Jeez. You ALWATS get a performance boost when you move to a higher resolution process, that an bugfixes and a few choice tweaks, and you wind up with a significant performance boost. I wonder what the performance boost will do?
Actually not diminished surface area, but strength. Things have a tendancy with gravity to require more strength the larger they are. Hence when you drop an elephant, from a 10 story building, it would splash, wereas a ant would not be harmed. ( dont try this at home ). Humming birds can hum,becaue they are so very small. Build a humming bird the size of a aircraft carrier, and it rip its wings right off. Mass increass with the cube of the height, and strength only increases with the square of the height, so elephants HAVE to have large legs.
With aerodynamics, you can make the plane bigger, but its going to need more strength in the wings to fly with the incresed weight. That is why larger planes have larger wing area.
"Supersonic aircraft fly in the stratosphere." Also, the survey of North Atlantic airline pilots said that they spent ( commercial jet aircraft ) over 80% of their flying time, above flight level 18, ( stratosphere border ).
so actually, "Most trans-Atlantic aircraft spend a significant amount of time in the stratophere, and the traffic is going to increase."
"NOx still considered a potential danger." Hmm. like the citation says "Stratospheric NOx chemistry is _extremely_ complicated, much worse than chlorine chemistry."
And that is why Dr Drew Schindell, and Paul Newman are modeling it. They have models that account for 89% of the ozone loss. ( The quotation about the difficulty is very old, like 1982 or something, but the problem remains a tough nut to crack! )
"In the wake of global controls on ozone-destroying compounds, most observers expected that the annual Antarctic ozone hole would fade, and the more modest Arctic ozone losses diminish, as atmospheric chlorine declines. But in this week's issue of Nature, a group from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City reports that their model indicates that during the next few decades, greenhouse gases will trigger a springtime ozone hole over the Arctic, much like the one now over the Antarctic."
Ok? Most observers thought that the hole would fade, but its gotten worse, and it will form over the artic. Something is missing from your theory.
The article is about a design for an engine that makes possible a fast jet. NOTHING IN THE ARTICLE OR LINKS SAYS ECO-FRIENDLY. >can it use existing runways? With such small wings, and lack of resistance in the engines, ( i.e for very high speed ), Its going to be much worse than the SR-71, so Its either going to need an extrodinary long runway ( 3x to 4x of existing 747 runways ), or its going to need a launch catapult. ( again, not existing runways )
>is it any noisier than existing airliners? Completely unknown, since there is no actual model to test. The article is about an engine that, makes possible the jetliner, no model. But, both the SR-71, and the Concord, both made less noice at subsonic speeds then conventional aircraft, and much more noice at supersonic speeds.
>does it use less fuel per passenger mile than existing airliners? Absolutly no chance of that, it will take enourmous amounts of power to get up to speed, and when it reaches the statosphere, its going to take more fuel to keep it at speed. Bad news is that since its such a sleek design, that its going to take a lot more power/reverse thrust/noise to land and stop.
>The only thing that now makes me laugh about this project is that it would mean you spend far >longer queueing to get through the security checks than you actually do in flight... Especially if they fly out of Heathrow, London, U.K. but then the Concord finished its carier with Airport to hotel in 8 seconds.
>If you want to improve travel times, start counting time spend checking in >and the security checks and then work on getting those reduced... Everything will have to be pre-checked. You could just simply walk on with no-baggage, and have everyhing pre-purchased. Shopping and travel all in one!
You just cannot call it ECO friendly, if it deposits water vapor in the stratosphere. That is what is creating an ozone hole in the south pole larger than north america.
That one damn pesky molecule. It evolves until it can recreate the big bang, sets it off by accident, and then its 5 more million until it comes back. Or, what if a there are 3 to five configurations, and we only rank 1 or 2. A superior molecule is on its way to reproduce itself over us.
The Vista kernel, is probibly the ONLY thing going good for it. ONLY. Nothing else seems to be some kind of 'improvement' The UI blows, Mabye a smidgen of DX10, interesting, but coming to XP, sureptitiously. BUT not on any production machine, or one that I cannot run multiple OSs on.
The Longhorn kernel? Probibly another improvement, technology wise. Really just M$ Business as usual.
"Service Pack 1 remains the milestone by which many companies and consumers judge when a Microsoft product is truly bug-free and mature enough to deploy."
Now that is Sad. Windows 2000 is just getting to be a good product, after Service Pack 4+. Stable, but still has that pesky scheduler that blows...but for single applications or games, its pretty good. Only crashed once, so far in about a year. I downgraded from XP, when SP2 cut my frame rates in half, ate a ton of Ram for lunch, and cut the netspeed again by half.
XP maybe maturing in the next few years, but I cannot wait to look at the LongHorn Kernel:
There are a few presentations about the Vista kernel, that make me want to upgrade, but even at a 15% discount at CompUSA liquidation, I am still not buying. ( Home and business editions probibly come with a 'limited' kernel. ).
I have read Dr. Stanley Miller's work sine the 80s, He is a meticulous and persistant with his experiments. His conjectures run all over the map. I saw a lecture given by him in the early 90s, when he was progressing away from primordial soup. What is interesting is that He is moving towards the theories of Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe that life evolved on comets. Of all the 'science' and 'scientists' its after reading their work, and discussing it with post-docs from MIT, that I have a great respect for their work.
The problem about the origin of life, (which has a direct impact on the evaluation of Drake's equation) is how hard is it to make a molecule, by 'chance' that is selectively self-replicating. Molecular biology is a very young field.
"McCarthy said. "We have no objection to churches and others hosting Super Bowl parties as long as they . . . show the game on a television of the type commonly used at home," he said. "It is a matter of copyright law."
Duh! No copywrite law exists about this, its up to the owner of the broadcase, and the NFL is being bizarre about it. 55vs 60? I guess they are jealous of the size. They should just call it 'Sports bar for a day'
It is a matter of freedom of religion. Dont worship God and Madden together!
"Ecrit par L'Automate de Maillardet." This translates to "Written by the Automaton of Maillardet."
"A young child whom zeal guides, Of your favors solicits the price, And obtains, don't be surprised, The gift of pleasing you, a child to these wonders."
India is hanging by a thread, and Iran is offline. Did you know Colombia is offline too? Florida? ( well, actually, who cares about that...)
Its kinda silly, with redundancy, the map of the world looks like a loop. Cut it in the middle, and you can still go around the other side, albet slowly. What about Satilite uplinks? Bolians CA hasnt a hope in hell of getting DSL, yet, their satilite works pretty fast, but there is a 6,000ms lag.
But my all time favrote, was The Eamon Adventures by Donald Brown. You didnt like how they worked? Modify them. We had a modified Inn disk that you could use to store special weapons.
(** Peter Norton used to have relivence in the (ahem) Art scene too. He ceased being anything but a dork in the L.A. Modern Art shovelware decades ago. )
641 Pages? Bet they didnt write it WHILE using Vista! But seriuosly I have only two words for vista, just two, no more, no less: "Not Viable" now, if they only took 641 pages to say that, and probibly ( LMC... how big is the Manhattan phone book? ) 1400~1500 pages to go in great detail on WHY YOU ONLY HAVE 421MB left on a 1GB MACHINE? HMMM?
They suck. Don't they come with their own iPod(red-u2) suppository edition? Lars thinks that Radiohead is stupid, but admits that they made money on it. The days of the 'old model' are numbered.
I will NEVER download a U2 song either. Their 'Intellectual Property' rights are safe, and will likely remain that way...
( oh btw, I have know Lars Ulrich since we went to High School Together. )
The ability to effectively multitask ( oh look! A bird ) is based upon the ability to both prioritize and concentrate. Switching gears is no more a matter of re-prioritising the task at hand. I used to talk on the phone while driving, then I saw others do it, and the tiny loss of concentration at a critical moment, can get you killed. Now, I pull over when I want to talk, and don't talk while driving, but I can listen to the radio, and learn to play songs.
Somethings I can do well with multitasking, like playing Bach/Brahms or Joplin, but there are some songs, I will never be able to play. I can play second hands of the concerto for 4 hands. I could do it easily, but when I play first hands, I am distracted by the second hands. I think is just all a matter of practice, in playing instruments, but driving is a completely different story, you have to constantly adapt to the changing road conditions.
But, in typing this reply, I can watch my torrents, and process monitor, and not be distracted by them. Walk and chew gum? The chewing does not take our attention, and is not a distraction. If it was, we would walk into objects.
Singing while playing piano, or playing along with someone. both multi-tasking activities. While driving, you have a lot of tasks to do, keeping on the road, keeping aware of other drivers, keeping your directions, and managing not to run out of ( look, there is that bird again! ) gas, one that has been a recent problem for me. And if your a felon, with a gun under the seat, and drugs on the seat, while speeding... you have to watch for police too!
The author was clearly distracted from driving, and stresed out about his cell phone. He priortized it above his driving, and switched his attention at a critical moment, and he says he cannot multi-task well? He can drive cant he? That is a lot of multi-tasking to take on. I am teaching a teenager to drive. ( but of course, I will never tell him, I can drive with my foot...or show him how! ).
Mod me troll-bait, but this is NOT NEWS or otherwise... this is a bitspam/bucket news item.
We will probibly never get the chance again to participate in domocracy, and its not just some crazy theory, but I have been following both of these journalists for a few years. The guy who showed me some of their stuff, died of a heart attack while driving.
"Alex Jones' brand new documentary ENDGAME charts the history of the elite blueprint for social domination and control, outlining the ultimate plans that those who consider themselves the anointed have for our planet.
Please support Alex Jones by subscribing to prisonplanet.tv and/or purchasing a DVD copy of ENDGAME.
A high-definition version of this film is available for download at prisonplanet.tv along many other Alex Jones documentaries."
The proper choice of a data structure would have made the whole thing moot. Use a hash table. Statistics? Just read all the nodes sequentially. A program in interperted basic could easily outrun your handcoded assembly language.
To the guy who wrote the Basic Interperter in Pearl. Oh my god. Using an intreprited language to interpretet a language. Bet you won the 'it will be done by, monday, next year prize' but given the speed of current processors. BUT, recognising that you can also write a compiler using an intrepretive language, and then compile the compiler using itself...and then just gone had had it all done in silicon...
Speaking of which, 3D Rendering. There are parts that pearl would absolutly excel at, and having worked with POV-Ray for the better part of 8 years, I am sure I could have used it, for a lot of simple housekeeping chores, but the final rendering pass? Pearl? Umm. POV-RAY is a unique beast. The Mac Port and Windows port are *both* very fast. Time vs money, you need the fastest renderer you can find. I have also used Infini-D. Exceptional. But again, reordering NULRBS would be so much more efficent in Pearl. Best tool I have seen for that is Lightwave.
Pearl: Use the right tool, for the right job, and Pearl has a lot of them.
Slashdot Mirror
"It should probably down a couple of gas giants, or maybe a cool nebula."
Again, as a guy who aced 4 years of astronomy, this stuff is really funny. Your mind works is very strange ways. Thanks.
"planet-forming-cloud belching overlords!"
HAHAHHAHHAA!!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAH!
I would think it would be 'star-swollowing-planet-forming-cloud-belching overlords!l
Mod parent +1, funny.
( should be call +5 funny, Hysterical? )
I totally didnt expect this, its poinient and funny at the same time.
Good work.
Jeez. You ALWATS get a performance boost when you move to a higher resolution process, that an bugfixes and a few choice tweaks, and you wind up with a significant performance boost. I wonder what the performance boost will do?
Actually not diminished surface area, but strength. Things have a tendancy with gravity to require more strength the larger they are. Hence when you drop an elephant, from a 10 story building, it would splash, wereas a ant would not be harmed. ( dont try this at home ). Humming birds can hum,becaue they are so very small. Build a humming bird the size of a aircraft carrier, and it rip its wings right off. Mass increass with the cube of the height, and strength only increases with the square of the height, so elephants HAVE to have large legs.
With aerodynamics, you can make the plane bigger, but its going to need more strength in the wings to fly with the incresed weight. That is why larger planes have larger wing area.
Good research:
"Supersonic aircraft fly in the stratosphere." Also, the survey of North Atlantic airline pilots said that they spent ( commercial jet aircraft ) over 80% of their flying time, above flight level 18, ( stratosphere border ).
so actually, "Most trans-Atlantic aircraft spend a significant amount of time in the stratophere, and the traffic is going to increase."
"NOx still considered a potential danger." Hmm. like the citation says "Stratospheric NOx chemistry is _extremely_ complicated, much worse than chlorine chemistry."
And that is why Dr Drew Schindell, and Paul Newman are modeling it. They have models that account for 89% of the ozone loss. ( The quotation about the difficulty is very old, like 1982 or something, but the problem remains a tough nut to crack! )
Since Wikipedia said it it must be true?
I will cite this refrence:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/280/5361/202
"In the wake of global controls on ozone-destroying compounds, most observers expected that the annual Antarctic ozone hole would fade, and the more modest Arctic ozone losses diminish, as atmospheric chlorine declines. But in this week's issue of Nature, a group from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City reports that their model indicates that during the next few decades, greenhouse gases will trigger a springtime ozone hole over the Arctic, much like the one now over the Antarctic."
Ok? Most observers thought that the hole would fade, but its gotten worse, and it will form over the artic. Something is missing from your theory.
The article is about a design for an engine that makes possible a fast jet.
NOTHING IN THE ARTICLE OR LINKS SAYS ECO-FRIENDLY.
>can it use existing runways?
With such small wings, and lack of resistance in the engines, ( i.e for very high speed ),
Its going to be much worse than the SR-71,
so Its either going to need an extrodinary long runway ( 3x to 4x of existing 747 runways ),
or its going to need a launch catapult. ( again, not existing runways )
>is it any noisier than existing airliners?
Completely unknown, since there is no actual model to test.
The article is about an engine that, makes possible the jetliner,
no model. But, both the SR-71, and the Concord, both made less noice at subsonic speeds then conventional aircraft, and much more noice at supersonic speeds.
>does it use less fuel per passenger mile than existing airliners?
Absolutly no chance of that, it will take enourmous amounts of power to get up to speed, and when it reaches the statosphere, its going to take more fuel to keep it at speed. Bad news is that since its such a sleek design, that its going to take a lot more power/reverse thrust/noise to land and stop.
>The only thing that now makes me laugh about this project is that it would mean you spend far >longer queueing to get through the security checks than you actually do in flight...
Especially if they fly out of Heathrow, London, U.K.
but then the Concord finished its carier with Airport to hotel in 8 seconds.
>If you want to improve travel times, start counting time spend checking in
>and the security checks and then work on getting those reduced...
Everything will have to be pre-checked. You could just simply walk on with no-baggage, and have everyhing pre-purchased. Shopping and travel all in one!
You just cannot call it ECO friendly, if it deposits water vapor in the stratosphere. That is what is creating an ozone hole in the south pole larger than north america.
That one damn pesky molecule. It evolves until it can recreate the big bang, sets it off by accident, and then its 5 more million until it comes back. Or, what if a there are 3 to five configurations, and we only rank 1 or 2. A superior molecule is on its way to reproduce itself over us.
- Must send subsidies to the brain slug planet...
I got him.... eeccchhhhh
NO CARRIER
The Vista kernel, is probibly the ONLY thing going good for it. ONLY. Nothing else seems to be some kind of 'improvement' The UI blows, Mabye a smidgen of DX10, interesting, but coming to XP, sureptitiously. BUT not on any production machine, or one that I cannot run multiple OSs on.
The Longhorn kernel? Probibly another improvement, technology wise. Really just M$ Business as usual.
"Service Pack 1 remains the milestone by which many companies and consumers judge when a Microsoft product is truly bug-free and mature enough to deploy."
Now that is Sad. Windows 2000 is just getting to be a good product, after Service Pack 4+. Stable, but still has that pesky scheduler that blows...but for single applications or games, its pretty good. Only crashed once, so far in about a year. I downgraded from XP, when SP2 cut my frame rates in half, ate a ton of Ram for lunch, and cut the netspeed again by half.
XP maybe maturing in the next few years, but I cannot wait to look at the LongHorn Kernel:
There are a few presentations about the Vista kernel, that make me want to upgrade, but even at a 15% discount at CompUSA liquidation, I am still not buying. ( Home and business editions probibly come with a 'limited' kernel. ).
I have read Dr. Stanley Miller's work sine the 80s, He is a meticulous and persistant with his experiments. His conjectures run all over the map. I saw a lecture given by him in the early 90s, when he was progressing away from primordial soup. What is interesting is that He is moving towards the theories of Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe that life evolved on comets. Of all the 'science' and 'scientists' its after reading their work, and discussing it with post-docs from MIT, that I have a great respect for their work.
The problem about the origin of life, (which has a direct impact on the evaluation of Drake's equation) is how hard is it to make a molecule, by 'chance' that is selectively self-replicating. Molecular biology is a very young field.
Someone do me a favor, and get this posters IP. I will personally strangle him, with my bare hands until dead.
"McCarthy said. "We have no objection to churches and others hosting Super Bowl parties as long as they . . . show the game on a television of the type commonly used at home," he said. "It is a matter of copyright law."
Duh! No copywrite law exists about this, its up to the owner of the broadcase, and the NFL is being bizarre about it. 55vs 60? I guess they are jealous of the size. They should just call it 'Sports bar for a day'
It is a matter of freedom of religion. Dont worship God and Madden together!
Although my favrotes, The Linden jar, and the Antikythera comptuer,
( you have to keep in mind, that it is a *wired* article ),
The Turk? Jeez. What about this:
http://www.fi.edu/learn/automaton/
"Ecrit par L'Automate de Maillardet."
This translates to "Written by the Automaton of Maillardet."
"A young child whom zeal guides,
Of your favors solicits the price,
And obtains, don't be surprised,
The gift of pleasing you, a child to these wonders."
Sorry, 'The Turk' dosent even rank.
Internet Traffic watch:
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
India is hanging by a thread,
and Iran is offline.
Did you know Colombia is offline too?
Florida? ( well, actually, who cares about that...)
Its kinda silly, with redundancy, the map of the world looks like a loop. Cut it in the middle, and you can still go around the other side, albet slowly. What about Satilite uplinks? Bolians CA hasnt a hope in hell of getting DSL, yet, their satilite works pretty fast, but there is a 6,000ms lag.
But my all time favrote, was The Eamon Adventures by Donald Brown. You didnt like how they worked? Modify them. We had a modified Inn disk that you could use to store special weapons.
It was the basic origin for 'FreshMeat' HeHe!
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/history/267.htm
Tehran flatlined. Not much impact on Europe, or Africa,
but...where is their redundancy?
I am willing to put the blame on...
a...
Internet Disconnection Device, known as a BackHoe!
(** Peter Norton used to have relivence in the (ahem) Art scene too. He ceased being anything but a dork in the L.A. Modern Art shovelware decades ago. )
641 Pages? Bet they didnt write it WHILE using Vista! But seriuosly I have only two words for vista, just two, no more, no less: "Not Viable" now, if they only took 641 pages to say that, and probibly ( LMC... how big is the Manhattan phone book? ) 1400~1500 pages to go in great detail on WHY YOU ONLY HAVE 421MB left on a 1GB MACHINE? HMMM?
I cannot imagine running Vista on a portable.
They suck. Don't they come with their own iPod(red-u2) suppository edition? Lars thinks that Radiohead is stupid, but admits that they made money on it. The days of the 'old model' are numbered.
I will NEVER download a U2 song either. Their 'Intellectual Property' rights are safe, and will likely remain that way...
( oh btw, I have know Lars Ulrich since we went to High School Together. )
The ability to effectively multitask ( oh look! A bird ) is based upon the ability to both prioritize and concentrate. Switching gears is no more a matter of re-prioritising the task at hand. I used to talk on the phone while driving, then I saw others do it, and the tiny loss of concentration at a critical moment, can get you killed. Now, I pull over when I want to talk, and don't talk while driving, but I can listen to the radio, and learn to play songs.
Somethings I can do well with multitasking, like playing Bach/Brahms or Joplin, but there are some songs, I will never be able to play. I can play second hands of the concerto for 4 hands. I could do it easily, but when I play first hands, I am distracted by the second hands. I think is just all a matter of practice, in playing instruments, but driving is a completely different story, you have to constantly adapt to the changing road conditions.
But, in typing this reply, I can watch my torrents, and process monitor, and not be distracted by them. Walk and chew gum? The chewing does not take our attention, and is not a distraction. If it was, we would walk into objects.
Singing while playing piano, or playing along with someone. both multi-tasking activities. While driving, you have a lot of tasks to do, keeping on the road, keeping aware of other drivers, keeping your directions, and managing not to run out of ( look, there is that bird again! ) gas, one that has been a recent problem for me. And if your a felon, with a gun under the seat, and drugs on the seat, while speeding... you have to watch for police too!
The author was clearly distracted from driving, and stresed out about his cell phone. He priortized it above his driving, and switched his attention at a critical moment, and he says he cannot multi-task well? He can drive cant he? That is a lot of multi-tasking to take on. I am teaching a teenager to drive. ( but of course, I will never tell him, I can drive with my foot...or show him how! ).
Mod me troll-bait, but this is NOT NEWS or otherwise... this is a bitspam/bucket news item.
I have never posted a video to Slashdot. NEVER, but a bright young friend pointed me to this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261&q=endgame&total=3063&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
We will probibly never get the chance again to participate in domocracy, and its not just some crazy theory, but I have been following both of these journalists for a few years. The guy who showed me some of their stuff, died of a heart attack while driving.
"Alex Jones' brand new documentary ENDGAME charts the history of the elite blueprint for social domination and control, outlining the ultimate plans that those who consider themselves the anointed have for our planet.
Please support Alex Jones by subscribing to prisonplanet.tv and/or purchasing a DVD copy of ENDGAME.
A high-definition version of this film is available for download at prisonplanet.tv along many other Alex Jones documentaries."
Check It Out.
Dear god:
The proper choice of a data structure would have made the whole thing moot.
Use a hash table. Statistics? Just read all the nodes sequentially. A program in interperted basic could easily outrun your handcoded assembly language.
To the guy who wrote the Basic Interperter in Pearl. Oh my god. Using an intreprited language to interpretet a language. Bet you won the 'it will be done by, monday, next year prize' but given the speed of current processors. BUT, recognising that you can also write a compiler using an intrepretive language, and then compile the compiler using itself...and then just gone had had it all done in silicon...
Speaking of which, 3D Rendering. There are parts that pearl would absolutly excel at, and having worked with POV-Ray for the better part of 8 years, I am sure I could have used it, for a lot of simple housekeeping chores, but the final rendering pass? Pearl? Umm. POV-RAY is a unique beast. The Mac Port and Windows port are *both* very fast. Time vs money, you need the fastest renderer you can find. I have also used Infini-D. Exceptional. But again, reordering NULRBS would be so much more efficent in Pearl. Best tool I have seen for that is Lightwave.
Pearl: Use the right tool, for the right job, and Pearl has a lot of them.
Saying 'Windows Vista had the fewest flaws' is like saying that 'The Titanic hit the fewest icebergs'
Ridiculus