The MIT folks did nothing to answer that as they the mirrors and the "ship" were motionless until ignition.
Actually, the MIT target was not motionless if you consider the movement of the Earth meant the target point moved 36'/hr. Thus, the fall-point was moving along the length of the "ship" the entire experiment. Whenever I hear this myth retold, I take it as given that the ships were at anchor and so fairly static depending on wind and sea currents.
Take into account the strength of the Grecian Sun and I have a reasonable degree of confidence this could be achieved. To me the question is whether the mirrors we use today are unfairly superior, but a polished metal mirror can be surprisingly good, the only draw back is oxidation. A benefit of a metal mirror is that a slight curvature is easily accomplished.
Mr Rosing might enjoy his Wikipedia reference...
From Wikiquote
Wayne Rosing born in approximately 1947, and still alive as of 27 February 2004, is Google's Vice President of engineering.
Yes folks, someone born in ~1947 can amazingly still be alive in 2005! So surprising is this fact that it requires special emphasis. Ah, the computer industry.:)
It was Steve Jobs who brought us the Mac too, he recognised it...
Hang on there. Steve Jobs can take credit for seeing the Macintosh project taken to market, but Jef Raskin deserves all the credit for the initial concept (and name, complete with misspelling) and early development. It was only after Jobs was refused the position of project leader for the Lisa that he came across the small Mac research project, consisting of about 10 people Raskin had collected, and set about forcibly taking it over.
Fear the 20 something millionaire major share holder with bad management skills and a serious case of narcissism.
Yes there are a few carnivorous marsupials, but they not all carrion eaters. You might expect more threat from non-indigenous animals such as foxes, cats and pigs. If this were Tasmania, then I would have had concern for devils (since this is their specialty) and lets not forget birds. In any case, hanging the carcass by a rope from a tree branch would make the chances of it lasting a few days very likely. Even a partly consumed carcass would have been convincing evidence of a beast.
There is no evidence in the report that a tail was supplied to anyone, just that samples were reportedly taken from the tail.
Catching and killing an animal -- the near equivalent of yeti rumours -- and then disposing of the body in a non-recoverable manner, sounds entirely improbable except in extreme circumstance. This is country Victoria, not exactly deepest Africa.
Australia doesn't have any large carnivores. It is very unlikely that if you absolutely had to leave a carcass behind (which in this instance makes the entire story sound dubious) that it would be gone the following day. This is about the time I would expect you would need to obtain assistance to recover it.
Well he said it was coming towards him and then turned to the left, so the report isn't paradoxical. Still, why would you obtain practically irrefutable evidence of such a contenious subject and then dispose of the majority of it? It would be substantially easier to fake the photo and supply some tissue samples, than to present a fresh carcass.
Sure dragging it back to your vehicle would be a chore, but he obviously must have had some plan for doing so since he was hunting deer. I might not want to lug something through the forest, but I think I would have been sufficiently motivated in this case. It's a sensational find if it can be proven, though I'd rather not see anything killed. At the very least, he could have left it somewhere to be easily recovered.
Aye, the web is already littered with hardware review sites with pseudo-scientific analyses, as if they need to make it onto the front page of Slashdot. Computers made from commodity parts -- that anyone with half a brain can buy and assemble -- does not make interesting copy. Yes, the best parts together make a fast computer, this hasn't changed in 15 years.
That's what I deserve for skimming after encountering "irregardless". As for "mod funny" as a tip off, well that requires the post get old enough to receive that moderation. Perhaps it already had it, I wasn't reading with too much thoroughness that day.
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
Interesting review, but some of the negative comments seems very much relative to the classic American perspective. At least this is what I gather when driving a rental in the US, where the manufacturer's focus seems to be isolating the driver from the road as much as possible. The contrast between that "ideal" and a small VW would be pretty stark even without the fuel saving options.
The reactor is not intended for power generation, it is simply a research reactor and not particularly useful as that either. ANSTO is a fairly silly dinosaur-like organisation, so these sorts of comments aren't that surprising.
When I read the parent post, I get visions of Homer -- hand over heart -- singing something akin to a national anthem while watching the Amercian embassy toilet counter-act the Coriolis effect of the Southern Hemisphere
that everyone will refer to Windows Vista as "Vista".
That leaves context as the only descriminator. For the majority of people whose understanding of computers is tenuous at best, I doubt this contextual difference will be obvious.
Its Microsoft's influence that makes this a larger problem than if it were simply two typically sized companies.
I wouldn't say Commodore tried going into video (and 3d), it was more of an unexpected fluke. For the most part, Commodore the company stumbled around for a decade. They had some great developers, but more often than not, it seemed they were thwarted by bad business processes and/or decision makers up top.
It was the particular hardware design of the Amiga that positioned it for the application area it ended up dominating for a time. However, it was much more the efforts of third party hardware and software vendors that kept Amigas relevant.
Newtek, Great Valley Products, Scala, the developers of Imagine, Real3d, and all the various genlock manufacturers to name a few.
Without these companies, things would never have gotten off the ground. You know you're failing to meet demands as a computer manufacturer when the standard route to a high end system was to buy a 16bit machine and virtually superceed its entire internal hardware with expansion cards.
In the case of the Amiga, for much longer than it should have been, you bought an A2000 which came with a 16bit CPU, space for 8MB of 16bit memory, at best 4096 colours (a bit of a hack) and a SCSI controller. You would immediately buy an expansion card containing a 32bit CPU/FPU (ya you youngins who take their FPU so much for granted its not mentioned in separation from the integer part of the core these days), space for 8MB of 32bit memory and a faster SCSI controller from GVP and some sort of 24bit frame buffer. A couple years later the framebuffer was bumped for a Newtek Video Toaster.
The Amiga itself became increasingly subordinate, and when the A3000 came out it was a bit too little too late. The A4000 release date was just pointless.
This is all coming from someone who was a card carrying Amiga zealot and still has his A2000 sitting in the closest.
The detente due to the advent of nuclear weapons was entirely selfishly motivated. Not only did it mean the annhiliation of both sides, but before proliferation it was also a very heavy hammer not applicable to many situations, and in all cases carried with it the problem if nuclear fallout.
we can send in a planeload of small tracked vehicles to do the "dirty work" of urban warfare.
...and potentially lose the deterent and historically shared commonality that the cost of war is largely measured in lives lost for either side of a conflict.
The capacity to wage war has rarely, if ever, been precisely equal. As a highly technological approach, the capacity to wage war in this manner will not be shared by all.
If the time comes, I certainly would hope that the powers that be have also reached a sufficient level of rationalism and ethics -- and the resolve to adhere to it -- to be in possession of such a capacity.
I use Win32 and Linux side by side every day, and have not noticed any speed difference between the two build targets. I regularly browse Slashdot and don't see render times like you're experiencing, and I am a fairly impatient guy when it comes to waiting for computers.
I cannot speak of the difference between IE6 and FF since I so rarely run IE.
Canadian SWAT and amry units are mobilizing in an effort to avert catastrophe. It is reported that at this very minute someone somewhere could very well be peacefully sitting in a chair with a cup of coffee reading this book illegally. It could be a family member, your best friend, or anyone. Citizens should keep their eyes pealed for any suspicious characters with gleeful smiles on their faces -- seemingly lost in an imaginary world -- that might be concealing the illicit material beneath their clothing.
Fully fledged 3D programs were available for the personal computer market in the mid eighties. Amgia's flag ship packages were all ported to x86 by the early 90s (to join 3D Studio), making the PC 3D software market a very tempting alternative, leaving mostly a gap in GPU speed for modelling for the next 5 years.
The real allure of SGI was their great dedication to offering absolutely the best workstation you could get at the time (if money was not an object). Maya was also a very good product, but holy cow did you pay for it.
As soon as the efficacy of commodity CPU based beowulf render farms was demonstrated (soon after the flagship products ported to x86) the need to buy all your CPU cycles from SGI dwindled dramatically.
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Take into account the strength of the Grecian Sun and I have a reasonable degree of confidence this could be achieved. To me the question is whether the mirrors we use today are unfairly superior, but a polished metal mirror can be surprisingly good, the only draw back is oxidation. A benefit of a metal mirror is that a slight curvature is easily accomplished.
A very good point and an embarrassing oversight by myself. What you should expect from a grubby Sydney-sider like myself I suppose. :)
Fear the 20 something millionaire major share holder with bad management skills and a serious case of narcissism.
Yes there are a few carnivorous marsupials, but they not all carrion eaters. You might expect more threat from non-indigenous animals such as foxes, cats and pigs. If this were Tasmania, then I would have had concern for devils (since this is their specialty) and lets not forget birds. In any case, hanging the carcass by a rope from a tree branch would make the chances of it lasting a few days very likely. Even a partly consumed carcass would have been convincing evidence of a beast.
Catching and killing an animal -- the near equivalent of yeti rumours -- and then disposing of the body in a non-recoverable manner, sounds entirely improbable except in extreme circumstance. This is country Victoria, not exactly deepest Africa.
Australia doesn't have any large carnivores. It is very unlikely that if you absolutely had to leave a carcass behind (which in this instance makes the entire story sound dubious) that it would be gone the following day. This is about the time I would expect you would need to obtain assistance to recover it.
Bah, misquotes. Lindy Chamberlain was shouting "took my baby" not "ate", no getting off for the sake of humor. :)
Sure dragging it back to your vehicle would be a chore, but he obviously must have had some plan for doing so since he was hunting deer. I might not want to lug something through the forest, but I think I would have been sufficiently motivated in this case. It's a sensational find if it can be proven, though I'd rather not see anything killed. At the very least, he could have left it somewhere to be easily recovered.
Maybe I am just getting old...
That's what I deserve for skimming after encountering "irregardless". As for "mod funny" as a tip off, well that requires the post get old enough to receive that moderation. Perhaps it already had it, I wasn't reading with too much thoroughness that day.
Interesting review, but some of the negative comments seems very much relative to the classic American perspective. At least this is what I gather when driving a rental in the US, where the manufacturer's focus seems to be isolating the driver from the road as much as possible. The contrast between that "ideal" and a small VW would be pretty stark even without the fuel saving options.
The reactor is not intended for power generation, it is simply a research reactor and not particularly useful as that either. ANSTO is a fairly silly dinosaur-like organisation, so these sorts of comments aren't that surprising.
When I read the parent post, I get visions of Homer -- hand over heart -- singing something akin to a national anthem while watching the Amercian embassy toilet counter-act the Coriolis effect of the Southern Hemisphere
Does anyone else hug the utility of wget and strings when attempting to overcome streaming links? :)
That leaves context as the only descriminator. For the majority of people whose understanding of computers is tenuous at best, I doubt this contextual difference will be obvious.
Its Microsoft's influence that makes this a larger problem than if it were simply two typically sized companies.
It was the particular hardware design of the Amiga that positioned it for the application area it ended up dominating for a time. However, it was much more the efforts of third party hardware and software vendors that kept Amigas relevant.
Newtek, Great Valley Products, Scala, the developers of Imagine, Real3d, and all the various genlock manufacturers to name a few.
Without these companies, things would never have gotten off the ground. You know you're failing to meet demands as a computer manufacturer when the standard route to a high end system was to buy a 16bit machine and virtually superceed its entire internal hardware with expansion cards.
In the case of the Amiga, for much longer than it should have been, you bought an A2000 which came with a 16bit CPU, space for 8MB of 16bit memory, at best 4096 colours (a bit of a hack) and a SCSI controller. You would immediately buy an expansion card containing a 32bit CPU/FPU (ya you youngins who take their FPU so much for granted its not mentioned in separation from the integer part of the core these days), space for 8MB of 32bit memory and a faster SCSI controller from GVP and some sort of 24bit frame buffer. A couple years later the framebuffer was bumped for a Newtek Video Toaster.
The Amiga itself became increasingly subordinate, and when the A3000 came out it was a bit too little too late. The A4000 release date was just pointless.
This is all coming from someone who was a card carrying Amiga zealot and still has his A2000 sitting in the closest.
The detente due to the advent of nuclear weapons was entirely selfishly motivated. Not only did it mean the annhiliation of both sides, but before proliferation it was also a very heavy hammer not applicable to many situations, and in all cases carried with it the problem if nuclear fallout.
Heh, so you jogged in formation to that chant? At least their upfront about mentally preparing soldiers for commiting potential future atrocities.
...and potentially lose the deterent and historically shared commonality that the cost of war is largely measured in lives lost for either side of a conflict.
The capacity to wage war has rarely, if ever, been precisely equal. As a highly technological approach, the capacity to wage war in this manner will not be shared by all.
If the time comes, I certainly would hope that the powers that be have also reached a sufficient level of rationalism and ethics -- and the resolve to adhere to it -- to be in possession of such a capacity.
My inner 9 year old girl is offend you insensitive clod!
I cannot speak of the difference between IE6 and FF since I so rarely run IE.
I would make two ridiculous typos...
Canadian SWAT and amry units are mobilizing in an effort to avert catastrophe. It is reported that at this very minute someone somewhere could very well be peacefully sitting in a chair with a cup of coffee reading this book illegally. It could be a family member, your best friend, or anyone. Citizens should keep their eyes pealed for any suspicious characters with gleeful smiles on their faces -- seemingly lost in an imaginary world -- that might be concealing the illicit material beneath their clothing.
The real allure of SGI was their great dedication to offering absolutely the best workstation you could get at the time (if money was not an object). Maya was also a very good product, but holy cow did you pay for it.
As soon as the efficacy of commodity CPU based beowulf render farms was demonstrated (soon after the flagship products ported to x86) the need to buy all your CPU cycles from SGI dwindled dramatically.