Maybe there is a limit on the clock speed? 1920 x 1080 x 50/60 Hz would give a clock speed in the range 103 MHz to 124.4 MHz, and a double-buffered 32-bit framebuffer of 16 MBytes.
All you have to do is move 5-600 tons of sand and silt while keeping the groundwater under control, and hope that the safety shielding hasn't been compromised from impact and exposure.
That would seem to be fairly simple to do now - modern mining techniques will freeze surrounding soft soil with liquid CO2 or N2, then they can dig a tunnel through the now solid soil.
Maybe that depends on the type of university that is performing the research. Some university departments are block allocated grants for PhD research programs on an annual basis. Other universities get grants based on solving particular problems - in the USA, these seem to be NSF or DARPA funded. In the UK, these are ESPRC funded. Fundamental research performed in the right areas can generate entirely new industries - look at the industries created from the development of integrated circuits, or the industries created from the invention of the microphone and loudspeaker, or the concept of single network to connect all computers, or the ability to hyperlink documents.
Sounds like someone is a pissed off recruitment agent or company director who can't find cheap "bright graduates" to do the middle-management paperwork for him.
I like the phrase 'ancient graphics cards' - I had a Hercules Graphics Station Card, a full-size graphics card with the innards of a GPU splattered all over the circuit board. The VRAM chips were a problem - they stuck out so much that they would make contact with the adjacent cards.
I guess, if RAM chips were installed in sockets, they would have be slid in between the heatsink and the circuit board like a memory stick.
And the next generation will have five blades in a rack for a even smoother network performance with a glide power strip to guarantee no cuts in availability.
They seem to have forgotten about Clarence Willcock, a businessman who refused to produce his ID card to a police officer or to his nearest police station within 48 hours.
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On a university campus of over 5000 students and staff, around 20 memory sticks are lost on campus alone each month. How many are being lost from these government offices each month.
Here in the UK, there is the "Open University", which before the advent of the VCR, CD-ROM and DVD, would broadcast all their programming on TV. Now, they have the internet which allows them to put the course syllabuses online.
There is no upper limit on the amount of memory required for tasks like volume visualisation, where you have a nice big 3D cube of data in 16-bit format. A cube 1024 voxels in each dimension with a single channel of 16-bit data (2 bytes) is going to be 2 Gigabytes. You will need at least two such cubes to do any sort of image processing work.
Even a digital movie can be considered to be a cube if you consider time as the 3rd dimension.
Rather than having cards with a fixed amount of VRAM, which can't manufacturers just put a bunch of memory card sockets on the card and allow users to add memory when they want?
The engineer also said that it was 20dB quieter than a diesel engine in a regular car. That problem would go away if they switched to a multiple piston engine, but that would increase the weight.
It's fairly cheap when you are in the home country of the SIM card you have purchased. The prices hit the roof once you go abroad (which is the main reason I would want to use such a service). Then you have the 5 pounds for th e day fee, then you are charged something like 1 pence per kilobyte. I know that a 1 Megabyte PDF document cost 10 pounds, and that surfing slashdot on any day cost me 5 pounds.
It's funny - 30 years ago, everyone in manufacturing was scared they were going to lose their jobs to Japanese robots. Now everyone is scared they are going to lose their jobs to Indian workers.
#2 Seems to be caused by lint buildup in the heatsink fan enclosure. It's not just lint on the outside grill but right inside the cavity space as well. For my old laptop, cleaning that out make the fans quieter, reduced the highest temperature down to 65C and extended the battery life.
The only things that cook my laptop now are 'npviewer.bin' and 'acroread', both of which seem to be sucking up virtual memory before eventually forcing the system into a permanently memory swapping state.
Every academic and industrial research worker now uses laptops for presenting research papers at conferences, now that digital overhead projectors are now standard (just plug the external video cable into the laptop, set up dual display and everything is exactly the same when the presentation was prepared).
For those who are in the field of 3D visualisation/animation/rendering research, having a laptop that can do high-performance 3D graphics is a big gain. Instead of just presenting screenshots, pre-rendered movies, it is possible to have the actual application running in real-time.
You can get upgradeable graphics cards for laptops now (the MXM standard). There are also mini-desktop units (Shuttle XPC) which can be transported as carry-on luggage on an airplane.
ASUS offered an external PCI-Express card connected using a docking bay
For me, the ideal solution would be to have the docking bays on the underside of the laptop with additional power cables plugging into the main power brick for the laptop. It is a real pain having to go through airport security and take out the entire contents of your laptop bag (cables, PCI cards, DVD's, connectors, and USB dongles, power bricks) just to put them all back in again.
I've always wanted to visualize the connections between lists of open TCP/IP ports, processes, local files, and external file requests running on my Linux system. Maybe as a 3D bubble graph with each process being a sphere, and UNIX pipes being visualized as 'pipes'. The connection to the outside world would be one giant sphere containing everything, with all the TCP/IP ports being on the surface of this sphere. External file requests would appear as text labels on the outside of the corresponding TCP/IP port.
That is definitely worth downloading - I always thought these fancy high-end gaming rigs had something missing when they didn't have that beebily-boobily noise that all computers had in 1980's movies in computers.
Those were skip codes. You take a massive large block of text, then set your encoded message to be a particular starting offset from within this text, skip distance (or stride) between characters, and the length of the message.
From these three values (starting offset skip distance, length) you could extract a message.
I always wondered whether you could encode/extract an mp3 file from a suitably large ISO file (eg. Linux DVD ISO file) by defining a list of such messages.
The other scientist, who was researching "flubbergas" inhaled a single breath of the gas, started to bounce violently off the walls, floor and ceiling, escaped out through an emergency exit, and has yet to be found.
Endsleigh are known as a rather tricky insurance company by students. They wouldn't insure any single item unless it was less than 10% of the total amount of money that you wanted to insure. They would also try to wriggle out of claims - one guy I knew had his bicycle stolen even though it was padlocked to the railings of the internal staircase. Endsleigh argued that it was "outside of the exterior of the property, and thus not covered." Only after getting a solicitors letter to explain the legal definition of the "exterior of the property" was the claim settled.
The most widely known version appears in Stephen Hawking's 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which starts: " A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"[1]
Some time back on my campus, a start-up company offered home security systems based on the broadband and mobile phone networks. You had a series of modules (motion detectors, cameras, mobile/internet communications), that you plugged together. You just set up the IP addresses and an optional web page, and the system took care of the rest (timestamping, E-mail/mobile phone alerts)
The next thing, the local insurance company (Endsleigh) announces that they are closing many of their offices. I always wondered whether these were related. Did people spend more money on installing security systems than insurance?
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Maybe there is a limit on the clock speed? 1920 x 1080 x 50/60 Hz would give a clock speed in the range 103 MHz to 124.4 MHz, and a double-buffered 32-bit framebuffer of 16 MBytes.
All you have to do is move 5-600 tons of sand and silt while keeping the groundwater under control, and hope that the safety shielding hasn't been compromised from impact and exposure.
That would seem to be fairly simple to do now - modern mining techniques will freeze surrounding soft soil with liquid CO2 or N2, then they can dig a tunnel through the now solid soil.
Maybe that depends on the type of university that is performing the research. Some university departments are block allocated grants for PhD research programs on an annual basis. Other universities get grants based on solving particular problems - in the USA, these seem to be NSF or DARPA funded. In the UK, these are ESPRC funded. Fundamental research performed in the right areas can generate entirely new industries - look at the industries created from the development of integrated circuits, or the industries created from the invention of the microphone and loudspeaker, or the concept of single network to connect all computers, or the ability to hyperlink documents.
Sounds like someone is a pissed off recruitment agent or company director who can't find cheap "bright graduates" to do the middle-management paperwork for him.
I like the phrase 'ancient graphics cards' - I had a Hercules Graphics Station Card, a full-size graphics card with the innards of a GPU splattered all over the circuit board. The VRAM chips were a problem - they stuck out so much that they would make contact with the adjacent cards.
I guess, if RAM chips were installed in sockets, they would have be slid in between the heatsink and the circuit board like a memory stick.
From this article, GPU memory clock speeds are coming close to 990 Megahertz, while regular CPU memory is running at 1333 Megahertz, but that GDDR3 memory is optimised for longer length block read and writes.
And the next generation will have five blades in a rack for a even smoother network performance with a glide power strip to guarantee no cuts in availability.
They seem to have forgotten about Clarence Willcock, a businessman who refused to produce his ID card to a police officer or to his nearest police station within 48 hours.
On a university campus of over 5000 students and staff, around 20 memory sticks are lost on campus alone each month. How many are being lost from these government offices each month.
Here in the UK, there is the "Open University", which before the advent of the VCR, CD-ROM and DVD, would broadcast all their programming on TV. Now, they have the internet which allows them to put the course syllabuses online.
There is no upper limit on the amount of memory required for tasks like volume visualisation, where you have a nice big 3D cube of data in 16-bit format. A cube 1024 voxels in each dimension with a single channel of 16-bit data (2 bytes) is going to be 2 Gigabytes. You will need at least two such cubes to do any sort of image processing work.
Even a digital movie can be considered to be a cube if you consider time as the 3rd dimension.
Rather than having cards with a fixed amount of VRAM, which can't manufacturers just put a bunch of memory card sockets on the card and allow users to add memory when they want?
The engineer also said that it was 20dB quieter than a diesel engine in a regular car. That problem would go away if they switched to a multiple piston engine, but that would increase the weight.
It's fairly cheap when you are in the home country of the SIM card you have purchased. The prices hit the roof once you go abroad (which is the main reason I would want to use such a service). Then you have the 5 pounds for th e day fee, then you are charged something like 1 pence per kilobyte. I know that a 1 Megabyte PDF document cost 10 pounds, and that surfing slashdot on any day cost me 5 pounds.
Yes, it was outspaced to a robotic probe.
It's funny - 30 years ago, everyone in manufacturing was scared they were going to lose their jobs to Japanese robots. Now everyone is scared they are going to lose their jobs to Indian workers.
At least it has a built in networking - a 300 baud modem with drivers.
#2 Seems to be caused by lint buildup in the heatsink fan enclosure. It's not just lint on the outside grill but right inside the cavity space as well. For my old laptop, cleaning that out make the fans quieter, reduced the highest temperature down to 65C and extended the battery life.
The only things that cook my laptop now are 'npviewer.bin' and 'acroread', both of which seem to be sucking up virtual memory before eventually forcing the system into a permanently memory swapping state.
Every academic and industrial research worker now uses laptops for presenting research papers at conferences, now that digital overhead projectors are now standard (just plug the external video cable into the laptop, set up dual display and everything is exactly the same when the presentation was prepared).
For those who are in the field of 3D visualisation/animation/rendering research, having a laptop that can do high-performance 3D graphics is a big gain. Instead of just presenting screenshots, pre-rendered movies, it is possible to have the actual application running in real-time.
You can get upgradeable graphics cards for laptops now (the MXM standard). There are also mini-desktop units (Shuttle XPC) which can be transported as carry-on luggage on an airplane.
ASUS offered an external PCI-Express card connected using a docking bay
MSI Luxium also did the same.
For me, the ideal solution would be to have the docking bays on the underside of the laptop with additional power cables plugging into the main power brick for the laptop. It is a real pain having to go through airport security and take out the entire contents of your laptop bag (cables, PCI cards, DVD's, connectors, and USB dongles, power bricks) just to put them all back in again.
This article from 2001, "Teach Photons to Tango", described how high-powered lasers could be used to bounce photons off each other and make then collide (a theory from QED).
"The enemy is shooting at us Sarge! And they're using live rounds as well!"
I've always wanted to visualize the connections between lists of open TCP/IP ports, processes, local files, and external file requests running on my Linux system. Maybe as a 3D bubble graph with each process being a sphere, and UNIX pipes being visualized as 'pipes'. The connection to the outside world would be one giant sphere containing everything, with all the TCP/IP ports being on the surface of this sphere. External file requests would appear as text labels on the outside of the corresponding TCP/IP port.
That is definitely worth downloading - I always thought these fancy high-end gaming rigs had something missing when they didn't have that beebily-boobily noise that all computers had in 1980's movies in computers.
Those were skip codes. You take a massive large block of text, then set your encoded message to be a particular starting offset from within this text, skip distance (or stride) between characters, and the length of the message.
From these three values (starting offset skip distance, length) you could extract a message.
I always wondered whether you could encode/extract an mp3 file from a suitably large ISO file (eg. Linux DVD ISO file) by defining a list of such messages.
The other scientist, who was researching "flubbergas" inhaled a single breath of the gas, started to bounce violently off the walls, floor and ceiling, escaped out through an emergency exit, and has yet to be found.
Endsleigh are known as a rather tricky insurance company by students. They wouldn't insure any single item unless it was less than 10% of the total amount of money that you wanted to insure. They would also try to wriggle out of claims - one guy I knew had his bicycle stolen even though it was padlocked to the railings of the internal staircase. Endsleigh argued that it was "outside of the exterior of the property, and thus not covered." Only after getting a solicitors letter to explain the legal definition of the "exterior of the property" was the claim settled.
It was a quote from an Astronomy lecture
The most widely known version appears in Stephen Hawking's 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which starts:
" A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"[1]
Some time back on my campus, a start-up company offered home security systems based on the broadband and mobile phone networks. You had a series of modules (motion detectors, cameras, mobile/internet communications), that you plugged together. You just set up the IP addresses and an optional web page, and the system took care of the rest (timestamping, E-mail/mobile phone alerts)
The next thing, the local insurance company (Endsleigh) announces that they are closing many of their offices. I always wondered whether these were related. Did people spend more money on installing security systems than insurance?
Turtles :) All the way down :)