Ah yes, I remember the morning I got my gmail account. We had just returned the hounds to the pen and stabled the horses when the ambassador arrived with my invite. I was worried it would be over run with riffraff, but after reciving assurances from the Kennedys that invitations were strictly for the better class of people, I joined up, and golly I'm happy I did.
Seriously, it took me 5 min after I read about gmail to get an account. Have you no friends? There are _millions_ of invites out there.
You're about 3/4 of the way to my dream game. Add percistance and p2p multiplayer and you're there.
For a closed source project, the torque
engine from garage games would be a good start (Tribes 2). At $100 for an indie license, you get 3D w/huge maps, smooth transitions to indoor maps, network code, and vehicle physics. Or you could pay $250,000 for an Unreals engine.
The Quake 3 engine wouldn't really be suitable for use as a GTA type game because of the larger (outdoor) maps. The network code is probably going to be usefull to many projects, though.
You don't need to sample _everyone_ to get valid data. That's the point of statistics.
I would guess that google is a little skewed, though. People not useing google are probably useing the default search in their browser, ie; IE. People visiting w3 are probably more net savvy than others, which would also skew the numbers.
I'd say a general interest site like ebay would give a close to accurate picture.
I agree. Little about this story rings true. He hired a P.I. instead of the police because 'he didn't know who threats were from' and so the police wouldn't be any help? He gets emails and phone calls
AND a note on his door? I'm suprised he didn't get the head of a familly pet in his bed.
And his web site is empty also. A mailto link and some text does not a service make.
We read stories of people pissing of the 'hacker' community on a daily basis, but we rarely hear about death threats. This guy is a hoax.
The cavitation effect is tiny, and (if it is happening) happens in only a small % of implosions. It seems to only involve an atom or two for each implosion. The energy required to make the implosion in the first place is more than the energy released, and it can't scale to bigger implosions.
I guess none of that discounts the field as unworthy of pursuit, it's that 'hook up to battery, get more heat out than goes in' seems like a lot simpler tech.
Good point. We'll still use oil for plastics, lubricants, some fuels, etc.
OTOH, free elecricity would cause the (big picture) price of many materials to plummet. Titanium, for instance, is one of the Earths crusts most plentiful metals, yet it's very expensive because of the energy costs associated with refining it.
The current working theory is not cavitation, but some quantum effect from the deuterium atoms getting closely packed in the palladium crystal. I expectbe that any fusion tech would show localized behaviour, since all of your sample undergoing fusion at the same time would probably be a Bad Thing.
Even accepting that fusion does occur in cavitation (which I do), it's seems clear that this would be hard to turn into a self-sustaining reaction. This technology, OTOH, looks very promising.
The impact this could have is _huge_. No more wars for energy. Water through electrical desalination. No more pollution. New materials that are too expensive to use now. This would be the greatest technological advance in human history since the thumb.
Wow....a $19.95 value. This is makeing that iMac look unbeatable!
O.k. I didn't post in the first article about the iMac 'cause I was only going to be a fanboy anyway, but the new iMac looks like a great value, so why this story?
$2500 Canadian for a 20 inch lcd widescreen + 64bit + linux + comboDrive? Screw the bundling, sign me up!
It apears to not even have video, and only use a network attaches framebuffer, which means you not only have to but a fancy card seperatly, you need to buy some fancy hardware to install it in.
Considering that power consumption is a selling point of these things (@ ~220W for the 12x) and a high end video card can draw another 35 or so, I'm not suprised they didn't bundle one.
I'm going to guess 96 was the largest power of 2 ish number that still drew less than 1500 watts, the stated power, and the limit on a standard home/office circut.
I wasn't arguing for TV as only a positive impact. I'ts arguable that TV has made us fatter, with short attention spans, and played a part in the 'dumbing down' of society. It's also exposed us to other views and ideas that we might not have seen otherwise. Oh, and the Simpsons.
It's a much ignored fact the Gates was a good programmer.
One of the craziest hacks I've heard of was in an article by this guy who was hired to make some changes to an early calculator design. The calculator used a spinning magnetic drum for storage, a head that could read and write at the same time, and a buffer. It seems the original designer had extended the working memory of the machine by reading the 'OS' into the buffer while the head wrote data. The calculation would then have to finish in one revolution of the drum so the head could write it back in time for the execute loop to read it. This was all written in assembly with zero documentaion. It's generally considered a Bad Idea to store your boot RAM in a serial buffer.
Multiprocessing, for one thing. An OS would allow all sorts of cocurrent apps to run;network stacks, telephony, music streaming, etc. Not many console manufactures are willing to give up that control though.
Linux's design philosophy has grown a lot, and certainly nothing stopping it from doing the job.
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Seriously, it took me 5 min after I read about gmail to get an account. Have you no friends? There are _millions_ of invites out there.
You really have no idea how cheap storage is (and is getting) and how much advertisers are willing to pay for googles targeted ads.
It would make a lot of sense as long as google could target ads at the user of that free space.
For a closed source project, the torque engine from garage games would be a good start (Tribes 2). At $100 for an indie license, you get 3D w/huge maps, smooth transitions to indoor maps, network code, and vehicle physics. Or you could pay $250,000 for an Unreals engine.
The Quake 3 engine wouldn't really be suitable for use as a GTA type game because of the larger (outdoor) maps. The network code is probably going to be usefull to many projects, though.
I would guess that google is a little skewed, though. People not useing google are probably useing the default search in their browser, ie; IE. People visiting w3 are probably more net savvy than others, which would also skew the numbers.
I'd say a general interest site like ebay would give a close to accurate picture.
Instead of googleing for 'how to hack a phone', try 'how to use HTML tags' and 'how to spell'.
And his web site is empty also. A mailto link and some text does not a service make.
We read stories of people pissing of the 'hacker' community on a daily basis, but we rarely hear about death threats. This guy is a hoax.
I guess none of that discounts the field as unworthy of pursuit, it's that 'hook up to battery, get more heat out than goes in' seems like a lot simpler tech.
OTOH, free elecricity would cause the (big picture) price of many materials to plummet. Titanium, for instance, is one of the Earths crusts most plentiful metals, yet it's very expensive because of the energy costs associated with refining it.
Even accepting that fusion does occur in cavitation (which I do), it's seems clear that this would be hard to turn into a self-sustaining reaction. This technology, OTOH, looks very promising.
The impact this could have is _huge_. No more wars for energy. Water through electrical desalination. No more pollution. New materials that are too expensive to use now. This would be the greatest technological advance in human history since the thumb.
Dumbasses!
It would be easy to do all those calculations, assuming the probe hasn't hit an asteroid on the way in.
An yet someone modded it 'insightfull'.
A: Cancer.
Life sucks sometimes.
Titanium and the like are so....Pour le type inférieur de personnes, if you know what I mean.
O.k. I didn't post in the first article about the iMac 'cause I was only going to be a fanboy anyway, but the new iMac looks like a great value, so why this story?
$2500 Canadian for a 20 inch lcd widescreen + 64bit + linux + comboDrive? Screw the bundling, sign me up!
Considering that power consumption is a selling point of these things (@ ~220W for the 12x) and a high end video card can draw another 35 or so, I'm not suprised they didn't bundle one.
I'm going to guess 96 was the largest power of 2 ish number that still drew less than 1500 watts, the stated power, and the limit on a standard home/office circut.
I wasn't arguing for TV as only a positive impact. I'ts arguable that TV has made us fatter, with short attention spans, and played a part in the 'dumbing down' of society. It's also exposed us to other views and ideas that we might not have seen otherwise. Oh, and the Simpsons.
One of the craziest hacks I've heard of was in an article by this guy who was hired to make some changes to an early calculator design. The calculator used a spinning magnetic drum for storage, a head that could read and write at the same time, and a buffer. It seems the original designer had extended the working memory of the machine by reading the 'OS' into the buffer while the head wrote data. The calculation would then have to finish in one revolution of the drum so the head could write it back in time for the execute loop to read it. This was all written in assembly with zero documentaion. It's generally considered a Bad Idea to store your boot RAM in a serial buffer.
As I understand it, the 'information' moves instantly (FTL), but the ability to read it doesn't, hence no faste-than-light violation.
TV certainly has had a huge impact on our society, but the internet beats the rest, IMHO.
Linux's design philosophy has grown a lot, and certainly nothing stopping it from doing the job.
Then why can't I view flash on my Debian powerbook? Anyway, providing audio and moving pictures to a browser isn't what XML is for.