Back in the days there was a talk about how a google is so big until the physical universe cannot come up with enough things to even come close to it: mass of solar system is ~10^23 total number of particles is somewhere around ~10^43 if you break down all the way to planks constant, you will hit around 10^67 ish... but finally we figured out there is 10^120 worthe of information eh?...
so now lets see what kind of analysis on the universe we can do until it comes to the order of a googleplex!
slashdot is supposed to be for geeks:
i would like to see a DIY flywheel backup system; efficiency is on the order of 95-98% if you use magnetic bearings...
there is an exellent IEEE article in the IEEE spectrum magazine a while back -- it's not online though; few links here:
Flywheel energy storageMagnetic Bearing stuff
AMD used to be the "cut price leader" before... i think they can patent the "massive price cut" method, and sue intel over it -- or at lease keep them in court until they get a 300mm /.13u plant going at full speed;
i mean... if PanIP patents "e-commerce," hell... at lease AMD's got more legal power at enforcing silly patents
FYI: (i know it's about half way off-topic but...)
Mendel faked his data on genes (hmm... signifigantly altered); we don't give him flak about it... his error margin was zero! supposedly non of his plants even, say, got eaten by a rabbit =)
hmm... My memory must not be serving me; I distinctly remember my comp.sci prof from a long while back telling stories about these wonderful materials came from experiments where they were looking for materials suitable for re-entry / nozzles / etc. (the guy worked on the apollo project so give him some credit)
the first (two) words out of my mouth when i saw the article was "holy sh**"... thought i'd share that.
while, yes, there will be a ton of technical challenges, but then the technology base from it will propel everything to a whole new level -- asteroid mining / zero-G manufacturing (for things like aerogels) / etc. so even if in the end we don't get to mars, this is still a very good opportunity for science to advance; this is, by the way, exactly how we have teflon today =)
... except that ATI still have crappy-a** drivers -- I use one, so I know =)
besides there are other people who agrees on this; a couple monthes ago VoodooExtreme(maybe) ran an interview with John Carmack and it's the same story -- Nvidia makes solid drivers nobody else can match.
well -- back then the original TNT really did'n compete with the 3Dfx stuff at the time (SLI voodoo2s) -- i seriously considered getting one (pair) except it was way too much (close to 500 bux) while the TNT, albeit a bit slower, was darn cheap. Nowadays I shun away from Nvidia for exactly the same reason too -- Radeons, while not exactly FAST FAST, is dollar for dollar a better bargain. What is it with "king of the graphics hill" companies that think they can charge 3-400 bux for a video card anyway? (and no i am not all that tempted by the restricted MX series, for the same money ATI is faster/more featured anyway)
I wonder if anyone else is in the same (poor) boat here?
you will be providing the lazy-boys w/ a hole cut out of the head rest, as well as the necessary implants to the back of my head where a spiky-thingy can be shoved, right? and for the hardcore there is always the "donate some spare electricity" version complete with plexiglass goo-bucket and full interface including "liquified dead" being "intraveneously fed" into my blood stream?
I am kinda late in reply -- so no karma for me -- but for the record: i wonder how they test these suckers as they come off the toaster (haha, toaster)?
usually any chip would require a custom program to be run on a (very expensive, i might add) tester that will test the thing; writing the program is not cheap, i wonder how they factor in those costs? I wonder if anybody beside me on slashdot thought of this as a serious challenge?
i would like to point out that there is no theory that indicate that to get to one velocity, you must travel through all the intermittent velocities (i.e. accelerate); for all we know the gentleman just bumped up on the speed ladder, inertia free...
Well... as a friend has pointed out to me -- this is a BARGAIN time for highly trained russian aerospace engineers; China is grabbing them by the bucketfull; and the US should too (we have currently no indication that the US is.
now, before anyone gets all patriotic / egotistic and claim that the US have smarter engineers anyway -- the russians have came up with a ton of stuff that the US tries to copy; their research in (other areas than aerospace, b/c i am late for work and do not have the time to sit down and think about this) ground effect aircraft / super-cavitation under-water crafts, etc, completely blows the us counterpart out of the water; besides that - russia makes huge rockets (N1), they never flew successfully, but dam* they are big and a pleasure to stare at... =)
I know this might be redundant and all -- and i KNOW people here don't go around installing XP for sh*ts and giggles... but in case that you ever did install XP, you would remember that it requires a total of 2.7 clicks of the mouse and absolutely no choices are given.
AOL program introduces a small bug (probabbly something to do with calendar) (see previous story) and all the Simpsons we want to record turns out to be "Dawson's creek" instead...
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Back in the days there was a talk about how a google is so big until the physical universe cannot come up with enough things to even come close to it:
mass of solar system is ~10^23
total number of particles is somewhere around ~10^43
if you break down all the way to planks constant, you will hit around 10^67 ish...
but finally we figured out there is 10^120 worthe of information eh?...
so now lets see what kind of analysis on the universe we can do until it comes to the order of a googleplex!
slashdot is supposed to be for geeks: i would like to see a DIY flywheel backup system; efficiency is on the order of 95-98% if you use magnetic bearings... there is an exellent IEEE article in the IEEE spectrum magazine a while back -- it's not online though; few links here: Flywheel energy storage Magnetic Bearing stuff
AMD used to be the "cut price leader" before... .13u plant going at full speed;
i think they can patent the "massive price cut" method, and sue intel over it -- or at lease keep them in court until they get a 300mm /
i mean... if PanIP patents "e-commerce," hell... at lease AMD's got more legal power at enforcing silly patents
FYI: (i know it's about half way off-topic but...)
Mendel faked his data on genes (hmm... signifigantly altered); we don't give him flak about it...
his error margin was zero! supposedly non of his plants even, say, got eaten by a rabbit =)
Of course, you have to admit you use AOL.
well... i wager that 98% of the people here uses AOL -- in some way or another. Just think AIM; besides... all thoes turner movies -- do they count?
hmm... My memory must not be serving me;
I distinctly remember my comp.sci prof from a long while back telling stories about these wonderful materials came from experiments where they were looking for materials suitable for re-entry / nozzles / etc. (the guy worked on the apollo project so give him some credit)
but okay. thanks for setting it straight
the first (two) words out of my mouth when i saw the article was "holy sh**"... thought i'd share that.
while, yes, there will be a ton of technical challenges, but then the technology base from it will propel everything to a whole new level -- asteroid mining / zero-G manufacturing (for things like aerogels) / etc. so even if in the end we don't get to mars, this is still a very good opportunity for science to advance; this is, by the way, exactly how we have teflon today =)
but damn... i wanna go
... except that ATI still have crappy-a** drivers -- I use one, so I know =)
besides there are other people who agrees on this; a couple monthes ago VoodooExtreme(maybe) ran an interview with John Carmack and it's the same story -- Nvidia makes solid drivers nobody else can match.
well -- back then the original TNT really did'n compete with the 3Dfx stuff at the time (SLI voodoo2s) -- i seriously considered getting one (pair) except it was way too much (close to 500 bux) while the TNT, albeit a bit slower, was darn cheap. Nowadays I shun away from Nvidia for exactly the same reason too -- Radeons, while not exactly FAST FAST, is dollar for dollar a better bargain. What is it with "king of the graphics hill" companies that think they can charge 3-400 bux for a video card anyway? (and no i am not all that tempted by the restricted MX series, for the same money ATI is faster/more featured anyway)
I wonder if anyone else is in the same (poor) boat here?
you will be providing the lazy-boys w/ a hole cut out of the head rest, as well as the necessary implants to the back of my head where a spiky-thingy can be shoved, right? and for the hardcore there is always the "donate some spare electricity" version complete with plexiglass goo-bucket and full interface including "liquified dead" being "intraveneously fed" into my blood stream?
cool
I am kinda late in reply -- so no karma for me -- but for the record: i wonder how they test these suckers as they come off the toaster (haha, toaster)?
usually any chip would require a custom program to be run on a (very expensive, i might add) tester that will test the thing; writing the program is not cheap, i wonder how they factor in those costs? I wonder if anybody beside me on slashdot thought of this as a serious challenge?
there are also TONS of star-trek science people, you know... TLC runs a special once in a while =)
i would like to point out that there is no theory that indicate that to get to one velocity, you must travel through all the intermittent velocities (i.e. accelerate); for all we know the gentleman just bumped up on the speed ladder, inertia free...
Well... as a friend has pointed out to me -- this is a BARGAIN time for highly trained russian aerospace engineers; China is grabbing them by the bucketfull; and the US should too (we have currently no indication that the US is.
now, before anyone gets all patriotic / egotistic and claim that the US have smarter engineers anyway -- the russians have came up with a ton of stuff that the US tries to copy; their research in (other areas than aerospace, b/c i am late for work and do not have the time to sit down and think about this) ground effect aircraft / super-cavitation under-water crafts, etc, completely blows the us counterpart out of the water; besides that - russia makes huge rockets (N1), they never flew successfully, but dam* they are big and a pleasure to stare at... =)
I know this might be redundant and all -- and i KNOW people here don't go around installing XP for sh*ts and giggles... but in case that you ever did install XP, you would remember that it requires a total of 2.7 clicks of the mouse and absolutely no choices are given.
SuSE, on the other hand...
definitely philosophical extremes here.
AOL program introduces a small bug (probabbly something to do with calendar) (see previous story) and all the Simpsons we want to record turns out to be "Dawson's creek" instead...