if a 3000 foot volcano can be created inside 1 year, why can't something sink in 6000? And the icecaps and glaciers melted a good deal since then. Still a big coincidence but it is plausible.
If the structures really date back to 6000 years ago there must have been a huge seismic event in that area since then because the water levels have not increased 600 meters since then! The structures must also belong to a civilisation closer to the Incas or Mayas (stone stuctures, pyramids) than their north american counterparts. This is of course if it isn't some kind of underwater lava flow or something (which can take on weird shapes). Sometimes to get funding people will say anything.
I have never seen a war movie so butchered. It lacks any substance, i felt empty coming out of the theater. SPOILER - The whole plot is predictable from beginning. Ten minutes after the movie begins you meet the evil franch admiral and the bad guys on the mainland. From there on you know that the good admiral is going to disobey the bad one at some point in the movie. The whole movie stinks of patriotic nonsense (I am american so don't get me wrong) and Hollywood bravado. Even the actors, which usualy are pretty good to excellent, seemed to be out of synch. The movie gives a kind of artificial feeling and you don't feel like you are at war at all. The movie tries, and fails in a pathetic fashion, to portray the sorrow and fear that is associated with war. Good war movies include Platoon, Kelly's heroes, Tigerland, etc which manage to create a bond between either you and the characters or you and the historic context. This movie does neither. It just plain sucks.
I am surprised that Robert Jordan's serie Wheel of Time is not talked about. His work rivals that of Tolkien in the complexity of the world and the richness of the characters. It is truly amazing how real his world feels while at the same time redefining fantasy. I recommend this series to absolutly everybody. I bought the serie myself and the books are so worn now cause all my friends have read them. Amazing.
This is from the pdf :
Write Speed
Rips up to 4x (encoding MP3 compressed audio)
CD-R media: up to 8x
CD-RW media: up to 4x
Disc finalization time: 2 minutes typical at 2X
Audio Performance
Encoding rate: 96 Kb/sec, 128 Kb/sec, 160 Kb/sec, 256 KB/sec
Default encoding rate: 128 Kb/sec
*****************
Operating temperature: 5 to 35 C (41 to 95 F)
Operating humidity: 20% to 80% RH non-condensing
- First of all, the website advertises "CDRW write speed up to 8X " although the pdf clearly specifies 4x. -The encoding rate is quite low... why didn't they include 320Kb? its a 40 gig hard drive! -35 celsius maximum operating temperature??? ever heard of summer? It often goes over 35 where I live. -And finally the price. Look at the components, lets give 50$ for the box and power supply, 100$ for the motherboard, 40 for the cpu, 100 for the HD, maybe 30$ for some kind of ram, 15 for some wires and 80 for the burner (8x4x32 probably, am I forgetting something? The total of that is 415... 999 anybody?
But the concept is good, just needs a little tweaking maybe.
Real 3-D pacman. Eat donuts left on tables by unsuspecting students, hassle the teachers until they give you that percentage point, even mount a camera on it and do some more exotic kind of exploring...
No, you read the article and my comment: "At the time of the original release of light, dark matter had congregated in clumps, which created small fields of gravity that eventually pulled in normal matter as well. "
I'm saying that gravity has everything to do with the fact that "normal matter" is attracted by dark matter. By the way, its not because it is ionized but rather because it has no electrons at all that the matter did not transmit the photons. Ionized particles can very easily transmit light since they can have electrons. So be clearer in your statements.
If you look on the same page, after the article, the readers of that site have already raised all the valid points in defense of the technology. There is no point in repeating what was said but here is a summary of the most important points in my view: -Digital media is evolving so that storage capacity soon becomes obsolete - Film is harder and more expensive to backup that digital media. -You can take a lot more pictures without having to change memory cards that with conventional film (considering the standard is about 64 mbs per card and a full resolution jpg 2048*1536 32 bit at 1/4 compression is about 900k), thus allowing more time to take pistures instead of changing film. - easier to print to newspapers since it has to be digitized anyway to get there. - and more....
This is oversimplified some of it plainly wrong
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Dark Matter Measurements
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an enormous nuclear explosion called the Big Bang happened 13 billion to 15 billion years ago. From it, the universe appeared in an instant, but as a billion-degree mess of neutrons, protons and electrons.
If ever Big Bang there was, it was not a giant nuclear explosion! Damn at those temperatures there are no nucleus (as they themselves state a few sentences afterwards). It is rather a very FAT release of energy, which later congregated into quarks and antiquarks, neutrinos, etc. definitly not nuclear. And what a hell is "dark matter". They state that "dark matter" congregated and formed gravity pools...
At the time of the original release of light, dark matter had congregated in clumps, which created small fields of gravity that eventually pulled in normal matter as well.
Dark matter does not emit radiation by definition. It thus has to have enough gravitational pull to keep all EM radiation in. That is a freakin big chunk of matter, not small gravity fields! And what do they mean normal and not normal matter... it's all the same stuff, energy. The energy is just "stored" differently.
"The nature of these 'wiggles' is basically saying how the normal matter was responding to that crazy dark matter," explained Fields, "by amplifying the places where the extra density was."
Errhhmmm... that is called matter falling in the black hole to make it larger and thus increase the gravity....
With that as a backdrop, the truth is that what consumers want is a logarithmic scale.
I think this is the most interesting part of the article. IT is pretty much the only industry where consumers expect giant leaps in terms of performance before they upgrade. What other classical industry demands such high rates of devellopment? automotive? textile? Not really. People have come to expect more and more out of engineers over the years and the R&D to keep up with the demand has been ever increasing. Are we going to get to a point where progress is just too great and the users have no more need to upgrade, or is progress going to lag behind, thus reducing incomes and R&D --> vicious circle. I think there's a limit to how much speed is needed and that will give rise to a serious problem in a few years. What will happen when you can stream digital video uncompressed along with audio, playing games, etc on the same optic pipe? Will people go on upgrading endlessly just to show their friends "look, I can transfer my swap file from my PDA to my cell faster than you can!"...
One of my friends works in satellite imaging. They have huge tape backup systems that handle around 4 gigabit/s of image backup. I don't know exactly how it works but the system is fast, reliable but probably very expensive. You can probably setup a scaled down version of this system along with some encoding mechanism (since satellite pictures are stored raw), maybe divx;-) ?
That just shows how blatently misinformed you are. Thom has always been pro-AMD. All of his article conclusions are always in favour of AMD and the Athlon, ever since it came out. The performance to cost ratio is clearly won by the Athlon, that and the competition AMD is throwing at Intel is what Tom talks about. He is always very objective, that's why he gave us the true results of what happened when the heat sink is removed and the CPU handles the heat. Not the motherboard mind you, the real CPU thermal diode. If he had wanted to destroy his reader's opinion of AMD, he'd have done it a long time ago with biased articles, showing only the benchmarks that favor the Pentium. His job is not publicity, it is reviewing.
I wouldn't say rare
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Review: K-PAX
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· Score: 1, Insightful
Now I will get flamed for this.
-The ending turns out to be the most inventive part of the movie. It's actually quite ingenuous, leaving people wondering about what they really saw and ought to conclude from it. This is one of those very rare endings that a dozen people can see and draw completely different conclusions from. -
I can't agree that this type of ending is rare. In fact it is rare in American cinema (compared to the mass of movies the country produces, I'm not saying there aren't any) but loads of european, asian, south american and even a few african movies display such a type of ending. Because the majority in North America just want to hear THX sound and see big guns and endings which you can guess at the beginning of the movie, doesn't mean that it's the same everywhere. Just my opinion though.
In fact I think it is well within Sony's rights to express concern over the dangerous software this man is writing. Imagine all those little robots going mad and attacking cats and babies... How much money would they lose then?
a project that took place back in 1996 I think. Programmers wrote a physical environment in which a set of parameters were included (gravity, friction, etc) along with a basic mechanical crawling robot composed of several joints and "muscles". It was left to "evolve" on a machine and actually improved itself to the point of being able to move at something like 5-6mm per second.
Google really should have done this a while ago. At the stage of growth the have attained it's the next logical step to undertake.
I for one would not want them to implement banners and such to get revenue. Let the compagnies and large institution cover the expenses, since the service they will receive will probably be excellent anyway.
Re:Slashdot without Funny posts is like, boring...
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Slashdot Updates
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But on the side note, If Slashdot wants to make money, how about more news? I mean, 6+ articles a day? And some not very interesting. How about more tech news, Also how about having 3 bars, 1 on each side. How about adding a stock ticker?
Having more hits is the worst thing that could happen since scaling infrastructure will cost a lot more than the added ad revenue.
Why not make/. into a portal? Team up with someone to provide services so you dont have to recreate the wheel.
Portals are also quite lame for they attract more of the "unwanted" elements that roam the internet. Becoming a major service provider (which is what a portal those) also incurs additional costs which have to be repaid with advertising. Look what happened to Yahoo.
BTW, if your currious what I think a portal is, stocks/news/weather/tv listing/cartoons. Maybe not in that order.
Slashdot is a place for geeks, nerds, people who know what RTFM means. Providing weather information and such will not increase the amount of hits because people who need that kind of information already get in on their M$N or yahoo homepage. The additional info would be great for the people who already visit slashdot regularly, thus defying the purpose of adding it to get more revenue out of ads.
the time of 200 watts is gone. A good 470 watt power supply wich can bridge a few cycles (for not so stable power in houses ie. starting your washing machine makes all your lights go down in intensity) will cost you about 50$ which is not a lot of money considering the protection it gives your hardware.
That would actually be good since WD drives don't fail. you should check the last drive they put out at tom's hardware WD 100GB Fastest ide drive of all time with hardly no heat for the performance.
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if a 3000 foot volcano can be created inside 1 year, why can't something sink in 6000? And the icecaps and glaciers melted a good deal since then. Still a big coincidence but it is plausible.
If the structures really date back to 6000 years ago there must have been a huge seismic event in that area since then because the water levels have not increased 600 meters since then! The structures must also belong to a civilisation closer to the Incas or Mayas (stone stuctures, pyramids) than their north american counterparts. This is of course if it isn't some kind of underwater lava flow or something (which can take on weird shapes). Sometimes to get funding people will say anything.
I have never seen a war movie so butchered. It lacks any substance, i felt empty coming out of the theater. SPOILER - The whole plot is predictable from beginning. Ten minutes after the movie begins you meet the evil franch admiral and the bad guys on the mainland. From there on you know that the good admiral is going to disobey the bad one at some point in the movie. The whole movie stinks of patriotic nonsense (I am american so don't get me wrong) and Hollywood bravado.
Even the actors, which usualy are pretty good to excellent, seemed to be out of synch. The movie gives a kind of artificial feeling and you don't feel like you are at war at all. The movie tries, and fails in a pathetic fashion, to portray the sorrow and fear that is associated with war. Good war movies include Platoon, Kelly's heroes, Tigerland, etc which manage to create a bond between either you and the characters or you and the historic context. This movie does neither. It just plain sucks.
Vapochill did this over 2 years ago. Check out cpu bongs or Kryotech for real cpu cooling! This chills it down to -40 degrees C.
I am surprised that Robert Jordan's serie Wheel of Time is not talked about. His work rivals that of Tolkien in the complexity of the world and the richness of the characters. It is truly amazing how real his world feels while at the same time redefining fantasy. I recommend this series to absolutly everybody. I bought the serie myself and the books are so worn now cause all my friends have read them. Amazing.
This is from the pdf :
Write Speed Rips up to 4x (encoding MP3 compressed audio) CD-R media: up to 8x CD-RW media: up to 4x Disc finalization time: 2 minutes typical at 2X Audio Performance Encoding rate: 96 Kb/sec, 128 Kb/sec, 160 Kb/sec, 256 KB/sec Default encoding rate: 128 Kb/sec ***************** Operating temperature: 5 to 35 C (41 to 95 F) Operating humidity: 20% to 80% RH non-condensing
- First of all, the website advertises "CDRW write speed up to 8X " although the pdf clearly specifies 4x.
-The encoding rate is quite low... why didn't they include 320Kb? its a 40 gig hard drive!
-35 celsius maximum operating temperature??? ever heard of summer? It often goes over 35 where I live.
-And finally the price. Look at the components, lets give 50$ for the box and power supply, 100$ for the motherboard, 40 for the cpu, 100 for the HD, maybe 30$ for some kind of ram, 15 for some wires and 80 for the burner (8x4x32 probably, am I forgetting something? The total of that is 415... 999 anybody?
But the concept is good, just needs a little tweaking maybe.
Real 3-D pacman. Eat donuts left on tables by unsuspecting students, hassle the teachers until they give you that percentage point, even mount a camera on it and do some more exotic kind of exploring...
No, you read the article and my comment:
"At the time of the original release of light, dark matter had congregated in clumps, which created small fields of gravity that eventually pulled in normal matter as well. "
I'm saying that gravity has everything to do with the fact that "normal matter" is attracted by dark matter. By the way, its not because it is ionized but rather because it has no electrons at all that the matter did not transmit the photons. Ionized particles can very easily transmit light since they can have electrons. So be clearer in your statements.
If you look on the same page, after the article, the readers of that site have already raised all the valid points in defense of the technology. There is no point in repeating what was said but here is a summary of the most important points in my view:
-Digital media is evolving so that storage capacity soon becomes obsolete
- Film is harder and more expensive to backup that digital media.
-You can take a lot more pictures without having to change memory cards that with conventional film (considering the standard is about 64 mbs per card and a full resolution jpg 2048*1536 32 bit at 1/4 compression is about 900k), thus allowing more time to take pistures instead of changing film.
- easier to print to newspapers since it has to be digitized anyway to get there.
- and more....
an enormous nuclear explosion called the Big Bang happened 13 billion to 15 billion years ago. From it, the universe appeared in an instant, but as a billion-degree mess of neutrons, protons and electrons.
If ever Big Bang there was, it was not a giant nuclear explosion! Damn at those temperatures there are no nucleus (as they themselves state a few sentences afterwards). It is rather a very FAT release of energy, which later congregated into quarks and antiquarks, neutrinos, etc. definitly not nuclear. And what a hell is "dark matter". They state that "dark matter" congregated and formed gravity pools...
At the time of the original release of light, dark matter had congregated in clumps, which created small fields of gravity that eventually pulled in normal matter as well.
Dark matter does not emit radiation by definition. It thus has to have enough gravitational pull to keep all EM radiation in. That is a freakin big chunk of matter, not small gravity fields! And what do they mean normal and not normal matter... it's all the same stuff, energy. The energy is just "stored" differently.
"The nature of these 'wiggles' is basically saying how the normal matter was responding to that crazy dark matter," explained Fields, "by amplifying the places where the extra density was."
Errhhmmm... that is called matter falling in the black hole to make it larger and thus increase the gravity....
With that as a backdrop, the truth is that what consumers want is a logarithmic scale.
I think this is the most interesting part of the article. IT is pretty much the only industry where consumers expect giant leaps in terms of performance before they upgrade. What other classical industry demands such high rates of devellopment? automotive? textile? Not really. People have come to expect more and more out of engineers over the years and the R&D to keep up with the demand has been ever increasing. Are we going to get to a point where progress is just too great and the users have no more need to upgrade, or is progress going to lag behind, thus reducing incomes and R&D --> vicious circle. I think there's a limit to how much speed is needed and that will give rise to a serious problem in a few years. What will happen when you can stream digital video uncompressed along with audio, playing games, etc on the same optic pipe? Will people go on upgrading endlessly just to show their friends "look, I can transfer my swap file from my PDA to my cell faster than you can!"...
One of my friends works in satellite imaging. They have huge tape backup systems that handle around 4 gigabit/s of image backup. I don't know exactly how it works but the system is fast, reliable but probably very expensive. You can probably setup a scaled down version of this system along with some encoding mechanism (since satellite pictures are stored raw), maybe divx ;-) ?
That just shows how blatently misinformed you are. Thom has always been pro-AMD. All of his article conclusions are always in favour of AMD and the Athlon, ever since it came out. The performance to cost ratio is clearly won by the Athlon, that and the competition AMD is throwing at Intel is what Tom talks about. He is always very objective, that's why he gave us the true results of what happened when the heat sink is removed and the CPU handles the heat. Not the motherboard mind you, the real CPU thermal diode. If he had wanted to destroy his reader's opinion of AMD, he'd have done it a long time ago with biased articles, showing only the benchmarks that favor the Pentium.
His job is not publicity, it is reviewing.
Now I will get flamed for this.
-The ending turns out to be the most inventive part of the movie. It's actually quite ingenuous, leaving people wondering about what they really saw and ought to conclude from it. This is one of those very rare endings that a dozen people can see and draw completely different conclusions from. -
I can't agree that this type of ending is rare. In fact it is rare in American cinema (compared to the mass of movies the country produces, I'm not saying there aren't any) but loads of european, asian, south american and even a few african movies display such a type of ending. Because the majority in North America just want to hear THX sound and see big guns and endings which you can guess at the beginning of the movie, doesn't mean that it's the same everywhere.
Just my opinion though.
In fact I think it is well within Sony's rights to express concern over the dangerous software this man is writing. Imagine all those little robots going mad and attacking cats and babies... How much money would they lose then?
a project that took place back in 1996 I think. Programmers wrote a physical environment in which a set of parameters were included (gravity, friction, etc) along with a basic mechanical crawling robot composed of several joints and "muscles". It was left to "evolve" on a machine and actually improved itself to the point of being able to move at something like 5-6mm per second.
Google really should have done this a while ago. At the stage of growth the have attained it's the next logical step to undertake. I for one would not want them to implement banners and such to get revenue. Let the compagnies and large institution cover the expenses, since the service they will receive will probably be excellent anyway.
But on the side note, If Slashdot wants to make money, how about more news? I mean, 6+ articles a day? And some not very interesting. How about more tech news, Also how about having 3 bars, 1 on each side. How about adding a stock ticker?
/. into a portal? Team up with someone to provide services so you dont have to recreate the wheel.
Having more hits is the worst thing that could happen since scaling infrastructure will cost a lot more than the added ad revenue.
Why not make
Portals are also quite lame for they attract more of the "unwanted" elements that roam the internet. Becoming a major service provider (which is what a portal those) also incurs additional costs which have to be repaid with advertising. Look what happened to Yahoo.
BTW, if your currious what I think a portal is, stocks/news/weather/tv listing/cartoons. Maybe not in that order.
Slashdot is a place for geeks, nerds, people who know what RTFM means. Providing weather information and such will not increase the amount of hits because people who need that kind of information already get in on their M$N or yahoo homepage. The additional info would be great for the people who already visit slashdot regularly, thus defying the purpose of adding it to get more revenue out of ads.
the time of 200 watts is gone. A good 470 watt power supply wich can bridge a few cycles (for not so stable power in houses ie. starting your washing machine makes all your lights go down in intensity) will cost you about 50$ which is not a lot of money considering the protection it gives your hardware.
That would actually be good since WD drives don't fail. you should check the last drive they put out at tom's hardware WD 100GB
Fastest ide drive of all time with hardly no heat for the performance.