Beer is the centre of everything.
Everything revolves around beer.
When you drink beer, everything revolves.
Therefore, beer is the centre of everything.
Presumably, as the other two main characters from the blurb on the site have the surnames Waterhouse and Shaftoe, we're talking some sort of 18th Century prequel to Cryptonomicon somehow.
Presumably the Waterhouse and Shaftoe characters are ancestors of the characters in Cryptonomicon. Whether "Enoch" is an ancestor to Root in Crypto, or is (ahem) something entirely different remains to be seen.
Wolfgang Pauli. The Pauli exclusion principle? No two electrons in an atom can have identical quantum numbers? Bells ringing? Yeah.
Pauli won for Physics in '45 and died in '58. That doesn't count as a posthumous award, unless there's a new definition of posthumous that I'm not aware of...
Bells ringing? You must be confused. That experiment was Pavlov, (Nobel in Medicine 1904)
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It's late, I'm tired but I'm going to write a nice pointed email to Tony Vannelli tomorrow, if only to find out wtf is going on. I encourage all U(W) E&CE students and alumni to do likewise.
Prof. V taught a couple of courses to our undergrad class and he seemed like a pretty straight-up guy. It'll be interesting to see what he has to say.
In large countries like China, Canada, USA or Brazil, you'll take a substantial amount of time to know the results of an election in traditional voting systems. Electronic voting solves that. Brazilians know who their next president is going to be a couple of hours after the ballots have closed.
Since you mentioned Canada... We still vote with paper, and it seems to be fairly efficient. Results are usually known a few hours after the polls close on the east coast (which annoys the hell out of people on the west coast).
Of course, we've got a relatively small population, poor voter turn-out and a one-party system (until the left or the right gets their act together)
Now onto the States - can somebody tell me why this particular part of Florida has such a hard time running elections? Up here in the tundra our federal elections are run by a national agency (called, oddly enough "Elections Canada"). It makes things fairly uniform coast-to-coast, though there are usually quite a few dead Quebec residents who manage to vote from beyond the grave.
Do I understand correctly that each county in Florida is responsible for the federal voting in their county, and they can conduct the voting however the heck they want to?
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Toyota Tacoma . What were they thinking? Like I'm going to drive that thing in a high wind...
"Because there isn't any private organization stupid enough to waste money on some of the crap that gets funded for military purposes.
Actually, I think the word you're looking for is "short-sighted", not "stupid". Ya, 9x% of fundamental research funding doesn't turn into anything manufacturable/salable(sp?)/economically useful. But the other (1-9x)% kicks ass. That my friend, in a nutshell is why somebody oughta fund basic research. It sure as hell ain't another arm of the gub'ment doinit. If it's DARPA/DERA, fine....Show me the project outline, read my proposal and give me the (expletive) money...
And the half day's income you lose is how much exactly?
Nadda...as far as the company is concerned I was at my desk working like a slave. I don't think my boss is too worried about it - he was sitting beside me in the theatre...
[Elites have an inherent right to arbitrary rule; common citizens needn't be consulted. They may only choose which elite to follow.] Yes, most certainly yes. Most people are far too stupid to be entrusted with running a state.
Well, I'm glad you know what's good for me...Seriously, how 'bout we educate the unwashed masses, so they can make their own damn decisions (regardless of whether they're right or wrong)
[True leaders are born. It's genetic. The right to rule is inherited.] There's a reason that men have kings and lords. We can breed dogs...certainly we can breed men. Ya, for example the Prince of Wales...er nevermind
"See, this is the typical anti-American bullshit that is so easy to swat away.
No rational military wastes effort (and expensive bombs) on civilian targets, because ATTACKING
CIVILIANS DOESN'T WORK. It just pisses them off. Taking out the capability for the other side to
defend/attack is where it's at.
Sorry to jump in here, but can you answer a quick question from one of the most pro-Western guys you're likely to meet: How did we finally figure out that carpet bombing civvies doesn't work?
Ok, I'll answer my own question: by unsuccessfully bombing a whole whack of them in WWII and Vietnam....
Point of order: Canada is not a democratic monarchy...
Quoting from the Government of Canada website: "Canada is a constitutional monarchy, a federation and a democracy."
As for our MPs voting according to party line, they aren't legally required to do so, it only looks that way because there's so much power concentrated in the PMO. Do what you're told kiddies, or it's the backbenches for you - and don't even think about any funding for your riding.
Once in a while the trained seals in the back-benches show some spine (C-68 comes to mind, some rural Grit MPs voted against it), but usually they do as they're told.
There is one thing that keeps echoing through my mind, and I hope to God that the people working on this project are thinking it too: What the hell are we doing?
If you mean that the people working on this project should be questioning why they're doing it, relax. Although I have nothing to do with this project, I'd bet my bottom dollar that every scientist, engineer, secretary and janitor working on this is convinced that this is the right thing to do. Doing this, and doing it right is their gift to future generations.
Look, we've got a shitload of nuclear waste sitting in plants all across the country. Sticking your fingers in your ears and humming really loud will not make this waste go away. It already exists, it's going to be with us for millenia, so we better have a darn good plan to deal with it.
Personally I'm grateful we have so many talented people dedicating themselves to finding a workable, lasting solution to a really nasty problem. That's a much better legacy than sitting on the sidelines whining but not offering anything constructive.
Is it exactly the same size as an 8086? (don't want to bump into other components)
Are the pinouts exactly the same?
Are the power requirements exactly the same?
Can you force a P3/P4 to emulate the exact same timing as the 8086?
Does it dissipate exactly the same amount of heat?
Do you get my point? While it's probably technically possible to replace the 8086 in that system with a P3/P4, you'd likely wind up re-engineering the damn system anyway, for mundane reasons like those listed above. Much more efficient to replace an 8086 with an 8086, even if you have to scavange parts on eBay...
Aw nuts, a Slashdot article that I can ramble on about ad nauseum shows up (I work in a related field, none of that sissy network administration stuff for me), and I have to catch a plane this afternoon...
Sure this sounds neat, and I'm not trying to knock anybody, but a few quick points -
i) as others have mentioned, this is a really nice press release disguised as a magazine article. They made some devices - congratulations!
ii) Fab - it sounds like they're doing this on bits of wafers in beakers on a wetbench, with presumably less than state-of-the-art litho. Great for proof of concept, but keep in mind that larger, better capitalized and more experienced outfits have trouble moving small-scale hero devices into assembly-line style production mode. It constantly amazes me how much compound semiconductor processing is still done by a combination of black magic and luck by a few process engineers with "golden hands".
iii) Related note: [these things will be cheap] when built with manufacturing techniques used by chip makers like Intel - try buying modern process equipment that will handle 2" and 3" InP wafers. I dare ya. All the modern interesting tools are built to handle acres of dinner-plate sized Si wafers, and can't cope with the teeny-tiny ones (hey, the Si market is about 100x bigger, can't blame the equipment manufacturers).
On the other hand, maybe I should take a look through Welch's publications in my ample free time...
Jonas Salk developed technologies which led to a vaccine for polio. With a vaccine you're injecting a weakened version of a dangerous virus into a person to combat that same virus.
(Pedant) The Salk vaccine is a killed-virus vaccine. Sabin developed the first live-virus polio vaccine.(/Pedant)
Big debate back in the 50s and 60s about the relative merits of each. Sabin won - his vaccine was cheaper to make and could be taken orally. Mmm...yummy polio virus...
"Is the sex of a human baby determined partially by temperature, like in chickens? Could I technically have a female clone?"
Uh, no. What determines the sex of a baby is whether daddy kicks in a Y-chromosome (boy) or an X-chromosome (girl).
Of course a clone doesn't have a daddy, so somebody might imagine doing a little test-tube magic to change the gender of a clone. In fact, a couple of obscure SF writers (Randall Garrett and Isaac Asimov) did just this. They even wrote a song about it. Get out your guitar and sing along with me now, it sounds a little bit like "Home on the Range"
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y-chromosome changed to X
And when it is grown
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
Chorus:
Clone, clone of my own,
With your Y-Chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
Oh, give me a clone
Hear my sorrowful moan
A clone that is wholly my own.
And if she's an X
Of the feminine sex
Oh, what fun we will have when we're prone.
(Chorus)
My heart's not of stone,
As I've frequently shown
When alone with my own little X
And after we've dined
I am sure we will find
Better incest than Oedipus Rex.
(Chorus)
Why should such sex vex
Or disturb or perplex
Or induce a disparaging tone.
After all, don't you see
Since we're both of us me
When we're having sex, I'm alone.
(Chorus)
And after I'm done
She will still have her fun
For I'll clone myself twice ere I die.
And this time without fail,
They'll be both of them male
And they'll ravage her by and by.
Slashdot Mirror
Beer is the centre of everything.
Everything revolves around beer.
When you drink beer, everything revolves.
Therefore, beer is the centre of everything.
Who is this Linux Torvalds of which you speak?
Well said sir! Absa-friggin-lootly beautiful.
Geez, I thought this would be a story about Einstein's brain
Presumably, as the other two main characters from the blurb on the site have the surnames Waterhouse and Shaftoe, we're talking some sort of 18th Century prequel to Cryptonomicon somehow.
Presumably the Waterhouse and Shaftoe characters are ancestors of the characters in Cryptonomicon. Whether "Enoch" is an ancestor to Root in Crypto, or is (ahem) something entirely different remains to be seen.
ROTFLMAO
Ohh for mod points...
Wolfgang Pauli. The Pauli exclusion principle? No two electrons in an atom can have identical quantum numbers? Bells ringing? Yeah.
Pauli won for Physics in '45 and died in '58. That doesn't count as a posthumous award, unless there's a new definition of posthumous that I'm not aware of...
Bells ringing? You must be confused. That experiment was Pavlov, (Nobel in Medicine 1904)
...and don't forget Linus Pauling (Chemistry '54, Peace '62)
Well, that works for half the equation. Maybe Owen is a droid too.
Oh my gosh, Owen is a replicant!
It's late, I'm tired but I'm going to write a nice pointed email to Tony Vannelli tomorrow, if only to find out wtf is going on. I encourage all U(W) E&CE students and alumni to do likewise.
Prof. V taught a couple of courses to our undergrad class and he seemed like a pretty straight-up guy. It'll be interesting to see what he has to say.
In large countries like China, Canada, USA or Brazil, you'll take a substantial amount of time to know the results of an election in traditional voting systems. Electronic voting solves that. Brazilians know who their next president is going to be a couple of hours after the ballots have closed.
Since you mentioned Canada... We still vote with paper, and it seems to be fairly efficient. Results are usually known a few hours after the polls close on the east coast (which annoys the hell out of people on the west coast).
Of course, we've got a relatively small population, poor voter turn-out and a one-party system (until the left or the right gets their act together)
Now onto the States - can somebody tell me why this particular part of Florida has such a hard time running elections? Up here in the tundra our federal elections are run by a national agency (called, oddly enough "Elections Canada"). It makes things fairly uniform coast-to-coast, though there are usually quite a few dead Quebec residents who manage to vote from beyond the grave.
Do I understand correctly that each county in Florida is responsible for the federal voting in their county, and they can conduct the voting however the heck they want to?
Equally offtopic...
Toyota Tacoma . What were they thinking? Like I'm going to drive that thing in a high wind...
Huh? Since when do teenagers have sex with Ford Focus?
A slashdotter weird and neurotic
Enjoyed pr0n both strange and exotic.
He really adored
Making love to a Ford
Because he was auto-erotic
"Because there isn't any private organization stupid enough to waste money on some of the crap that gets funded for military purposes.
Actually, I think the word you're looking for is "short-sighted", not "stupid". Ya, 9x% of fundamental research funding doesn't turn into anything manufacturable/salable(sp?)/economically useful. But the other (1-9x)% kicks ass. That my friend, in a nutshell is why somebody oughta fund basic research. It sure as hell ain't another arm of the gub'ment doinit. If it's DARPA/DERA, fine....Show me the project outline, read my proposal and give me the (expletive) money...
And the half day's income you lose is how much exactly?
Nadda...as far as the company is concerned I was at my desk working like a slave. I don't think my boss is too worried about it - he was sitting beside me in the theatre...
[Elites have an inherent right to arbitrary rule; common citizens needn't be consulted. They may only choose which elite to follow.] Yes, most certainly yes. Most people are far too stupid to be entrusted with running a state.
Well, I'm glad you know what's good for me...Seriously, how 'bout we educate the unwashed masses, so they can make their own damn decisions (regardless of whether they're right or wrong)
[True leaders are born. It's genetic. The right to rule is inherited.] There's a reason that men have kings and lords. We can breed dogs...certainly we can breed men.
Ya, for example the Prince of Wales...er nevermind
Oh drat, I've been trolled...
"See, this is the typical anti-American bullshit that is so easy to swat away.
No rational military wastes effort (and expensive bombs) on civilian targets, because ATTACKING CIVILIANS DOESN'T WORK. It just pisses them off. Taking out the capability for the other side to defend/attack is where it's at.
Sorry to jump in here, but can you answer a quick question from one of the most pro-Western guys you're likely to meet: How did we finally figure out that carpet bombing civvies doesn't work?
Ok, I'll answer my own question: by unsuccessfully bombing a whole whack of them in WWII and Vietnam....
For wartime measures, we send out our attack ships, The Genocidal Scary Big Balls of Death, Pain and Torture."
Or the most well-armed, kick-ass ship in the known universe, the Quietly Confident
Wicked article (though judging by your .sig you might not agree with it entirely). Where do you find these things...
Point of order: Canada is not a democratic monarchy...
Quoting from the Government of Canada website: "Canada is a constitutional monarchy, a federation and a democracy."
As for our MPs voting according to party line, they aren't legally required to do so, it only looks that way because there's so much power concentrated in the PMO. Do what you're told kiddies, or it's the backbenches for you - and don't even think about any funding for your riding.
Once in a while the trained seals in the back-benches show some spine (C-68 comes to mind, some rural Grit MPs voted against it), but usually they do as they're told.
There is one thing that keeps echoing through my mind, and I hope to God that the people working on this project are thinking it too: What the hell are we doing?
If you mean that the people working on this project should be questioning why they're doing it, relax. Although I have nothing to do with this project, I'd bet my bottom dollar that every scientist, engineer, secretary and janitor working on this is convinced that this is the right thing to do. Doing this, and doing it right is their gift to future generations.
Look, we've got a shitload of nuclear waste sitting in plants all across the country. Sticking your fingers in your ears and humming really loud will not make this waste go away. It already exists, it's going to be with us for millenia, so we better have a darn good plan to deal with it.
Personally I'm grateful we have so many talented people dedicating themselves to finding a workable, lasting solution to a really nasty problem. That's a much better legacy than sitting on the sidelines whining but not offering anything constructive.
Why not just use a P4 to emulate the 8086?
Is it exactly the same size as an 8086? (don't want to bump into other components)
Are the pinouts exactly the same?
Are the power requirements exactly the same?
Can you force a P3/P4 to emulate the exact same timing as the 8086?
Does it dissipate exactly the same amount of heat?
Do you get my point? While it's probably technically possible to replace the 8086 in that system with a P3/P4, you'd likely wind up re-engineering the damn system anyway, for mundane reasons like those listed above. Much more efficient to replace an 8086 with an 8086, even if you have to scavange parts on eBay...
Aw nuts, a Slashdot article that I can ramble on about ad nauseum shows up (I work in a related field, none of that sissy network administration stuff for me), and I have to catch a plane this afternoon...
Sure this sounds neat, and I'm not trying to knock anybody, but a few quick points -
i) as others have mentioned, this is a really nice press release disguised as a magazine article. They made some devices - congratulations!
ii) Fab - it sounds like they're doing this on bits of wafers in beakers on a wetbench, with presumably less than state-of-the-art litho. Great for proof of concept, but keep in mind that larger, better capitalized and more experienced outfits have trouble moving small-scale hero devices into assembly-line style production mode. It constantly amazes me how much compound semiconductor processing is still done by a combination of black magic and luck by a few process engineers with "golden hands".
iii) Related note: [these things will be cheap] when built with manufacturing techniques used by chip makers like Intel - try buying modern process equipment that will handle 2" and 3" InP wafers. I dare ya. All the modern interesting tools are built to handle acres of dinner-plate sized Si wafers, and can't cope with the teeny-tiny ones (hey, the Si market is about 100x bigger, can't blame the equipment manufacturers).
On the other hand, maybe I should take a look through Welch's publications in my ample free time...
Jonas Salk developed technologies which led to a vaccine for polio. With a vaccine you're injecting a weakened version of a dangerous virus into a person to combat that same virus.
(Pedant) The Salk vaccine is a killed-virus vaccine. Sabin developed the first live-virus polio vaccine.(/Pedant)
Big debate back in the 50s and 60s about the relative merits of each. Sabin won - his vaccine was cheaper to make and could be taken orally. Mmm...yummy polio virus...
"Is the sex of a human baby determined partially by temperature, like in chickens? Could I technically have a female clone?"
Uh, no. What determines the sex of a baby is whether daddy kicks in a Y-chromosome (boy) or an X-chromosome (girl).
Of course a clone doesn't have a daddy, so somebody might imagine doing a little test-tube magic to change the gender of a clone. In fact, a couple of obscure SF writers (Randall Garrett and Isaac Asimov) did just this. They even wrote a song about it. Get out your guitar and sing along with me now, it sounds a little bit like "Home on the Range"
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y-chromosome changed to X
And when it is grown
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
Chorus: Clone, clone of my own,
With your Y-Chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
Oh, give me a clone
Hear my sorrowful moan
A clone that is wholly my own.
And if she's an X
Of the feminine sex
Oh, what fun we will have when we're prone.
(Chorus)
My heart's not of stone,
As I've frequently shown
When alone with my own little X
And after we've dined
I am sure we will find
Better incest than Oedipus Rex.
(Chorus)
Why should such sex vex
Or disturb or perplex
Or induce a disparaging tone.
After all, don't you see
Since we're both of us me
When we're having sex, I'm alone.
(Chorus)
And after I'm done
She will still have her fun
For I'll clone myself twice ere I die.
And this time without fail,
They'll be both of them male
And they'll ravage her by and by.
(Chorus)
(Chorus)