At first, I thought it meant that we take a program, break it up into logic elements and scramble them like an egg. That won't work.
But after reading, I see it means that everything isn't pulsed by the same clock. So, if a circuit of 1,000 transistors only needs 3 picoseconds to do it's job, while another 3000 transistors actually need 5 picoseconds, then entire 4000 transistors are turned on for5 picoseconds. So, 3000 transistors are needlessly powered for 2 picoseconds.
This adds up when we're talking 4 million transistors and living in the age of the Gigahertz.
So your kid is safe from vaccination side effects because he's not vaccinated, and he's safe from chicken pox because most of the other kids are vaccinated...cool move. rj
This is getting much talk in the conspiracy circles.
Many think the leading cause for autism comes from the regiment of shots we give our kids from birth to a few years of age.
I have to admit, it's alot of shots these days, and there's clear economic motives for the makers.
Funny thing is, if you scrutinize this, they label you a wacko, or some extreme religious zealot (because of stories of a parent's kid dying because the parent refused treatment based on religion.)
Just go to the news groups and do searches for this type of stuff. It's some very interesting reading.
I refused chicken pox (not smallpox) for my first two kids. It was just becoming mandatory in schools, then when they figured out that many babies were getting deadly disentary, they backed off.
It's crazy when you take your kid in, and get 4 different shots on some occasions.
Like I said in an earlier discussion on predictions for 2003. Affordable robotics development systems will be announced late 2003, with delivery in 2004.
Infrared as a means of prixomity detection is the bottom of the totem pole in terms of performance, in fact, proimity detection is very poor for even the higher end methods such as sonar ranging.
This is one area where real advancements are needed. I predict somebody will create a module that runs IR, Sonar, and possibly crude Video for proximity detection. The point is, you want to be able to do this with less than an average of 200miliwatts.
These systems are really bad at detecting things like chair legs.
This such an exciting area, robotics. There's so much room for improvement.
Not wanting to sound like flamebait. But I'll let you in on two little secrets:
If you find the right mate, you can have more fun than alone. It's called pooled resources.
Also, I don't know what you mean by "double mortgage". I have a mortgage. It's about $2400/month. I own a nice chunk of dirt, and it's fairly close to work.
What's the second secret? Simple. Live beneath your means.
Let me repeat: Live beneath your means.
This mean, instead of St. Tropez, maybe Montevideo.
And oh by the way. Kids shouldn't be a problem. If you travel places a little more frugal, you'll find readily available help baby-sitting, etc.
Take my advice. Don't shun marriage and kids. Sure, take your time. But definitely aim for working on a family by the time you reach early 30s. It's only fair to your children. You need to be young and healthy to take care of them.
Get a job and start earning money as soon as possible. Take long vacations. When your employer protests, make him fire you. If you do go work, he won't fire you, just protest. If he does protest. Take your severence, find a job, then travel.
Take your girlfriend, take you kid. If it's multiple partners sex you want, well that went out along time ago. We're no longer just living in the age of cuties, We gots the AIDS man! But if you must f everything that moves, you'll get even more by finding a girlfriend/wife that's open to the idea that you're young and need to work up a lot more batches than normal.
That's true. But consider that what www.OpenSS.org lists on its website at the top of it's page for alternative operating systems Windows & Mac. The following "free" clients are recommended for interoperating with OpenSSH from Windows machines:
* PuTTY is an SSH1+SSH2 implementation. PSCP, an scp-style program for Windows, is also available.
PuTTY is available under the MIT licence (BSD-like).
"PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham, who lives in Great Britain."
If you're going to recommend it, then why not right up front, give some pointers on how to get it up and running.
I would like to see a version that create key files that are compatible with putty and securenetterm. Right now, if I want to use SecNetTerm, I've got to create the key on the Linux box with ssh-keygen, copy it to my pc, load it into putty to convert it, save it out, then move it over to SecNetTerm. Not only that, I couldn't find an easy HowTo that told me how to do this. It took several hours to figure this out.
I thought you meant "settle in for a long time" as in that would be something new, as in, companies didn't use previous versions of windows for many years.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, companies stuck with WWG, and W95 much longer than they wished.
Not to mention NT4.0. Many companies installed it as the desktop on 1998 and are still using it today.
Sub $25 Wireless networking setup, including router and card.
No major new operating system.
------- Chickens will come home to roost. IT departments will continue to try and recoup their huge investments in technology made during the boom. ------- The year of picking up the pieces and moving on.... -------
Actually, Hobby Robotic development will make great strides with several new product announcements all which will come out at an affordable price in 2004.
There's so much room for extending upon the Lego Mindstorms concept and product.
When I started looking at the ARM chips I wondered why we ever used x86's etc.
RISC / CISC is really a misnomer.
RISC has plenty of instructions, and it's meant to be super-scaler.
It starts with Register Gymnastics. Basically with RISC, there's no more of it. Every register is general. It can be data, or it can be an address. All the basic math functions can operate on any register.
With Intel x86, everything has it's place.
Extend it further out. There's something called "Conditional Instructions". Properly utilized, these make for an ultra efficient code cache. The processer is able to dump the code cache instructions ahead of time. Which also means, not as much unecessary "pipeline preparation" to perform an instruction.
Then there's THUMB which compresses instructions so that they take up less physical space in a 64, 128 bit world. There's lots of wasted bits in an (.exe) compiled for a 386
Last I checked, 32bit ARM THUMB processors are dirt freaken cheap, they're manufactured by a consortium of multitude of verdors as opposed to AMD and INTC.
The Internet is slowing wearing down the x86 as more and more processing is moving back on the server where big iron style RISC can churn through everything.
So is sunlight. It hits the Earth, and if it isn't captured by a solar panel (or a crop, or a plankton), it's just wasted.
But, the cost of making the solar panels, say, enough of them to cover the state of Arizona far outweighs the benefit of maybe a few megawatts.
Also, we also have to know the speed of the process. Energy isn't necessarily what we're after here. We're after power. They say they can get 40 watts continuously from granulated sugar. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that. But, most of the trash isn't going to contain nearly the energy density of sugar. For that reason, I think you just aren't going to be able to get energy out of the process at a fast enough rate to be a real power source. The energy seeps out of this trash, but it bursts out of something like burning coal.
Since the enrgy comes out much slower, then the size of the process has to be bigger. I would guess that to compete with a 100MW natural gas plant taking up about 2 Square Miles would take at least 200 - 2000 square miles of a trash plant.
Scientists say 50 grammes of sugar would keep a 40-watt light bulb lit for eight hours.
Let's do the math. 50 grames = 12 1/2 servings. Or, 12.5 * 15 = 187.5 C (That's big C calories or really kilo-calories).
40 watts * 8 hours =.32 Killowatt Hours.
A KW Hours costs about.06 here. So we're talking about 2 penny's worth of energy.
A round cylindrical sugar container of the coffee area variety has 567g's so were talking about 1/10 of a thing of sugar which costs about $.50.
So, the sugar costs 10 cents but the same energy produced by a power plant costs.02 cents.
So, when the greens step up the argument of, big business is squashing new alternative energy sources, maybe there's sound economic reasoning on the part of the neysayers.
A relative died. My aunt is making arrangements at the funeral home. She has some extra time there, and the funeral director allowed her to make an hour's worth of phone calls from his office, many long distance.
Now, for me, she got an answer on the second ring. She informed me of an Uncle's sad and sudden passing.
She's probably got at least 40 calls to make. She'll only get through about 10 because more than half the time, she gets an answering machine (boy does it suck giving a death notice to an answering machine). She starts leaving a message, then, the lazy person picks up and says, Oh I'm so sorry and they continue from there... Each call, she had to wait anywhere from 4 to 8 rings. Caller Id is from the furneral director's office. So, it's unknown caller.
Here's the point. Granted this doesn't happen everyday. But darnit, it does happen, and when it does, all the hassle of hanging up politely on telemarketers has been worth it, to provide this courtesy to my grieving aunt.
My point is that your friends deserve courtesy, not the telemarketers. The hassle you suffer from the telemarketers doesn't add up to the politeness you would have taken away from your friends.
Believe me, I'm not liberal, and that wasn't a liberal response. In fact, this whole thread, besides my response is very liberal. Especially when we talk about laws, and banning this. The govt. has no place in this mess.
You think you've solved your own problem by buying a cell phone.
I'll tell you what though, the way you have solved your problem is that, you my friend, are a jerk, and you probably don't have many friends that like to call you. I guess it's all about ratios then. For you, it's 9 of 10 are telemarketing.
For me, it's probably more like 1 of 6. Why? I get more non-telemarketing calls in total. It may have something to do with my old-fashioned way of not taking any of my friends, or relations for granted. Each and every one of them get the benefit of me answering their calls within 2 rings 90% of the time.
Is it really that hard to hit the pause button to get off your fat ass to answer the phone. Basically, people are just lazy. Telemarketers are doing a great public health service to all the couch potaten (sic).
I answer every single call I get. As soon as I realize it's telemarketing, I simply say, "No Thank You" politely and then hang up.
Why is that so hard. I don't like missing calls, and boy do I hate calling people that wait to hear my voice on an answering machine then pick up. I hate leaving messages. Just pick up the damn phone.
At most we average 1 per night. Big freaken deal! One thing I will say is that it is okay to not answer the phone if you're in the middle of a sit down dinner with your family.
It's a common courtesy to answer every single phone call you can.
I guess the real problem is this. Too many people dread the idea of picking up a phone and just saying, "No".
I've talked to former telemarketers and they prefer my method. It waists no time. Doing the whole, "Put me on your DNC list is a waste of time.
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It gets even better.
Why do the English call them Biscuits when they are cookies?
Then, they call biscuits "cookies".
Or.....
Why didn't they keep the original name from: "Under the Bonnet with Crispin Davies"
to: "Under to Hood with John Studd".
And oh yeah, why do they drive on the left hand side of the road?
Sounds like my wife.
But seriously, isn't that an oxymoron?
At first, I thought it meant that we take a program, break it up into logic elements and scramble them like an egg. That won't work.
But after reading, I see it means that everything isn't pulsed by the same clock. So, if a circuit of 1,000 transistors only needs 3 picoseconds to do it's job, while another 3000 transistors actually need 5 picoseconds, then entire 4000 transistors are turned on for5 picoseconds. So, 3000 transistors are needlessly powered for 2 picoseconds.
This adds up when we're talking 4 million transistors and living in the age of the Gigahertz.
So your kid is safe from vaccination side effects because he's not vaccinated, and he's safe from chicken pox because most of the other kids are vaccinated...cool move. rj
Mod this up. He hit the nail on the head.
This is getting much talk in the conspiracy circles.
Many think the leading cause for autism comes from the regiment of shots we give our kids from birth to a few years of age.
I have to admit, it's alot of shots these days, and there's clear economic motives for the makers.
Funny thing is, if you scrutinize this, they label you a wacko, or some extreme religious zealot (because of stories of a parent's kid dying because the parent refused treatment based on religion.)
Just go to the news groups and do searches for this type of stuff. It's some very interesting reading.
I refused chicken pox (not smallpox) for my first two kids. It was just becoming mandatory in schools, then when they figured out that many babies were getting deadly disentary, they backed off.
It's crazy when you take your kid in, and get 4 different shots on some occasions.
Like I said in an earlier discussion on predictions for 2003. Affordable robotics development systems will be announced late 2003, with delivery in 2004.
This system aint cheap. Check out the prices.
Also, check out the prices on development tools for the microcontrollers.
Infrared as a means of prixomity detection is the bottom of the totem pole in terms of performance, in fact, proimity detection is very poor for even the higher end methods such as sonar ranging.
This is one area where real advancements are needed. I predict somebody will create a module that runs IR, Sonar, and possibly crude Video for proximity detection. The point is, you want to be able to do this with less than an average of 200miliwatts.
These systems are really bad at detecting things like chair legs.
This such an exciting area, robotics. There's so much room for improvement.
Not wanting to sound like flamebait. But I'll let you in on two little secrets:
If you find the right mate, you can have more fun than alone. It's called pooled resources.
Also, I don't know what you mean by "double mortgage". I have a mortgage. It's about $2400/month. I own a nice chunk of dirt, and it's fairly close to work.
What's the second secret? Simple. Live beneath your means.
Let me repeat: Live beneath your means.
This mean, instead of St. Tropez, maybe Montevideo.
And oh by the way. Kids shouldn't be a problem. If you travel places a little more frugal, you'll find readily available help baby-sitting, etc.
Take my advice. Don't shun marriage and kids. Sure, take your time. But definitely aim for working on a family by the time you reach early 30s. It's only fair to your children. You need to be young and healthy to take care of them.
Get a job and start earning money as soon as possible. Take long vacations. When your employer protests, make him fire you. If you do go work, he won't fire you, just protest. If he does protest. Take your severence, find a job, then travel.
Take your girlfriend, take you kid. If it's multiple partners sex you want, well that went out along time ago. We're no longer just living in the age of cuties, We gots the AIDS man! But if you must f everything that moves, you'll get even more by finding a girlfriend/wife that's open to the idea that you're young and need to work up a lot more batches than normal.
That's true. But consider that what www.OpenSS.org lists on its website at the top of it's page for alternative operating systems Windows & Mac.
The following "free" clients are recommended for interoperating with OpenSSH from Windows machines:
* PuTTY is an SSH1+SSH2 implementation. PSCP, an scp-style program for Windows, is also available.
PuTTY is available under the MIT licence (BSD-like).
"PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham, who lives in Great Britain."
If you're going to recommend it, then why not right up front, give some pointers on how to get it up and running.
Regards.... S
I would like to see a version that create key files that are compatible with putty and securenetterm. Right now, if I want to use SecNetTerm, I've got to create the key on the Linux box with ssh-keygen, copy it to my pc, load it into putty to convert it, save it out, then move it over to SecNetTerm. Not only that, I couldn't find an easy HowTo that told me how to do this. It took several hours to figure this out.
I shouldn't have to be a guru just to use SSH.
I thought you meant "settle in for a long time" as in that would be something new, as in, companies didn't use previous versions of windows for many years.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, companies stuck with WWG, and W95 much longer than they wished.
Not to mention NT4.0. Many companies installed it as the desktop on 1998 and are still using it today.
That aint the wireless I'm talking about.
I don't mean, sold without wires. I mean, works without wires. You'll see a big jump in price.
We'll start to see companies settling there and actually USING a Windows product for years at a time like they do with *nixes now,
WTF are you talking about...
The typical company settled in a "Windows for Workgroups" for several years. And, Win95 has lasted for quite a long time.
Win2k Will last for quite some time.
Because, more and more, the Desktop O/S will be not be important anymore. Only browser versions will be important.
Sub $25 Wireless networking setup, including router and card.
No major new operating system.
-------
Chickens will come home to roost. IT departments will continue to try and recoup their huge investments in technology made
during the boom.
-------
The year of picking up the pieces and moving on....
-------
Actually, Hobby Robotic development will make great strides with several new product announcements all which will come out at an affordable price in 2004.
There's so much room for extending upon the Lego Mindstorms concept and product.
They are variable length at the byte or word level, not the bit level. Thumb packs them in at the bit level.
Probably. But I bet their margins are nowhere near what they are for Pentiums.
Hell yeah!
I myself am an old x86 Assembly hacker.
When I started looking at the ARM chips I wondered why we ever used x86's etc.
RISC / CISC is really a misnomer.
RISC has plenty of instructions, and it's meant to be super-scaler.
It starts with Register Gymnastics. Basically with RISC, there's no more of it. Every register is general. It can be data, or it can be an address. All the basic math functions can operate on any register.
With Intel x86, everything has it's place.
Extend it further out. There's something called "Conditional Instructions". Properly utilized, these make for an ultra efficient code cache. The processer is able to dump the code cache instructions ahead of time. Which also means, not as much unecessary "pipeline preparation" to perform an instruction.
Then there's THUMB which compresses instructions so that they take up less physical space in a 64, 128 bit world. There's lots of wasted bits in an (.exe) compiled for a 386
Last I checked, 32bit ARM THUMB processors are dirt freaken cheap, they're manufactured by a consortium of multitude of verdors as opposed to AMD and INTC.
The Internet is slowing wearing down the x86 as more and more processing is moving back on the server where big iron style RISC can churn through everything.
The article should really just be called:
"An Acedemic Exercise in Register Gymnastics"
So is sunlight. It hits the Earth, and if it isn't captured by a solar panel (or a crop, or a plankton), it's just wasted.
But, the cost of making the solar panels, say, enough of them to cover the state of Arizona far outweighs the benefit of maybe a few megawatts.
Also, we also have to know the speed of the process. Energy isn't necessarily what we're after here. We're after power. They say they can get 40 watts continuously from granulated sugar. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that. But, most of the trash isn't going to contain nearly the energy density of sugar. For that reason, I think you just aren't going to be able to get energy out of the process at a fast enough rate to be a real power source. The energy seeps out of this trash, but it bursts out of something like burning coal.
Since the enrgy comes out much slower, then the size of the process has to be bigger. I would guess that to compete with a 100MW natural gas plant taking up about 2 Square Miles would take at least 200 - 2000 square miles of a trash plant.
I didn't have the time with the conversions and everything. I wanted to compare the calculation of Calories v. KWHrs.
If it's way off. Then there's further reason for skepticism.
Scientists say 50 grammes of sugar would keep a 40-watt light bulb lit for eight hours.
.32 Killowatt Hours.
.06 here. So we're talking about 2 penny's worth of energy.
.02 cents.
Let's do the math. 50 grames = 12 1/2 servings. Or, 12.5 * 15 = 187.5 C (That's big C calories or really kilo-calories).
40 watts * 8 hours =
A KW Hours costs about
A round cylindrical sugar container of the coffee area variety has 567g's so were talking about 1/10 of a thing of sugar which costs about $.50.
So, the sugar costs 10 cents but the same energy produced by a power plant costs
So, when the greens step up the argument of, big business is squashing new alternative energy sources, maybe there's sound economic reasoning on the part of the neysayers.
And who said we don't use inductors anymore.
This one uses 3. Most micro designs try to shy away from them for fear of their size.
Let's consider the following example:
A relative died. My aunt is making arrangements at the funeral home. She has some extra time there, and the funeral director allowed her to make an hour's worth of phone calls from his office, many long distance.
Now, for me, she got an answer on the second ring. She informed me of an Uncle's sad and sudden passing.
She's probably got at least 40 calls to make. She'll only get through about 10 because more than half the time, she gets an answering machine (boy does it suck giving a death notice to an answering machine). She starts leaving a message, then, the lazy person picks up and says, Oh I'm so sorry and they continue from there... Each call, she had to wait anywhere from 4 to 8 rings. Caller Id is from the furneral director's office. So, it's unknown caller.
Here's the point. Granted this doesn't happen everyday. But darnit, it does happen, and when it does, all the hassle of hanging up politely on telemarketers has been worth it, to provide this courtesy to my grieving aunt.
My point is that your friends deserve courtesy, not the telemarketers. The hassle you suffer from the telemarketers doesn't add up to the politeness you would have taken away from your friends.
Believe me, I'm not liberal, and that wasn't a liberal response. In fact, this whole thread, besides my response is very liberal. Especially when we talk about laws, and banning this. The govt. has no place in this mess.
You think you've solved your own problem by buying a cell phone.
I'll tell you what though, the way you have solved your problem is that, you my friend, are a jerk, and you probably don't have many friends that like to call you. I guess it's all about ratios then. For you, it's 9 of 10 are telemarketing.
For me, it's probably more like 1 of 6. Why? I get more non-telemarketing calls in total. It may have something to do with my old-fashioned way of not taking any of my friends, or relations for granted. Each and every one of them get the benefit of me answering their calls within 2 rings 90% of the time.
Is it really that hard to hit the pause button to get off your fat ass to answer the phone. Basically, people are just lazy. Telemarketers are doing a great public health service to all the couch potaten (sic).
This was about the 3rd time I misspelled waste as waist. Oh fart!
Just say no.
Why is that so hard?
I answer every single call I get. As soon as I realize it's telemarketing, I simply say, "No Thank You" politely and then hang up.
Why is that so hard. I don't like missing calls, and boy do I hate calling people that wait to hear my voice on an answering machine then pick up. I hate leaving messages. Just pick up the damn phone.
At most we average 1 per night. Big freaken deal! One thing I will say is that it is okay to not answer the phone if you're in the middle of a sit down dinner with your family.
It's a common courtesy to answer every single phone call you can.
I guess the real problem is this. Too many people dread the idea of picking up a phone and just saying, "No".
I've talked to former telemarketers and they prefer my method. It waists no time. Doing the whole, "Put me on your DNC list is a waste of time.
Get some backbone people!
Geez, it's happened again. A little further away from my office this time. On the opposite side of town where my two kids attend school.
A kids was shot outside a school in Bowie, MD.
This really sucks.
www.nbc4.com has a headline on it.
OKay fine. But that's incredible.
I was also, thinking of rides you don't mention:
Chaos,
Demon Drop
Power Tower Space Drop
Power Tower Turbo Drop
You ride in a car I think.