the t1000 exploded on that scene because it was hit with ther grnade launcher, not a shutgun blast.
As for why shoot and shatter the frozen T1000, 3 reasons:
1) it looked frikkin cool 2) gave them an excuse to play with a lot of mercury/molten solder. 3) gave them a chance to show us just how resilient the thing is
on #3, i had wondered, throughout the movie, if there was indeed some central unit somewhere in there that controlled the rest of the thing. That scene solved that puzzle -- no. Perhaps the t800 didn't realize how resilient it was either?
if it was unlocked with the keys in it and you could take it in such a way that i was still able to use it at the same time and not incur any additional charge or cause me legal troubles, then sure.
if it's locked, then no.
if you don't want me using your AP given all the creiteria above, then lock it.
but as someone else pointed out above, permission was asked of the equipment and granted. If your friend is sitting on the front lawn and i ask to use the power outlet and he says yes, am i commiting a crime? i believe it's your fault for not making it clear to your friend that he should say no.
Similarly, if your AP is happily giving access to anyone who __ASKS__ for it, it's your fault for not telling it to say no.
If the electricity were a flat-rate.. would you have such a problem with it? It's not costing you any more. afterall.
agreed. Sony is the de-facto standard in skydiving. There are people who use others, but the Sony DCR and TRV series are amazing little cameras and seem to hold up the best. I know jumpers whose cameras have held up through THOUSANDS of jumps at a few minutes per jump, plus ground footage.
How much footage are you shooting?
One guy i know has a VX-1000 that in addition to a few thousand jumps has survived a dip in the pond.
especially as a backup medium. 10,000 rewrite operations * even a 1 week rotation is... well... a hell of a lot longer than i plan on being at this job.
Even more important about this method, though, is that being solid state as it is, the media would seem to solve the longevity issues of data archiving that have been discussed here so frequently.
ummm...
Finally an application for rewriteable optical media that truly makes sense
the grandparent wasn't that long.... how could you manage to not retain that part?
I hadn't been to the site AT ALL.. applied the workaround, went to the site and it was blocked... then restarted firefox and lo and behold there i was staring at a false paypal.
i did RTFW, and a link off of the article which leads me to believe that they left a 0 off of the number.
Each brick of the planned prototype will contain 12 disks and up to 80GB of storage. When finished, the prototype will have three rows of nine bricks each stacked on top of one another, for a total storage capacity of about 26 terabytes, according to officials at the IBM Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif., which is developing the project.
Now, even here they say 80GB, BUT if you do the math for the figures further on, for an array of 9x3 cubes adding up to ~26TB, the 800gig number is just about in range of that.
Is there somethign myterious about hotmail that keeps OSS clients from accessing it? We have samba, but no hotmail interface.
I use TB but most of the peeople i could sell on it have at least 1 hotmail account that they CAN access through O and OE. In some cases it's their only mailbox.
IANAL either, but a friend of mine makes some spare cash finding parachutes that people have lost, or often have been stolen from wherever they fell. The idea of 'finders keepers' can work if proper steps are taken. For items over x value (i don't remember the value, but it's non-trivial for the average unemployed geek) one must turn it in to local authorities, have a report filed, and leave their own info along with it if they wish. After y amount of time, if said item is unclaimed by the original owner, it can be claimed by the finder.
At least, that's how he explained it to me, and he needs to be pretty up on these things when he knocks on someone's door to recover 'found' parachutes.
so what's the advantage to having it on a cluster? why not just run 8 simulations on 8 completely separate PCs?
do you have any idea how monstrously complex these simulations are and how long they take to process? the point of using a supercomputer is that these problems take too damned long (read: years) to run on a PC.
no, sorry.. commodity hardware just does not cut it in these types of situations.
no, because in a cloud simulation, for each raw unit of power that you use there's a vast amount of communication that has to go on between nodes before they can keep working (checking for collisions after recent movement of local particles that were computed on another node, for example) that is either orders of magnitude faster on a supercomputer or perhaps just not necessary due to a large shared memory in a supercomputer.
so yes, for each raw CPU cycle the cluster price is cheaper, but in simulations where the outcome of a computation on one processor affects the computation on other processors, many many many of those cycles are wasted in commodity clusters because they just can't talk fast enough between nodes to work efficiently and will therefore take far longer.
sure, the overall problem may be parallelizable, but when the underlying details are so bloody complex, you
indeed... vonage is 30-90 K BITS/sec, so it can be a little worse or quite a bit better than POTS, though i wonder how much fidelity can be gained from the extra bandwidth if all of the equipment is designed to work over POTS.
anyone have input on where the bottleneck is in voice traffic?
problem with that is the billing mechanisms of the cellphone providers. it doesn't matter how short a 1 min call is, it shows up as 1 min on my bill. Not sure about all cell networks, but i imagine they're all similar in scope. There was some telcom provider offering 6 second accuracy to their billing (not sure if it was Cell or Landline LD) which is better, but is still way more than such a service/device would need and therefore a waste.
that wasn't what my post was about. READ please. The post was about ME not giving out information via phone.
and if you bothered to read, you'd notice that HIS post was pointing out all the ways in which YOUR 'verification' systems can be easily beaten... then used that in comparison to EBAY to show how evern MORE insecure someone's personal info is with them, thus tying it back into the article, which i'm still not sure your post does at all.
Law enforcement getting your info is only one facet... the bigger one is how easy it seems to be to get the information, and they don't seem to make it hard to impersonate law enforcement, meaning that your info is there for basically anyone to get.
With as goofy as ebay's pocilies seem, i doubt a DNR would phase them in the slightest. An
I think the issue is not so much the memory cards themselves, but the peripherals that use that particular interface.
zB: With the plethora of palm-esque devices using CF, SM, and Springboard, there are tons of nifty add-ons out there for these devices. With sony being the only vendor that sells memory stick devices, and having so much less marketshare, there's less incentive for manufactures to make add-ons using memory stick.
I ran into this while looking for wireless add-ons for my old clie.. there just wasn't one for memory-stick, but there were several in other formats. I loved my Clie, but MS was limiting.
Speaking of Clies, does anyone know why they started going with backlighting instead of the front-lit screen on the 610? It was very visible no matter the lighting conditions, very slick.
the formats are equivalent, though it's entirely possible, as you said, that the optics, CCD and/or other componants aren't or weren't up to spec.
One thing that i think helped d8 for a while was that up until recently, consumer DV cameras (at last the sony line) were generally really small and had smaller lenses than their d8 counterparts. Once d8 internals got up to snuff, they often had BETTER quality than the smaller DV cameras if for nothing else than getting more light into the camera.
D8 tape is (not surprisingly) 8mm wide, whereas DV is 12.2mm for MiniDV (and full DV is 14.6 but we are comparing camcorder tapes) so there is a difference here. And you see it through a reduced bandwidth available - this translates into a slightly lower effective resolution, although Sony claims 520 lines for both DV and D8.
Hogwash. Yes DV and D8 have different tape widths, but they both use the same datarate (25mbps) compression and picture format. (See Chart)
D8 has a smaller tape width but it runs at a higher speed, so you end up with the same useable bandwidth.
For most purposes they're equal -- d8 is sony's answer to DV on 8mm.
You could just use it for storage of the movie, and copy it to your HDD, then play it from there, but that all remains to be seen.
If it's not fast enough to play DVD video (ie: can't read ~4 gig in ~2 hours), imagine how long ahead you'd have to plan on watching that movie to allow time to copy -- start the copy at lunch so you can watch the movie after dinner? No thanks.
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quote: Wow this was way nerdier than usual but I've always found the first two movies interesting.
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that's exactly what i was thinking when i wrote mine
the t1000 exploded on that scene because it was hit with ther grnade launcher, not a shutgun blast.
As for why shoot and shatter the frozen T1000, 3 reasons:
1) it looked frikkin cool
2) gave them an excuse to play with a lot of mercury/molten solder.
3) gave them a chance to show us just how resilient the thing is
on #3, i had wondered, throughout the movie, if there was indeed some central unit somewhere in there that controlled the rest of the thing. That scene solved that puzzle -- no. Perhaps the t800 didn't realize how resilient it was either?
if it was unlocked with the keys in it and you could take it in such a way that i was still able to use it at the same time and not incur any additional charge or cause me legal troubles, then sure.
if it's locked, then no.
if you don't want me using your AP given all the creiteria above, then lock it.
FWIW, i lock my car.
but as someone else pointed out above, permission was asked of the equipment and granted. If your friend is sitting on the front lawn and i ask to use the power outlet and he says yes, am i commiting a crime? i believe it's your fault for not making it clear to your friend that he should say no.
Similarly, if your AP is happily giving access to anyone who __ASKS__ for it, it's your fault for not telling it to say no.
If the electricity were a flat-rate.. would you have such a problem with it? It's not costing you any more. afterall.
agreed. Sony is the de-facto standard in skydiving. There are people who use others, but the Sony DCR and TRV series are amazing little cameras and seem to hold up the best. I know jumpers whose cameras have held up through THOUSANDS of jumps at a few minutes per jump, plus ground footage.
How much footage are you shooting?
One guy i know has a VX-1000 that in addition to a few thousand jumps has survived a dip in the pond.
especially as a backup medium. 10,000 rewrite operations * even a 1 week rotation is... well... a hell of a lot longer than i plan on being at this job.
Even more important about this method, though, is that being solid state as it is, the media would seem to solve the longevity issues of data archiving that have been discussed here so frequently.
i did retain that.... i was replying to this AC post with my snide remark.. sorry for the confusion
I'll take the blame for browsing at 0
ummm... Finally an application for rewriteable optical media that truly makes sense the grandparent wasn't that long.... how could you manage to not retain that part?
I hadn't been to the site AT ALL.. applied the workaround, went to the site and it was blocked... then restarted firefox and lo and behold there i was staring at a false paypal.
anyone how how to make it stick?
i did RTFW, and a link off of the article which leads me to believe that they left a 0 off of the number.
Each brick of the planned prototype will contain 12 disks and up to 80GB of storage. When finished, the prototype will have three rows of nine bricks each stacked on top of one another, for a total storage capacity of about 26 terabytes, according to officials at the IBM Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif., which is developing the project.
Now, even here they say 80GB, BUT if you do the math for the figures further on, for an array of 9x3 cubes adding up to ~26TB, the 800gig number is just about in range of that.
Is there somethign myterious about hotmail that keeps OSS clients from accessing it? We have samba, but no hotmail interface.
I use TB but most of the peeople i could sell on it have at least 1 hotmail account that they CAN access through O and OE. In some cases it's their only mailbox.
what's the story on hotmail support?
i believe that's incorrect.
IANAL either, but a friend of mine makes some spare cash finding parachutes that people have lost, or often have been stolen from wherever they fell. The idea of 'finders keepers' can work if proper steps are taken.
For items over x value (i don't remember the value, but it's non-trivial for the average unemployed geek) one must turn it in to local authorities, have a report filed, and leave their own info along with it if they wish. After y amount of time, if said item is unclaimed by the original owner, it can be claimed by the finder.
At least, that's how he explained it to me, and he needs to be pretty up on these things when he knocks on someone's door to recover 'found' parachutes.
do you have any idea how monstrously complex these simulations are and how long they take to process? the point of using a supercomputer is that these problems take too damned long (read: years) to run on a PC. no, sorry.. commodity hardware just does not cut it in these types of situations.
no, because in a cloud simulation, for each raw unit of power that you use there's a vast amount of communication that has to go on between nodes before they can keep working (checking for collisions after recent movement of local particles that were computed on another node, for example) that is either orders of magnitude faster on a supercomputer or perhaps just not necessary due to a large shared memory in a supercomputer. so yes, for each raw CPU cycle the cluster price is cheaper, but in simulations where the outcome of a computation on one processor affects the computation on other processors, many many many of those cycles are wasted in commodity clusters because they just can't talk fast enough between nodes to work efficiently and will therefore take far longer. sure, the overall problem may be parallelizable, but when the underlying details are so bloody complex, you
indeed... vonage is 30-90 K BITS/sec, so it can be a little worse or quite a bit better than POTS, though i wonder how much fidelity can be gained from the extra bandwidth if all of the equipment is designed to work over POTS. anyone have input on where the bottleneck is in voice traffic?
did something change where one can now CNAME the root of their domain? that'd make my life quite nice, but bins still won't let me do it...
problem with that is the billing mechanisms of the cellphone providers. it doesn't matter how short a 1 min call is, it shows up as 1 min on my bill. Not sure about all cell networks, but i imagine they're all similar in scope. There was some telcom provider offering 6 second accuracy to their billing (not sure if it was Cell or Landline LD) which is better, but is still way more than such a service/device would need and therefore a waste.
That's a huge release of energy.... now figure out how to harness that and reclaim some of what was put into the release in the first place.
actually, Toby relly got that ripped for the movie. The CG was the wimpy body in the mirror and the transition into the real body.
In fact the CG models of spider man were built to match him for continuity, iirc.
that wasn't what my post was about. READ please.
The post was about ME not giving out information via phone.
and if you bothered to read, you'd notice that HIS post was pointing out all the ways in which YOUR 'verification' systems can be easily beaten... then used that in comparison to EBAY to show how evern MORE insecure someone's personal info is with them, thus tying it back into the article, which i'm still not sure your post does at all.
Law enforcement getting your info is only one facet... the bigger one is how easy it seems to be to get the information, and they don't seem to make it hard to impersonate law enforcement, meaning that your info is there for basically anyone to get.
With as goofy as ebay's pocilies seem, i doubt a DNR would phase them in the slightest. An
Except that i just downloaded the thing averaging 1.4 megaBYTES per second.... they've got some serious pipe going on...
zB: With the plethora of palm-esque devices using CF, SM, and Springboard, there are tons of nifty add-ons out there for these devices. With sony being the only vendor that sells memory stick devices, and having so much less marketshare, there's less incentive for manufactures to make add-ons using memory stick.
I ran into this while looking for wireless add-ons for my old clie.. there just wasn't one for memory-stick, but there were several in other formats. I loved my Clie, but MS was limiting.
Speaking of Clies, does anyone know why they started going with backlighting instead of the front-lit screen on the 610? It was very visible no matter the lighting conditions, very slick.
I'm on your side - hogwash is a little harsh
;)
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the formats are equivalent, though it's entirely possible, as you said, that the optics, CCD and/or other componants aren't or weren't up to spec.
One thing that i think helped d8 for a while was that up until recently, consumer DV cameras (at last the sony line) were generally really small and had smaller lenses than their d8 counterparts. Once d8 internals got up to snuff, they often had BETTER quality than the smaller DV cameras if for nothing else than getting more light into the camera.
D8 tape is (not surprisingly) 8mm wide, whereas DV is 12.2mm for MiniDV (and full DV is 14.6 but we are comparing camcorder tapes) so there is a difference here. And you see it through a reduced bandwidth available - this translates into a slightly lower effective resolution, although Sony claims 520 lines for both DV and D8.
Hogwash. Yes DV and D8 have different tape widths, but they both use the same datarate (25mbps) compression and picture format. (See Chart)
D8 has a smaller tape width but it runs at a higher speed, so you end up with the same useable bandwidth.
For most purposes they're equal -- d8 is sony's answer to DV on 8mm.
You could just use it for storage of the movie, and copy it to your HDD, then play it from there, but that all remains to be seen.
If it's not fast enough to play DVD video (ie: can't read ~4 gig in ~2 hours), imagine how long ahead you'd have to plan on watching that movie to allow time to copy -- start the copy at lunch so you can watch the movie after dinner? No thanks.