He included hardware assembly in the 30 minute estimate. The actual boot was probably very quick. It's based on a dragonball (palm pilot cpu) so it isn't TOO slow.
Ryan
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And just how it this different? Perhaps telnet enables its compression engine upon detecting the string "su" flowing through the wires. Or maybe you just disallow remote root logins (which I never understood).
Heh. I just checked the us mint website. You read the specs off the "half dollar" column. A simple mistake, I guess. But still, how can you confuse a half dollar with a dime? Yeesh.
Dude, what kind of crack are you smoking? Cheap crack, I'll wager. You need to earn some money so you know what it looks like. Same goes for the US Mint if those numbers came off their web page. A Susan B Anthony coin might be about 2 mm thick, a quarter is about 1.3 mm. I can't think of anything 1.2 inches across.
I don't have a ruler, but here are some measurements comparing to a pin header I have on my desk. Accuracy +/- 5%
Quarter, $0.25, 0.95 inches, 24 mm
Dime, $0.10, 0.70 inches, 18mm
Nickel, $0.05, 0.85 inches, 22mm
Penny, %0.01, 0.75 inches, 19 mm
CDROM hole, 0.60 inches, 15 mm
> Carbon dioxide is not toxic unless you are exposed to insanely high levels.
This isn't true. You just pulled that "fact" out of your ass. Concentrations of CO2 (that's dioxide, the stuff your exhale) around 10% will make you feel funny; 30% will quickly kill. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is about 0.035% by volume. About 350 parts per million.
CO2 is toxic in concentrations of a few percent. Remember, not only do you have to get oxygen into your blood, you also have to get the CO2 out. You body cannot tolerate the blood concentration of CO2 that will result from a 10% atmospheric concentration.
Is the hard disk really a bottleneck? I stocked up when dram dropped from $40/meg. I don't think I've had a page fault since 1995. 265 megs of pc133 cost about $320. Then you can use your disk for mp3s as God intended.
I guess that depends on which movies you watch. Don't go lumping everything together just because it all shares the same medium. You'll end up dismissing our entire culture that way!
I wonder if we will ever need that 128bit processor in our lifetimes?
Well, let's do the math. Moore's Law or some derivative suggests that the size of {disks,ram,whatever} doubles every N months. Each doubling of "stuff" will require one more address bit. So the number of bits in an address should increase linearly with respect to time. That is, one bit every 18 months or so. Since address bit counts seem to grow by powers of 2 the time between address bit count doublings should double.
Year Chip Bits Physical/log
1971 4004 4 640/9
1972 8008 8 16k/14
1974 8080 8 64k/16
1978 8086 16 1M/20
1980 I was born
1982 80286 16 16M/24
1985 80386DX 32 4G/32
1994 Alpha 64 lots/64 (guessing)
The data doesn't fit perfectly. Through the 70s we seemed to gain one bit a year or thereabouts. Through late 80s and early 90s we got two or three bits per year. I suppose everyone will have 128 bit computers in 30 years or so. 1e17 bytes on a disk (mmmm). And I'll be 50 (doh!).
News flash: #9 came out with a 128 bit graphics processor in the early 90s. So this might all be bullshit.
Say a person commits a crime. Furthermore, let's suppose that he commits that crime 362 days a year, about 99% of the time. Should that person go to jail? Even though he didn't commit a crime three days a year? Your argument looks quite odd from that angle, doesn't it?
You only need to break the law once to go to jail. This should be obvious.
BTW, Napster's crime is probably accessory to copyright violation or some such. IANAL.
Ryan Salsbury russells@spam.ix.netcom.com (put 'ryan' in the subject line, it's a shared account). about 1800 songs.
Before college, I only listened to the radio. No mp3s, not a single audio cd. Freshman year of college (aug 1998) I discovered mp3s on the dorm network. I've downloaded about 1800 songs from the campus network, and a couple (4?, 7?) from napster. Recently I bought my first cd. I was tired of the mediocre sound quality of mp3s (low bitrates, crappy ripping). So far I have bought about 350 songs (20 cds).
I suppose the RIAA should thank the constant advertisements on 97.3 and 105.3 and the shared mp3s at my university for getting me to purchase cds.
Of course I'm not feeling so good about my purchases in light of the RIAA's recent behavior. Anyone know of a good colo outside of Berne-land?
Yeah, it's actually quite easy (and cheap). One could make a 10 GHZ, 10 mbit/s, 25 mile line-of-sight link for a few hundred dollars (3 or 4?). It depends on how resourceful you are at finding surplus equipment. Also, 2.4 GHz ISM stuff like the proxim symphony can be outfitted with parabolic antennas and power amps pretty easily.
All the information is available in the net and parts are cheap and available. Of course, why bother if you have dsl or cable?
BTW, it should be obvious but you won't get a 10 mbit/s internet feed unless you have someone else at the other end with a T3. That's what's stopping me from building an X band link.
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He included hardware assembly in the 30 minute estimate. The actual boot was probably very quick. It's based on a dragonball (palm pilot cpu) so it isn't TOO slow.
Ryan
And just how it this different? Perhaps telnet enables its compression engine upon detecting the string "su" flowing through the wires. Or maybe you just disallow remote root logins (which I never understood).
Ryan
Heh. I just checked the us mint website. You read the specs off the "half dollar" column. A simple mistake, I guess. But still, how can you confuse a half dollar with a dime? Yeesh.
Ryan
Dude, what kind of crack are you smoking? Cheap crack, I'll wager. You need to earn some money so you know what it looks like. Same goes for the US Mint if those numbers came off their web page. A Susan B Anthony coin might be about 2 mm thick, a quarter is about 1.3 mm. I can't think of anything 1.2 inches across.
I don't have a ruler, but here are some measurements comparing to a pin header I have on my desk. Accuracy +/- 5%
Quarter, $0.25, 0.95 inches, 24 mm
Dime, $0.10, 0.70 inches, 18mm
Nickel, $0.05, 0.85 inches, 22mm
Penny, %0.01, 0.75 inches, 19 mm
CDROM hole, 0.60 inches, 15 mm
Ryan
grep -A 300 -B 300 "tax records" /dev/hda5 > slim_chance.txt
Ryan
> Carbon dioxide is not toxic unless you are exposed to insanely high levels.
This isn't true. You just pulled that "fact" out of your ass. Concentrations of CO2 (that's dioxide, the stuff your exhale) around 10% will make you feel funny; 30% will quickly kill. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is about 0.035% by volume. About 350 parts per million.
Ryan
CO2 is toxic in concentrations of a few percent. Remember, not only do you have to get oxygen into your blood, you also have to get the CO2 out. You body cannot tolerate the blood concentration of CO2 that will result from a 10% atmospheric concentration.
Ryan
Slashdot certainly fails to qualify as "artificial intelligence." It might be artificial though.
Ryan
> You'll notice there aren't many handbooks on how to raise a child...
WTF? Yes there are. Go to amazon and take a look.
Ryan
Those east coast states are so small, what's the difference. :-)
Ryan
> I want hardware based disk compression (do any hds do this already?)!
Let me guess, for your jpegs, mp3s, and dvds?
Ryan
Is the hard disk really a bottleneck? I stocked up when dram dropped from $40/meg. I don't think I've had a page fault since 1995. 265 megs of pc133 cost about $320. Then you can use your disk for mp3s as God intended.
Ryan
You mean Scranton NJ? Man, that place ROCKS.
Ryan
Double your pleassure.
Ryan
I guess that depends on which movies you watch. Don't go lumping everything together just because it all shares the same medium. You'll end up dismissing our entire culture that way!
Ryan
Oh, wait, he said "in half." Doh! /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/
/\ \/
There we go.
Ryan
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Ryan
I wonder if we will ever need that 128bit processor in our lifetimes?
Well, let's do the math. Moore's Law or some derivative suggests that the size of {disks,ram,whatever} doubles every N months. Each doubling of "stuff" will require one more address bit. So the number of bits in an address should increase linearly with respect to time. That is, one bit every 18 months or so. Since address bit counts seem to grow by powers of 2 the time between address bit count doublings should double.
Year Chip Bits Physical/log
1971 4004 4 640/9
1972 8008 8 16k/14
1974 8080 8 64k/16
1978 8086 16 1M/20
1980 I was born
1982 80286 16 16M/24
1985 80386DX 32 4G/32
1994 Alpha 64 lots/64 (guessing)
The data doesn't fit perfectly. Through the 70s we seemed to gain one bit a year or thereabouts. Through late 80s and early 90s we got two or three bits per year. I suppose everyone will have 128 bit computers in 30 years or so. 1e17 bytes on a disk (mmmm). And I'll be 50 (doh!).
News flash: #9 came out with a 128 bit graphics processor in the early 90s. So this might all be bullshit.
Ryan "1e17 bytes should be enough for anyone!"
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs
S is required.
Ryan
How is it that your hex editor doesn't display hex? Surprising that it got through beta...
Ryan
> ... silicon > 2.1GHz == bad ...
gasfet should go to 50 GHz. Not easy, but possible (I think).
Ryan
Say a person commits a crime. Furthermore, let's suppose that he commits that crime 362 days a year, about 99% of the time. Should that person go to jail? Even though he didn't commit a crime three days a year? Your argument looks quite odd from that angle, doesn't it?
You only need to break the law once to go to jail. This should be obvious.
BTW, Napster's crime is probably accessory to copyright violation or some such. IANAL.
Ryan
Ryan Salsbury
russells@spam.ix.netcom.com (put 'ryan' in the subject line, it's a shared account).
about 1800 songs.
Before college, I only listened to the radio. No mp3s, not a single audio cd. Freshman year of college (aug 1998) I discovered mp3s on the dorm network. I've downloaded about 1800 songs from the campus network, and a couple (4?, 7?) from napster. Recently I bought my first cd. I was tired of the mediocre sound quality of mp3s (low bitrates, crappy ripping). So far I have bought about 350 songs (20 cds).
I suppose the RIAA should thank the constant advertisements on 97.3 and 105.3 and the shared mp3s at my university for getting me to purchase cds.
Of course I'm not feeling so good about my purchases in light of the RIAA's recent behavior. Anyone know of a good colo outside of Berne-land?
Ryan
> if I remeber correctly ... John Hopkins ...
:-)
You don't.
'twas CMU
Ryan
> ... ham radio ...
Yeah, it's actually quite easy (and cheap). One could make a 10 GHZ, 10 mbit/s, 25 mile line-of-sight link for a few hundred dollars (3 or 4?). It depends on how resourceful you are at finding surplus equipment. Also, 2.4 GHz ISM stuff like the proxim symphony can be outfitted with parabolic antennas and power amps pretty easily.
All the information is available in the net and parts are cheap and available. Of course, why bother if you have dsl or cable?
BTW, it should be obvious but you won't get a 10 mbit/s internet feed unless you have someone else at the other end with a T3. That's what's stopping me from building an X band link.
Ryan