"China has, for years, been on a path from
isolation back in the 1950s and 1960s, to
being a part of the world community in many
ways. The US needs to ditch its outdated
paranoia, or else the other nations (Russia,
EU, etc) need to grow some balls and admit
China into the consortium for the benefit of
all sides concerned."
"Any line of questioning that begins with "Why
don't men wear skirts?" is going to come around
to an answer which can best be paraphrased as
"Because men don't wear skirts"
According to an old Slashdot article a British company called Cool Chip Plc has something that uses the "Quantum Mechanical Electron Tunneling" to achive "unbelievable cooling efficiencies".
According to the Press Release it is claimed that the device is so good that "a panel about two inches square will have the capacity to provide the air conditioning for a living room" !
In comparison, according to Cool Chips's press release, most existing cooling systems use compressors and environment-damaging fluids and are 40-50% efficient. Smaller thermoelectric cooling devices, despite more than $1 billion spent on research, are only 8% efficient. Cool Chips, on the other hand, are projected to operate at 70-80% of the maximum theoretical efficiency (Carnot) for cooling.
I am not affliated with "coolchips" in any way, just in case you wonder.
Instead of having OTHERS making an open-spec graphic cards for the opensource community, let me throw couple of questions to all:
Knowing what we know now about nvidia and ati graphic cards, what they do and how fast they do their stuffs, is it possible to somehow invent a decent graphic card from scratch ?
If the above question is yes, then, how much you think it would cost ? Including R&D, finding ways around patents, prototying, taping, manufacturing, and so on, until the thing is on the store shelf ?
Community-force have done miracles, Linux is just one of them. But so far, this happen in the software arena, not hardware. I do understand that it's a totally different arena altogether, that's why I throw out the feasibility question and the cost question.
Someone did some calculation and figured out that Linux worth 500 Million or so. Now, let us figure out the rough worth of an open-source/spec piece of essential hardware.
Jokes aside, this is a SERIOUS TIME to make SERIOUS MONEY !
In MS-Windoze alone, we have utilities ranging from File Defraq to Registry Tweaking. And then we have Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware programs.
If all cars are to use MS-Windowze as the baseline OS, it would be a winfall for most of us here !
Instead of just offering specialized / customized chips to boost car performances, we can also offer "subscribe service" to "upgrade the car" once every 2 months or so - so car owners will get wheel-alignment as well as "OS re-booting service" in the same time.
How about those detectors we can produce to detect "internal OS flaws" ? Instead of X-1R super lubricant, we can offer Win-X-Perf detectors to carry out "realtime auto-tune" the car OS.
The possibilities are endless. What I'm offering here is just the tip of a very huge money making iceberg.
Many a programmer will give you tons of insights on what not to do, but everyone and their great-granduncle seem to forget that the use of FONTS is of great important on eye-balling bugs.
Your example of the ";" could have easily caught if you use a font that makes stuffs like ";" "." "," "`" and so on FAT and OBVIOUS.
And on more thing - ENLARGE the size of the font to a comfortable degree, instead of squiming your eyes to look for ridiculously faint dot.
For programmers, although our brains are important, it's our eyes that have often been over-strained.
There was no Internet, but there was a loyal Fido serving us.
Still remember logging on to BBS, receiving the first New Year Celebration message on 9 AM, new year's eve. The guy sent it from Australia, already at night !
I replied to the message, and it arrived at his BBS 6 hours later, and he was STILL awake !
Yep, at least 2 guys hadn't had anything better to do during New Year's Day (in Australia) and New Year's Eve (in America) !:)
The feeling is gone now. No comeraderie anymore in the Net age.
One time I was pushed to become the temporary moderator for the FLAME group, and oh yeah, I was flamed to crisp ! For whatever's worth, it was fun, Fun, FUN !!
Gotta dig up my CD-R and check. I burned them into CD-R just before everything gone away.
But some of those things just couldn't be had no matter how I beg. Some of the authors preferred to let their product died then let someone else keep a copy of it.:(
Maybe "Fun" and "FAST" in that time really mean FUN and FAST !
Connecting to 110 BAUD modem, seeing that one character at a time appears, was so... so... JUICY !
Now with 20 Mbit/s connection, yes, it's faster, but something is missing.
When 300 BAUD comes up, I salivated for it. Saved enough money for the modem, and still remember how my ear got pulled 2 inches longer because of that.
When 1500 BAUD arrived, my ear grew 2 more inches. When 2400 BAUD arrived, my ear lobe almost touched the floor.
Going from 2400 BAUD to 19.2 K took a long time for me - jobless at that time. Later on, quickly updated to 28.8K and then 52K.
Things are faster now, but heck, I still spent the same amount of time online - only do lesser and lesser.
At one time, I played 6 characters in 6 BBSes of the same league, and of course, I won. But didn't collect the $50 prize tho - donated it to the sysops, felt right that way.:)
Slashdot Mirror
You sez:
"China has, for years, been on a path from
isolation back in the 1950s and 1960s, to
being a part of the world community in many
ways. The US needs to ditch its outdated
paranoia, or else the other nations (Russia,
EU, etc) need to grow some balls and admit
China into the consortium for the benefit of
all sides concerned."
You've hit the bullseye, man !
What else can the ball-less do ?
Something is always better than nothing.
Ever since the space shuttle disaster, and the bankrupt of Russia, both the Americans and Russians are stuck with the ultra-expensive ISS.
The Chinese are doing something, and they ought to be congratulated.
If the Indians can do it earlier than the Chinese, so much the better. I also heard that Brazil also has something under development.
How about the Europeans ?
This world is too violent as it is, please man, no more bloodshed.
Thank you !
You sez:
"Any line of questioning that begins with "Why
don't men wear skirts?" is going to come around
to an answer which can best be paraphrased as
"Because men don't wear skirts"
Another name for it is Tautology
According to an old Slashdot article a British company called Cool Chip Plc has something that uses the "Quantum Mechanical Electron Tunneling" to achive "unbelievable cooling efficiencies".
According to the Press Release it is claimed that the device is so good that "a panel about two inches square will have the capacity to provide the air conditioning for a living room" !
In comparison, according to Cool Chips's press release, most existing cooling systems use compressors and environment-damaging fluids and are 40-50% efficient. Smaller thermoelectric cooling devices, despite more than $1 billion spent on research, are only 8% efficient. Cool Chips, on the other hand, are projected to operate at 70-80% of the maximum theoretical efficiency (Carnot) for cooling.
I am not affliated with "coolchips" in any way, just in case you wonder.
Instead of having OTHERS making an open-spec graphic cards for the opensource community, let me throw couple of questions to all:
Knowing what we know now about nvidia and ati graphic cards, what they do and how fast they do their stuffs, is it possible to somehow invent a decent graphic card from scratch ?
If the above question is yes, then, how much you think it would cost ? Including R&D, finding ways around patents, prototying, taping, manufacturing, and so on, until the thing is on the store shelf ?
Community-force have done miracles, Linux is just one of them. But so far, this happen in the software arena, not hardware. I do understand that it's a totally different arena altogether, that's why I throw out the feasibility question and the cost question.
Someone did some calculation and figured out that Linux worth 500 Million or so. Now, let us figure out the rough worth of an open-source/spec piece of essential hardware.
Thanks !
Jokes aside, this is a SERIOUS TIME to make SERIOUS MONEY !
In MS-Windoze alone, we have utilities ranging from File Defraq to Registry Tweaking. And then we have Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware programs.
If all cars are to use MS-Windowze as the baseline OS, it would be a winfall for most of us here !
Instead of just offering specialized / customized chips to boost car performances, we can also offer "subscribe service" to "upgrade the car" once every 2 months or so - so car owners will get wheel-alignment as well as "OS re-booting service" in the same time.
How about those detectors we can produce to detect "internal OS flaws" ? Instead of X-1R super lubricant, we can offer Win-X-Perf detectors to carry out "realtime auto-tune" the car OS.
The possibilities are endless. What I'm offering here is just the tip of a very huge money making iceberg.
Many a programmer will give you tons of insights on what not to do, but everyone and their great-granduncle seem to forget that the use of FONTS is of great important on eye-balling bugs.
Your example of the ";" could have easily caught if you use a font that makes stuffs like ";" "." "," "`" and so on FAT and OBVIOUS.
And on more thing - ENLARGE the size of the font to a comfortable degree, instead of squiming your eyes to look for ridiculously faint dot.
For programmers, although our brains are important, it's our eyes that have often been over-strained.
I hope I am not flaming a religious war here, but upon reading the piece with the quote:
"The new FreeBSD 5 branch offers some exciting
technology, generally regarded as comparable
with or superior to what is offered in Linux."
I wonder how superior FreeBSD 5.x is to Linux 2.6.x ?
I hope I am not flaming a religious war here, but upon reading the piece with the quote:
"The new FreeBSD 5 branch offers some exciting
technology, generally regarded as comparable
with or superior to what is offered in Linux."
I wonder how SUPERIOR FreeBSD 5 is as compared to Linux 2.6.x ?
Go HERE to look for the Original Industrial Strength VNC.
If the link fail, copy this and paste:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/virtualnetworkcompu
Thank you !
Yep, yer right. Mea Culpa !
:( She thought they're junk.
The woman threw everything away
She just don't understand.
I still have an entire collection of old programs in 5.12 inch, 360 K floppies !
And I have a working floppy drive that can read and write those floppy, to boot !
I've thrown away almost everything, but not the floppies, nor the drive. They matter to me. Really !
There was no Internet, but there was a loyal Fido serving us.
:)
Still remember logging on to BBS, receiving the first New Year Celebration message on 9 AM, new year's eve. The guy sent it from Australia, already at night !
I replied to the message, and it arrived at his BBS 6 hours later, and he was STILL awake !
Yep, at least 2 guys hadn't had anything better to do during New Year's Day (in Australia) and New Year's Eve (in America) !
The feeling is gone now. No comeraderie anymore in the Net age.
One time I was pushed to become the temporary moderator for the FLAME group, and oh yeah, I was flamed to crisp ! For whatever's worth, it was fun, Fun, FUN !!
What other game we played ?
:(
Gotta dig up my CD-R and check. I burned them into CD-R just before everything gone away.
But some of those things just couldn't be had no matter how I beg. Some of the authors preferred to let their product died then let someone else keep a copy of it.
Maybe "Fun" and "FAST" in that time really mean FUN and FAST !
:)
Connecting to 110 BAUD modem, seeing that one character at a time appears, was so... so... JUICY !
Now with 20 Mbit/s connection, yes, it's faster, but something is missing.
When 300 BAUD comes up, I salivated for it. Saved enough money for the modem, and still remember how my ear got pulled 2 inches longer because of that.
When 1500 BAUD arrived, my ear grew 2 more inches. When 2400 BAUD arrived, my ear lobe almost touched the floor.
Going from 2400 BAUD to 19.2 K took a long time for me - jobless at that time. Later on, quickly updated to 28.8K and then 52K.
Things are faster now, but heck, I still spent the same amount of time online - only do lesser and lesser.
At one time, I played 6 characters in 6 BBSes of the same league, and of course, I won. But didn't collect the $50 prize tho - donated it to the sysops, felt right that way.
Wow, what an experience !!
http://media.bbsdocumentary.com/photos/vidcaps/ind ex.html now gives people the following:
This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
Fun, huh ?!
If I wanna sponsor a BEST team outside of Malaysia, how best to proceed ?
So, I'm afraid they didn't get the lowest bid. :(
The masking of ASICs alone cost upwards to millions, and the devices used by the spy agencies won't need mass production at all.
:)
It would more sense to use APPS along with FPGAs for version specific fine tuning.
No wonder they still can't catch Osama Bin Laden
What ? The US spy department still relies on ASICs ?
Don't they heard of FPGAs ?!
Can anyone translate that Shinux thing in English, please ?
Thanks !!
Thanks for the link, but where to download Object Rexx ?
You gotta understand that "meaning" has no meaning at all to machines, at least not yet.
And even for humans, the "meaning" of a certain thing can be different thing to different people !
Although I applaud the job they are doing for Semantic Web, I wonder how they can inject "meaning" into the whole thing.
My biggest fear is the 1984-like "my meaning is THE meaning and you canna have any other meaning" thing.
You sez:
.... they have nine monkeys.
"They are rented monkeys from the RIAA,
so they use RIAA math, its just two monkeys
but they are really really really fast."
Nah
Two doing the math, and the rest trying to screw in the bulb.