I had thought Light Peak was the likely replacement technology.
10Gbps and backward compatible with USB.
"At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds. Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, and more flexible cables than currently possible. Light Peak also has the ability to run multiple protocols simultaneously over a single cable, enabling the technology to connect devices such as peripherals, displays, disk drives, docking stations, and more."
This group is trying the next step from that - they want to use a balloon to rapidly accelerate to the edge of the atmosphere and passing beyond (like a whale jumping from sea).
Some states have managed to provide gifted students with an environment conducive to free-form thinking and learning. They have had to back off of the "tradition" of mainstreaming all students together though.
If done correctly, specialized education can be done for the same costs and generalized programs. For one of the best (IMHO) - http://www.ncssm.edu/ Plus, who wouldn't want to go to "the School of S & M"
A quote for you: "[A person...] on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. Equipped with this tool, [a person...] outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. " --Ivan Illich, from his book "Energy and Equity"
Hmmm, "Get in the game!" - I may be wrong - but I don't believe I mentioned information about "Dark Matter". I am pretty sure I was poking a bit of good-humored fun at their lack of details regarding the forthcoming event.
What FTA consists of is little more than a "meeting notice" - I was merely bemoaning the lack of something to chew on until Tuesday.
The also haven't built anything - just modeled it on a computer. They may not have solved any of the actual implementation issues, nothing in the article said they had.
I don't wish to belittle their design ideas - but it is usually very difficult to go from a revolutionary engine design to an operational engine. A good example is the Stirling Engine, great design - difficult to realize.
I wish them luck - but not going to hold my breath for this one.
The links go to an AI presentation of virtual cars and a news release saying there will be a competition without any details about the competition. Did I miss something? Is the only news that they have developed neural nets to drive a virtual car?
The competition sounds like a manageable project for academics (versus the DARPA event).
Is the competition still in the vapor-ware or maybe-someday stage?
Anyone have a link (perhaps IEEE) that has details?
NQC is no longer supported, but NBC which is an assembler for NXT works nicely. NBC produces routines that operate about 10 times faster than the same routines through Labview. There is even a graphical IDE for use with the various alternative languages - BricxCC.
Okay - older situation - but still my funniest personal experience. Got a call from a client who bought one of our computers - she was trying to install a new program that she hadn't bought from us, but could I please help. As evidence of how long ago it was - this was acceptable to my boss - so I tried to help.
I asked her to relate what was wrong. The instructions had told her to insert the first disk and type a command at the prompt. She said she did and it worked fine. The screen prompted her to insert the second disk and press the enter key. She said she did, it ran but said there was a read error - skip, retry, or cancel. She said she pressed retry and it worked. It prompted her several more times like that with her pressing retry each time until it worked.
I mentioned that the install might not be successful with a disk having that many errors - and I asked her how I could help. She said, "well my problem is that it is asking for disk three - but there isn't any more room!"
Hope you get as much enjoyment from this event as I did [Grin].
Amen! IT as an industry is paid far more for the education/training investment than most other career paths. A little balancing of the scales now is reasonable and I second being in favor of the underpaid professionals getting a bit more equitable treatment! My concern is that the lack of raises for us will NOT mean a shifting of income to them.
Slashdot Mirror
Trying to keep the science while sounding religious may be good.
The "Invisible hand of selective adaptation" ?
Of course, we don't want to create a new -ism by so doing.
Test and verify is a requirement to any system of "trust".
I am just amazed at the technology that is going into making this new qubit.
First off it is "...built with a highly purified form of silicon" and one qubit requires "... the spins of the 10 billion or so phosphorus ions..."
Now THAT is engineering!
This group has been toying with the idea for ages.
http://www.jpaerospace.com/
I think it is still their plan.
When given the choice between several phone microscopes,
whichever phone makes the simplest microscope is the one to use.
And let the battle for a new standard begin.
I had thought Light Peak was the likely replacement technology.
10Gbps and backward compatible with USB.
"At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds. Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, and more flexible cables than currently possible. Light Peak also has the ability to run multiple protocols simultaneously over a single cable, enabling the technology to connect devices such as peripherals, displays, disk drives, docking stations, and more."
http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm
*hic* Four years of wasted is never drinking!
er...
This group is trying the next step from that - they want to use a balloon to rapidly accelerate to the edge of the atmosphere and passing beyond (like a whale jumping from sea).
http://www.jpaerospace.com/ascender175.html/
Obviously, the rocks were casually lurking on Slashdot, when they read "Move along, nothing to see here..."
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Some states have managed to provide gifted students with an environment conducive to free-form thinking and learning.
They have had to back off of the "tradition" of mainstreaming all students together though.
If done correctly, specialized education can be done for the same costs and generalized programs.
For one of the best (IMHO) - http://www.ncssm.edu/
Plus, who wouldn't want to go to "the School of S & M"
A quote for you:
"[A person...] on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. Equipped with this tool, [a person...] outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. " --Ivan Illich, from his book "Energy and Equity"
Hmmm, "Get in the game!" - I may be wrong - but I don't believe I mentioned information about "Dark Matter".
I am pretty sure I was poking a bit of good-humored fun at their lack of details regarding the forthcoming event.
What FTA consists of is little more than a "meeting notice" - I was merely bemoaning the lack of something to chew on until Tuesday.
I believe you misunderstood my post.
Wow - I am impressed that they managed to provide so little information about such a momentous event!
I for one will be counting down the minutes until their press conference and the availability of any actual information about their discovery.
Hmmm, no reference - but I thought you had a year from publication to procure a patent?
The also haven't built anything - just modeled it on a computer.
They may not have solved any of the actual implementation issues, nothing in the article said they had.
I don't wish to belittle their design ideas - but it is usually very difficult to go from a revolutionary engine design to an operational engine. A good example is the Stirling Engine, great design - difficult to realize.
I wish them luck - but not going to hold my breath for this one.
Have you looked into using real neural tissue???
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Over the years, a number of researchers have done things with "brain on a chip" kind of circuits.
I'm sorry I don't have a more recent link - but here is one from 2004
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_i
The links go to an AI presentation of virtual cars and a news release saying there will be a competition without any details about the competition. Did I miss something? Is the only news that they have developed neural nets to drive a virtual car?
The competition sounds like a manageable project for academics (versus the DARPA event).
Is the competition still in the vapor-ware or maybe-someday stage?
Anyone have a link (perhaps IEEE) that has details?
A company has announced a port "hub" for the NXT.
d -16-sensors.html
They claim to support up to 19 motors and 16 different sensors.
The company is HiTechnic and a review is at:
http://bnxt.com/blog/2006/02/control-19-motors-an
NQC is no longer supported, but NBC which is an assembler for NXT works nicely.
NBC produces routines that operate about 10 times faster than the same routines through Labview.
There is even a graphical IDE for use with the various alternative languages - BricxCC.
Both are available at http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/
Okay - older situation - but still my funniest personal experience.
Got a call from a client who bought one of our computers - she was trying to install a new program that she hadn't bought from us, but could I please help.
As evidence of how long ago it was - this was acceptable to my boss - so I tried to help.
I asked her to relate what was wrong.
The instructions had told her to insert the first disk and type a command at the prompt.
She said she did and it worked fine.
The screen prompted her to insert the second disk and press the enter key.
She said she did, it ran but said there was a read error - skip, retry, or cancel.
She said she pressed retry and it worked. It prompted her several more times like that with her pressing retry each time until it worked.
I mentioned that the install might not be successful with a disk having that many errors - and I asked her how I could help.
She said, "well my problem is that it is asking for disk three - but there isn't any more room!"
Hope you get as much enjoyment from this event as I did [Grin].
Lee
Amen!
IT as an industry is paid far more for the education/training investment than most other career paths. A little balancing of the scales now is reasonable and I second being in favor of the underpaid professionals getting a bit more equitable treatment!
My concern is that the lack of raises for us will NOT mean a shifting of income to them.