(disclaimer -- I don't necessarily believe the article, but...)
Why do you think the energy ever needs to get back in the hydrogen atom? The site says that the hydrino gets bound in 'novel' compounds thus making it (I believe) stable. Just because energy is released doesn't mean it has to be returned to its source. If the resulting particle is unstable then it will react easily with something, that's all.
If I can make n (the energy level) arbitrarily close to zero, I can get an infinite amotn of energy out of each atom!
Uh...crack much? If a hydrogen atom has finite energy then that's the most you can get from it. No one is saying they can get infinite energy this way (except you).
Sure, but don't you then want to get all that lovely Metadata out of the email headers, and break-out the attachments, and 'hook' all that up again in the "database"? It still means you need a new format for storing the mail. Whether it is a traditional database, or a database-cum-filesystem is the next step (or a parallel one).
Right! Why are we still Base64 encoding mail? This is to support old (non-existent?) gateways that couldn't support 8-bit encoding. I say screw em if any still exist. Make em update, save bandwidth, who cares about space?
I think the problem there is that anyone outside your mail server's influence still sends the mail to 250 people, even if they are all in your mail server's domain. To really support that kind of system you need a smarter SMTP protocol such that sendmail or whatever can say "here is a message, send it to these 250 people, since I can see they all belong to you". AFAIK sendmail/SMTP can't do that today.
I don't use it at all in Windows, but in Linux (console) the left Windows key takes you to the previous VT, the right one takes you to the next. I use that quite a bit since it is a bit easier than Ctrl-#.
1) RE: "(Back in the early '80s, nobody at Intel thought their microprocessors would one day be used for servers; the inherent architecture of the i386 family shows that clearly.)" What the heck is he talking about?
2) The article said that all instructions are assumed to work in parallel thus Explicitly Parallel (EPIC). Isn't that backwards? Wouldn't that be Implicit parallelism? I thought that you bundled instructions together to indicate that they could execute in parallel.
Sensitive Dependence is only one part of Chaos. It describes what happens to some systems when you restart them with slightly different initial conditions. But there exist systems that are chaotic without this artificial restarting. However, the principle is the same - feedback into the system (internal or external) can cause apparently random jumps in behavior. There are systems that are chaotic over certain ranges of inputs, but that are stable in most cases. I hope that our climate is in one of the more stable regions.
Look, I thought that the whole point if a chaotic system is that is it unpredictable. It may stay within well defined boundaries, but from any one point to the next in phase space is (can be) basically random. If so, how can you say that weather is chaotic, yet MAY be predictable?
If you define weather prediction as "what will it be like in L.A. next week?" then I say it is unpredictable.
If you define climate as "what was the weather like in North America over the last 50 years?" then you may have a chance. But the last 50 years doesn't necessarily guarantee that the next 50 years will be anything like it.
IDNRTP, but the site is CLIMATEprediction not WEATHERprediction. As another poster noted, Weather surely is chaotic, Climate may not be. Note the 'may'.
I can't stand it when Global-Warmists say "it's warmer this year than last" and think that is proof of humans causing it. Climate changes over time. Get used to it!
Try this. Using the Gimp or other suitable application, create an image of just one color (I did 1000x1000 red just for the sheer fun of it). Save it as JPEG with the Highest quality (low-loss) and the lowest. Also save it as PNG (and/or GIF if you care). In my case PNG was smaller (at the highest compression, not the default), but not that much. PNG was 4K, both JPEGs were 6K.
Note that - lossless JPEG compression on solid colors is GOOD!
Uhhh, I don't think so. Phil Katz created PKARC as a better/faster version of ARC. ARC's creator sued (not Unisys, SEA something or other) and won. Phil changed his algorithm and released PKZIP. Lost the battle, won the war (no one uses ARC anymore). I think that both ARC and ZIP's compression schemes are very LZW-ish, but not the same.
Not to ignore the comic intent of this post, but did you know that TIFF files can contain JPEG images? I think most people don't know that TIFF is really just a container for other image formats. I'm really surprised that it hasn't taken off more for Web use for this reason.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that JPG's compression works by making pixels 'more the same' using DCT stuff and then uses standard (LZW-ish) compression on the result. The lossy part is the DCT algorithm which just makes the image more compressible. If you set the DCT parameters such that nothing is thrown out you can still get significant compression on images that are highly repetetive (such as clipart).
That may be true, but the article said nothing about providing services. It just said that the access would be provided. Then the ISP's would use the municipal wire to provide services. So the current limitations may still hold. However, you should have more choices because the cost to get in the game for an ISP just dropped big time.
I also think that in order to put more of the cost burden on those that actually use the connection, part of the ISP fee paid by the customer would also go to maintaining the connection/infrastructure. Kinda like the gas tax that goes to maintain the roads.
Hmmm, let's see here. The Low Latency patch makes the slowest parts of the kernel faster or breaks them into smaller pieces. The Preempt Patch allows the kernel to be interrupted in lots of places. Exactly how could combining these NOT be a good idea?
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(disclaimer -- I don't necessarily believe the article, but...)
Why do you think the energy ever needs to get back in the hydrogen atom? The site says that the hydrino gets bound in 'novel' compounds thus making it (I believe) stable. Just because energy is released doesn't mean it has to be returned to its source. If the resulting particle is unstable then it will react easily with something, that's all.
If I can make n (the energy level) arbitrarily close to zero, I can get an infinite amotn of energy out of each atom!
Uh...crack much? If a hydrogen atom has finite energy then that's the most you can get from it. No one is saying they can get infinite energy this way (except you).
Hydrinos aren't fuel. They're byproduct. The Creation of Hydrinos releases energy. RTFA
Pull my finger.
I thought it was Leonard Bernstein
Uhh, the ambient air temp was 70 degrees Celsius, or Farenheit? 70C is pretty damn hot, 70F is far less than 47C.
Sure, but don't you then want to get all that lovely Metadata out of the email headers, and break-out the attachments, and 'hook' all that up again in the "database"? It still means you need a new format for storing the mail. Whether it is a traditional database, or a database-cum-filesystem is the next step (or a parallel one).
Right! Why are we still Base64 encoding mail? This is to support old (non-existent?) gateways that couldn't support 8-bit encoding. I say screw em if any still exist. Make em update, save bandwidth, who cares about space?
I think the problem there is that anyone outside your mail server's influence still sends the mail to 250 people, even if they are all in your mail server's domain. To really support that kind of system you need a smarter SMTP protocol such that sendmail or whatever can say "here is a message, send it to these 250 people, since I can see they all belong to you". AFAIK sendmail/SMTP can't do that today.
I don't use it at all in Windows, but in Linux (console) the left Windows key takes you to the previous VT, the right one takes you to the next. I use that quite a bit since it is a bit easier than Ctrl-#.
SONY. Because caucasians are just too damn tall.
I thought that I was the only one who saw that movie.
1) RE: "(Back in the early '80s, nobody at Intel thought their microprocessors would one day be used for servers; the inherent architecture of the i386 family shows that clearly.)" What the heck is he talking about?
2) The article said that all instructions are assumed to work in parallel thus Explicitly Parallel (EPIC). Isn't that backwards? Wouldn't that be Implicit parallelism? I thought that you bundled instructions together to indicate that they could execute in parallel.
Yes you do. You just don't know it.
Sensitive Dependence is only one part of Chaos. It describes what happens to some systems when you restart them with slightly different initial conditions. But there exist systems that are chaotic without this artificial restarting. However, the principle is the same - feedback into the system (internal or external) can cause apparently random jumps in behavior. There are systems that are chaotic over certain ranges of inputs, but that are stable in most cases. I hope that our climate is in one of the more stable regions.
Hmmm, moderate as Funny, or Informative?
I laughed at least. The mental picture of all those cups of tea...
Look, I thought that the whole point if a chaotic system is that is it unpredictable. It may stay within well defined boundaries, but from any one point to the next in phase space is (can be) basically random. If so, how can you say that weather is chaotic, yet MAY be predictable?
If you define weather prediction as "what will it be like in L.A. next week?" then I say it is unpredictable.
If you define climate as "what was the weather like in North America over the last 50 years?" then you may have a chance. But the last 50 years doesn't necessarily guarantee that the next 50 years will be anything like it.
Right?
IDNRTP, but the site is CLIMATEprediction not WEATHERprediction. As another poster noted, Weather surely is chaotic, Climate may not be. Note the 'may'.
I can't stand it when Global-Warmists say "it's warmer this year than last" and think that is proof of humans causing it. Climate changes over time. Get used to it!
Try this. Using the Gimp or other suitable application, create an image of just one color (I did 1000x1000 red just for the sheer fun of it). Save it as JPEG with the Highest quality (low-loss) and the lowest. Also save it as PNG (and/or GIF if you care). In my case PNG was smaller (at the highest compression, not the default), but not that much. PNG was 4K, both JPEGs were 6K.
Note that - lossless JPEG compression on solid colors is GOOD!
Uhhh, I don't think so. Phil Katz created PKARC as a better/faster version of ARC. ARC's creator sued (not Unisys, SEA something or other) and won. Phil changed his algorithm and released PKZIP. Lost the battle, won the war (no one uses ARC anymore). I think that both ARC and ZIP's compression schemes are very LZW-ish, but not the same.
Not to ignore the comic intent of this post, but did you know that TIFF files can contain JPEG images? I think most people don't know that TIFF is really just a container for other image formats. I'm really surprised that it hasn't taken off more for Web use for this reason.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that JPG's compression works by making pixels 'more the same' using DCT stuff and then uses standard (LZW-ish) compression on the result. The lossy part is the DCT algorithm which just makes the image more compressible. If you set the DCT parameters such that nothing is thrown out you can still get significant compression on images that are highly repetetive (such as clipart).
I thought ALL slashdot readers were Wired. or is that weird?
Where N is a ridiculously large number in no way related to 1.
That may be true, but the article said nothing about providing services. It just said that the access would be provided. Then the ISP's would use the municipal wire to provide services. So the current limitations may still hold. However, you should have more choices because the cost to get in the game for an ISP just dropped big time.
I also think that in order to put more of the cost burden on those that actually use the connection, part of the ISP fee paid by the customer would also go to maintaining the connection/infrastructure. Kinda like the gas tax that goes to maintain the roads.
....Wait for it........
Hmmm, let's see here. The Low Latency patch makes the slowest parts of the kernel faster or breaks them into smaller pieces. The Preempt Patch allows the kernel to be interrupted in lots of places. Exactly how could combining these NOT be a good idea?