You've seen all of the changes to the SCSI standards over the years. SCSI 1,2 3, wide, fast-wide, ultra, ultra 2. Next will be SCSI extended, or Sex. So hard, fast, swollen and throbbing that no one will be able to resist walking in to a computer store and proudly saying. I've earned enough to BUY a BIGGER Sex drive. What have you got? I need more room for PR0N!
My mother traced some of my ancestors back about 1800 years. Mostly people either met an unfortunate end when they were young, or lived into their eighties, Nothing has happened to extend the age of chronically healthy people much beyond their eighties for a very long time. The notion that life span has been extended is just a statistical anomaly, Today, more people live into their eighties than used to. Statistics are just statistics. Lifetimes have been extended as an average, but not in absolute terms.
One day we may get back to the kind of situation where people live for a span of 800 years or so like the ancient ones are reported to have lived. Then, space travel will be less imposing. Maybe we need to clean up our genes before exploring other solar systems.
I think we are likely to have to learn how to live with other organisms and abandon the use of pesticides that are poisoning everything on the planet.
Daisywheel printer with carbon ribbon on acid free hemp based paper isn't too bad for modern language text, but berry juice and saliva on cave walls is the oldest proven graphics media.
If a really good hologram movie of a person could be encoded in the diamond, that would be sooooo cool. A diode laser or the setting sun could bring back so many memories.
Hmmm. What does that part of me do that is not carbon when a diamond is formed from my remains. Semiconductors are much more interesting than pure silicon crystals because of what the dopants do. As an impure diamond, I might be a really ass kicking processor.
Linux at IBM seems to have deeply penetrated the xSeries x86 machines with Intel processors and the zSeries mainframe machines (through virtualization of resources).
AIX 5L has an "affinity" for GNU/Linux applications, but there's not much available for native Linux device drivers for the things that make rs6000 boxes kick butt like SSA disk if you want to run Linux on a pSeries machine. Linux apps, however, can be ported to AIX 5L moderately easily, and take advantage of some well thought out things that have been migrated from mainframe technology to AIX.
This diffustion of Linux throughout IBM may give many individual people and small companies a way to leverage an inexpensive development platform into a very scalable intellectual property foundry. IBM seems to want this to happen.
Unix was supposed to do this. VMS was supposed to do this. CP/M was supposed to do this. MSDOS was supposed to do this. MacOS was supposed to do this. OS/2 was supposed to do this. Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/WTF was supposed to do this. Monterey was supposed to do this. Linux is supposed to do this. Linux apps on AIX are supposed to do this. Linux apps on zSeries are supposed to do this.
Time marches on.
Want AIX on Itanium? It's kind of available if you really need to think about it.
Microsoft doesn't know beans about "embrace and extend".
Gravity and thermal powered transoceanic submarine service.
Gravity and thermal powered transglobal air service.
Imagine if the craft all looked like Tux.
Operating a fleet of "Big Black Tuxs" would be pretty wild.
Maybe I should start this project on SourceForge.
I see. We discover an ecosystem with greater biomass than any other on the planet, and devise a means to rapidly insure it's extinction by exploiting it as an energy source. Sounds real "green" to me. See http://brianf.editthispage.com/SlimeHuggers for more.
I have to ask myself what I would ask of those responsible for the events that have taken place.
Those who have lost loved ones have many questions.
They should be given the opportunity to pose these questions to those responsible, and receive answers.
This could take a very, very long time.
Hopefully, some insight could be derived from this procedure.
I have only thought about this for a short time, but it seems just.
I see new devices with more easily controlled parasitic capacitance and inductance because of the dimensions of carbon nanotubes. This will be good for high frequency, high power applications as well as logic circuitry. Carbon nanotubes "want" to be certain sizes depending on the number of carbon atoms in a ring of the tube and the presence of dopants like boron or potassium. These things might make good diode laser drivers. Focused arrays of laser diodes could be an interesting way to nano-manipulate colloidal materials or proteins. Follow the links from here on Optical Tweezers.
Slashdot Mirror
Back from the future...
You've seen all of the changes to the SCSI standards over the years. SCSI 1,2 3, wide, fast-wide, ultra, ultra 2. Next will be SCSI extended, or Sex. So hard, fast, swollen and throbbing that no one will be able to resist walking in to a computer store and proudly saying. I've earned enough to BUY a BIGGER Sex drive. What have you got? I need more room for PR0N!
Yes, of course there are extraterestrials!
Universally true for all beings:
I'm necessary, all the others are extra...
Ba, Dum Bump --- Splash!
If this had been designed as a Windows server...
1) What would it cost to license 64K processors for use by 256K users?
2) Would you ever get the whole damn thing to run at one time? (round robin reboots?)
3) How secure would it be?
4) How many "buffer overrun" exploits would it have?
I think you catch my drift...
My mother traced some of my ancestors back about 1800 years. Mostly people either met an unfortunate end when they were young, or lived into their eighties, Nothing has happened to extend the age of chronically healthy people much beyond their eighties for a very long time. The notion that life span has been extended is just a statistical anomaly, Today, more people live into their eighties than used to. Statistics are just statistics. Lifetimes have been extended as an average, but not in absolute terms.
One day we may get back to the kind of situation where people live for a span of 800 years or so like the ancient ones are reported to have lived. Then, space travel will be less imposing. Maybe we need to clean up our genes before exploring other solar systems.
I think we are likely to have to learn how to live with other organisms and abandon the use of pesticides that are poisoning everything on the planet.
Daisywheel printer with carbon ribbon on acid free hemp based paper isn't too bad for modern language text, but berry juice and saliva on cave walls is the oldest proven graphics media.
If a really good hologram movie of a person could be encoded in the diamond, that would be sooooo cool.
A diode laser or the setting sun could bring back so many memories.
Hmmm. What does that part of me do that is not carbon when a diamond is formed from my remains. Semiconductors are much more interesting than pure silicon crystals because of what the dopants do. As an impure diamond, I might be a really ass kicking processor.
Overclock me for eternity.
I want to be a diamond when I grow up.
Linux at IBM seems to have deeply penetrated the xSeries x86 machines with Intel processors and the zSeries mainframe machines (through virtualization of resources).
AIX 5L has an "affinity" for GNU/Linux applications, but there's not much available for native Linux device drivers for the things that make rs6000 boxes kick butt like SSA disk if you want to run Linux on a pSeries machine.
Linux apps, however, can be ported to AIX 5L moderately easily, and take advantage of some well thought out things that have been migrated from mainframe technology to AIX.
This diffustion of Linux throughout IBM may give many individual people and small companies a way to leverage an inexpensive development platform into a very scalable intellectual property foundry. IBM seems to want this to happen.
Unix was supposed to do this.
VMS was supposed to do this.
CP/M was supposed to do this.
MSDOS was supposed to do this.
MacOS was supposed to do this.
OS/2 was supposed to do this.
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/WTF was supposed to do this.
Monterey was supposed to do this.
Linux is supposed to do this.
Linux apps on AIX are supposed to do this.
Linux apps on zSeries are supposed to do this.
Time marches on.
Want AIX on Itanium? It's kind of available if you really need to think about it.
Microsoft doesn't know beans about "embrace and extend".
I've been married almost thirty years. Do either one of us have any ice? No. Do we love each other any less? No.
'nuff said.
This only applies to some models.
Beware:
A couple steps:
1) Factor the revelation into multiple questions and comments.
2) Either submit them to "Ask Slashdot" or get them included in something like the Bible or Quran.
Hmmm, by combining several /. stories, a new one evolves.
Penguin Airlines
Sea Gliders for Other Worlds
Big Black Delta Mystery Solved?
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition
Gravity and thermal powered transoceanic submarine service.
Gravity and thermal powered transglobal air service.
Imagine if the craft all looked like Tux.
Operating a fleet of "Big Black Tuxs" would be pretty wild.
Maybe I should start this project on SourceForge.
I see. We discover an ecosystem with greater biomass than any other on the planet, and devise a means to rapidly insure it's extinction by exploiting it as an energy source. Sounds real "green" to me. See http://brianf.editthispage.com/SlimeHuggers for more.
I have to ask myself what I would ask of those responsible for the events that have taken place.
Those who have lost loved ones have many questions.
They should be given the opportunity to pose these questions to those responsible, and receive answers.
This could take a very, very long time.
Hopefully, some insight could be derived from this procedure.
I have only thought about this for a short time, but it seems just.
eigenstates
I see new devices with more easily controlled parasitic capacitance and inductance because of the dimensions of carbon nanotubes. This will be good for high frequency, high power applications as well as logic circuitry. Carbon nanotubes "want" to be certain sizes depending on the number of carbon atoms in a ring of the tube and the presence of dopants like boron or potassium. These things might make good diode laser drivers. Focused arrays of laser diodes could be an interesting way to nano-manipulate colloidal materials or proteins. Follow the links from here on Optical Tweezers.