"The US economy in free fall grows at a rate of 4%/yr. China will have to grow at 10% for the next 100 years to equal it in size."
Your calculation is incorrect. US GDP in 2006 was 5 times of China. With your assumption that US economy grows 4%/yr, and Chinese 10%/yr.
5 * (1.04)^n = (1.1)^n n = number of years = 29
Therefore with those grow rates it would take China 29 years to overtake US economy. In reality the difference in their GDP grow rates is greater, so it should happen much sooner.
"Some have suggested that all these recent stories about alien microbes/bacteria are in fact being deliberately leaked in order to mentally prepare the public for forthcoming REAL announcements concerning extraterrestrials".
There are also leaks from the sources, that the announcement is scheduled for 2006.6.6
You my friend obviously do not know history. At that time, Poland was divided between among three invaders: Prussia, Austria, and Russia. Saying that it belonged to those countries is either ignorant or insensitive. It was one of the darkest times in Poland's history.
"Wouldn't the condensation fry the hardware [in a fridge] ?"
Hot objects inside a fridge should not be covered with condansation. When you bring a cold objects from a fridge to the outside, then they will be covered with condensation water. You can try it with an icepack.
Ser, no offence, but you are very stubborn. Diamond needs minimum 2200 degrees F for the process to get started. I AM a jeweler with diploma and many years of experience in the trade.
So it is nice to have an opinion, but it is better to keep it to yourself if it is uninformed. Why don't you try to google some information, or visit some jewelry shop before you post?
Re:Some musings on Diamond as a metastable materia
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Diamond Age Coming Soon
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· Score: 2, Informative
Actually you are wrong. A diamond can be heated for several minutes, without losing its shape or color, and during all that time it can be so hot that it would emit white light. And yes, it would be so hot inside out.
"Silver solder melts at a fairly low temperature"
Yes, tin or lead based silver solders can melt around 400 F, but that kind of solders are not very useful for jewelry. Jewelers use hard silver solders, which melt at 1400-1600 F, and silver melts at around 1700-1760 F. Usually for diamonds more appropriate is gold or platinum, and solders for those metals melt in even higher temperatures.
Re:Some musings on Diamond as a metastable materia
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Diamond Age Coming Soon
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· Score: 4, Informative
"At a few hundred degrees the transformation [of diamond] would occur in seconds instead of thousands of years, and you would end up with very expensive bits of graphite."
In air (which is about 20% oxygen) diamonds will withstand heat to around 1560 degrees Fahrenheit. It is not necessary for jewelers to remove diamonds from jewelry prior to soldering it with a blowtorch. If you coat a diamond with boric acid, you can heat it to higher temperatures then that.
20 usec is way too much for a lot of hard real time apps. Way, way too much.
You Ser obviously have absolutly no idea about Real Time Operating Systems. On my PentiumI 166MHz with Linux + RTAI I have max jitter 9usec (110 000/sec), and this is as fast as expensive Real-Time Operating Systems like QNX, or VxWorks can deliver.
Also, Linux can not meet the real-time reqirements of many applications (feel free to flame me, but it is definately true, despite any "real-time layers" that have been added to Linux). For example, I work on a product that has 512k of SRAM, with a processor clock speed of 156 MHz, and it's "clock tick" has to be less than 40 usec (typical times of Linux include 5 msec).
Linux with RTAI on 150MHz CPU has no problem with delivering Hard Real-Time with jitter not exceeding 20 usec (It can be much less).
"He famously refused to employ graduates on the basis that they had been brainwashed and couldn't think for themselves any more."
Actually what James Dyson said indicates that it is the other way around:
"We employ a lot of graduates straight from university. The basic reason for this is that they are unsullied. They haven't been strapped into a suit and taught to think by a company with nothing on its mind but short-term profit and early retirement. We want people who are creative and courageous. And we have faith in their ability to make a difference".
... If you are unwilling to compromise on your "zero-cost" requirement, then you will never be rid of spam. It's as simple as that.
Even if people pay a penny for each email spammers would still pay nothing for sending those millions of mails. The hacked and trojaned Johny Broadband would pay their bills.
It is amazing how vigorously slashdoters can discuss any made-up story.
The "prediction" was produced by stupid assumption that the rate of growth will be 235% each and every year.
2002 5%
2003 12%
2004 28%
2005 65%
And listen to that (oh my God!) With this rate in 2006 it will be 153%!
In other words we will have 53% more Windows installation on banking machines then total number of banking machines on the planet. Such a thing can only be achieved by a very, very powerful company.
Now, the going radio theory is that there is a problem near the Niagra New York/ Canada border.
The problem was NOT near Niagara, but in Manhattan NY, where power station have got overloaded and started the domino effect black out around Great Lakes.
Slashdot editors placed wrong logos with the story. I can see the "Caldera", "Linux", "Software", "Businesses", "The Almighty Buck", and "News", but the most important one is missing the "It's funny. Laugh." logo. This is the one that should be at the top.
You are right it can be compressed, but the reality seems to be different.
In the ordinary RGB "loss less compression" there is only one value for green color for each pixel.
Look at the first example of pattern on CCD There are two green sensors for each pixel (marked in bold).
GRGRGR BGBGBG
GRGRGR
This is additional data stored in raw file. Proper "loss less compression" should preserve such information.
Also a placement of each color sensor inside a pixel is additional data, which is not included in the ordinary "loss less compression". This is sub-pixel information. The third example shows that.
Slashdot Mirror
"The US economy in free fall grows at a rate of 4%/yr. China will have to grow at 10% for the next 100 years to equal it in size."
Your calculation is incorrect.
US GDP in 2006 was 5 times of China.
With your assumption that US economy grows 4%/yr, and Chinese 10%/yr.
5 * (1.04)^n = (1.1)^n
n = number of years = 29
Therefore with those grow rates it would take China 29 years to overtake US economy.
In reality the difference in their GDP grow rates is greater, so it should happen much sooner.
"Some have suggested that all these recent stories about alien microbes/bacteria are in fact being deliberately leaked in order to mentally prepare the public for forthcoming REAL announcements concerning extraterrestrials".
There are also leaks from the sources, that the announcement is scheduled for 2006.6.6
You my friend obviously do not know history. At that time, Poland was divided between among three invaders: Prussia, Austria, and Russia. Saying that it belonged to those countries is either ignorant or insensitive. It was one of the darkest times in Poland's history.
Map: Partition of Poland
...ok, ok, I am NOT buying watch TV until it comes with at least 60" plasma screen, AND remote control.
I am NOT buying watch TV until it comes with at least 60" plasma screen.
Period.
"How is THAT a robot? It's a dummy that inflates with hot air..."
I agree. A dummy that inflates with hot air is not a robot, but a pilot.
Have you seen the movie "Airplane!" ?
Send up the Guvernator,
he did well on the Moon.
"Wouldn't the condensation fry the hardware [in a fridge] ?"
Hot objects inside a fridge should not be covered with condansation. When you bring a cold objects from a fridge to the outside, then they will be covered with condensation water. You can try it with an icepack.
Ser, no offence, but you are very stubborn. Diamond needs minimum 2200 degrees F for the process to get started. I AM a jeweler with diploma and many years of experience in the trade.
So it is nice to have an opinion, but it is better to keep it to yourself if it is uninformed. Why don't you try to google some information, or visit some jewelry shop before you post?
Diamond does change into graphite at a significant rate
at higher temperatures, and above 1,500 degrees Celsius [~2700F], the reaction is quite rapid.
Actually you are wrong. A diamond can be heated for several minutes, without losing its shape or color, and during all that time it can be so hot that it would emit white light. And yes, it would be so hot inside out.
"Silver solder melts at a fairly low temperature"
Yes, tin or lead based silver solders can melt around 400 F, but that kind of solders are not very useful for jewelry. Jewelers use hard silver solders, which melt at 1400-1600 F, and silver melts at around 1700-1760 F.
Usually for diamonds more appropriate is gold or platinum, and solders for those metals melt in even higher temperatures.
"At a few hundred degrees the transformation [of diamond] would occur in seconds instead of thousands of years, and you would end up with very expensive bits of graphite."
In air (which is about 20% oxygen) diamonds will withstand heat to around 1560 degrees Fahrenheit. It is not necessary for jewelers to remove diamonds from jewelry prior to soldering it with a blowtorch. If you coat a diamond with boric acid, you can heat it to higher temperatures then that.
Diamonds Lasting Forever
What other numbers are famous or valuable?
911
It is pretty famous.
20 usec is way too much for a lot of hard real time apps. Way, way too much.
You Ser obviously have absolutly no idea about Real Time Operating Systems. On my PentiumI 166MHz with Linux + RTAI I have max jitter 9usec (110 000/sec), and this is as fast as expensive Real-Time Operating Systems like QNX, or VxWorks can deliver.
RTAI
RTAI Shedulers
RTAI: Real-Time Application Interface
Also, Linux can not meet the real-time reqirements of many applications (feel free to flame me, but it is definately true, despite any "real-time layers" that have been added to Linux). For example, I work on a product that has 512k of SRAM, with a processor clock speed of 156 MHz, and it's "clock tick" has to be less than 40 usec (typical times of Linux include 5 msec).
Linux with RTAI on 150MHz CPU has no problem with delivering Hard Real-Time with jitter not exceeding 20 usec (It can be much less).
RTAI
RTAI Shedulers
RTAI: Real-Time Application Interface
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"He famously refused to employ graduates on the basis that they had been brainwashed and couldn't think for themselves any more."
Actually what James Dyson said indicates that it is the other way around:
"We employ a lot of graduates straight from university. The basic reason for this is that they are unsullied. They haven't been strapped into a suit and taught to think by a company with nothing on its mind but short-term profit and early retirement. We want people who are creative and courageous. And we have faith in their ability to make a difference".
Dyson Culture
Dyson Appliances CEO James Dyson
"The most insidious are the ones we don't even know about."
Like what?
Even if people pay a penny for each email spammers would still pay nothing for sending those millions of mails. The hacked and trojaned Johny Broadband would pay their bills.
Yes, and the link is:
Report Published by Celent
It is amazing how vigorously slashdoters can discuss any made-up story.
The "prediction" was produced by stupid assumption that the rate of growth will be 235% each and every year.
2002 5%
2003 12%
2004 28%
2005 65%
And listen to that (oh my God!) With this rate in 2006 it will be 153%!
In other words we will have 53% more Windows installation on banking machines then total number of banking machines on the planet. Such a thing can only be achieved by a very, very powerful company.
Now, the going radio theory is that there is a problem near the Niagra New York/ Canada border.
The problem was NOT near Niagara, but in Manhattan NY, where power station have got overloaded and started the domino effect black out around Great Lakes.
Slashdot editors placed wrong logos with the story. I can see the "Caldera", "Linux", "Software", "Businesses", "The Almighty Buck", and "News", but the most important one is missing the "It's funny. Laugh." logo. This is the one that should be at the top.
I really recommend this reading: The StringBuffer Myth
You are right it can be compressed, but the reality seems to be different.
In the ordinary RGB "loss less compression" there is only one value for green color for each pixel. Look at the first example of pattern on CCD There are two green sensors for each pixel (marked in bold).
GRGRGR
BGBGBG
GRGRGR
This is additional data stored in raw file. Proper "loss less compression" should preserve such information.
Also a placement of each color sensor inside a pixel is additional data, which is not included in the ordinary "loss less compression". This is sub-pixel information. The third example shows that.
R-G-B-R-G
-B-R-G-B-
R-G-B-R-G
-B-R-G-B-