This web page provides an explanation of the process. You are going to be melting sand into liquid, which is going to require industrial furnaceswhich precision controlled temperatures. High temperature furnaces can use up to 14 kilowatts of energy for a good few hours per ingot of silicon.
Then the other machines are required to grind and slice the ingot into wavers. These will use a standard industrial supply since they are just doing mechanical motion and maybe some water/gas cooling.
But that wouldn't take into the account the transportation and mining of the raw materials.
I feel like that about the power switch on my laptop when it runs Linux. An ordinary user can no longer power down the system by typing "shutdown", but the slightest tap to the power button, and shut down mode is activated automatically. No grace period, no "Are you sure, please confirm", no "System is shutting down in 10 seconds, press [XX] to cancel". It's just "The system is shutting down now" and the desktop just disappears , goes back to the command line and that's it - system is off.
Interesting. What if you are using sprintf to convert an integer to a string for an embedded system. How would you determine the size of the buffer that you are going to need?
In case someone crashes through the power lines and disables the system for some time. Or maybe there is a general power failure after a road digger cuts through the underground power lines.
Reminds me of the Barcode Battler, where shops in Japan would report sudden shortages of less popular items simply because they created characters with unusually strong attributes.
Looking back, I wonder why nobody bothered trying to print out their own barcodes.
Wow! That's weird - I would have thought the designer/architect would have been able to talk to the customers/clients. Is inter-company communication admin-to-admin? That would make sense.
I've worked in startups where all communication between two departments could only be made by going up and down the hierarchy and back again.
Most projects are more than just programming. The entire project may consist of consulting with the customers, writing the specification, getting the specification approved, user-interface testing, load-testing, support and maintenenance for the life-cycle of the project, as well as the actual implementation.
If the person has seven years experience of doing this with a wide variety of programming environments (.NET, C++, Qt/X-windows, MFC, COM, WCF) then learning a new language like.NET isn't going to be that difficult, regardless if they are doing the user-interface plumbing or the actual application logic.
It will cost the company more to let the person go (allowing them to work for a competitor) and hire a recruiter to find a replacement (with the uncertainty of personality clashes, personal issues, whatever), than it would to keep them and give them additional training for the next project.
There are also dynamic name services (like dyndns.org) - You can dynamically a name to any IP address, and then change it whenever your IP address changes. So if you have your own IP server at somehost@somename.org at xx.yy.zz.ww, and you get plagued by spam, trojan or worm attacks, you can just change your address back to 127.0.0.1 for a little while.
And their are many variations in many models. A good example of this is the experiment where people were asked to mix two colors (red and green) so that the resulting mix matches a particular shade. Based on the type of genes used to encode the opsin molecules used for perceiving light, different responses would be made in the visual system. This was predicted by comparing DNA samples against the experiment results.
Games: John Carmack On Centipede Posted by brian on Wed October 24, 10:26 AM from the have fun hitting reload page dept. Cpt_Garthos writes "John Carmack says that there is too much violence in today's games especially Centipede. Game makers should focus on playability and include more lasers in their games rather than more gore. The interview is here"
I always wondered whether it would be possible to create aluminised fire blankets large enough to cover an entire house. It's certainly possible to get tarpaulin and plastic sheet that size, could the same be done for heat proof materials?
Yes, but there are actually auction houses where they sell off the domains that aren't making them money. Buy they will also go around offering to buy domains names off other people. The good news is that all the one word domain names have been taken, so they are now looking at multiple word names.
Unfortunately, land which is best for agriculture is also the best land for developing on. Land which dries out can suffer from subsidence, and land on a flood plain just gets flooded (which would otherwise damage crops). And probably land in a flood plain will also suffer from subsidence.
It's only going to take one change of ruling party, and a budget deficit, and some lobbying to persuade the government to sell off the land again.
Try telling that to the UK government which is proposing to build 2,000,000 homes in the flood plains of SE England, because they don't have anywhere else left. And they are even proposing that architects should design homes that are resistant to flood damage (ground level is the garage and stilts, first floor is the actual house).
Some of the more famous pranksters were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, founders of Apple Computer. On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as Henry Kissinger (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who was sleeping at the time).
Well, in one year they have advanced from 8 color (1 bit RGB) to 4096 color (4 bits RGB). That's pretty good considering they have to create a high resolution flexible display A3 size. By next year, they probably will have 8-bit RGB, and in the future maybe even 16-bit channels, which would be good enough for photography. Just make sure the top of the display is glossy and it will look like a magazine.
Especially since most food has travelled 1500 miles from the farm to your house - and that doesn't include the distance for fertilisers and pesticides to make it from the factories to the farms.
I thought tie-dyed T-shirts were associated with the 60's, Beatles, Grateful Dead etc...
The traditional image for the british left-winger is the tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, thought I can't seem to find any pictures. A few MP's were known to wear donkey jackets.
The problem I have is how do they make sure my baggage is not the last off the plane?
They make sure your luggage is the last put onto the plane - then it becomes the first to be taken off the plane.
From the puddle jumper flights I have taken, it would seem that if you arrived last at the check-in desk, you would get a high seat number, but your luggage would be placed last onto the plane. If you were at a small airport, you could see the containers of luggage being hauled out onto the runway in preparation for the flight to land.
If you were lucky, your luggage (and meal racks) would be covered by canvas, otherwise they would end up sitting in the rain.
Though this has changed now, as you now have to pay extra to get onto the plane first - although this now means about half the passengers pay this fee. Given they are now extending this service to getting your luggage off first, I wonder how long before they extend this to getting off the plane first.
They should learn from the experience of MSX - the universal game console architecture. The idea was basically that everyone would share the same basic hardware architecture, but it could be extendible in terms of custom controllers and peripherals. And that's where everything went wrong - some vendors chose to have that bit more memory in their consoles that others. Some chose to support light guns, others didn't.
Each company assumed that all the other companies would conform to the basic architecture for compatibility with their console, but that their added features would make their console, the one console system that the consumers would buy. Well, of course, with that level of incompatibility, the market just disintegrated.
The best we could hope for, would be standard programming API's, and perhaps even standard specifications for the provision and naming of assembly level vector/matrix programming instructions. Looking at the DirectX/OpenGL revision history, some companies couldn't even agree on which vector arithmetic operations to support.
Unfortunately, it is obvious that Microsoft isn't going to give up on DirectX, and that other companies aren't going to give up on OpenGL or the embedded system version of it. But everyone would have to agree on the same functions for using DMA for streaming, and all of that is going to vary according to how the console systems are designed.
Please note this statement will be subject to legal challenge when the case comes to court. In the meantime, feel free to rant and rave about the big hand of media conglomerates smashing content viewers who wish to avoid paying fees for their activities.
That is so funny. I used to pay for premium channels on cable TV UNTIL Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson had their squabble over Sky One and Sky News.
After that, a good many VirginMedia customers admitted that they were now visiting bootleg sights in order to get their fix of current series. Fortunately, there is now Joost which provides re-runs of a few series like Lexx.
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As opposed to a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, which is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
If you read that as Gac Palantic Barsle Glagter, then your Babel fish needs replacing...
This web page provides an explanation of the process. You are going to be melting sand into liquid, which is going to require industrial furnaceswhich precision controlled temperatures. High temperature furnaces can use up to 14 kilowatts of energy for a good few hours per ingot of silicon.
Then the other machines are required to grind and slice the ingot into wavers. These will use a standard industrial supply since they are just doing mechanical motion and maybe some water/gas cooling.
But that wouldn't take into the account the transportation and mining of the raw materials.
I feel like that about the power switch on my laptop when it runs Linux. An ordinary user can no longer power down the system by typing "shutdown", but the slightest tap to the power button, and shut down mode is activated automatically. No grace period, no "Are you sure, please confirm", no "System is shutting down in 10 seconds, press [XX] to cancel". It's just "The system is shutting down now" and the desktop just disappears , goes back to the command line and that's it - system is off.
In Europe, Hancock is the name of a famous British Comedian, Hancock's Half Hour
Interesting. What if you are using sprintf to convert an integer to a string for an embedded system. How would you determine the size of the buffer that you are going to need?
In case someone crashes through the power lines and disables the system for some time. Or maybe there is a general power failure after a road digger cuts through the underground power lines.
Reminds me of the Barcode Battler, where shops in Japan would report sudden shortages of less popular items simply because they created characters with unusually strong attributes.
Looking back, I wonder why nobody bothered trying to print out their own barcodes.
Wow! That's weird - I would have thought the designer/architect would have been able to talk to the customers/clients. Is inter-company communication admin-to-admin? That would make sense.
I've worked in startups where all communication between two departments could only be made by going up and down the hierarchy and back again.
That's called "getting your foot in the door...."
.NET isn't going to be that difficult, regardless if they are doing the user-interface plumbing or the actual application logic.
Most projects are more than just programming. The entire project may consist of consulting with the customers, writing the specification, getting the specification approved, user-interface testing, load-testing, support and maintenenance for the life-cycle of the project, as well as the actual implementation.
If the person has seven years experience of doing this with a wide variety of programming environments (.NET, C++, Qt/X-windows, MFC, COM, WCF) then learning a new language like
It will cost the company more to let the person go (allowing them to work for a competitor) and hire a recruiter to find a replacement (with the uncertainty of personality clashes, personal issues, whatever), than it would to keep them and give them additional training for the next project.
There are also dynamic name services (like dyndns.org) - You can dynamically a name to any IP address, and then change it whenever your IP address changes. So if you have your own IP server at somehost@somename.org at xx.yy.zz.ww, and you get plagued by spam, trojan or worm attacks, you can just change your address back to 127.0.0.1 for a little while.
You could try 'traceroute' - but maybe that goes through the name servers anyway.
And their are many variations in many models. A good example of this is the experiment where people were asked to mix two colors (red and green) so that the resulting mix matches a particular shade. Based on the type of genes used to encode the opsin molecules used for perceiving light, different responses would be made in the visual system. This was predicted by comparing DNA samples against the experiment results.
I don't know if you saw my other link on the website, but the Cloud Appreciation Society has some amazing pictures.
Like this The Random Slashdot Story generator
Games: John Carmack On Centipede
Posted by brian on Wed October 24, 10:26 AM
from the have fun hitting reload page dept.
Cpt_Garthos writes "John Carmack says that there is too much violence in today's games especially Centipede. Game makers should focus on playability and include more lasers in their games rather than more gore. The interview is here"
I always wondered whether it would be possible to create aluminised fire blankets large enough to cover an entire house. It's certainly possible to get tarpaulin and plastic sheet that size, could the same be done for heat proof materials?
Funny story:
Chess Supercomputer beaten up by more popular computer
Yes, but there are actually auction houses where they sell off the domains that aren't making them money. Buy they will also go around offering to buy domains names off other people. The good news is that all the one word domain names have been taken, so they are now looking at multiple word names.
Unfortunately, land which is best for agriculture is also the best land for developing on. Land which dries out can suffer from subsidence, and land on a flood plain just gets flooded (which would otherwise damage crops). And probably land in a flood plain will also suffer from subsidence.
It's only going to take one change of ruling party, and a budget deficit, and some lobbying to persuade the government to sell off the land again.
Try telling that to the UK government which is proposing to build 2,000,000 homes in the flood plains of SE England, because they don't have anywhere else left. And they are even proposing that architects should design homes that are resistant to flood damage (ground level is the garage and stilts, first floor is the actual house).
Kind of ironic when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak used to play pranks with Blue Boxing of telephone systems.
Some of the more famous pranksters were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, founders of Apple Computer. On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as Henry Kissinger (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who was sleeping at the time).
Well, in one year they have advanced from 8 color (1 bit RGB) to 4096 color (4 bits RGB). That's pretty good considering they have to create a high resolution flexible display A3 size. By next year, they probably will have 8-bit RGB, and in the future maybe even 16-bit channels, which would be good enough for photography. Just make sure the top of the display is glossy and it will look like a magazine.
Especially since most food has travelled 1500 miles from the farm to your house - and that doesn't include the distance for fertilisers and pesticides to make it from the factories to the farms.
I thought tie-dyed T-shirts were associated with the 60's, Beatles, Grateful Dead etc...
The traditional image for the british left-winger is the tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, thought I can't seem to find any pictures. A few MP's were known to wear donkey jackets.
The problem I have is how do they make sure my baggage is not the last off the plane?
They make sure your luggage is the last put onto the plane - then it becomes the first to be taken off the plane.
From the puddle jumper flights I have taken, it would seem that if you arrived last at the check-in desk, you would get a high seat number, but your luggage would be placed last onto the plane. If you were at a small airport, you could see the containers of luggage being hauled out onto the runway in preparation for the flight to land.
If you were lucky, your luggage (and meal racks) would be covered by canvas, otherwise they would end up sitting in the rain.
Though this has changed now, as you now have to pay extra to get onto the plane first - although this now means about half the passengers pay this fee. Given they are now extending this service to getting your luggage off first, I wonder how long before they extend this to getting off the plane first.
They should learn from the experience of MSX - the universal game console architecture. The idea was basically that everyone would share the same basic hardware architecture, but it could be extendible in terms of custom controllers and peripherals. And that's where everything went wrong - some vendors chose to have that bit more memory in their consoles that others. Some chose to support light guns, others didn't.
Each company assumed that all the other companies would conform to the basic architecture for compatibility with their console, but that their added features would make their console, the one console system that the consumers would buy. Well, of course, with that level of incompatibility, the market just disintegrated.
The best we could hope for, would be standard programming API's, and perhaps even standard specifications for the provision and naming of assembly level vector/matrix programming instructions. Looking at the DirectX/OpenGL revision history, some companies couldn't even agree on which vector arithmetic operations to support.
Unfortunately, it is obvious that Microsoft isn't going to give up on DirectX, and that other companies aren't going to give up on OpenGL or the embedded system version of it. But everyone would have to agree on the same functions for using DMA for streaming, and all of that is going to vary according to how the console systems are designed.
Please note this statement will be subject to legal challenge when the case comes to court. In the meantime, feel free to rant and rave about the big hand of media conglomerates smashing content viewers who wish to avoid paying fees for their activities.
That is so funny. I used to pay for premium channels on cable TV UNTIL Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson had their squabble over Sky One and Sky News.
After that, a good many VirginMedia customers admitted that they were now visiting bootleg sights in order to get their fix of current series. Fortunately, there is now Joost which provides re-runs of a few series like Lexx.