IBM 360 mainframes were like that as well. One company I worked for, used the heating from the cooling system to keep the semi-underground open-air car-park warm. Even during a Winter blizzard, the heat from the system was enough to allow staff to walk around in T-shirts.
What is significant is that people are willing to relocate to a third world country inspite of all the general problems there like bad internet connectivity, bad roads, power problems etc.
I had this idea of having a communal fusion reactor, that if launched in space and kept at a large enough distance, would be bright enough to generate heat and light all across one side of the planet at a time.
A while back, there was an article about how implants could be powered using body heat by using the thermoelectric effect (heat causes electrons to move, which creates current). Wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing with the heat coming off a computer system, especially the CPU and GPU?
Every review I have seen has claim SLI to be the wave of the future giving you ridiculous speed boost. But don't all video card reviews do that now?
If you look at the history of video cards, you will see that whenever they succeed in reaching the limit in one particular technology, they will continue to move on something else. First it was screen resolution, then pixel depth, followed closely by 2D pixblitting, then 3D acceleration, multi-texturing, then programmable vertex and finally fragment programs, with the hardware then supported dual DVI output. Since vertex and fragment programs are already written in high level languages and accelerated using multiple pipelines to the limit of clock speed and die size, SLI is the only path left.
Ahh yes, but it is a little known fact that the ink cartridges contain serial numbers stored as microbeads which end up being embedded in the paper. Why else do you the printer manufacturers are opposed to people refilling ink cartridges with non-approved inks?
Consider the number of bits required to store a serial number.
Assuming 8 digits of hexadecimal, that would give you 32 bits. So a little box 6 x 6 pixels would be enough. A laser printer has resolutions ranging from 600 to 2400 dpi. So you would need far less than one square millimetre to store such information. Even if you double the size of the box in order to have some sort of redundancy, that would still be far less than 1 square millimetre.
Sun's main strength is that many commercial users (Ford, Boeing,...) want a single vendor to support all the hardware and software used by projects that are scheduled to last three years or more.
As commercial CAD users, they will only consider hardware that is officially certified by the 3D CAD application developers. That usually requires a strict combination of memory chips, CPU's, motherboard, and graphics accelerator. They're not concerned about legacy hardware being supported, so long as E-mail, video conferencing and the required applications run on competitively priced systems with 24/7 support.
You haven't seen the 3D visualisation technology for OS performance. Every background process that is running is represented as a satellite orbiting the planet. A process starting is represented as a rocket launch; A process forking is represented as a satellite splitting in two. A process terminating is represented as a satellite burning up in orbit.
Watching a dodgy application spawn an infinite number of background processes is particularly impressive.
Even worse is the phrase "weather bunnies" when referring to the attractive single women employed to keep the ratings up for the weather reports in local small-town TV stations.
Of course, since they usually either buy out the company, develop and market a competing product, they don't need to resort to lawsuits for those type of situations.
I'm not sure I understand why that is one of the worst jobs in science. Reading the article, it seems they were just being belittled and TV weather-forcasting called a "fast-food science."
It's no different from being a high-tech fortune-teller. Your crystal ball is replaced by a supercomputer running weather simulations. Your predictions are only as good as the output results. Read up on the "Great Storm of 1987" and Michael Fish, who reassured a concerned view that there was no danger of a severe storm coming ashore (which obligingly decided to change course).
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That's the way most of the early game companies started. With the introduction of home computers, people started writing games at home. The first games were one programmer tasks. As the technology advanced, the work required several people; at least one programmer for the AI and graphics rendering, an artist for the artwork/animation and a musician for the audio. The companies that started up at this time were set up by one person with management experience (enough to handle employment and customer contracts), and a number of experienced programmers. Programmers and artists were recruited if they could demonstrate they had knowledge of at least one skill that was needed at the time by the company.
These days, nearly all of the first generation programmers (who were teenagers in the late 80's) have set up their own companies, as this is the only way they could keep their skills up to date. With the pressure from investors to take on as many contracts as possible, the attitude of the company directors is "everyone gets pushed up into management". For someone who wished to remain a programmer and move into an architectural/design position, this was the only career move available. These new companies would then look for intermediate and veteran programmers.
The side effect of this is that the first generation companies are forced to take on as man y entry-level graduates as possible in order to fill their vacancies.
Undoubtably, the biohazard and radioactive etched warning signs look really cool. But if your house or office were on fire, would the emergency services refuse to continue to work in the building if they saw potential radiation and biological hazards that they didn't have the correct protective gear for?
I checked up on this. You have to download and run 'nvemulate' to switch on the extra extensions. For early cards, the emulation is done in software emulation. For later cards, this makes the extensions visible. In 6xxx cards this is done automatically, but anything below this has to be done manually - ugh!
Airline pilots fly in pairs for long international flights. Then, they have continuous training under an instructor, and are in constant communication with other pilots and air traffic controllers, not forgetting that they also have strict limits on the number of hours they can fly per day. And the vehicles are inspected after every flight.
It's rather hard for an airline pilot to be sozzled as a flambeed vodka prawn and not have anyone notice.
If cars and car drivers were under that level of scrutiny, car accidents rates would probably plummet. Imagine having to check in with the local police station to arrange your route, having a inspection crew check the tyres and engine before leaving, and be in constant radio contact with other car drivers.
Actually there really is stuff just lying around all over the place in Europe (probably depending on exactly where you are).
There are old pill-boxes (machine gun emplacements protected by circular/octagonal concrete walls) all over the UK. These were supposed to defend roads leading to cities and villages, should there be an invasion. A few were even built in public parks (the idea being that the enemy would find it easier to travel across the open space of the park, and therefore be an easy target for the defenders).
The best example I have seen was in Duthie Park in Aberdeen, where there was a whole row of such pill-boxes. Urban legend was that these were connected by an underground tunnel. I remember me and friends (under the supervision of our parents) crawling inside one, and there was a concrete block at the centre, that looked like it led to somewhere. But we never had the chance to explore.
.. someone were tuning a remote deep space dish, and accidently hit upon a video stream from a commercial satellite... would they end up being sued?
In any case, if someone can transfer the contents of a DVD within 5 seconds, they they would probably figure out some way of converting the files into something less noticable than an obvious archive of video and audio files. Convert everything into a tar file and convert that into something less noticable like floating-point volume data.
The fast-forward screen-blocking filter - whenever this box detects that your remote-control is sending out the "Fast-Forward" command, it automatically blanks out a pre-selected portion of the screen and thus eliminating any unwanted video spam.
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IBM 360 mainframes were like that as well. One company I worked for, used the heating from the cooling system to keep the semi-underground open-air car-park warm. Even during a Winter blizzard, the heat from the system was enough to allow staff to walk around in T-shirts.
What is significant is that people are willing to relocate to a third world country inspite of all the general problems there like bad internet connectivity, bad roads, power problems etc.
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You haven't tried living out in rural England
I had this idea of having a communal fusion reactor, that if launched in space and kept at a large enough distance, would be bright enough to generate heat and light all across one side of the planet at a time.
A while back, there was an article about how implants could be powered using body heat by using the thermoelectric effect (heat causes electrons to move, which creates current). Wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing with the heat coming off a computer system, especially the CPU and GPU?
Every review I have seen has claim SLI to be the wave of the future giving you ridiculous speed boost. But don't all video card reviews do that now?
If you look at the history of video cards, you will see that whenever they succeed in reaching the limit in one particular technology, they will continue to move on something else. First it was screen resolution, then pixel depth, followed closely by 2D pixblitting, then 3D acceleration, multi-texturing, then programmable vertex and finally fragment programs, with the hardware then supported dual DVI output. Since vertex and fragment programs are already written in high level languages and accelerated using multiple pipelines to the limit of clock speed and die size, SLI is the only path left.
But best to avoid bad reviews from fans - they taste awful!
I use a Canon Bubblejet, you insensitive clod!
Ahh yes, but it is a little known fact that the ink cartridges contain serial numbers stored as microbeads which end up being embedded in the paper. Why else do you the printer manufacturers are opposed to people refilling ink cartridges with non-approved inks?
Consider the number of bits required to store a serial number.
Assuming 8 digits of hexadecimal, that would give you 32 bits. So a little box 6 x 6 pixels would be enough. A laser printer has resolutions ranging from 600 to 2400 dpi. So you would need far less than one square millimetre to store such information. Even if you double the size of the box in order to have some sort of redundancy, that would still be far less than 1 square millimetre.
Sun's main strength is that many commercial users (Ford, Boeing, ...) want a single vendor to support all the hardware and software used by projects that are scheduled to last three years or more.
As commercial CAD users, they will only consider hardware that is officially certified by the 3D CAD application developers. That usually requires a strict combination of memory chips, CPU's, motherboard, and graphics accelerator. They're not concerned about legacy hardware being supported, so long as E-mail, video conferencing and the required applications run on competitively priced systems with 24/7 support.
You haven't seen the 3D visualisation technology for OS performance. Every background process that is running is represented as a satellite orbiting the planet. A process starting is represented as a rocket launch; A process forking is represented as a satellite splitting in two. A process terminating is represented as a satellite burning up in orbit.
Watching a dodgy application spawn an infinite number of background processes is particularly impressive.
Even worse is the phrase "weather bunnies" when referring to the attractive single women employed to keep the ratings up for the weather reports in local small-town TV stations.
It's also interesting to see the lawsuits that Microsoft has filed:
Microsoft sues controversial system assembler
Microsoft Sues Lindows.com Over Name
Microsoft takes on teen's site MikeRoweSoft.com
Microsoft sues Lucent in old dispute
Microsoft sues Brazilian magazine, IT official for defamation
Microsoft files lawsuit against five Md. firms
Of course, since they usually either buy out the company, develop and market a competing product, they don't need to resort to lawsuits for those type of situations.
I'm not sure I understand why that is one of the worst jobs in science. Reading the article, it seems they were just being belittled and TV weather-forcasting called a "fast-food science."
It's no different from being a high-tech fortune-teller. Your crystal ball is replaced by a supercomputer running weather simulations. Your predictions are only as good as the output results. Read up on the "Great Storm of 1987" and Michael Fish, who reassured a concerned view that there was no danger of a severe storm coming ashore (which obligingly decided to change course).
That's the way most of the early game companies started. With the introduction of home computers, people started writing games at home. The first games were one programmer tasks. As the technology advanced, the work required several people; at least one programmer for the AI and graphics rendering, an artist for the artwork/animation and a musician for the audio. The companies that started up at this time were set up by one person with management experience (enough to handle employment and customer contracts), and a number of experienced programmers. Programmers and artists were recruited if they could demonstrate they had knowledge of at least one skill that was needed at the time by the company.
These days, nearly all of the first generation programmers (who were teenagers in the late 80's) have set up their own companies, as this is the only way they could keep their skills up to date.
With the pressure from investors to take on as many contracts as possible, the attitude of the company directors is "everyone gets pushed up into management". For someone who wished to remain a programmer and move into an architectural/design position, this was the only career move available. These new companies would then look for intermediate and veteran programmers.
The side effect of this is that the first generation companies are forced to take on as man y entry-level graduates as possible in order to fill their vacancies.
And how many patent lawsuits has Microsoft been involved in:
Microsoft, Tiscali sued over European download patent
Sun, Microsoft settle suit in billion dollar pact
Microsoft settles Intertrust patent lawsuit
Microsoft settles suit with Immersion
Microsoft settles 1999 Patent Infringement Case
Undoubtably, the biohazard and radioactive etched warning signs look really cool. But if your house or office were on fire, would the emergency services refuse to continue to work in the building if they saw potential radiation and biological hazards that they didn't have the correct protective gear for?
I checked up on this. You have to download and run 'nvemulate' to switch on the extra extensions. For early cards, the emulation is done in software emulation. For later cards, this makes the extensions visible. In 6xxx cards this is done automatically, but anything below this has to be done manually - ugh!
The Linux and Windows NVidia drivers are feature for feature compatible
Explain this problem question from nvnews.net...
Airline pilots fly in pairs for long international flights. Then, they have continuous training under an instructor, and are in constant communication with other pilots and air traffic controllers, not forgetting that they also have strict limits on the number of hours they can fly per day. And the vehicles are inspected after every flight.
It's rather hard for an airline pilot to be sozzled as a flambeed vodka prawn and not have anyone notice.
If cars and car drivers were under that level of scrutiny, car accidents rates would probably plummet. Imagine having to check in with the local police station to arrange your route, having a inspection crew check the tyres and engine before leaving, and be in constant radio contact with other car drivers.
Who cares if she faked it? Who ever really cares if a hot woman fakes it?
But how can you reach international/olympic standards, if you don't get honest and truthful feedback on your performance?
Actually there really is stuff just lying around all over the place in Europe (probably depending on exactly where you are).
There are old pill-boxes (machine gun emplacements protected by circular/octagonal concrete walls) all over the UK. These were supposed to defend roads leading to cities and villages, should there be an invasion. A few were even built in public parks (the idea being that the enemy would find it easier to travel across the open space of the park, and therefore be an easy target for the defenders).
The best example I have seen was in Duthie Park in Aberdeen, where there was a whole row of such pill-boxes. Urban legend was that these were connected by an underground tunnel. I remember me and friends (under the supervision of our parents) crawling inside one, and there was a concrete block at the centre, that looked like it led to somewhere. But we never had the chance to explore.
It's a shame they never turned it into a documentary.
Don't worry, I'm sure somebody will write an ASCII only version that you can play by opening a remote 'ssh' window.
.. someone were tuning a remote deep space dish, and accidently hit upon a video stream from a commercial satellite... would they end up being sued?
In any case, if someone can transfer the contents of a DVD within 5 seconds, they they would probably figure out some way of converting the files into something less noticable than an obvious archive of video and audio files. Convert everything into a tar file and convert that into something less noticable like floating-point volume data.
The fast-forward screen-blocking filter - whenever this box detects that your remote-control is sending out the "Fast-Forward" command, it automatically blanks out a pre-selected portion of the screen and thus eliminating any unwanted video spam.