legged, blue eyed, blonde haired female is the ultimate in female form. While others might contend that the small framed asian female, with black hair, exotic brown eyes, and flexibility is the best that there is. Neither of these perspectives has lead, or will lead to a monoculture in what the best looking female is. So, I contend that there will be no "best genes" that will ultimately rule out all others. As a matter of fact, I see this as an opportunity for people to explore diversity of unheard of proportions. It seems that there would be so many possibilities that it would be nigh on impossible to end up with a super monoculture.
Your statement is correct this time. As indicated in the word major, however there are many reactions that may ultimately prove to be a viable alternative to creating clean fusion in the future when the technology is better understood. Just because we can't achieve reasonable power output at this early stage does not mean that "fusion isn't clean" (which is a blanket statement).
It is worth noting that the lithium shielding used in the current designs actually becomes a source of fuel so that overall the reactor is quite clean. You would only need to clean up the shielding in the last decommissioned reactor as any "dirty" shielding from prior reactors could be used as fuel.
BEGIN RANT You just made my foes list due to your extreme lack of understanding. I don't know who your friends are, but they have been feeding you FUD!
This sounds just like the same sort of drivel that comes from the eco-morons when they start talking about how microwave ovens are bad for you because of the *nuculer* rays they emit, and go on about how irradiated food is radioactive. BLAH BLAH BLAH
Just FYI. I was raised in a volkswagon microbus and still have hair down to my butt, however I am also graduate student in physics. Please get a real education before spouting off with inane drivel! END RANT
There are certain fusion reactions that can take place with *no* hard radiation. So you cannot just toss all fusion reactions into the same generalization. Further, as someone pointed out below the half life of irradiated neutron shielding can be very low, on the order of years rather than tens of thousands of years. As such it does not pose the same environmental hazard as spent fission fuel.
Get ahold of a cmos 4066 this chip has plenty of switching power throughput to handle a few leds. Hook the triggers to your parallel port and code a simple pulse width modulator routine to run the triggers. I don't know if the frequency you can achieve on a parallel port would be high enough to prevent flicker, but some capacitors should go a long way to smoothing that out, if not. You might want some current limitin resistors in there as well, so you don't burn out your leds.
BTW, this is rudimentary circuit design in almost any college course. If you want to seroiusly get into building cicuits like this check out "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill. Might be a little expensive but will give you a solid foundation in circuit design.
One, this result assumes that the production of H is a derivative of fossil fuels. that is currently the only economical means to do so, however! Fusion energy is not only the most enviromentally sound means of producing energy, but it has a higher energy density than just about any other energy production technology (barring matter/antimatter etc.) We all know that fusion has been somewhat pie in the sky, but it is a viable alternative and less than 20 years away. See http://www.iter.org
Two, Until we can light the fusion flame and keep a sustained burn, I would seroiusly love to have on of these. A hybrid bike that gets 180mpg and will do 0-60 in 6 seconds.
My wife has an orig NES console. I always wanted to build a eeprom cartridge for it so that I could store her games ROMs on a CD and reload them as desired onto the eeprom. Does anybody know of any projects that have specs condusive to creating such a cartridge?
Some of her cartridges are already dying so we don't use them very often.
And I quote " Galileo could be allowed to simply remain in orbit, but scientists feared it might collide with Europa and contaminate that body with microbes from Earth, possibly damaging its environment. "
This is an entirely valid concern, think the andromeda strain only inverted.
By the way, tofu is not meant to be a food in its own right. Much like eating unflavored gelatin. Tofu is a filler substance and it generally takes up the flavor of the main dish its added to. In the hands of an experienced oriental chef, I think you might find it to be quite palatable.
OK, so decreasing the temperature of your PSU with water is... uhhmmm, cool.
But, I want to see some one come up with a ups enhanced power supply. At least in my experience most power supply problems have to be the little brown outs and black outs during storms. They generally last between momentary to 5 seconds. A PSU with 30 seconds of reserve energy at its rating (example 400W*30sec.) would be something worth having.
But if you can't handle the straight forward logic required to get through a few high level math classes, what makes you think that mastering a complex algorithm is going to be easy?
Math courses are rarely more complicated than figuring out a quicksort or Djiktras spanning tree algorithms. Futher, math is actually easier since you need only convince a human that you know what you are doing, whereas a computer requires that every little nitpicky detail be exactly right.
Except that there needs to be a catagory entry. What I mean is a way of getting all similar types of packages. For instance suppose I wanted to look at all thing "word processing", then I would get packages ranked from most applicable (open office, abiword, etc) down to quasi applicable ( vi, gnotepad, hexedit, etc).
Think the editors could pass a no-repeat test?
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Turing Tests to Stop Spam
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· Score: 5, Informative
Now if they could just come up with a turing test for slashdot repeats!
You work for them right? The Telocity modem/fake routers that we haev to use.. can you hitn me how to mod it so I cna use the routing capabilities? I am goign to assuem they will let me keep it. what is yoru input on this?
My take on this post is that you need to cut back on caffiene;-) Either that or teach you left hand to keep up with your right hand.
I am the admin at our school for a newly installed 32 node linux beowulf. Each node has a spare 20GB partition that is currently doing *nothing*. I would simply love to find a filesystem solution that can handle stripping or mirroring for a nice 32*20/x GB of filespace (where x is the amount of redunancy to be tuned for optimal reliability).
If anyone has the solution, even if it requires work, I am all ears.
Slashdot Mirror
Me thinks your analogy to guns is a little skewed.
First of all, I have never seen a gun that was designed to shoot only one type of target or a narrow range of targets, ala todays hardware dependent frequency generators for transmittors.
Second, if such guns had existed, do you really think that we would have the freedom to use them the way we do now? I mean seriously, no manufacturer would design the weapon to shoot month old babys, right?
Just a little food for thought. FYI, I don't condone restriction of freedoms. But along the lines of free speech amendment, just because you have the right to say (transmit) what ever you want, doesn't force other to listen (receive). With that in mind, radio receivers are not currently smart enought to have selective "hearing" so in light of not forcing everyone to have to listen to your bable you should be restrained from babling in our ears.
of software radio is the ability to modify the code and tromp all over someone elses legally protected frequency range. Some of the big nonos include sending on ATC (air traffic controll) frequencies and numerous other military and civil service bands.
Someone corect me if I am wrong, but couldn't the transceiver be built with hardware filters on those bands and thus sidestep the issue of broadcast interference? I know this is not as nice as having a fully programmable software radio transmitter, but otherwise I really don't see the FCC granting any kind of production licensing for these.
Anyone else have solutions to this dilemma?
WHORING, for the plugin impaired.
On linux distros xine plays THIS quite nicely. Just a direct link to the trailer.
buy a few IDE raid cards and set them up raid one? This impliments a full mirror of data on the raided devices. Then perform burnin on the raid device.
Note: I have never implimented raid and am not an expert, so this idea would need to be independently verified.
regarding your monoculture comment:
I think your perspective on this is to narrow. As an example, consider the question of who is "good looking". Some males might believe that the tall, long legged, blue eyed, blonde haired female is the ultimate in female form. While others might contend that the small framed asian female, with black hair, exotic brown eyes, and flexibility is the best that there is. Neither of these perspectives has lead, or will lead to a monoculture in what the best looking female is. So, I contend that there will be no "best genes" that will ultimately rule out all others. As a matter of fact, I see this as an opportunity for people to explore diversity of unheard of proportions. It seems that there would be so many possibilities that it would be nigh on impossible to end up with a super monoculture.
Just my thoughts though.
Your statement is correct this time. As indicated in the word major, however there are many reactions that may ultimately prove to be a viable alternative to creating clean fusion in the future when the technology is better understood. Just because we can't achieve reasonable power output at this early stage does not mean that "fusion isn't clean" (which is a blanket statement).
It is worth noting that the lithium shielding used in the current designs actually becomes a source of fuel so that overall the reactor is quite clean. You would only need to clean up the shielding in the last decommissioned reactor as any "dirty" shielding from prior reactors could be used as fuel.
BEGIN RANT
You just made my foes list due to your extreme lack of understanding. I don't know who your friends are, but they have been feeding you FUD!
This sounds just like the same sort of drivel that comes from the eco-morons when they start talking about how microwave ovens are bad for you because of the *nuculer* rays they emit, and go on about how irradiated food is radioactive. BLAH BLAH BLAH
Just FYI. I was raised in a volkswagon microbus and still have hair down to my butt, however I am also graduate student in physics. Please get a real education before spouting off with inane drivel!
END RANT
There are certain fusion reactions that can take place with *no* hard radiation. So you cannot just toss all fusion reactions into the same generalization. Further, as someone pointed out below the half life of irradiated neutron shielding can be very low, on the order of years rather than tens of thousands of years. As such it does not pose the same environmental hazard as spent fission fuel.
Oh My God, worlds largest virus is duplicating! At this rate we will all be taken over by rampant duplicate posts^H^H^H^H^H virus' before you know it.
DAMN!!!
I need to learn to reload after reading the article, I just assumed that I was being helpful, not supercalifragilistically redundant!
http://www.rot13.com/index.php
Where is the info about ximinia... Ximimim... ximininia... Awww screw it!
Don't you mean 10? ;-)
Get ahold of a cmos 4066 this chip has plenty of switching power throughput to handle a few leds. Hook the triggers to your parallel port and code a simple pulse width modulator routine to run the triggers. I don't know if the frequency you can achieve on a parallel port would be high enough to prevent flicker, but some capacitors should go a long way to smoothing that out, if not. You might want some current limitin resistors in there as well, so you don't burn out your leds.
BTW, this is rudimentary circuit design in almost any college course. If you want to seroiusly get into building cicuits like this check out "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill. Might be a little expensive but will give you a solid foundation in circuit design.
I think they can also be trusted to decide...
;-)
You must be new here
One, this result assumes that the production of H is a derivative of fossil fuels. that is currently the only economical means to do so, however! Fusion energy is not only the most enviromentally sound means of producing energy, but it has a higher energy density than just about any other energy production technology (barring matter/antimatter etc.) We all know that fusion has been somewhat pie in the sky, but it is a viable alternative and less than 20 years away. See http://www.iter.org
Two, Until we can light the fusion flame and keep a sustained burn, I would seroiusly love to have on of these. A hybrid bike that gets 180mpg and will do 0-60 in 6 seconds.
My wife has an orig NES console. I always wanted to build a eeprom cartridge for it so that I could store her games ROMs on a CD and reload them as desired onto the eeprom. Does anybody know of any projects that have specs condusive to creating such a cartridge?
Some of her cartridges are already dying so we don't use them very often.
R...T...F...A...
And I quote
" Galileo could be allowed to simply remain in orbit, but scientists feared it might collide with Europa and contaminate that body with microbes from Earth, possibly damaging its environment. "
This is an entirely valid concern, think the andromeda strain only inverted.
By the way, tofu is not meant to be a food in its own right. Much like eating unflavored gelatin. Tofu is a filler substance and it generally takes up the flavor of the main dish its added to. In the hands of an experienced oriental chef, I think you might find it to be quite palatable.
OK, so decreasing the temperature of your PSU with water is... uhhmmm, cool.
But, I want to see some one come up with a ups enhanced power supply. At least in my experience most power supply problems have to be the little brown outs and black outs during storms. They generally last between momentary to 5 seconds. A PSU with 30 seconds of reserve energy at its rating (example 400W*30sec.) would be something worth having.
This is not to meant as an insult...
But if you can't handle the straight forward logic required to get through a few high level math classes, what makes you think that mastering a complex algorithm is going to be easy?
Math courses are rarely more complicated than figuring out a quicksort or Djiktras spanning tree algorithms. Futher, math is actually easier since you need only convince a human that you know what you are doing, whereas a computer requires that every little nitpicky detail be exactly right.
Except that there needs to be a catagory entry. What I mean is a way of getting all similar types of packages. For instance suppose I wanted to look at all thing "word processing", then I would get packages ranked from most applicable (open office, abiword, etc) down to quasi applicable ( vi, gnotepad, hexedit, etc).
Now if they could just come up with a turing test for slashdot
2 /1 2/30/1740211&mode=thread&tid=111
repeats!
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0
Granted this is not a direct repeat but the articles are just different sources for the same story.
You work for them right? The Telocity modem/fake routers that we haev to use.. can you hitn me how to mod it so I cna use the routing capabilities? I am goign to assuem they will let me keep it. what is yoru input on this?
;-) Either that or teach you left hand to keep up with your right hand.
My take on this post is that you need to cut back on caffiene
luser1: PING!
PING... Ping... ping...
luser2: ACK!
ACK... Ack... ack...
luser1: Cool, I can hear echo replies on the network now.
luser2: No, those are just slashdot dupes.
Before you mod me down, this is serious :-)
I am the admin at our school for a newly installed 32 node linux beowulf. Each node has a spare 20GB partition that is currently doing *nothing*. I would simply love to find a filesystem solution that can handle stripping or mirroring for a nice 32*20/x GB of filespace (where x is the amount of redunancy to be tuned for optimal reliability).
If anyone has the solution, even if it requires work, I am all ears.