What I hate about these ads is that they are actually covering the content that I am trying to read (which is the reason why I came to the site to begin with). So I have started visiting those sites less and less everyday.
It is as if you were trying to watch TV and a guy with a "Buy M&Ms" sign would step in front of the TV while my show is going on.
Have you seen the fake commercials that are really ads for Orkin pest control? Near the end it looks like giant bugs are crawling on the screen. It's very realistic, and a nice effect. Supers and crawlers have been on TV for a long time. I don't think they work as well on the web, which I think is more like a magazine page than a TV set.
There were several big problems for all such devices before the invention of Solid state components. onw of these was reliability. Tubes (valves) burning out, etc.
Running the tube heaters (filaments) at low power increased their reliability enormously, but this type of computing still required external checks for errors.
I've also seen NT running Coinstar machines. [These count a pile of coins and issue a receipt similar to that used for bottle deposits, but they take 8.5% as a processing fee.] Obviously I know that they run NT because I have seen several booting and re-booting.
There are two possibilities:
(a) He has fudged his data or left out some important part of his apparatus.
(b) He has discovered something important.
As Don Lancaster says, first make sure it's not really bad lab work! see http://www.tinaja.com/glib/bashpseu.pdf
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It is as if you were trying to watch TV and a guy with a "Buy M&Ms" sign would step in front of the TV while my show is going on.
Have you seen the fake commercials that are really ads for Orkin pest control? Near the end it looks like giant bugs are crawling on the screen. It's very realistic, and a nice effect. Supers and crawlers have been on TV for a long time. I don't think they work as well on the web, which I think is more like a magazine page than a TV set.
There were several big problems for all such devices before the invention of Solid state components. onw of these was reliability. Tubes (valves) burning out, etc.
Running the tube heaters (filaments) at low power increased their reliability enormously, but this type of computing still required external checks for errors.
I've also seen NT running Coinstar machines. [These count a pile of coins and issue a receipt similar to that used for bottle deposits, but they take 8.5% as a processing fee.] Obviously I know that they run NT because I have seen several booting and re-booting.
There are two possibilities:
(a) He has fudged his data or left out some important part of his apparatus.
(b) He has discovered something important.
As Don Lancaster says, first make sure it's not really bad lab work! see http://www.tinaja.com/glib/bashpseu.pdf