Maybe we could put this on smaller things to launch from. Like say we put this thing on one of moons or large asteroids, establish a base, and let this thing efficiently get us back to Earth for the 4th of July every year.
And, you didn't even touch on the new security concern of all Western civilization. Bio-Terrorism.
I think 2002 will be the huge year for gadgets that go with your computer to do things such as Performing a generic spectral-scan of something, then sending the sprecto-gram over the Internet to analyse it for the Bio-Threat Du Jour.
People more and more are going to want to know what they are coming in contact with.
I mean, what am I going to use this thing for that CD's, DVD's, already do? If it's WORM, I'm just not interested. I guess about all you could use it for is to cheaply up the amount of phrases a Furbie doll can spew out.. Like the one that the Jerky Boys came across...
95% of all the problems I did in physics started out with: "Assuming you're in a vacuum"....
Then you simply used..
d(t) = 1/2at^2 + vt + d0
But with wind resistence, acceleration is inverse logorythmic proportional to wind resisteance (which is proportional to velocity), so (A) is not a constant, or at least you need to make the above a much more complicated differential equation.
Not to mention when g = a (gravity)... In a vacuum you'd fall so fast, but maybe you're on a different planet where the atmosphere is much thicker and (g) granvity oh so much smaller. Instead of reaching a maximum falling velocitry of 200MPH, maybe it's only 30MPH.
Conservation of energy should be observed for sure, but friction, and wind resistence make projectile flight mapping much more inexact without a beowulf cluster of crays and some bang-up fluid dynamics simulation.
Let's not even touch relativity. If you're writing a space shoot em up, and you kick in your thrusters and approach (c) the speed of light, do your enemies get shorter? Does the universe begin to collapse.. And oh yeah, w.t.f. is hyper-space? A black hole super-nova?
Do we grow beards while playing? It's been proven on fighter pilot's atomic clocks that they travel in time (albeit on the order of millionths of seconds).
I've been around awhile with regards to new Satellite services. I jded. Before they go up, they seem like Sliced Bread... The ideas are extremely compelling to a thinking person.
Did you know Fed Ex, once put up a satellite that was going to rid the need for Mail. They spent over $100M.. Basically, they were going to buy expensive printers, and use the satellite to transfer an image, and have it printed at the other end.. This was early 80's. Luckily, the main business grew incredibly.
But when it comes down to revenues, they usually dissapoint.
The engineers (including, usually engineering management) get blinded by the thrill of the awesome engineering project. They're really happy if they make 50 people happy with the service... But, these are multi $100M birds that need to be fed with revenues on the same grand scale, not to mention the allure of some R.O.I. (Return on investment)....
AMSC had the first North American Satellite Telephone license for Geosynchronous orbit satellite. Not enough people were buying the service. So they leased the birds to an African company. (They used the arsine(?) gas tanks that keep the thing in orbit to re-position the bird over Africa. Something that need to be making $300M/year is now maybe making $60M.
Would be depending on altitude. But no... AirTV I think is backed by the Frogs.
In-flight TV for the most part, is just a bunch of VCR's.
There have been some other less elegant ideas put forward to have the equivelent of SatCom delivered by a constant fleet of plains flying around.. ELEOS... Extreme Low Earth Orbiting Satellite.. Saudi Arabia was really serious about doing this.. They may have already.
Will be similar to Motient's (formerly American Mobile Satellite) birds. XM Radio's beginnings actually spawn from AMSC. Some pretty top notch telecom guys in this area went to AMSC, and XM... These guys have been successful selling wires, buy can they sell birds? Hmmm...
They'll be re-positioned over Africa or some other third world nation providing them an instant communications systems, that otherwise, would be torn down by gorrillas (fighters).
If you look at their sales forecasts, they're in the thousands, in reality, should be 100's. They need millions to be listening. These birds are very, very expensive.
There's another service coming down the pike called AirTV... It's digital satellite TV broadcasted directly to Airplanes. (The EM-Wave theory has to account for the differing altitudes, Ionisphere and all that. It's complicated stuff). It was complicated in figuring out how to broadcast to moving targets... With Satellite TV, you've got to point your attennas at the birds.
Even if every/.'er got the service, it still would'nt be enough.
If all that was in the chip was one long line of parts, then yeah that would make sense. It's not tho, the circuit is closer to a grid than a line. My vote's on 2D.
A grid is like an array, but still it's one dimensional. Look at computer language, arrays are always 1-D after compiled. If x is a 5x6 array, then x[3,2] really becomes x[3*6 + 2] = x[20]...
Seriously, I thought with a name like LambLion they were talking Lamb Chops Safron or something delicious like that. Not a bunch of winers worried their kids weren't doomed to build a Maginot line like the French.
Hello! We're at war here. I want my kid to be able to fight and defend my family when I am unable, and disabled from CTS.
At first reading this technology seems like it has a future, in that, sure it's early in its infancy, but somebody will come along and make it work.
But what we're really talking about is not 3-D, it's just stacked 2-D. In fact technically, all computer chips are 1-D.
Because of the limitation of the fact that the Silicon crystal needs to be monolithic, that is, a lattice of atoms completely ordered throughout the chip we've got to think outside the box, this guy's inside the box, but realistically, this is to save money, and he wants to see something before his great grand kids are born.
The heart of the problem is the crystal flat surface. What we need is a crystal that grows out and up in such as manner as to be a monolithic latice but also compartmentalized. A cube, with little windows and rooms and holes so that the dope can get in.
Completely revolutionized fabrication thinking. We'll see it in less than 50 years.
My wife loves this watch!
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Now I last longer in the sack.....
Darling, I hope I wasn't too much of an animal last night for those 101 mintes.
Not to mention the bumbling idiots over at the Interior Department. The Wallstreet Journal is reporting this morning that an independent company was hired by the Justice Department to investigate the security risk in the Indian Accounting System. The one that is used to pay the Indians rents, royalties, etc. for the use of their land.
They were able to hack the system undetected. No wonder Bruce Babbitt had to lie, we couldn't handle the truth that the Hundreds of Millions may have been stolen by hackers.
Question, we have the right to privacy, but do we also have the right to anonymity?
I think it's too much fuss about the inevitable.
Regards...
No way, I'm supersticious.
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No friggen way I'll ever own a 13 nanoM chip. I'm just too supersticious. I've got enough to worry about with my data, and (jpg)'s to trust them to an unlucky number. It's worse than a hat on the bed!
They should switch to Angstroms.
Oh wait a minute, my calculator tells me that 0.13 Microns equals 666 Angstroms. Holy Ess, The end is Nigh.
You don't want every Tom, Dick, & Harry setting up networks like Loose Cannons. And Domain names, Darn-It! There are no more left, except of course www.clownpenis.fart.
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The ones I've had brief contact with were video display controllers that take rides on fly by sight missiles. The display cards, had ARMS, needed lots of memory, had no time for delay, and no time for a blue screen of death. Imagine a PC with basically no Pentium chip, all the applications running off the display card. It's possible.
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A real "Embedded" system has a tiny processor like a 80186, maybe 4-16K of RAM and could be powered from a 9 Volt battery.
Nah. A real embedded system has an ARM chip, and much more memory, not a power hog x86 chip.. (9-volt is true, or really just a couple of 1.5v's.
They run on RTOS's. Or, something like OS/9. They are compiled with THUMB compilers that allow multiple instructions within one 32bit address space.
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Dolphins have the best Sonar.
A little play on words, etc.
Maybe we could put this on smaller things to launch from. Like say we put this thing on one of moons or large asteroids, establish a base, and let this thing efficiently get us back to Earth for the 4th of July every year.
As well as inter-process communication.
If you want to take advantage of SMP, etc., OOP to me seems like a natural fit.
Let me also underscore the point that it manages your code better.
To, me the question would be, "Why should I use FORTRAN that my old professor so dearly loves."
The answer is "PLayhouse". The words of the day were "House" and "Playhouse".
Come on, let's be serious.....
What word was the audience supposed to scream especially loud on.
I'll give a hint. It was also, the only time I recollect there being two word of the day's.
I'll be looking forward to a full day off Miss Yvonne flashing her petis to Captain Carl.
And, I'll be looking for some wisdom from Gombie... Meka Leka Hi, Meka Hiny ho....
Meka Leka Chi, Meka Chiny ho...
And, there's the word of the day. In my house, we'll be yelling really loud.
Here's a trivia question. What word of the day on the show was the only time you were supposed to scream really, really loud (not just real loud).
And, you didn't even touch on the new security concern of all Western civilization. Bio-Terrorism.
I think 2002 will be the huge year for gadgets that go with your computer to do things such as Performing a generic spectral-scan of something, then sending the sprecto-gram over the Internet to analyse it for the Bio-Threat Du Jour.
People more and more are going to want to know what they are coming in contact with.
I mean, what am I going to use this thing for that CD's, DVD's, already do? If it's WORM, I'm just not interested. I guess about all you could use it for is to cheaply up the amount of phrases a Furbie doll can spew out.. Like the one that the Jerky Boys came across...
How many millions is this. Oh, and by the way, this reminds me of an Umberto Eco quote regarding the
MAC vs. PC Religious war..
He didn't even bother with Linux. But his concerns of DOS being protestant apply to Linux. Or maybe he believes Linux is atheist?
95% of all the problems I did in physics started out with: "Assuming you're in a vacuum"....
Then you simply used..
d(t) = 1/2at^2 + vt + d0
But with wind resistence, acceleration is inverse logorythmic proportional to wind resisteance (which is proportional to velocity), so (A) is not a constant, or at least you need to make the above a much more complicated differential equation.
Not to mention when g = a (gravity)... In a vacuum you'd fall so fast, but maybe you're on a different planet where the atmosphere is much thicker and (g) granvity oh so much smaller. Instead of reaching a maximum falling velocitry of 200MPH, maybe it's only 30MPH.
Conservation of energy should be observed for sure, but friction, and wind resistence make projectile flight mapping much more inexact without a beowulf cluster of crays and some bang-up fluid dynamics simulation.
Let's not even touch relativity. If you're writing a space shoot em up, and you kick in your thrusters and approach (c) the speed of light, do your enemies get shorter? Does the universe begin to collapse.. And oh yeah, w.t.f. is hyper-space? A black hole super-nova?
Do we grow beards while playing? It's been proven on fighter pilot's atomic clocks that they travel in time (albeit on the order of millionths of seconds).
First.... Bird = Satellite
I've been around awhile with regards to new Satellite services. I jded. Before they go up, they seem like Sliced Bread... The ideas are extremely compelling to a thinking person.
Did you know Fed Ex, once put up a satellite that was going to rid the need for Mail. They spent over $100M.. Basically, they were going to buy expensive printers, and use the satellite to transfer an image, and have it printed at the other end.. This was early 80's. Luckily, the main business grew incredibly.
But when it comes down to revenues, they usually dissapoint.
The engineers (including, usually engineering management) get blinded by the thrill of the awesome engineering project. They're really happy if they make 50 people happy with the service... But, these are multi $100M birds that need to be fed with revenues on the same grand scale, not to mention the allure of some R.O.I. (Return on investment)....
AMSC had the first North American Satellite Telephone license for Geosynchronous orbit satellite. Not enough people were buying the service. So they leased the birds to an African company. (They used the arsine(?) gas tanks that keep the thing in orbit to re-position the bird over Africa. Something that need to be making $300M/year is now maybe making $60M.
Would be depending on altitude. But no... AirTV I think is backed by the Frogs.
In-flight TV for the most part, is just a bunch of VCR's.
There have been some other less elegant ideas put forward to have the equivelent of SatCom delivered by a constant fleet of plains flying around.. ELEOS... Extreme Low Earth Orbiting Satellite.. Saudi Arabia was really serious about doing this.. They may have already.
Will be similar to Motient's (formerly American Mobile Satellite) birds. XM Radio's beginnings actually spawn from AMSC. Some pretty top notch telecom guys in this area went to AMSC, and XM... These guys have been successful selling wires, buy can they sell birds? Hmmm...
/.'er got the service, it still would'nt be enough.
They'll be re-positioned over Africa or some other third world nation providing them an instant communications systems, that otherwise, would be torn down by gorrillas (fighters).
If you look at their sales forecasts, they're in the thousands, in reality, should be 100's. They need millions to be listening. These birds are very, very expensive.
There's another service coming down the pike called AirTV... It's digital satellite TV broadcasted directly to Airplanes. (The EM-Wave theory has to account for the differing altitudes, Ionisphere and all that. It's complicated stuff). It was complicated in figuring out how to broadcast to moving targets... With Satellite TV, you've got to point your attennas at the birds.
Even if every
I hope I'm wrong, and that it works out.
Well, I'm glad this chip complies with the Linux kernel. Does it comply with any others?
If all that was in the chip was one long line of parts, then yeah that would make sense. It's not tho, the circuit is closer to a grid than a line. My vote's on 2D.
A grid is like an array, but still it's one dimensional. Look at computer language, arrays are always 1-D after compiled. If x is a 5x6 array, then x[3,2] really becomes x[3*6 + 2] = x[20]...
Circuits for chips are non-linear though, right?
Seriously, I thought with a name like LambLion they were talking Lamb Chops Safron or something delicious like that. Not a bunch of winers worried their kids weren't doomed to build a Maginot line like the French.
Hello! We're at war here. I want my kid to be able to fight and defend my family when I am unable, and disabled from CTS.
and even then it would physically 1-d only from the standpoint of path of electricity.
That's what I was talking about of course....
Anything tangible in this world is 3-D. But functionally, it may be 1,2,3, or n D.
Even my idea of a cubic wafer is still functionally 1-D. Anything discrete is 1-D.
At first reading this technology seems like it has a future, in that, sure it's early in its infancy, but somebody will come along and make it work.
But what we're really talking about is not 3-D, it's just stacked 2-D. In fact technically, all computer chips are 1-D.
Because of the limitation of the fact that the Silicon crystal needs to be monolithic, that is, a lattice of atoms completely ordered throughout the chip we've got to think outside the box, this guy's inside the box, but realistically, this is to save money, and he wants to see something before his great grand kids are born.
The heart of the problem is the crystal flat surface. What we need is a crystal that grows out and up in such as manner as to be a monolithic latice but also compartmentalized. A cube, with little windows and rooms and holes so that the dope can get in.
Completely revolutionized fabrication thinking. We'll see it in less than 50 years.
Now I last longer in the sack.....
Darling, I hope I wasn't too much of an animal last night for those 101 mintes.
Not to mention the bumbling idiots over at the Interior Department. The Wallstreet Journal is reporting this morning that an independent company was hired by the Justice Department to investigate the security risk in the Indian Accounting System. The one that is used to pay the Indians rents, royalties, etc. for the use of their land.
They were able to hack the system undetected. No wonder Bruce Babbitt had to lie, we couldn't handle the truth that the Hundreds of Millions may have been stolen by hackers.
Question, we have the right to privacy, but do we also have the right to anonymity?
I think it's too much fuss about the inevitable.
Regards...
No friggen way I'll ever own a 13 nanoM chip. I'm just too supersticious. I've got enough to worry about with my data, and (jpg)'s to trust them to an unlucky number. It's worse than a hat on the bed!
They should switch to Angstroms.
Oh wait a minute, my calculator tells me that 0.13 Microns equals 666 Angstroms. Holy Ess, The end is Nigh.
You don't want every Tom, Dick, & Harry setting up networks like Loose Cannons. And Domain names, Darn-It! There are no more left, except of course www.clownpenis.fart.
The ones I've had brief contact with were video display controllers that take rides on fly by sight missiles. The display cards, had ARMS, needed lots of memory, had no time for delay, and no time for a blue screen of death. Imagine a PC with basically no Pentium chip, all the applications running off the display card. It's possible.
A real "Embedded" system has a tiny processor like a 80186, maybe 4-16K of RAM and could be powered from a 9 Volt battery.
Nah. A real embedded system has an ARM chip, and much more memory, not a power hog x86 chip.. (9-volt is true, or really just a couple of 1.5v's.
They run on RTOS's. Or, something like OS/9. They are compiled with THUMB compilers that allow multiple instructions within one 32bit address space.