1. 100mips is pretty shitty. You'd need a hella lot of these and with that you'd need all the other infrastructure (that would end up consuming any savings you gained from going with cheaper chips) 2. With the evolution of blade technology, etc... you'd be able to pack less more powerful machines into the same space.
Now with that all said, These things can address 4gigs of ram. If you could bump up the CPU power to say 800mips and combine this with some creative packaging... you might have a good solution...
As a side note, alot of research has been put into why cloned animals have shorter lifespans. What has been found is that there are specific bits of DNA that change over time and act as a kind of life clock... Since the DNA used is from an adult animal, the DNA has already counted upwards from it's start position... (they should have set that variable to zero!)
Learning how to set these markers to their original settings may be the fountain of youth, or not... (that moral quandry is left for the reader to decide...) However, I think that if someone were to try to greatly extend their life, they'd have to start early (mid 20's maybe) though personally, I don't feel 80 years is long enough for me to learn all that I want to learn...
"it's a large enough character to get their attention." -- Or scare the shit right out of them...
Other potential antics include: 1. Knocking the living shit out of obnoxous visitors 2. "Tip over and land on fat guy mode" This is where the dinosaur pretends to have a mechanical glitch and falls towards the fat guy with the 64oz big gulp... 3. "popcorn ball butt cannon" since it's been eating all that popcorn, it's got ammo!
Huey Lewis and the News will be releasing a DVD video box set of their greatest hits... It's speculated to be only half as annoying as the botched widesceen conversion of the back to the future (BTTF) Trilogy...
Firstly... What kind of pillow do you have?? Cause a loaded 9mm would put a big ass lump in my pillow and I'd never fall asleep.
Secondly... Aren't you afraid the tooth fairy will come by, see that huge ass lump and go "jackpot!!!" then when she finds it isn't a tooth, she's both pissed and she has a gun????
That's exactly what I'm thinking they'll do. They'll be a bid disclaimer in the XML that says "These Schemas are for use the intellectual property of microsoft. Use of any program not licensed by microsoft to interpret the data stored within these schemeas is a breach of copyright..." or some other type legalese...
1. Chemical rockets are primitive. If were ever going to get serious, we need ion/high energy drive technology. This technology exists and it was used to power the deep space 1 probe. (currently it's the fastest space craft ever flown by NASA) However, it needs to grow up by about 10 generations. Also, with each generation (or two) it needs to be tested in space for a long duration. Now, if were currently at generation #5 and were doing long duration testing, research shouldn't come to a halt until the testing is complete! I think that the ISS should be a test bed for the first space dock so we could build bigger, modular ships that aren't intended for any type of terrestian use.
Currently, chemical rockets are the only way to get off the surface, but once in space, they should be dispenced with immediately.
2. Radiation. Studies have already shown that if we tried to go to mars, half the crew would be dead from radiation by the time they got there. We need a material that's lightweight and will stop radiation. There was an article a couple weeks ago on slashdot about a fabric that had these properties. This is critical research, that needs to have money dumped into it like an old house. Without some way of stopping radiation (or then generating a magnetic field like the earth has) we'll never explore the stars.
3. Better, lighter space suits. Imagine your in space for 6 months, you land on mars and now you've got to put on a 100+ pound space suit. Now granted the gravity's a bit less on mars, but your still going to hurting. Not to mention, these space suits needs to be durable and easily repairable. Now I know that sounds like a tall order, but I think some creative research into new fabrics + better battery/fuel cell technology could bridge the gap.
4. The shuttle is at best a reliable lifter, but it's expensive and requires alot of maintaince. Money and research needs to be done upfront on an improved lifting vechile that's in the same class as the shuttle. It should have the following design critera:
a. reuseable. From touch down, it should with a minimum of effort to be relaunchable in 1-2 months, if not less.
b. afforable. The whole system should cost in the range of a 747. This would allow for a fleet of lifting vechiles.
c. unlimited lifespan. The shuttle was only supposed to be a stepping stone to something better. Hence it wasn't designed for 20 years of maintance. This new "shuttle2" should be designed so that there would be an unlimited maintance window. The design should be modular enough that systems can be replaced without having retrofit the whole thing.
d. long term orbit. The shuttle2 should be capable of being prepped for long term docking with space stations and orbital construction facilites. Part of it's modualr design should be that it would be capable of supplying and or using power/telemetry/vitals with any systems that it is docked with.
5. Fusion power. Now, I think fusion is possible. It's a way's off, but I think that it's capable of being accomplished. Once we have a reliable way of creating fusion, work should be done to make it suitable for use in space. Concievebly, it itially should be designed as a power block that could be used in place of solar power, where huge amounts of power needed.
I'm sure people can think of a lot more, but in terms of space research, these are what I think are important...
This is my continual frustation as well... I'm a huge follower of space "stuff". Half the time if you were to ask an American "When was the last Shuttle launch" they'd look at you and say "We're still launching those things???" However, you ask them when the Challenger exploded and they'll give you a rambling "I was in the 3rd grade and Mrs. Shumacker ran in crying" (much like the "Where were you when kennedy was shot?" sorta thing... It really pisses me off to no ene that people have no interest in exploring the stars!!!
As for unmanned lifting systems, the Atlas and Delta systems have been working great. I'm sure that they'll get the kinks worked out of the Ariane 5 system, but when an Ariane 5 lifts without a hitch, it won't even be reported on the news...:-(
Obviously you haven't purchased any DLT tapes recently...
Lets just say you go with 40GB DLT tapes...
220/40 = 5.5 DLT tapes to back up your data.
DLT tapes cost 50 bucks a piece. 6 tapes * 50 bucks = 300 bucks just for the tapes.
Oh yeah, now you've gotta buy a DLT drive as well... and if you plan on doing any real backups your not going to sit there and load 6 tapes in succession into the drive so your going to need a library of some kind. So, tack on 5000 bucks for a library... I'll make the assumption that your using a some free archival software, otherwise you'd have to tack on some big money for that as well...
So... 5300 dollar tape solution vs. 500 harddrive solution...
I went out and bought a copy of Qcast a couple of months ago and I like it. It works as adverstised. The only issue I've had is that you have to be very particular in how you encode the divx stuff, otherwise it scarf at the files.
The quick and dirty way is to just setup a cron job on your work machine that just rsync's all your important stuff (such/home/etc) into a directory strucuture called/machinename_backup (where machine name is your hostname). The inital sync will be very painful depending on your connection and the ammount of data you need to move, but after that it'll be probably under a minute. The trick is todo it often so you suddenly don't just have 3 gigs of new data on your drive all the sudden. I'd recommend doing it every 3 hours or something like that. Also if you want to get fancy and you've got the space you can also setup an aged system, where your script just makes a copy of the previous backup and then syncs to the copy and have a set of 7 of these so it's incremental, so if you screw something up, you can regress. Just ideas...
Wow, that's an amazingly bad patent, I'm suprised they got away with getting that through the system. I can only imagine their going to start lining up and trying to extort money out of oracle becuase the whole Oracle Apps suite would completely violate that patent I'm pretty sure.
Nope, it's no dream... it's a nightmare...It'll be an embraced and extended version of XML that'll totally break every single standard in the place, but then they'll just use their monopoly to cram it down everybody's throats... I can only imagine their hurridly trying to figure out a way to XML executable or some other wacked, half backed idea...
Which DEC building did you work in? The company I work for is in the Powdermill Rd. Building and our Lab's are still all sprinklers. However the way the system is setup, as soon as a sprinkler head goes off, the power shuts off.
From the sounds of the article, they left enough corn in the feed that it took seed, then planted soybeans with it, so next year they had soybeans and corn and were harvested together. Though I could be wrong.
Actually their not really out those costs either since they can use that research on other products. I can imagine that their OCR software just got a huge boost by the hand writing recognition research done...
Imagine an NT login where you sign your name to login in...
Lots of things can be used with the techonology...
Slashdot Mirror
What would be funnier if the system was completely automated with sanity checks...
Imagine you rent a private plane and fly along a busy highway (and you leave your cell phone on)
In the mail you get something like:
"A citation has been issued because you were calculated going 215mph on rt. 495 at 4:34pm. The total charges come to $1043.33"
Well, if you could shave a word off that post, it would be equal to 42 words... take out that "good" before book ;-)
Tim.
It sounds like a good idea, except:
1. 100mips is pretty shitty. You'd need a hella lot of these and with that you'd need all the other infrastructure (that would end up consuming any savings you gained from going with cheaper chips)
2. With the evolution of blade technology, etc... you'd be able to pack less more powerful machines into the same space.
Now with that all said, These things can address 4gigs of ram. If you could bump up the CPU power to say 800mips and combine this with some creative packaging... you might have a good solution...
As a side note, alot of research has been put into why cloned animals have shorter lifespans. What has been found is that there are specific bits of DNA that change over time and act as a kind of life clock... Since the DNA used is from an adult animal, the DNA has already counted upwards from it's start position... (they should have set that variable to zero!)
Learning how to set these markers to their original settings may be the fountain of youth, or not... (that moral quandry is left for the reader to decide...) However, I think that if someone were to try to greatly extend their life, they'd have to start early (mid 20's maybe) though personally, I don't feel 80 years is long enough for me to learn all that I want to learn...
"it's a large enough character to get their attention." -- Or scare the shit right out of them...
Other potential antics include:
1. Knocking the living shit out of obnoxous visitors
2. "Tip over and land on fat guy mode" This is where the dinosaur pretends to have a mechanical glitch and falls towards the fat guy with the 64oz big gulp...
3. "popcorn ball butt cannon" since it's been eating all that popcorn, it's got ammo!
Huey Lewis and the News will be releasing a DVD video box set of their greatest hits... It's speculated to be only half as annoying as the botched widesceen conversion of the back to the future (BTTF) Trilogy...
Firstly... What kind of pillow do you have?? Cause a loaded 9mm would put a big ass lump in my pillow and I'd never fall asleep.
Secondly... Aren't you afraid the tooth fairy will come by, see that huge ass lump and go "jackpot!!!" then when she finds it isn't a tooth, she's both pissed and she has a gun????
Sounds pretty risky to me!
That's exactly what I'm thinking they'll do. They'll be a bid disclaimer in the XML that says "These Schemas are for use the intellectual property of microsoft. Use of any program not licensed by microsoft to interpret the data stored within these schemeas is a breach of copyright..." or some other type legalese...
Since Deep Space 1 is going alot faster than either Pioneer 10 or 11, I wonder how long before it becomes the farthest object away?
1. Chemical rockets are primitive. If were ever going to get serious, we need ion/high energy drive technology. This technology exists and it was used to power the deep space 1 probe. (currently it's the fastest space craft ever flown by NASA) However, it needs to grow up by about 10 generations. Also, with each generation (or two) it needs to be tested in space for a long duration. Now, if were currently at generation #5 and were doing long duration testing, research shouldn't come to a halt until the testing is complete! I think that the ISS should be a test bed for the first space dock so we could build bigger, modular ships that aren't intended for any type of terrestian use.
Currently, chemical rockets are the only way to get off the surface, but once in space, they should be dispenced with immediately.
2. Radiation. Studies have already shown that if we tried to go to mars, half the crew would be dead from radiation by the time they got there. We need a material that's lightweight and will stop radiation. There was an article a couple weeks ago on slashdot about a fabric that had these properties. This is critical research, that needs to have money dumped into it like an old house. Without some way of stopping radiation (or then generating a magnetic field like the earth has) we'll never explore the stars.
3. Better, lighter space suits. Imagine your in space for 6 months, you land on mars and now you've got to put on a 100+ pound space suit. Now granted the gravity's a bit less on mars, but your still going to hurting. Not to mention, these space suits needs to be durable and easily repairable. Now I know that sounds like a tall order, but I think some creative research into new fabrics + better battery/fuel cell technology could bridge the gap.
4. The shuttle is at best a reliable lifter, but it's expensive and requires alot of maintaince. Money and research needs to be done upfront on an improved lifting vechile that's in the same class as the shuttle. It should have the following design critera:
a. reuseable. From touch down, it should with a minimum of effort to be relaunchable in 1-2 months, if not less.
b. afforable. The whole system should cost in the range of a 747. This would allow for a fleet of lifting vechiles.
c. unlimited lifespan. The shuttle was only supposed to be a stepping stone to something better. Hence it wasn't designed for 20 years of maintance. This new "shuttle2" should be designed so that there would be an unlimited maintance window. The design should be modular enough that systems can be replaced without having retrofit the whole thing.
d. long term orbit. The shuttle2 should be capable of being prepped for long term docking with space stations and orbital construction facilites. Part of it's modualr design should be that it would be capable of supplying and or using power/telemetry/vitals with any systems that it is docked with.
5. Fusion power. Now, I think fusion is possible. It's a way's off, but I think that it's capable of being accomplished. Once we have a reliable way of creating fusion, work should be done to make it suitable for use in space. Concievebly, it itially should be designed as a power block that could be used in place of solar power, where huge amounts of power needed.
I'm sure people can think of a lot more, but in terms of space research, these are what I think are important...
Just for giggles, I looked to see who's number 1...
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Here's the link... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/top-revie
I've stopped trusting all online reviews, along time ago...
This is my continual frustation as well... I'm a huge follower of space "stuff". Half the time if you were to ask an American "When was the last Shuttle launch" they'd look at you and say "We're still launching those things???" However, you ask them when the Challenger exploded and they'll give you a rambling "I was in the 3rd grade and Mrs. Shumacker ran in crying" (much like the "Where were you when kennedy was shot?" sorta thing... It really pisses me off to no ene that people have no interest in exploring the stars!!!
:-(
As for unmanned lifting systems, the Atlas and Delta systems have been working great. I'm sure that they'll get the kinks worked out of the Ariane 5 system, but when an Ariane 5 lifts without a hitch, it won't even be reported on the news...
Obviously you haven't purchased any DLT tapes recently...
Lets just say you go with 40GB DLT tapes...
220/40 = 5.5 DLT tapes to back up your data.
DLT tapes cost 50 bucks a piece. 6 tapes * 50 bucks = 300 bucks just for the tapes.
Oh yeah, now you've gotta buy a DLT drive as well... and if you plan on doing any real backups your not going to sit there and load 6 tapes in succession into the drive so your going to need a library of some kind. So, tack on 5000 bucks for a library... I'll make the assumption that your using a some free archival software, otherwise you'd have to tack on some big money for that as well...
So... 5300 dollar tape solution vs. 500 harddrive solution...
You choose...
Did anybody else find it funny that Wil Wheaton Submitted this story, or is it just me...
Try walking out of the lab and explaining what a multimasked register is... then you'll understand why this article is nice!
I thought that was you have when you suck at quake...
There's a gas station in cambridge massachusetts that sells biodiesel...
I went out and bought a copy of Qcast a couple of months ago and I like it. It works as adverstised. The only issue I've had is that you have to be very particular in how you encode the divx stuff, otherwise it scarf at the files.
The quick and dirty way is to just setup a cron job on your work machine that just rsync's all your important stuff (such /home /etc) into a directory strucuture called /machinename_backup (where machine name is your hostname). The inital sync will be very painful depending on your connection and the ammount of data you need to move, but after that it'll be probably under a minute. The trick is todo it often so you suddenly don't just have 3 gigs of new data on your drive all the sudden. I'd recommend doing it every 3 hours or something like that. Also if you want to get fancy and you've got the space you can also setup an aged system, where your script just makes a copy of the previous backup and then syncs to the copy and have a set of 7 of these so it's incremental, so if you screw something up, you can regress. Just ideas...
Wow, that's an amazingly bad patent, I'm suprised they got away with getting that through the system. I can only imagine their going to start lining up and trying to extort money out of oracle becuase the whole Oracle Apps suite would completely violate that patent I'm pretty sure.
Nope, it's no dream... it's a nightmare...It'll be an embraced and extended version of XML that'll totally break every single standard in the place, but then they'll just use their monopoly to cram it down everybody's throats... I can only imagine their hurridly trying to figure out a way to XML executable or some other wacked, half backed idea...
Which DEC building did you work in? The company I work for is in the Powdermill Rd. Building and our Lab's are still all sprinklers. However the way the system is setup, as soon as a sprinkler head goes off, the power shuts off.
From the sounds of the article, they left enough corn in the feed that it took seed, then planted soybeans with it, so next year they had soybeans and corn and were harvested together. Though I could be wrong.
How long does it take a program like SmartRipper to decode and extract the vobs from a disk? Definity less than 8 hours!
Actually their not really out those costs either since they can use that research on other products. I can imagine that their OCR software just got a huge boost by the hand writing recognition research done...
Imagine an NT login where you sign your name to login in...
Lots of things can be used with the techonology...