Meanwhile, in Australia where there is more sun than you can poke a solar panel at, with regards to pushing solar and renewable, is literally standing around with it's dick in both hands.
One of my programming lecturers would do this. He told us at the start of the semester...
"I have changed some small parts of the assignment from last year. If you copy last years solution... I CATCH YOU!"
I agree with you on who implemented the original concept. I had a pair of those super long 8-bit ISA cards myself.
CSIROs patents pertain to the methods used to make 802.11g/n viable which use different modulation techniques to ye olde Wavelan and 802.11b.
They will use this to justify metered broadband, with caps and overage fees. They're already trialling it in Beaumont TX now.
What age is overage? 18? 21? What a strange word.
Get used to it. TANSTAAFL. It's not so bad having quotas and paying $5 per gigabyte afterwards. Just how much crud do you want to download with bitorrent anyway? What if your provider offers unmetered media feeds? The ISPs here in Australia, in spite of usage caps and quotas are now starting to offer unmetered content for both computer files, game servers, music and video which helps mitigate the quota problem. The usage caps generally tend to creep up over time too.
Someone care to explain why this uses Opterons instead of something Xeony?
What does an AMD chip do for supercomputers that it can't seem to do for games and desktop machines?
NASA Rep: (referring to water) We're sitting on it, we've touched it, we've tasted it, we've smelled it. ABC Journo: Who tasted it? NASA Rep: Uh, the oven.
No-one seems to have considered the sheer stupendous amount of data required to convey the total quantum state of a human being at one instant - let alone the sort of channel it'd travel over. Even if you could capture the state of every single subatomic particle in your person, sending the data to some sort of reconstructor could take way longer than your lifetime.
The encoders _are_ junk. I don't know how anyone can justify paying big bucks for a large SD or HD flat screen these days for use with digital channels. Live TV looks like blocky crap (see what happens when camera flashes go off on the news or a fast pan on during the footy) and I have noticed more and more on the common but lo-fi programming (like that missing persons program on ch9) that whole sections of the image swim and float around on their own. Digital TV is great because I no longer get speckle, herring bones and ghosts but you end up with another set of image problems that stem from crap MPEG encoders and are just as annoying.
A stint in Afghanistan will only give you a leg up in Pashtu and Dari. Arabs are as foreign as the NATO troops in Afghanistan. It probably all sounds like "durka durka durka" to Mr Ignorant Anonymous Coward.
I agree. My Barton XP2600+ system got given a boost last weekend with an upgrade to 1GB of ram and a bit of soldering on the CPU socket pins to increase the FSB to 400MHz. It's now equivalent to an XP3200+ and the speed increase is very welcome, especially with the total lack of HD flapping once stuff is in file cache. It's a very snappy computer now.
Still, when UT2007 comes out it might end up costing me ~$1000.
School is "Vat fing wot you know nuffin' about!".
I think it's universal. I am pretty sure the kids here in Australia are just as stupid, and the way the public education system is getting ransacked here it's only going to get worse. But I think that's the agenda.
I haven't RTFA of course, but there are similar lights here in Australia called the Min-Min lights somewhere out the back of NSW. Hot flat plains during the day, cold flat plains at night - perhaps a bit like Marfa in Texas. Anyway, some professor here demonstrated that the Min-Min Lights were car headlights being refracted from a long distance away. Even before cars I am sure someone's campfire at night could have been a sufficient source of light.
I have to say, refracted light is terribly pedestrian and no-where near as interested as ghosts and UFOs be a source of the light - not that I think either exist. Except for Tommyknockers.
This is already done in New South Wales(.au) under the guise of Safe-T-Cam for many years now. It is only used to enforce trucks. Victoria is going to implement it on the Hume Highway between Melbourne and Albury with about 10 cameras and it will capture all traffic and you can get fined multiple times on the same trip. Suddenly the Monaro Highway doesn't seem so bad any more...
Nah, it was fairly lame and tame. Though it may have appealed to Sydney's Eastern suburbs set. My favourite ad of 2003 is The Quest featuring a well meaning tongue. Official copy here (gotta register) http://www.extradry.com.au/ but it's lurking out there (google "tooheys quest").
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There's even a suburb in Canberra called Bruce!
Seriously, you read /. and you don't know your Monty Python?
Meanwhile, in Australia where there is more sun than you can poke a solar panel at, with regards to pushing solar and renewable, is literally standing around with it's dick in both hands.
One of my programming lecturers would do this. He told us at the start of the semester... "I have changed some small parts of the assignment from last year. If you copy last years solution ... I CATCH YOU!"
I agree with you on who implemented the original concept. I had a pair of those super long 8-bit ISA cards myself. CSIROs patents pertain to the methods used to make 802.11g/n viable which use different modulation techniques to ye olde Wavelan and 802.11b.
There was an article on the ABC show Catalyst last week. Apparently 802.11g/n has its roots in radio astronomy. You can see the boffins for real on these vodcasts: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/geo/catalyst/catalyst_2009_ep29.mp4 http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/geo/catalyst/catalyst_2009_ep29.wmv
They will use this to justify metered broadband, with caps and overage fees. They're already trialling it in Beaumont TX now.
What age is overage? 18? 21? What a strange word. Get used to it. TANSTAAFL. It's not so bad having quotas and paying $5 per gigabyte afterwards. Just how much crud do you want to download with bitorrent anyway? What if your provider offers unmetered media feeds? The ISPs here in Australia, in spite of usage caps and quotas are now starting to offer unmetered content for both computer files, game servers, music and video which helps mitigate the quota problem. The usage caps generally tend to creep up over time too.
We already have a working _global_ _worldwide_ _free_ network based on store-and-forward protocols.
It's called FIDONet. It's almost dead now, but it was very alive during early 90-s before the advent of cheap Internet.
Kids...
The best thing is if NASA used FIDONet think of the money they'd save by only sending messages to Deep Space at 3am when the tolls are cheapest!
Someone care to explain why this uses Opterons instead of something Xeony? What does an AMD chip do for supercomputers that it can't seem to do for games and desktop machines?
> Now what?
Thanks for the cue.
1) Find water on Mars
2) ?
3) Profit!
Just heard on ABC Australia radio:
NASA Rep: (referring to water) We're sitting on it, we've touched it, we've tasted it, we've smelled it.
ABC Journo: Who tasted it?
NASA Rep: Uh, the oven.
Phil Karn's old KA9Q implementation of TCP (for amateur radio) was designed to accommodate very long delays.
Only because it takes such a long time to tap out IP packets in morse code.
No-one seems to have considered the sheer stupendous amount of data required to convey the total quantum state of a human being at one instant - let alone the sort of channel it'd travel over. Even if you could capture the state of every single subatomic particle in your person, sending the data to some sort of reconstructor could take way longer than your lifetime.
The encoders _are_ junk. I don't know how anyone can justify paying big bucks for a large SD or HD flat screen these days for use with digital channels. Live TV looks like blocky crap (see what happens when camera flashes go off on the news or a fast pan on during the footy) and I have noticed more and more on the common but lo-fi programming (like that missing persons program on ch9) that whole sections of the image swim and float around on their own. Digital TV is great because I no longer get speckle, herring bones and ghosts but you end up with another set of image problems that stem from crap MPEG encoders and are just as annoying.
A stint in Afghanistan will only give you a leg up in Pashtu and Dari. Arabs are as foreign as the NATO troops in Afghanistan. It probably all sounds like "durka durka durka" to Mr Ignorant Anonymous Coward.
Oh yeah, I can't wait to see what Richard Hoagland makes of this!
A ninja!
I agree. My Barton XP2600+ system got given a boost last weekend with an upgrade to 1GB of ram and a bit of soldering on the CPU socket pins to increase the FSB to 400MHz. It's now equivalent to an XP3200+ and the speed increase is very welcome, especially with the total lack of HD flapping once stuff is in file cache. It's a very snappy computer now. Still, when UT2007 comes out it might end up costing me ~$1000.
School is "Vat fing wot you know nuffin' about!". I think it's universal. I am pretty sure the kids here in Australia are just as stupid, and the way the public education system is getting ransacked here it's only going to get worse. But I think that's the agenda.
Oh, well, here is an article about the Min-Min lights explained. Min-Min Lights Explained
I haven't RTFA of course, but there are similar lights here in Australia called the Min-Min lights somewhere out the back of NSW. Hot flat plains during the day, cold flat plains at night - perhaps a bit like Marfa in Texas. Anyway, some professor here demonstrated that the Min-Min Lights were car headlights being refracted from a long distance away. Even before cars I am sure someone's campfire at night could have been a sufficient source of light. I have to say, refracted light is terribly pedestrian and no-where near as interested as ghosts and UFOs be a source of the light - not that I think either exist. Except for Tommyknockers.
This is already done in New South Wales(.au) under the guise of Safe-T-Cam for many years now. It is only used to enforce trucks. Victoria is going to implement it on the Hume Highway between Melbourne and Albury with about 10 cameras and it will capture all traffic and you can get fined multiple times on the same trip. Suddenly the Monaro Highway doesn't seem so bad any more...
Get rid of those tinny headphones and crank up the subwoofer. It's pretty impressive.
You must be new here.
Nah, it was fairly lame and tame. Though it may have appealed to Sydney's Eastern suburbs set. My favourite ad of 2003 is The Quest featuring a well meaning tongue. Official copy here (gotta register) http://www.extradry.com.au/ but it's lurking out there (google "tooheys quest").