how much power does this place consume? also how long would he have to use such a system to recoup the time investment in installation from time saved not walking to a thermostat and adjusting the air manually? i bet he'll be spending a lot of time troubleshooting/fixing this place.
so now instead of losing a buck when the dryer stops working, it might take $500 from my credit card, either from software going crazy or because someone hacks the machine and steals the numbers. great.
ask them straight up whether they are delivering 24 channels of DS0 64k lines. If they are only delivering 56k per line or not a full 24 channels, you are getting ripped off. If they won't tell you up front that you have exactly 24 channels coming in, they're cheating you.
Also they might not be have a full T1 mapped to you from their T3 (DS3).
they are using the most advanced eavesdropping/spying system on the planet to monitor employees and hackers? i know hackers are officially terrorists now...but employees?
...why in the world would they compare the performance of the new Opteron at 800 Mhz to a Celeron running 400 Mhz? They present both numbers as if you can say 'Aha! See how much faster the Opteron is!' when the comparison is ludicrous. The article is just marketing hackwork.
The article mentions the exhibit being shown at a museum and the curators hoping people will begin to appreciate the need to protect the environment and stop pushing species to extinction. I don't think this shop of horrors - 10 foot high carnivorous duck, huge man-eating kangaroo, and crocodile that leaped down from trees - is going to inspire a humane attempt to preserve wildlife! It's going to send them running for the hills!
hehe imagine what hitting a kangaroo like that would do to your car. and then what it would do to you.
I remember Discover magazine doing an article about a scientist named Bitterly workeing for US Flywheel Systems developing flywheel technology for use in cars. At that time he had developed a way to make superdense flywheels from (I think) carbon thread spun into solid rings. It was extremely rigid and dense and maintained shape for a long time and at high (1700) rpm.
Each flywheel gave steady 25 horespower and could double that for short kicks. Four would drive a car, but you could fit about 16 in an engine compartment (don't need engine, transmission, etc). That's 400 horsepower, and if you floor it you get 800 instantly! Also they would take you about 300 miles on a spin-up, which was accomplished by plugging the car into a wall socket, revving up the wheels with an electric motor - a charge would cost about 6 dollars of electricity.
Flywheels are better than batteries in a lot of ways. I'm glad to see they are finally being used for commercial applications. I haven't heard anything about the automobile flywheel guy since, but I'm sure his work won't be for nought. I'm equally sure car manufacturers and oil companies would stop him flat if he tried to market it though.
http://www.discover.com/search/index.html
You can search for it here with 'flywheel' as keyword - article name is 'Reinventing the Wheel'.
Looks like I need to dig out my old aluminum foil hat. It used to protect me from alien mind-readers and brain reprogramming by the government, but now it can also block spam!
I think we can all agree that foil hats are a fashion statement long in coming.:-)
Is it even realistic to imagine programming a true AI in the computer languages available today? Or do we need a higher level meta-language to abstract some aspects, or perhaps several levels of meta languages with automatic programming to enable humans (and our programs) to write at a high enough level to develop robust AI systems?
The way the patent office works is that the applicant claims the whole wide world under their terms and then the examiners and later the courts whittle it down to a reasonable level.
So yeah we have some monstrous-sounding patents but that's the way the system has evolved. Ridiculous, sure, but it doesn't mean it's enforceable as stated.
The reason doctors think their diagnoses are so great is that the undiagnosed patients with chronic problems get frustrated and diagnose themselves after some research. Then they change doctors to one who will sit down and go over the symptons and look at the research and the patient's conclusions before making a judgement.
That's how it is with every person I know in the KC chapter of the celiac sprue support group - self-diagnosis after jacking around for a year or two with doctors.
IMHO if a computer program can put the facts together faster and explain its reasoning, I'll go to it before a I would go to a human doctor.
And the problem is the patients who slip through this lauded diagnosis system. It's the rare and not-so-rare but very serious problems that are misdiagnosed. Anyone on the street can diagnose a cold or the flu.
My personal affliction is celiac sprue (autoimmune disease and allergy to grains). No doctors could identify it and finally we heard through the family grapevine that an old relative had had this sort of disease. A few experiments (going on/off gluten-free diet and seeing symptons) and we had a diagnosis.
A half-dozen doctors couldn't diagnose it, but my family did. Turns out most of the people in the Kansas City celiac sprue chapter made their own diagnoses after doctors completely failed to.
The reasons doctors think their diagnoses are so good is that the frustrated patients with undiagnosed symptons get frustrated, do research, and diagnose it on their own.
How odd that this campaign thinks our mothers should be running Linux in the same week we get several essays from a few long-time Linux users who have given it up (albeit temporarily) because of its continuous little hassles.
Some computer jocks are jumping off the horse because it's too bouncy and we think our mothers should give it a spin? (forgive me the horse analogy. i'm not proud of it) If we can barely maintain lesser computer users on windows machines, putting them on Linux boxes is toying on the brink of hell.
My dad told me about some fun he and the other physics TA's had in college. They scavenged giant capacitors the power company had thrown out - really monstrous things, holding unbelievable charge. The rigged them up together and charged the whole thing. Then they would wait...
Eventually some unsuspecting person would wander down the hallway carrying books or something and as he passed the room the TA's would discharge all the capacitors, making a huge *BOOM* and watch the person leap into the air and throw their books all over the hallway.
He's that evil kid next door who likes blowing up toys. Who could mistake him for the benevolent protector of the Earth Zed?
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If they had done their homework better they would know the Engima was broken by a lone polish mathematician. Only when Poland was invaded did Poland tell other countries they had been reading the code for years. Up till then, no one had believed it possible.
The British then set up the team to extend the work and deal with the increasing complexity of the Enigma machines. Yes, they made awesome breakthroughs, but the Polish did the basic work much earlier.
I thought we covered this in much greater detail in a similar tragic occurrence of a guy shipping his personal computers in a few boxes by UPS or Fedex. Those things were completely demolished!
Why was this story posted anyway? does the guy just want story-submit karma?
All landfill waste from the United States would fill a square 18 miles on a side. This is very little. Air and water pollution levels have been dropping for years. Look up some numbers.
as they say on Car Talk:
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the investors "made their decisions unhindered by the thought process".
Sums it up I think.
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how much power does this place consume? also how long would he have to use such a system to recoup the time investment in installation from time saved not walking to a thermostat and adjusting the air manually? i bet he'll be spending a lot of time troubleshooting/fixing this place.
so now instead of losing a buck when the dryer stops working, it might take $500 from my credit card, either from software going crazy or because someone hacks the machine and steals the numbers. great.
ask them straight up whether they are delivering 24 channels of DS0 64k lines. If they are only delivering 56k per line or not a full 24 channels, you are getting ripped off. If they won't tell you up front that you have exactly 24 channels coming in, they're cheating you. Also they might not be have a full T1 mapped to you from their T3 (DS3).
and honestly most software isn't worth the time. :-)
they are using the most advanced eavesdropping/spying system on the planet to monitor employees and hackers? i know hackers are officially terrorists now...but employees?
...why in the world would they compare the performance of the new Opteron at 800 Mhz to a Celeron running 400 Mhz? They present both numbers as if you can say 'Aha! See how much faster the Opteron is!' when the comparison is ludicrous. The article is just marketing hackwork.
hehe imagine what hitting a kangaroo like that would do to your car. and then what it would do to you.
That said, this is a really neat find!
Each flywheel gave steady 25 horespower and could double that for short kicks. Four would drive a car, but you could fit about 16 in an engine compartment (don't need engine, transmission, etc). That's 400 horsepower, and if you floor it you get 800 instantly! Also they would take you about 300 miles on a spin-up, which was accomplished by plugging the car into a wall socket, revving up the wheels with an electric motor - a charge would cost about 6 dollars of electricity.
Flywheels are better than batteries in a lot of ways. I'm glad to see they are finally being used for commercial applications. I haven't heard anything about the automobile flywheel guy since, but I'm sure his work won't be for nought. I'm equally sure car manufacturers and oil companies would stop him flat if he tried to market it though.
http://www.discover.com/search/index.html
You can search for it here with 'flywheel' as keyword - article name is 'Reinventing the Wheel'.
I think we can all agree that foil hats are a fashion statement long in coming. :-)
KingPrad
Is it even realistic to imagine programming a true AI in the computer languages available today? Or do we need a higher level meta-language to abstract some aspects, or perhaps several levels of meta languages with automatic programming to enable humans (and our programs) to write at a high enough level to develop robust AI systems?
KingPrad
So yeah we have some monstrous-sounding patents but that's the way the system has evolved. Ridiculous, sure, but it doesn't mean it's enforceable as stated.
They're runnin' for the hills! After 'em boys!
That's how it is with every person I know in the KC chapter of the celiac sprue support group - self-diagnosis after jacking around for a year or two with doctors.
IMHO if a computer program can put the facts together faster and explain its reasoning, I'll go to it before a I would go to a human doctor.
My personal affliction is celiac sprue (autoimmune disease and allergy to grains). No doctors could identify it and finally we heard through the family grapevine that an old relative had had this sort of disease. A few experiments (going on/off gluten-free diet and seeing symptons) and we had a diagnosis.
A half-dozen doctors couldn't diagnose it, but my family did. Turns out most of the people in the Kansas City celiac sprue chapter made their own diagnoses after doctors completely failed to.
The reasons doctors think their diagnoses are so good is that the frustrated patients with undiagnosed symptons get frustrated, do research, and diagnose it on their own.
Some computer jocks are jumping off the horse because it's too bouncy and we think our mothers should give it a spin? (forgive me the horse analogy. i'm not proud of it) If we can barely maintain lesser computer users on windows machines, putting them on Linux boxes is toying on the brink of hell.
Eventually some unsuspecting person would wander down the hallway carrying books or something and as he passed the room the TA's would discharge all the capacitors, making a huge *BOOM* and watch the person leap into the air and throw their books all over the hallway.
and who would be watching these ads?
He's that evil kid next door who likes blowing up toys. Who could mistake him for the benevolent protector of the Earth Zed?
The British then set up the team to extend the work and deal with the increasing complexity of the Enigma machines. Yes, they made awesome breakthroughs, but the Polish did the basic work much earlier.
This is wonderful news!
KingPrad
Why was this story posted anyway? does the guy just want story-submit karma?
KingPrad
All landfill waste from the United States would fill a square 18 miles on a side. This is very little. Air and water pollution levels have been dropping for years. Look up some numbers.
the investors "made their decisions unhindered by the thought process". Sums it up I think.
Actually this works well only with a coherent light source such as a laser. any more than a few different wavelengths and the fringes blur.