Now you have me wondering if anyone has ever tried building a reactor where the fuel was gaseous, say U235Hexafluoride at a proper compression and reactor vessel configuration...
Unfortunately I suspect this would have some of the same drawbacks as using hydrofluric acid as the heated fluid in an ordinary reactor, plus a few.
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Well, one way to harvest electricity more directly would be to use the heated gas from the reactor to power an MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) generator.
However, to do this with any efficency the operating temperature of the reactor would have to be raised slightly to plasma temperatures. This could present engineering challenges.
If the P4 even has any SMP circuitry, what makes you think it was ever debugged by Intel? Not to mention the lack of SMP chipsets.
Only makes sense considering the immense P4 memory bandwidth requirements would double with two CPUs. Intel probably knows two PIII/933s would outdo two P4/[next MHz generation] anyway.
I want to see what a dual Athlon does against Dual PIIIs before I would spend my money on a pair. Let's see how fast they compile a Linux Kernel with make -j 3 then...
When MOS Technology introduced the 6502 processor, famous mainly for past use in Apple II's, it performed as well at 1Mhz as Intel's 8080 did at its max 2 Mhz. This caused MITS, the maker of the early Altair 8800, to pass the 6502 up as "too slow" in favor of Motorola's sluggish 6800 which used a faster clock.
[...]The Ospery is a plane which requires computer control. No human being is able to compensate or be aware of all of the servos and control surfaces on that aircraft[...]
Example: Program is reset by pilot pushing the button. It can't know why. Reads control and servo positions. Should it try and adjust anything or not?
Remember this was an emergency situation where a physical hydraulics failure caused the reset light to come on. How is the computer supposed to set the hydraulics not to jerk when it first attempts to control the plane with those faulty hydraulics?
If the pilot was not supposed to use his judgment as to whether to press the reset button or not there would be no need for the button and light instead of a direct reset. The pilot was under control of the reset process and chose to punch the button.
Why was that button there, is the question I have. For the flight computer to do what you seem to expect it has to be able to handle an immense number of failure scenarios, and must have the data, sensors, and expert systems programming to detect and compensate for them. Almost, it has to be smarter than a human. It can't be, really.
That's why the pilot is there, get it? In case the light has to be ignored.
In my experience, the designs of systems tend to get fscked up by companies who promise more than they're willing to pay for in the way of engineering, than by the engineers who do what they're told. If it is possible with the budget, time, and technology in the first place - things are often required which are not possible, or wise - like the anti-helocopter cannon that was supposed to anticipate random target movements, or the front and rear positraction ordered on the prototype Hummer vehicles that would jerk the steering wheel out of your hand on turns.
At least in California, they're on notice now that they have to give 30 days of warning before shutting down (as Northpoint was told by the PUC after shutdowns had occurred).
At the point that they only have enough money + accounts receivable within that 30 days, are they technically bankrupt? Or only when the sale of their assets (presumably delayed a month too) will result in less than the cost of maintaining this public obligation, plus what the DSL provider owes creditors? IANAL so's I'se askin'.
that the only safe recommendation my company can make to our clients is to go with Pac Bell DSL. Whatever else you can say about it, they are extremely likely to be around a year from now.
Is that when they'll finally get the line installed?
Salesman called trying to sell me AT&T local phone service 30 minutes after my network was cut off becauise they boutght Northpoint's hardware but wouldn't support the customer accounts.
It was probably one of the more memorable calls of his day. I suspect that AT&T has just generated a large number of no-longer prospective customerslike myself who promptly called up their phone company and changed their long distance provider, and who will no longer consider buying any service whatsoever from them if it can be avoided.
The head/neck wasn't designed for many, rapid, precise movements all day long[...]
Well, actually, the lips and tongue would seem to offer the most axes of motion in the general area, and judging by many people I know they can be run continuously.
Surely, the indignity of sitting making monkey faces into a computer monitor for hours on end is preferable to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, or in this case perhaps a sprained neck from playing Quake, as well as for ease and precise control alone. Though it might not help the public "geek" image much.
Imagine the new dawn that could be coming; the mouth contortions proud young computer users would display on greeting as a demonstration of their lingual dexterity; Tourette Syndrome sufferers no longer discriminated aganst in a world of functional facial tics and involuntary noises; special oral piercings and jewelry designed to give better tracking and S/N ratios all the rage.
Interface these to cellphones for WAP control, and there would be the added bonus of watching drivers or passers-by providing entertainment for others in nearly all modern social situations.
Oh, I wasn't saying they weren't slime. Is this really a surprise from a company that forbids the software companies that do pay to subscribe to their service from also accessing other ones, that they might refuse to share their database with competitors they are trying to cut out other ways? "We settled that, now we're dickering over the price".
"Contributor Beware", is the message. Don't contribute your time to adding to databases that refuse to guarantee your work will not be appropriated for their own profit.
Hey, maybe Gracenote now owes those contributors to it's service minimum wage, like AOL "Volunteers" are suing for? Wouldn't that be a laugh?
A remote telephone, or a telephone function in the TV's remote, would allow muting to take place. It might give a boost to interest in Linux Telephony support too.
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Yes, that's the way it works. They call 800x600 resolution high resolution TV monitors. Ridiculous a that sounds to someone who knows anything about computer displays.
The really sad part of this is that you can put together a nice TV/computer/DVD player/Digital VCR box using something like ATI's Radeon All-in-Wonder, with really high-res monitors - but the software drivers that are needed to perform these functions are all available for MS Windows but not Linux...
A remarkable proposal... penalize people who provide a service for free by forcing them to continue it in perpetuity.
I can only wonder, does this apply to your own free website, if you have one? Should you (and all others with such sites) be required to keep shelling out money to whoever is hosting those websites, even when you (they) do not want to anymore?
Example: Some photographer takes a snapshot of a tree just off a coastal highway that's been growing in that spot for some three hundred years. Sells its likeness in photos, sculpture, company logos. Photographer goes bananas when they see someone else photographed the same tree later, and sue to prevent any commercial use except their own.
Recent trip to Frys. Goal: get cable to attach mini-headphone type jack on computer speakers to the two RCA-type audio jacks on my VCR. Hmm. Problem. Despite about 4 walls of audio cables apparently randomly scattered in the store, looks like only cable with mini-headphone socket is an extension - attached to another mini-headphone-plug.
Sales staff "assistance": "looks like we don't have any of those." Repeated pointing to pointless extension cable mentioned. "You don't want to do that, those are computer speakers and you need audio speakers [points to speakers costing 1 order of magnitude more than current ones]." "You can't do that!" "You'll void the warranty! [asked if he meant the speakers or VCR warranty, he wasn't sure]" Etc cetra.
Sure, I bought the components to make the cable there with no problem myself. But it looks like by manipulating the availability of interfaces, undesired "convergence" may be limited to that which happens only in the hands of consumers who can handle a soldering iron, if not cable assembly tools.
Face it, Utah Liquor laws are stupid. Forget the restrictions, the loopholes are destructive or just silly.
Supposedly Utah has no bars, just private clubs. But these "private clubs" are ridiculously loose. Walk into one, you are asked if you have a membership. Nope? Okay, the waitress calls out "will anyone sponsor this person/these people?" Half a dozen patrons you never met before raise their hands, you're in. And can bring your kids in! Sheesh. Talk about a lack of state responsibility towards the children involved.
I remember visiting the Olive Garden in downtown Salt Lake City. No mention of wine available on their menu. I said something like "Too bad about that" and was informed that they actually have a full bar buty are forbidden to tell you about it unless you ask first.
Appearance, not substance to the morality in Utah.
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Now you have me wondering if anyone has ever tried building a reactor where the fuel was gaseous, say U235Hexafluoride at a proper compression and reactor vessel configuration...
Unfortunately I suspect this would have some of the same drawbacks as using hydrofluric acid as the heated fluid in an ordinary reactor, plus a few.
Well, one way to harvest electricity more directly would be to use the heated gas from the reactor to power an MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) generator.
However, to do this with any efficency the operating temperature of the reactor would have to be raised slightly to plasma temperatures. This could present engineering challenges.
See sentence following one you quoted.
I suppose if you paralleled a few banks of Rambus memory the problem could be softened somewhat.
I couldn't find anything about it on amdzone using their search, btw. URL?
From what I've read, the upcoming Palomino won't provide that much of an improvement (ie. it will allow Athlons to reach 2GHz)[...]
Which would probably be about as fast as a Pentium 4/3000, then...
If the P4 even has any SMP circuitry, what makes you think it was ever debugged by Intel? Not to mention the lack of SMP chipsets.
Only makes sense considering the immense P4 memory bandwidth requirements would double with two CPUs. Intel probably knows two PIII/933s would outdo two P4/[next MHz generation] anyway.
I want to see what a dual Athlon does against Dual PIIIs before I would spend my money on a pair. Let's see how fast they compile a Linux Kernel with make -j 3 then...
You'd better, they don't work in even dual-processor SMP mde.
When MOS Technology introduced the 6502 processor, famous mainly for past use in Apple II's, it performed as well at 1Mhz as Intel's 8080 did at its max 2 Mhz. This caused MITS, the maker of the early Altair 8800, to pass the 6502 up as "too slow" in favor of Motorola's sluggish 6800 which used a faster clock.
[...]The Ospery is a plane which requires computer control. No human being is able to compensate or be aware of all of the servos and control surfaces on that aircraft[...]
Example: Program is reset by pilot pushing the button. It can't know why. Reads control and servo positions. Should it try and adjust anything or not?
Remember this was an emergency situation where a physical hydraulics failure caused the reset light to come on. How is the computer supposed to set the hydraulics not to jerk when it first attempts to control the plane with those faulty hydraulics?
If the pilot was not supposed to use his judgment as to whether to press the reset button or not there would be no need for the button and light instead of a direct reset. The pilot was under control of the reset process and chose to punch the button.
Why was that button there, is the question I have. For the flight computer to do what you seem to expect it has to be able to handle an immense number of failure scenarios, and must have the data, sensors, and expert systems programming to detect and compensate for them. Almost, it has to be smarter than a human. It can't be, really.
That's why the pilot is there, get it? In case the light has to be ignored.
In my experience, the designs of systems tend to get fscked up by companies who promise more than they're willing to pay for in the way of engineering, than by the engineers who do what they're told. If it is possible with the budget, time, and technology in the first place - things are often required which are not possible, or wise - like the anti-helocopter cannon that was supposed to anticipate random target movements, or the front and rear positraction ordered on the prototype Hummer vehicles that would jerk the steering wheel out of your hand on turns.
At least in California, they're on notice now that they have to give 30 days of warning before shutting down (as Northpoint was told by the PUC after shutdowns had occurred).
At the point that they only have enough money + accounts receivable within that 30 days, are they technically bankrupt? Or only when the sale of their assets (presumably delayed a month too) will result in less than the cost of maintaining this public obligation, plus what the DSL provider owes creditors? IANAL so's I'se askin'.
that the only safe recommendation my company can make to our clients is to go with Pac Bell DSL. Whatever else you can say about it, they are extremely likely to be around a year from now.
Is that when they'll finally get the line installed?
Salesman called trying to sell me AT&T local phone service 30 minutes after my network was cut off becauise they boutght Northpoint's hardware but wouldn't support the customer accounts.
It was probably one of the more memorable calls of his day. I suspect that AT&T has just generated a large number of no-longer prospective customerslike myself who promptly called up their phone company and changed their long distance provider, and who will no longer consider buying any service whatsoever from them if it can be avoided.
The head/neck wasn't designed for many, rapid, precise movements all day long[...]
Well, actually, the lips and tongue would seem to offer the most axes of motion in the general area, and judging by many people I know they can be run continuously.
Surely, the indignity of sitting making monkey faces into a computer monitor for hours on end is preferable to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, or in this case perhaps a sprained neck from playing Quake, as well as for ease and precise control alone. Though it might not help the public "geek" image much.
Imagine the new dawn that could be coming; the mouth contortions proud young computer users would display on greeting as a demonstration of their lingual dexterity; Tourette Syndrome sufferers no longer discriminated aganst in a world of functional facial tics and involuntary noises; special oral piercings and jewelry designed to give better tracking and S/N ratios all the rage.
Interface these to cellphones for WAP control, and there would be the added bonus of watching drivers or passers-by providing entertainment for others in nearly all modern social situations.
Exactly... someone moderate this up...
Oh, I wasn't saying they weren't slime. Is this really a surprise from a company that forbids the software companies that do pay to subscribe to their service from also accessing other ones, that they might refuse to share their database with competitors they are trying to cut out other ways? "We settled that, now we're dickering over the price".
"Contributor Beware", is the message. Don't contribute your time to adding to databases that refuse to guarantee your work will not be appropriated for their own profit.
Hey, maybe Gracenote now owes those contributors to it's service minimum wage, like AOL "Volunteers" are suing for? Wouldn't that be a laugh?
A remote telephone, or a telephone function in the TV's remote, would allow muting to take place. It might give a boost to interest in Linux Telephony support too.
Yes, that's the way it works. They call 800x600 resolution high resolution TV monitors. Ridiculous a that sounds to someone who knows anything about computer displays.
The really sad part of this is that you can put together a nice TV/computer/DVD player/Digital VCR box using something like ATI's Radeon All-in-Wonder, with really high-res monitors - but the software drivers that are needed to perform these functions are all available for MS Windows but not Linux...
A remarkable proposal... penalize people who provide a service for free by forcing them to continue it in perpetuity.
I can only wonder, does this apply to your own free website, if you have one? Should you (and all others with such sites) be required to keep shelling out money to whoever is hosting those websites, even when you (they) do not want to anymore?
Example: Some photographer takes a snapshot of a tree just off a coastal highway that's been growing in that spot for some three hundred years. Sells its likeness in photos, sculpture, company logos. Photographer goes bananas when they see someone else photographed the same tree later, and sue to prevent any commercial use except their own.
His editors probably usually fix such things.
"Harlan's having one of his spells again. He sent in a manuscript printed backwards."
"Well, get a mirror or something."
Wow. Poor Harlan screwed up by E-publishing again.
From the document, looks like Harlan hasn't learned how impolite and silly it looks shouting in all capital letters.
Perhaps he should take an HTML tutorial.
Recent trip to Frys. Goal: get cable to attach mini-headphone type jack on computer speakers to the two RCA-type audio jacks on my VCR. Hmm. Problem. Despite about 4 walls of audio cables apparently randomly scattered in the store, looks like only cable with mini-headphone socket is an extension - attached to another mini-headphone-plug.
Sales staff "assistance": "looks like we don't have any of those." Repeated pointing to pointless extension cable mentioned. "You don't want to do that, those are computer speakers and you need audio speakers [points to speakers costing 1 order of magnitude more than current ones]." "You can't do that!" "You'll void the warranty! [asked if he meant the speakers or VCR warranty, he wasn't sure]" Etc cetra.
Sure, I bought the components to make the cable there with no problem myself. But it looks like by manipulating the availability of interfaces, undesired "convergence" may be limited to that which happens only in the hands of consumers who can handle a soldering iron, if not cable assembly tools.
But the actual article referred to doesn't say "10 GHz transistor", merely that it would open the door to building 10GHz CPUs.
So the transistor might be much faster.
Sorry, if the majority of people agree with something stupid, it's still stupid.
Face it, Utah Liquor laws are stupid. Forget the restrictions, the loopholes are destructive or just silly.
Supposedly Utah has no bars, just private clubs. But these "private clubs" are ridiculously loose. Walk into one, you are asked if you have a membership. Nope? Okay, the waitress calls out "will anyone sponsor this person/these people?" Half a dozen patrons you never met before raise their hands, you're in. And can bring your kids in! Sheesh. Talk about a lack of state responsibility towards the children involved.
I remember visiting the Olive Garden in downtown Salt Lake City. No mention of wine available on their menu. I said something like "Too bad about that" and was informed that they actually have a full bar buty are forbidden to tell you about it unless you ask first.
Appearance, not substance to the morality in Utah.