IBM chipkill memory which is commercially available from a number of vendors already does a form of RAID5 for memory. Also if you get it as implemented in HP Proliant servers it also has hotswap =) Now having it be essentially infinite write flash with 1,000X capacity would be cool.
Don't bother, the top ladder characters will be built using teams playing a group of characters 24X7 until they get one to level 99, basically they build the team to level 80+, then they repeatadly kill everything in a level except for a boss, work the boss down to a few hps, then the char they are trying to get to 99 comes in and kills the boss. They use a couple teams so that the target char can jump from game to game repeatadly killing bosses. Last time I played they had level 99 done in under 36 hours.
The Boing 777 does not have hydraulic backups, it is 100% fly by wire, the Boing studies showed that well done redundant electronic systems were less likely to fail then a mechanical backup was to cause problems. I doubt a simple 1KV gun would do any damage at even a hundred feet to an airliner as the electronics are already hardened against the severe amounts of radiation they are exposed to at cruising altitude (a cross country flight would expose you to more radiation then a full body xray if it were not for the planes skin).
so the fact that criminals might have guns is a reason to remove them from police officers???? The idea is already out there, an industrious criminal could make it today. The need is there for police officers to have a means of ending high speed persuits without further endangering the public, I haven't heard much better solutions proposed.
You miss my point, I don't want a replacement for the spike strip, I want a mobile harpoon that can fry the car on the go. Other than the loss of power steering there is no danger to just stopping the engine in a high speed persuit, in fact its probably way less harmfull then just letting the idiot drive through traffic at high speeds. Of course my favorite self-Darwin is the bank robbers in southern Ohio that got flattened by a 18 wheeler after running a red light running from the cops, though I feel kind of bad for the semi driver(having to live with killing someone and all).
Taser to the block work well for screwing up electronic ignition components, so my question is why hasn't someone come up with a 500K+ Volt taser harpoon for patrol cars? Seems like it would be easier to use than spike strips, less dangerous (blowouts happen even with the hollow spike type), and more effective (how many times have you seen crooks run on rims, or even runflat tires).
I don't think Cedar point has ever had a death due to any of their coasters. They are all well maintained and designed by the top design firms in the world. They have so many redundant systems that in the rare case where there is a problem the ride just stops, no one gets hurt (though they may be hanging out for a while depending on where they are on the tracks).
You complain about the modern, safe, and exhilirating metal coasters and then say you road the mine ride which is the most poorly maintained ride in the park with the highest shutdown % by a longshot. You have to be like 10X more likely to get whiplash on that old thing then you do riding a modern ride like the raptor which has head pads. I would bet the pulse G forces from the bumps on the mine ride are several times higher then the nice smooth G's produced by Mellenium Force and Top Thrills Dragster.
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Weather radio with instant on functionality. Once or twice a year you get woken out of a deep sleep for no reason, but it just might save your life.
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Yep, 350+mph winds with a base that exceeded one mile at times, probably the largest tornado ever (the other contender is the F5 that hit the community outside Cincinatti a couple years ago, only place I know of to be hit by two F5's).
You must have nice and expensive insurance because in most premiums those act of god clauses are EXLUSIONS. Then again they may be exclusions in your premium and you just need to re-read your homeowners policy.
Because no one community gets routinly hit. I mean the chances of dying from a tornado or hurricane or an earthquake are probably pretty similar if you throw out trailer parks. Also the main reason they live there is so you can have cereal in the morning and bread for you sandwidch at lunch etc. Basically Kansas and Oklahomo are part of the breadbasket of America (and partially some other countries considering how much grain we export). The expense to the taxpayers isn't any greater than that for people who live in 20 year floodplains, earthquake prone areas, hurricane prone areas, etc. FEMA is necessary because insurance companies have the act of god clauses in their policies and losing you house really is an unrecoverable catasrophy.
50K per message, are you INSANE??? I hate it when servers limit me to 2 or 5 MB let alone something so insane. Let me guess, you never send anything with attachments, get real.
MIDI + sampling over firewire has been around since 97, it's called mLAN and it was introduced by Yamaha. This would just be a phycial transport change from normal firewire cabling to UWB. For more info on mLAN see the mLAN alliance website Here
No, bluetooth could only handle the notation section like traditional MIDI, next generation MIDI also includes the ability to transfer sample data at high bitrates between devices, so your sampler could pull the output from your effects processor and loop it etc. Plus bluetooth doesn't have the level of QOS that firewire provides (though I'm not sure how well the QOS from firewire will work when layered on top of inherintly problematic transport like wireless UWB)
Encryption will almost always SAVE bandwidth because the first step to encryption is compression to eliminate repeating patterns in the input stream. It will cost you processing time (not necessarilly cpu, it can be done with an ASIC) and will slightly increase latency. Plus if I am sending next generation MIDI data or DV movies over it I really don't think I need to encrypt the signal.
UWB only works if you severly limit the range (10m in the case of 802.15.3 networks). This might be fine for connecting you DVR to your TV, but it won't be usefull for connecting your DVR to the tv on the other side of the house or up a floor. This could be ultra cool for next generation MIDI though, the ability to connect all of your devices wirelessly and get both MIDI data and samples would rock. I can't imagine how much this would please all of the musicians who have had to do a road show with the spagheti nest that is MIDI setups.
Sorry but except at the ISA level the PPC970 doesn't even really fit that definition. The PPC970 has as deep an execution pipe as the P4 (excluding the signal propogation stages from the P4's pipeline). In fact other than the complexity of the decode stage the P4 and PPC970 are fairly similar. I would even go so far as to say that the PPC970 is closer in design philosophy to the P4 then it is to the G4.
One major drawback is binding, the binding on the Xerox publish on demand system sucked horribly. I imagine given enough time and resources someone could come up with an almost instant binding solution that would work about as well as a paperback, but I don't think the tech will ever rival a well bound hardback book. The problem with the CD's would be players that can't read from dye based cd's and the fact that dye based cds dont last as long. It would however greatly lower the distribution cost of cd's but it really doesn't matter because the real costs are in the promotions department, the physical production and distribution of a cd probably comes in around $1.50
Unless the site is running a poorly configured MSSQL server or MySQL database backend it is rarely the server that has a problem (ok IIS blows up occassionally). Most of the time it is just a simple lack of bandwidth that kills sites that are hit with the slashdot effect.
The PPC970 is not a pure RISC chip, if it were the decode stage would be unnecessary. There are a number of instructions that break down into two or more internal operations that the execution units have to deal with. From the IBM POWER whitepaper "Cracked instructions flow into groups as any other instructions with one restriction. Both IOPs must be in the same group. If both IOPs cannot fit into the current group, the group is terminated and a new group is initiated. The instruction following the cracked instruction may be in the same group as the cracked instruction, assuming there is room in the group. Millicoded instructions always start a new group. The instruction following the millicoded instruction also initiates a new group." This is much closer to CISC->RISC translation that happens in all modern x86 cpu's then it is to a traditional RISC design.
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With a max speed of 1Ghz it won't be replacing many cpu's.
IBM chipkill memory which is commercially available from a number of vendors already does a form of RAID5 for memory. Also if you get it as implemented in HP Proliant servers it also has hotswap =) Now having it be essentially infinite write flash with 1,000X capacity would be cool.
Don't bother, the top ladder characters will be built using teams playing a group of characters 24X7 until they get one to level 99, basically they build the team to level 80+, then they repeatadly kill everything in a level except for a boss, work the boss down to a few hps, then the char they are trying to get to 99 comes in and kills the boss. They use a couple teams so that the target char can jump from game to game repeatadly killing bosses. Last time I played they had level 99 done in under 36 hours.
The Boing 777 does not have hydraulic backups, it is 100% fly by wire, the Boing studies showed that well done redundant electronic systems were less likely to fail then a mechanical backup was to cause problems. I doubt a simple 1KV gun would do any damage at even a hundred feet to an airliner as the electronics are already hardened against the severe amounts of radiation they are exposed to at cruising altitude (a cross country flight would expose you to more radiation then a full body xray if it were not for the planes skin).
so the fact that criminals might have guns is a reason to remove them from police officers???? The idea is already out there, an industrious criminal could make it today. The need is there for police officers to have a means of ending high speed persuits without further endangering the public, I haven't heard much better solutions proposed.
You miss my point, I don't want a replacement for the spike strip, I want a mobile harpoon that can fry the car on the go. Other than the loss of power steering there is no danger to just stopping the engine in a high speed persuit, in fact its probably way less harmfull then just letting the idiot drive through traffic at high speeds. Of course my favorite self-Darwin is the bank robbers in southern Ohio that got flattened by a 18 wheeler after running a red light running from the cops, though I feel kind of bad for the semi driver(having to live with killing someone and all).
Taser to the block work well for screwing up electronic ignition components, so my question is why hasn't someone come up with a 500K+ Volt taser harpoon for patrol cars? Seems like it would be easier to use than spike strips, less dangerous (blowouts happen even with the hollow spike type), and more effective (how many times have you seen crooks run on rims, or even runflat tires).
I don't think Cedar point has ever had a death due to any of their coasters. They are all well maintained and designed by the top design firms in the world. They have so many redundant systems that in the rare case where there is a problem the ride just stops, no one gets hurt (though they may be hanging out for a while depending on where they are on the tracks).
You complain about the modern, safe, and exhilirating metal coasters and then say you road the mine ride which is the most poorly maintained ride in the park with the highest shutdown % by a longshot. You have to be like 10X more likely to get whiplash on that old thing then you do riding a modern ride like the raptor which has head pads. I would bet the pulse G forces from the bumps on the mine ride are several times higher then the nice smooth G's produced by Mellenium Force and Top Thrills Dragster.
Weather radio with instant on functionality. Once or twice a year you get woken out of a deep sleep for no reason, but it just might save your life.
Yep, 350+mph winds with a base that exceeded one mile at times, probably the largest tornado ever (the other contender is the F5 that hit the community outside Cincinatti a couple years ago, only place I know of to be hit by two F5's).
You must have nice and expensive insurance because in most premiums those act of god clauses are EXLUSIONS. Then again they may be exclusions in your premium and you just need to re-read your homeowners policy.
Because no one community gets routinly hit. I mean the chances of dying from a tornado or hurricane or an earthquake are probably pretty similar if you throw out trailer parks. Also the main reason they live there is so you can have cereal in the morning and bread for you sandwidch at lunch etc. Basically Kansas and Oklahomo are part of the breadbasket of America (and partially some other countries considering how much grain we export). The expense to the taxpayers isn't any greater than that for people who live in 20 year floodplains, earthquake prone areas, hurricane prone areas, etc. FEMA is necessary because insurance companies have the act of god clauses in their policies and losing you house really is an unrecoverable catasrophy.
Because my personal web account has a 5MB limit and most of it is already used.
Why do you say that, my USR cards were all software upgraded from X2 to the final v.90 spec.
50K per message, are you INSANE??? I hate it when servers limit me to 2 or 5 MB let alone something so insane. Let me guess, you never send anything with attachments, get real.
Why limit it to SATA, how about 15K rpm SCSI disks? He also clearly listed how fast the cpu was.
MIDI + sampling over firewire has been around since 97, it's called mLAN and it was introduced by Yamaha. This would just be a phycial transport change from normal firewire cabling to UWB. For more info on mLAN see the mLAN alliance website Here
No, bluetooth could only handle the notation section like traditional MIDI, next generation MIDI also includes the ability to transfer sample data at high bitrates between devices, so your sampler could pull the output from your effects processor and loop it etc. Plus bluetooth doesn't have the level of QOS that firewire provides (though I'm not sure how well the QOS from firewire will work when layered on top of inherintly problematic transport like wireless UWB)
Encryption will almost always SAVE bandwidth because the first step to encryption is compression to eliminate repeating patterns in the input stream. It will cost you processing time (not necessarilly cpu, it can be done with an ASIC) and will slightly increase latency. Plus if I am sending next generation MIDI data or DV movies over it I really don't think I need to encrypt the signal.
UWB only works if you severly limit the range (10m in the case of 802.15.3 networks). This might be fine for connecting you DVR to your TV, but it won't be usefull for connecting your DVR to the tv on the other side of the house or up a floor. This could be ultra cool for next generation MIDI though, the ability to connect all of your devices wirelessly and get both MIDI data and samples would rock. I can't imagine how much this would please all of the musicians who have had to do a road show with the spagheti nest that is MIDI setups.
Sorry but except at the ISA level the PPC970 doesn't even really fit that definition. The PPC970 has as deep an execution pipe as the P4 (excluding the signal propogation stages from the P4's pipeline). In fact other than the complexity of the decode stage the P4 and PPC970 are fairly similar. I would even go so far as to say that the PPC970 is closer in design philosophy to the P4 then it is to the G4.
One major drawback is binding, the binding on the Xerox publish on demand system sucked horribly. I imagine given enough time and resources someone could come up with an almost instant binding solution that would work about as well as a paperback, but I don't think the tech will ever rival a well bound hardback book. The problem with the CD's would be players that can't read from dye based cd's and the fact that dye based cds dont last as long. It would however greatly lower the distribution cost of cd's but it really doesn't matter because the real costs are in the promotions department, the physical production and distribution of a cd probably comes in around $1.50
Unless the site is running a poorly configured MSSQL server or MySQL database backend it is rarely the server that has a problem (ok IIS blows up occassionally). Most of the time it is just a simple lack of bandwidth that kills sites that are hit with the slashdot effect.
The PPC970 is not a pure RISC chip, if it were the decode stage would be unnecessary. There are a number of instructions that break down into two or more internal operations that the execution units have to deal with. From the IBM POWER whitepaper "Cracked instructions flow into groups as any other instructions with one restriction. Both IOPs must be in the same group. If both IOPs cannot fit into the current group, the group is terminated and a new group is initiated. The instruction following the cracked instruction may be in the same group as the cracked instruction, assuming there is room in the group. Millicoded instructions always start a new group. The instruction following the millicoded instruction also initiates a new group." This is much closer to CISC->RISC translation that happens in all modern x86 cpu's then it is to a traditional RISC design.