Here is that paper from the RHIC (the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at Brookhaven National Lab:
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/docs/rhicreport.pdf
It it titled "Review of Speculative 'Disaster Scenarios' at RHIC".
However, they did shut it down for a bit to "upgrare some detectors". Probably true, but I did notice that instead of banging gold ions against gold, they are banging gold against deuteron. Makes you go "Mmmmmmm". I, for one, am glad that someone is thinking about this and perhaps weighing on the side of caution.
I still would feel better it was done beyond the orbit of Mars or further!
First, the Brookhaven National Laboratoy is NOT shutdown - see http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/about_BNL.htm). They are also doing heavy ion collider research, attempting to create a quark-gluon plasma and they have published a paper on why it will NOT create black holes or open the fabic of space and time and destory the earth. If I am wrong, please post the URL of the announcement - I missed it.
But this news that CERN might create black holes IS distrubing. Even if they do have a short, short half-life - what happens of the unexpected happens and one makes it beyond it's containment vacuum to the wall and starts sucking metal. It grows and becomes stable and aquires enough mass to drop to the ground. It will not stop. It will suck matter, grow, and drop to the center of the planet and bounce around like a marble in a hot var of butter. Then it will settle down and devour the earth, releasing massive amounts of energy as it sucks up the nickel, iron, and maybe uranium at the center. The core will probably protect us from the radiation....while it lasts. We will probably all die in volcanos and earthquakes as the planet is compressed and the mantle collapses. We will be all long gone before the event horizon is exposed.
Yep, this really sounds like something that should be done beyond the orbit of Mars. Maybe Pluto.
Not only for a great article that can easily be appiled to a number of types of instrutmentions but for not whining about the Slashdot Effect and instead, going out and finding mirrors for your Good Stuff!
They must have improved the LCD. The main problem with mine is really sucks wind - the hardest to read LCD that I have ever since. And it only has two colors - gray and light gray. I should throw the P.O.S. away.
Anyone know the specs on this bird? I have a ole Toshiba laptop with an 8086 and 320x200 B&W LCD, MS-DOS 2.11 embedded for less than this. No hard drive, through, floppy only. A 720K floppy, that is.
A drive implies a disk that spins with a read/write head flying track to track. This watch has solid state memory. It is NOT a drive, it is a watch with memory in it.
Without a doubt, this spuds are enemies of freedom everywhere. It just gets worst and worst. The backlash from all this will insure that this Nazis are doomed.
Damn, what a pit bulldog you are! I have been aware of the CPU-RAM bottleneck for about 25 years now. But who cares? It is just not relevant to this thread.
Media cost. Right now, for example, you can find 10 DVD-R's for 47 gigabytes of backup for about $10-15. And if you only have 600-700 mb to burn and share with a friend, there are those dirt cheap CD-R's. I cannot imagine that nanotube RAM would be THAT cheap anytime soon.
1) I get the CPU-RAM bottleneck - so what? It is NOTHING compared to the RAM-hard drive bottleneck, nothing at all. One step at a time. Maybe the same nanotube tech that shrinks RAM can shrink CPU logic and it all fit on a nice single chip with optical I/O.
2) Who the HELL said a damn thing about priating DVD's? You have a filthly mind. The Blu-Ray DVD burner (or better) is to backup the 128 or gigabytes of RAM. Sure it is non-volatile, but you still want to backup your data and archive stuff. A second reader lets you watch movies or listen to music during other activites. I am sure writing a big DVD is long process. You might want to hear In-a-gidda-da-vida, baby, after your halfway through.
...the four amplifers per speakers are listed as:
250 W for treble
250 W for mid range
1000 W for upper bass
1000 W for lower bass
So, this implies a crossover filter, right? Then the power of the amps do not ADD, then they MULTIPLY! 250x250x1000x1000=62,500,000,000. That's effectively 62 and a half BILLION watts of audio power. And this only gets you 108 db? These puppies should be rocking an arena! They should liquify protoplasm at the first 20 yards or so! This is Disaster Area's sound system (read Douglas Adams)! My first guess is these are not RMS Watts - except that IS required by the FTC in the U.S. Second, they are the World's Most Inefficent Drivers.
Yea, but if this terabit/cm2 RAM ever matches the price of hard drives, you will not need ANY hard drives. A terabit is 128 gigabytes, Bucky! All you will need is two bays one for a Blu-Ray DVD burner and another for a reader.
Screw these winey little babies! Doesn't anyone appreciate free publicity???? Instead, check out www.archos.com. Somewhere, I here these little jewels are quite hackable, too. And gawd, get real! Do you really except to have a noise floor at 120 db when you have mini-mikes in your hat at a live show? 24-bit/96 kHz only makes senses in a well built studio.
The gawddamn Supreme Court ruled on this during the Reagan-Bush era, after they packed the court, I think. Biotech firms lobbied for a change in law to allow the patenting of both genetic information and lifeforms. I think that you must either sequence the entire genom of a lifeform in order to patent or have modified it to get it a unique and profitable characteristic. So, if you engineer a Zebra with red and green stipes and you want to rent them out, your in.
You do not own the right to your own DNA genom since (I assume) you were not the first to sequence it. I don't know if there is an exception for human DNA.
>But considering the speed of technology, won't >computers shrink to a size where a CD/DVD would >be considered too large to be a real storage >medium?
I don't think so. As long that there is a keyboard designed for human fingers, there will be room for a slot for a 5.25 disk. Now, if the vocal input-output thang actually becomes a reality, then maybe there is a problem. So put it in your 32" 16:9 LCD display.
I think the biggest danger would if the media cartel got enough power to dicate that all storage must be at servers online, so that they can scan for copyright violations. Then all computers except "diskless workstations" would be outlawed. The RIAA and MPAA would cream in their jeans at this.
Me, I think that we need to return to the original copyright laws of 14 years with a single 14 year renewal. Then anything before 1975 would be in the public domain. DAMN SONNY BONO!
THANK YOU! I hate this binary thinking, that there are only two choices. I am a very satistied Archos customer and enjoying the freedom of putting any damn file that I want on my little battery powered USB minidisk. You will never have this freedom from Creative Labs or Apple!
The BIG difference between DVD and 8-track is that any future drives will probably be backwards compatiable. Witness the fact that DVD-ROM players and DVD writers all work with CD-ROM. This never happen with 8-track as the physicality would not allow it and backwards compatibility was not thought to be as important back then.
I believe the 5.25 optical disk will be around for at least 20 years or more. Also ahead make the change to digital now. Future machines will make a digital to digital conversion so much easier than an analog to digital conversion as VHS will only play at 1X for this purpose.
Er, I think you miss the point or I am just no communicating. Sorry. I am talking traffic loading up the servers. Maybe I should say "Google Effect" instead of verbizating Google. Gawdknows there is far too much verbizating in the world today.
...I think you too could have a decent home studio:
Melody Assistant - the best software deal on the planet for $15. Multitrack recording and mixing, full feature MIDI sampler, sheet music editing and production, effects and many formats supported. See http://www.myriad-online.com Goldwave - for editing and processing stereo audio. $40. Not as full featured as CoolEdit but it is only $40. Goto http://www.goldwave.com I have nothing to do with these companies except for being a very satisfied customer. And both companys ask that you download a demo and try before you buy!
"The journey of 10,000 miles must begin with a single step" And you may laugh about "Steamboat Wille" and such but consider if the original copyright law was in effect, everything up to 1975 would part of the public domain. IMHO, there is a lot of good movies and most of the best music and books known to humankind that was created before 1975.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is that paper from the RHIC (the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at Brookhaven National Lab:
http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/docs/rhicreport.pdf
It it titled "Review of Speculative 'Disaster Scenarios' at RHIC".
However, they did shut it down for a bit to "upgrare some detectors". Probably true, but I did notice that instead of banging gold ions against gold, they are banging gold against deuteron. Makes you go "Mmmmmmm". I, for one, am glad that someone is thinking about this and perhaps weighing on the side of caution.
I still would feel better it was done beyond the orbit of Mars or further!
First, the Brookhaven National Laboratoy is NOT shutdown - see http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/about_BNL.htm). They are also doing heavy ion collider research, attempting to create a quark-gluon plasma and they have published a paper on why it will NOT create black holes or open the fabic of space and time and destory the earth. If I am wrong, please post the URL of the announcement - I missed it.
But this news that CERN might create black holes IS distrubing. Even if they do have a short, short half-life - what happens of the unexpected happens and one makes it beyond it's containment vacuum to the wall and starts sucking metal. It grows and becomes stable and aquires enough mass to drop to the ground. It will not stop. It will suck matter, grow, and drop to the center of the planet and bounce around like a marble in a hot var of butter. Then it will settle down and devour the earth, releasing massive amounts of energy as it sucks up the nickel, iron, and maybe uranium at the center. The core will probably protect us from the radiation....while it lasts. We will probably all die in volcanos and earthquakes as the planet is compressed and the mantle collapses. We will be all long gone before the event horizon is exposed.
Yep, this really sounds like something that should be done beyond the orbit of Mars. Maybe Pluto.
Not only for a great article that can easily be appiled to a number of types of instrutmentions but for not whining about the Slashdot Effect and instead, going out and finding mirrors for your Good Stuff!
Bravo!
They must have improved the LCD. The main problem with mine is really sucks wind - the hardest to read LCD that I have ever since. And it only has two colors - gray and light gray. I should throw the P.O.S. away.
...by Costa-Gavras, about a government that banned, among many other things, the letter "Z".
Bugs imitating movies. Omgawd, are they REALLY building Skynet???????
Anyone know the specs on this bird? I have a ole Toshiba laptop with an 8086 and 320x200 B&W LCD, MS-DOS 2.11 embedded for less than this. No hard drive, through, floppy only. A 720K floppy, that is.
I would buy a drive that does not contain a spinning disk with a R/W head. I would not give my money to lying idiots.
A drive implies a disk that spins with a read/write head flying track to track. This watch has solid state memory. It is NOT a drive, it is a watch with memory in it.
Quit butchering the language.
Oh, I actually think they could...but only after extenstive amounts of serious brain grafts. But it ain't gonna happen.
Without a doubt, this spuds are enemies of freedom everywhere. It just gets worst and worst. The backlash from all this will insure that this Nazis are doomed.
Yeap, why follow standards when you can just make a new one!
AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
This is the Tower of Babel all over again.
Damn, what a pit bulldog you are! I have been aware of the CPU-RAM bottleneck for about 25 years now. But who cares? It is just not relevant to this thread.
This is my final word on the issue.
Media cost. Right now, for example, you can find 10 DVD-R's for 47 gigabytes of backup for about $10-15. And if you only have 600-700 mb to burn and share with a friend, there are those dirt cheap CD-R's. I cannot imagine that nanotube RAM would be THAT cheap anytime soon.
Not that I would mind!
1) I get the CPU-RAM bottleneck - so what? It is NOTHING compared to the RAM-hard drive bottleneck, nothing at all. One step at a time. Maybe the same nanotube tech that shrinks RAM can shrink CPU logic and it all fit on a nice single chip with optical I/O.
2) Who the HELL said a damn thing about priating DVD's? You have a filthly mind. The Blu-Ray DVD burner (or better) is to backup the 128 or gigabytes of RAM. Sure it is non-volatile, but you still want to backup your data and archive stuff. A second reader lets you watch movies or listen to music during other activites. I am sure writing a big DVD is long process. You might want to hear In-a-gidda-da-vida, baby, after your halfway through.
...the four amplifers per speakers are listed as:
250 W for treble
250 W for mid range
1000 W for upper bass
1000 W for lower bass
So, this implies a crossover filter, right? Then the power of the amps do not ADD, then they MULTIPLY! 250x250x1000x1000=62,500,000,000. That's effectively 62 and a half BILLION watts of audio power. And this only gets you 108 db? These puppies should be rocking an arena! They should liquify protoplasm at the first 20 yards or so! This is Disaster Area's sound system (read Douglas Adams)! My first guess is these are not RMS Watts - except that IS required by the FTC in the U.S. Second, they are the World's Most Inefficent Drivers.
Anyone know? Where am I wrong?
Yea, but if this terabit/cm2 RAM ever matches the price of hard drives, you will not need ANY hard drives. A terabit is 128 gigabytes, Bucky! All you will need is two bays one for a Blu-Ray DVD burner and another for a reader.
Daddy like!
...and their laptops in Congress and the White House care a flying iota what anyone on Slashdot thinks.
We are doomed.
Screw these winey little babies! Doesn't anyone appreciate free publicity???? Instead, check out www.archos.com. Somewhere, I here these little jewels are quite hackable, too. And gawd, get real! Do you really except to have a noise floor at 120 db when you have mini-mikes in your hat at a live show? 24-bit/96 kHz only makes senses in a well built studio.
The gawddamn Supreme Court ruled on this during the Reagan-Bush era, after they packed the court, I think. Biotech firms lobbied for a change in law to allow the patenting of both genetic information and lifeforms. I think that you must either sequence the entire genom of a lifeform in order to patent or have modified it to get it a unique and profitable characteristic. So, if you engineer a Zebra with red and green stipes and you want to rent them out, your in.
You do not own the right to your own DNA genom since (I assume) you were not the first to sequence it. I don't know if there is an exception for human DNA.
Civilization was knew we it ended in 1980.
>But considering the speed of technology, won't >computers shrink to a size where a CD/DVD would >be considered too large to be a real storage >medium?
I don't think so. As long that there is a keyboard designed for human fingers, there will be room for a slot for a 5.25 disk. Now, if the vocal input-output thang actually becomes a reality, then maybe there is a problem. So put it in your 32" 16:9 LCD display.
I think the biggest danger would if the media cartel got enough power to dicate that all storage must be at servers online, so that they can scan for copyright violations. Then all computers except "diskless workstations" would be outlawed. The RIAA and MPAA would cream in their jeans at this.
Me, I think that we need to return to the original copyright laws of 14 years with a single 14 year renewal. Then anything before 1975 would be in the public domain. DAMN SONNY BONO!
THANK YOU! I hate this binary thinking, that there are only two choices. I am a very satistied Archos customer and enjoying the freedom of putting any damn file that I want on my little battery powered USB minidisk. You will never have this freedom from Creative Labs or Apple!
The BIG difference between DVD and 8-track is that any future drives will probably be backwards compatiable. Witness the fact that DVD-ROM players and DVD writers all work with CD-ROM. This never happen with 8-track as the physicality would not allow it and backwards compatibility was not thought to be as important back then.
I believe the 5.25 optical disk will be around for at least 20 years or more. Also ahead make the change to digital now. Future machines will make a digital to digital conversion so much easier than an analog to digital conversion as VHS will only play at 1X for this purpose.
Er, I think you miss the point or I am just no communicating. Sorry. I am talking traffic loading up the servers. Maybe I should say "Google Effect" instead of verbizating Google. Gawdknows there is far too much verbizating in the world today.
...I think you too could have a decent home studio:
Melody Assistant - the best software deal on the planet for $15. Multitrack recording and mixing, full feature MIDI sampler, sheet music editing and production, effects and many formats supported. See http://www.myriad-online.com
Goldwave - for editing and processing stereo audio. $40. Not as full featured as CoolEdit but it is only $40. Goto http://www.goldwave.com
I have nothing to do with these companies except for being a very satisfied customer. And both companys ask that you download a demo and try before you buy!
"The journey of 10,000 miles must begin with a single step" And you may laugh about "Steamboat Wille" and such but consider if the original copyright law was in effect, everything up to 1975 would part of the public domain. IMHO, there is a lot of good movies and most of the best music and books known to humankind that was created before 1975.
FREEDOM!
NOW!