The top of the screen was a little brown and warped. The lady opened up the machine and the screen was all cracked, and there was not a single key left on the keyboard. It turns out she had the machine in the oven for 20 minutes, baking at 400 degrees. No joke. And what's even more amazing. The machine still works. Ethernet, Modem, USB, it all works. Plug in an external monitor and keyboard and it's good as new... almost."
OMG OMG lololol!!!111 Wow dude, like, this is totally cool!!1 Like wow man.
Dude, catch my reference! I said cool, OMG lolol!!!!11
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but try to understand the enormity of this space elvator idea. Most human engineering feats, dams included, would pale in comparision. The energy required to make a "space elvator" would be better spent in launcing individual rockets/spaceships, as and when required.
Columbia likely was doomed by damage incurred during launch. However, those astronauts were likely doomed by a faulty damage analysis.If the "likely" cause was damage during launch, how do you propose, genius, that they could have "repaired" the "damage" in space? Faulty damage analysis indeed.
Give it a break. If I have to get an update every x hours I'll use Google news. This whole "making tradegy a news event" attitude of media is sickening plus highly boring, and slashdot would do well not to emulate.
As for that retarded idea of space elevator, let's repeat for the zillionth time: It won't work. It's just an occupation of "acaedmics" to keep them occupied with such "ideas".
Jonghun Park is an Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He says that a new protocol can improve Web services. Sandeep Junnarkar broke the story. "Jonghun Park proposed a method for sharing information between systems linked on the Internet promises to speed collaborative applications by up to 10 times the current rates. The protocol is based on an algorithm that lets it use parallel instead of serial methods to process requests. Such a method boosts the efficiency of how resources are shared over the Internet. The new protocol is called Order-based Deadlock Prevention Protocol with Parallel Requests."
First, there is this whole climate fuelled by RIAA/MPAA that makes the very mention of collaborative applications something criminal.
Secondly, if there is to be a non p2p media sharing usage for this protocol, it has to get industry support. Read M$.
This looks like a solution looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Where have we seen this before?
The alliance consists of some of the big names: Apple, Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Information Technology Association of America, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, etc.
Yeah right. Microsoft, they are surely concerned about user rights. So are HP (please buy original cartridge, and oh, it's only filled to half capacity). Motorola, hahaha.
The only reason these companies are "fighting" for user rights is because they don't want Hollywood/Media moguls to dictate them technology.
On the other hand, they are themselves perfectly willing to incorporate "features" so as to protect the "rights" of their users. Pot. Kettle. Black.
Pakistan would be more likely to shoot their nukes first, because.....? they're more Islamic? Is that the best you can come up with? Give me a break.
Islamic fundamentalism is one good reason. Other then that, we have history: It is Pakistan that has always attacked India. Three times, methinks, although I'll let other supply the years. There current "ruler" himself attacked even when their PM was holding peace talks.
Pakistan is a military/Islamic dictatorship, one religion; India a democracy, cultural meltpot.
Successive Pakistani regimes have shown they have no qualms about speaking lies and twisting the truth as long as it serves the purpose of fueling the hate against India. The Art of War: In an extremist enviornment, the more extreme or radical your position, the more powerful you become. Same happened in the Talibanesque Islam. Many other examples too.
Pakistan is a nation which, IMHO, has it's identity derived from one fact alone : enemy of India. They have hardly any progress to cheer about, even when you compare to India, and that is saying something.
Large parts of Pakistan's NWFP are actually not exactly under administrative control of the government. Fundamentalism/tribals rule.
Pakistan is the haven for criminal activities. Daewood Ebrahim, belived to be one of the richest persons in the world, operates from Pakistan, through ISI support. Islamic terrorists, in NWFP, who hijacked Indian Airline aircraft were recently discharged from house arrest!
Pakistan's armed forces can't be trusted. Their generals keep popping off democratically elected governments. They also eliminate their own Generals. Figures. Large section of Army commanders and ISI are sympathetic to the "Islamic cause". Imagine, in such a situation, what a commander with nuke trigger might do. He'll launch the "Islamic bomb" against India to ensure martyrdom for himself and his "religion". And fuck up millions of people. That's why Pakistan is more likely to "lose it" than India.
If the USA hasn't attacked Pakistan like Afghanistan, it is because of some reasons:
1. We need(ed) a base to carry out operation in Afghanistan against Taliban & Co.
2. Fear of Nuclear holocaust.
3. The fact that Pakistan is the centre of Islamic terrorism. Smartly enough, the Bush administration is actually using the military dictator/self appointed president to track down and destroy Al-Qaeda network.
Or that, atleast, is the public line.
Certainly, we have managed to nab a few top Al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. Reports keep coming how Osama is only a grasp away. In Feburary, he was almost nabbed; ran away just an hour before a joint raid by US intelligence and ISI. Go figure. Of course, we are not pressuring Pakistan to dismantle the Islamic terrorist organizations that operate in India. Not unless this business of Al-Qaeda is done with. There are disturbing reports that Al-Qaeda is regrouping in Karachi (the crime capital of the World) and planning to "utilize" the emotions once US attacks Iraq to launch more attacks against US/India/Israeli targets. Let's see.
This question has to be asked: Is this design really a supercomputer? I disagree. It looke more like a cluster/beowulf system. While the processing power might be impressive (more processor==more flops), I fail to see how such a configuration can be treated as a Supercomputer.
I don't intend this as flaimbait, and I would be grateful if people more knowledgeable about this program could enlighten us.
Urm, how does one go about imposing this sanction? Sure, you ask IBM not to sell the said proc in India.
India buys the same proc off the shelf from Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, singapore....I hope you get the drift. Hell, they don't even have to "announce" their purchase. Probably just buy off some phony company set for the same purpose. Such sanctions don't work. It only hurts US companies.
I agree with our sentiments. Actuall, I didn't want to sound as if I was "putting down" the Fords and the Hyundais etc. I was just highlighting how technology is developed in the higher end (within a manufacturers product line too) and how it spreads to other models AS DICTATED BY THE MARKET.
Auto manufacturers have budgets and they work within them. We can't have government dictating stupid policies; unless of course the government is willing to provide the cash needed.
I also don't want to sound as if I am against safety devlopment. It's just that the market is already doing a fabulous job. Of course, governments HAVE to interfere sometimes in matter of policy when setting the minimum bar, say, fuel specifications, airbags(?) etc. But the proposed system is not intended to increase safety. It is intended to play the blame game. Welcome to the lawyer and accountant society.
Can newspapers be sued for retarded commentary? But I guess then most newspapers won't exist...
On to the point. The argument that crash data may not be used is ridiculous. Most auto-development takes place on the basis of information you receive from thousands of sensors. But while we'll be seeing more and more sensors in cars for increasing safety (passive), hell, Mercedes already leads the field, we'll not be seing "developmental" sensors anytime soon, because:
1. Collecting information is one thing, applying that to meaningful solutions quite another. One must not forget that auto development is carried out by highly specialized teams, working on some pre-defined parameters. Just how would the G-forces recorded in a pile up with SUV prove useful for Mercedes new S-class? These systems (passive safety) are already incorporated before a car is launched.
2. Development requires controlled conditions. Engineers have to know all the parameters to understand the situation. This is far easily done in the develpoment stage of the product, where you can do as much testing as your budget/schedule allows.
3. Creating an "open-format" makes it easier for companies at the lower rung to access developmental data. Like it or not, this research costs money (Mercedes spent $900 million researching on their new E-class...), and companies are definitely protective of their "way". I wonder, though, just how would a Ford or a Hyundai benefit from all the data of an E-class. It will take them a few years just to analyze the data, heh.
4. Cost. Incorporating data boxes and sensors costs money. Setting up an infrastructure to make use of all the collected data costs money. While "black-boxes" are already incorporated to some extent in higher end.... I wonder how many people would be willing to fork out, say, additional $500~800 for a Honda Jazz/Fit or a Corolla that offers no additional "features" to the consumer.
5. Morality. If we can actually make sense of all the data collected in this way, would we also require manufacturers to meet some criteria in safety? Accept it, "inequality" exists. You'll be much safer in an S-class/7series at 200 Kmph then in an Corolla/Civic at 100 Kmph. Manufacturers are always trying to give more to consumers. There is good competetion already. We don't need asinine regulations.
I am sick and tired of every Tom, Jack and New York Times reporter "advising" auto-manufacturers how to develop cars. Just shut the fuck up. Perhaps these retards don't realize, but modern automoblies are incredible feats of engineering. Thousands of components work together to ensure that some epsilon minus moron can reach his/her NYTimes office and conjure idiotic articles.
Beleive me, automobiles engineers/manufacturers are far more informed in this matter. This is not 1960s. They are already doing an absolutely terrific job, and can do well without such retarded ideas on important matters of safety.
Acknowledged. We must also remember that many companies selling Plasma (or for that matter LCD etc.) are in fact purely in the marketing. Or they buy some critical components from big guns and resell. I wonder if Daewoo has got it's own R&D...
It would be interesting to know just how much of Microsoft's "future devlopment" are being made in India. My guess is that the OS, Office etc continue to be further developed by the team(s) in Redmond, but most new products/services are being developed in India.
Oops, looks like I am not up to date on all the developments. I think you just might be right!
To make up for my stoopidity in the parent post, I hereby provide the link to perhaps the best resource on Plasmas on the net. Jeez..../me goes to drink coffee.
My goodness thatz greatzz!!! It even looks terrific on my meahgre 17" CRT!
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Purely from computing's perspective, for me it's the arrival of Hperthreading on desktops. Next year, hyperthreading and increase in FSB (800 Mhz!) plus memory bandwidth will truly obsolete a lot of computers.
Heh, you have a point there. It's just that I am not willing to plonk the cash for the kind of LCD's that are there right now in the market. So wait it is for me. Anycase, I generalised too much.
I am also speculating whether there will be a slowdown in development speed for new hardware (specificall CPU's). Where's the need?!/half-serious
I don't think it is wise to buy ANY LCD product right now. The industry is poised for terrific leaps in term of better resolution and lower switch times for LCD displays. The LCD display we'll be getting a year from now will be far superior to anyhing commercially available. I know I am putting of my purchase:).
Secondly, this is ah-ok as far as concept demonstration is concerned...but you don't need dual displa to read in book format. THe most common readers like Adobe Acrobat reader already have options to sort pages as continous-facing. So you can read in book format comfortably on a single display as well. Just one more year....sigh/me can't wait!
It works on that basis. That's not so impressive. What IS impressive is that it is mechanical! See the whole thing on patent's page or my comment here.
This is a collector's item, more than anything else. Just look at the claims in the patent, to give you some idea of the complexity!!
This is a cool gadget. And for those wondering about body temperature.....
The back of a watch embodying the invention is selected to be of a good heat conductive material, which will influence the temperature at the coil. Tests utilizing a thermometer strapped to a wrist, as a watch is, have shown the following temperature variations.
When the watch is on the arm for the day, it is subjected to high temperatures due to body heat (on the order of ninety-five degrees). Most watches are worn slightly loose. When the back of the watch is essentially flush on the arm the temperature is up, on the order of ninety degrees F. Due to a slight shift on the arm, the case acts as a heat sink and the temperature drops three to six degrees F. This occurs about every fifteen minutes at room temperatures of seventy-five to seventy eight degrees. In addition there are fluctuations in room temperature due to cycling of the heating or air conditioning thermostats.
The changes in temperature at the watch are more frequent and at a wider range when the watch is worn outside. It was found that the temperature at the watch was ninety degrees plus five degrees and minus ten degrees on a day when the outside ambient temperature was fifty degrees, all temperatures being Fahrenheit.
When the watch is removed at night and subjected only to ambient room temperature it will very quickly drop to ambient room temperature, usually about seventy degrees. During the night the temperature will cycle with fluctuation in room temperature as the thermostatically controlled heat cycles. When the wearer again puts on the watch in the morning, there will be an increase in temperature of the watch casing back up to the external body temperature of the wearer. Change in temperature in either direction will produce self-winding of a watch embodying the invention.
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OMG OMG lololol!!!111
Wow dude, like, this is totally cool!!1 Like wow man.
Dude, catch my reference! I said cool, OMG lolol!!!!11
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Fucking retard.
This highlights the futility of arguing with geniuses ;-), j/k
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but try to understand the enormity of this space elvator idea. Most human engineering feats, dams included, would pale in comparision. The energy required to make a "space elvator" would be better spent in launcing individual rockets/spaceships, as and when required.
Columbia likely was doomed by damage incurred during launch. However, those astronauts were likely doomed by a faulty damage analysis.If the "likely" cause was damage during launch, how do you propose, genius, that they could have "repaired" the "damage" in space? Faulty damage analysis indeed.
As for that retarded idea of space elevator, let's repeat for the zillionth time: It won't work. It's just an occupation of "acaedmics" to keep them occupied with such "ideas".
Not a flame. Sincerely.
Jonghun Park is an Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He says that a new protocol can improve Web services. Sandeep Junnarkar broke the story. "Jonghun Park proposed a method for sharing information between systems linked on the Internet promises to speed collaborative applications by up to 10 times the current rates. The protocol is based on an algorithm that lets it use parallel instead of serial methods to process requests. Such a method boosts the efficiency of how resources are shared over the Internet. The new protocol is called Order-based Deadlock Prevention Protocol with Parallel Requests."
First, there is this whole climate fuelled by RIAA/MPAA that makes the very mention of collaborative applications something criminal.
Secondly, if there is to be a non p2p media sharing usage for this protocol, it has to get industry support. Read M$.
This looks like a solution looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Where have we seen this before?
The alliance consists of some of the big names: Apple, Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Information Technology Association of America, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, etc.
Yeah right. Microsoft, they are surely concerned about user rights. So are HP (please buy original cartridge, and oh, it's only filled to half capacity). Motorola, hahaha.
The only reason these companies are "fighting" for user rights is because they don't want Hollywood/Media moguls to dictate them technology.
On the other hand, they are themselves perfectly willing to incorporate "features" so as to protect the "rights" of their users. Pot. Kettle. Black.
What I meant, genius, was that the bandwidth of this monster is hardly in league of the big boys :-)
Islamic fundamentalism is one good reason. Other then that, we have history: It is Pakistan that has always attacked India. Three times, methinks, although I'll let other supply the years.
There current "ruler" himself attacked even when their PM was holding peace talks.
Pakistan is a military/Islamic dictatorship, one religion; India a democracy, cultural meltpot.
Successive Pakistani regimes have shown they have no qualms about speaking lies and twisting the truth as long as it serves the purpose of fueling the hate against India. The Art of War: In an extremist enviornment, the more extreme or radical your position, the more powerful you become. Same happened in the Talibanesque Islam. Many other examples too.
Pakistan is a nation which, IMHO, has it's identity derived from one fact alone : enemy of India. They have hardly any progress to cheer about, even when you compare to India, and that is saying something.
Large parts of Pakistan's NWFP are actually not exactly under administrative control of the government. Fundamentalism/tribals rule.
Pakistan is the haven for criminal activities. Daewood Ebrahim, belived to be one of the richest persons in the world, operates from Pakistan, through ISI support. Islamic terrorists, in NWFP, who hijacked Indian Airline aircraft were recently discharged from house arrest!
Pakistan's armed forces can't be trusted. Their generals keep popping off democratically elected governments. They also eliminate their own Generals. Figures. Large section of Army commanders and ISI are sympathetic to the "Islamic cause". Imagine, in such a situation, what a commander with nuke trigger might do. He'll launch the "Islamic bomb" against India to ensure martyrdom for himself and his "religion".
And fuck up millions of people. That's why Pakistan is more likely to "lose it" than India.
If the USA hasn't attacked Pakistan like Afghanistan, it is because of some reasons:
1. We need(ed) a base to carry out operation in Afghanistan against Taliban & Co.
2. Fear of Nuclear holocaust.
3. The fact that Pakistan is the centre of Islamic terrorism. Smartly enough, the Bush administration is actually using the military dictator/self appointed president to track down and destroy Al-Qaeda network.
Or that, atleast, is the public line.
Certainly, we have managed to nab a few top Al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. Reports keep coming how Osama is only a grasp away. In Feburary, he was almost nabbed; ran away just an hour before a joint raid by US intelligence and ISI. Go figure.
Of course, we are not pressuring Pakistan to dismantle the Islamic terrorist organizations that operate in India. Not unless this business of Al-Qaeda is done with. There are disturbing reports that Al-Qaeda is regrouping in Karachi (the crime capital of the World) and planning to "utilize" the emotions once US attacks Iraq to launch more attacks against US/India/Israeli targets. Let's see.
I would say there is a greater chance of the Pakistan nuking India. Their military dictator/president describes Pakistan as "The citadel of Islam".
Doesn't matter who starts the contest, a lot of people will be fucked...
I don't intend this as flaimbait, and I would be grateful if people more knowledgeable about this program could enlighten us.
India buys the same proc off the shelf from Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, singapore....I hope you get the drift. Hell, they don't even have to "announce" their purchase. Probably just buy off some phony company set for the same purpose. Such sanctions don't work. It only hurts US companies.
Auto manufacturers have budgets and they work within them. We can't have government dictating stupid policies; unless of course the government is willing to provide the cash needed.
I also don't want to sound as if I am against safety devlopment. It's just that the market is already doing a fabulous job. Of course, governments HAVE to interfere sometimes in matter of policy when setting the minimum bar, say, fuel specifications, airbags(?) etc. But the proposed system is not intended to increase safety. It is intended to play the blame game. Welcome to the lawyer and accountant society.
On to the point. The argument that crash data may not be used is ridiculous. Most auto-development takes place on the basis of information you receive from thousands of sensors. But while we'll be seeing more and more sensors in cars for increasing safety (passive), hell, Mercedes already leads the field, we'll not be seing "developmental" sensors anytime soon, because:
1. Collecting information is one thing, applying that to meaningful solutions quite another. One must not forget that auto development is carried out by highly specialized teams, working on some pre-defined parameters. Just how would the G-forces recorded in a pile up with SUV prove useful for Mercedes new S-class? These systems (passive safety) are already incorporated before a car is launched.
2. Development requires controlled conditions. Engineers have to know all the parameters to understand the situation. This is far easily done in the develpoment stage of the product, where you can do as much testing as your budget/schedule allows.
3. Creating an "open-format" makes it easier for companies at the lower rung to access developmental data. Like it or not, this research costs money (Mercedes spent $900 million researching on their new E-class...), and companies are definitely protective of their "way". I wonder, though, just how would a Ford or a Hyundai benefit from all the data of an E-class. It will take them a few years just to analyze the data, heh.
4. Cost. Incorporating data boxes and sensors costs money. Setting up an infrastructure to make use of all the collected data costs money. While "black-boxes" are already incorporated to some extent in higher end.... I wonder how many people would be willing to fork out, say, additional $500~800 for a Honda Jazz/Fit or a Corolla that offers no additional "features" to the consumer.
5. Morality. If we can actually make sense of all the data collected in this way, would we also require manufacturers to meet some criteria in safety? Accept it, "inequality" exists. You'll be much safer in an S-class/7series at 200 Kmph then in an Corolla/Civic at 100 Kmph. Manufacturers are always trying to give more to consumers. There is good competetion already. We don't need asinine regulations.
I am sick and tired of every Tom, Jack and New York Times reporter "advising" auto-manufacturers how to develop cars. Just shut the fuck up. Perhaps these retards don't realize, but modern automoblies are incredible feats of engineering. Thousands of components work together to ensure that some epsilon minus moron can reach his/her NYTimes office and conjure idiotic articles.
Beleive me, automobiles engineers/manufacturers are far more informed in this matter. This is not 1960s. They are already doing an absolutely terrific job, and can do well without such retarded ideas on important matters of safety.
Acknowledged. We must also remember that many companies selling Plasma (or for that matter LCD etc.) are in fact purely in the marketing. Or they buy some critical components from big guns and resell. I wonder if Daewoo has got it's own R&D...
It would be interesting to know just how much of Microsoft's "future devlopment" are being made in India. My guess is that the OS, Office etc continue to be further developed by the team(s) in Redmond, but most new products/services are being developed in India.
To make up for my stoopidity in the parent post, I hereby provide the link to perhaps the best resource on Plasmas on the net. Jeez..../me goes to drink coffee.
Samsung, OTOH, fuking rocks!
My goodness thatz greatzz!!! It even looks terrific on my meahgre 17" CRT!
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Purely from computing's perspective, for me it's the arrival of Hperthreading on desktops. Next year, hyperthreading and increase in FSB (800 Mhz!) plus memory bandwidth will truly obsolete a lot of computers.
I am also speculating whether there will be a slowdown in development speed for new hardware (specificall CPU's). Where's the need?! /half-serious
Secondly, this is ah-ok as far as concept demonstration is concerned...but you don't need dual displa to read in book format. THe most common readers like Adobe Acrobat reader already have options to sort pages as continous-facing. So you can read in book format comfortably on a single display as well. Just one more year....sigh/me can't wait!
It works on that basis. That's not so impressive. What IS impressive is that it is mechanical! See the whole thing on patent's page or my comment here.
This is a cool gadget. And for those wondering about body temperature.....
The back of a watch embodying the invention is selected to be of a good heat conductive material, which will influence the temperature at the coil. Tests utilizing a thermometer strapped to a wrist, as a watch is, have shown the following temperature variations. When the watch is on the arm for the day, it is subjected to high temperatures due to body heat (on the order of ninety-five degrees). Most watches are worn slightly loose. When the back of the watch is essentially flush on the arm the temperature is up, on the order of ninety degrees F. Due to a slight shift on the arm, the case acts as a heat sink and the temperature drops three to six degrees F. This occurs about every fifteen minutes at room temperatures of seventy-five to seventy eight degrees. In addition there are fluctuations in room temperature due to cycling of the heating or air conditioning thermostats. The changes in temperature at the watch are more frequent and at a wider range when the watch is worn outside. It was found that the temperature at the watch was ninety degrees plus five degrees and minus ten degrees on a day when the outside ambient temperature was fifty degrees, all temperatures being Fahrenheit. When the watch is removed at night and subjected only to ambient room temperature it will very quickly drop to ambient room temperature, usually about seventy degrees. During the night the temperature will cycle with fluctuation in room temperature as the thermostatically controlled heat cycles. When the wearer again puts on the watch in the morning, there will be an increase in temperature of the watch casing back up to the external body temperature of the wearer. Change in temperature in either direction will produce self-winding of a watch embodying the invention.
Truly a perpetual watch!