Wow. And I thought it was only the UK that was a nation of internet luddites:-( I suppose it's up to the people to come up with their own soultions, independent of the big monopolies.
What's really sad is, I know places in the UK where on a BT line you can barely get 28kbit/s on an analogue modem, let alone broadband. We have a long way to go.:-(
It ain't necessarily so. Not all instruments are tuned the same, or have exactly the same intervals. Look here to an introduction to what it's all about. Alternative tunings and all that, and their history.
They are really the victim of "Rocket" Rick Belluzo. He was the one that tried to move them off of 64-bit RISC (MIPS) and IRIX on to 32-bit penium running Windows NT and then itanic. Poor SGI never recovered. I remember the day when SGI were so cool. They had 64-bit workstations with 3D and real-time live video when the rest of us were using 486/33s with Windows 3.1. Poor old SGI.
You do realise that the intel Pentium 4 has a whopping 20k level 1 cache? 8k instruction, 12k data? My archaic K6-2/500 has 64k level 1 cache: 32k instruction, 32k data.
Remember your chemistry? REG and LEO? Reduction is Electron Gain, Loss of Electrons is Oxidation
The fact that oxygen is being removed from the compound should have given you a clue.
Re:Everyone loves GCC?
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Kylix is all well and good if you only need to compile code for the i386 architecture. If you need UltraSPARC, MIPS, PowerPC, M68k etc. you're up the creek. If you want a nice Free IDE you could try anjuta. It needs the GNOME libs though.
...when I was doing physics, we used:
An Introduction to Quantum Physics, A.P. French and E.F. Taylor. ISBN 0-412-37580-X
When we went on to nuclear physics we used:
Introductory Nuclear Physics, Kenneth S. Krane. ISBN 0-471-85914-1
Creationists believe what they believe because they want to, on faith for religious reasons. They are devout. Evolutionists believe in evolution because that is what the observed evidence demonstrates. It is a matter of fact, not faith. They are not devout.
This is slashdot. Don't expect rational discussion or intelligent commentary. You'd be amazed at how many self-righteous Creationists there are around.
For the last 150 year these views have been accepted scientific fact. I need not reiterate them here. That would be redundant, even though there are a substantial number of people reading this site who are brought up to be superstitious and do not get proper science lessons. Google is your friend.
What the article doesn't say is why this is any better than putting the nuclear material in a fast reactor and disposing of it that way? It would be orders of magnitude cheaper, and we've had the technology for decades. The heat produced can be used to generate electricity as well. France and Japan run fast reactors. The UK and USA used to have them too.
Well, say intel used a performance rating to compare the P4 to a PIII, and took the 1GHz PIII as the baseline. Since the Pentium 4 does a lot less per clock cycle than the PIII, they'd probably have to call their P IV 3.0GHz a "P IV 2300+" or something.
Re:Astronauts were pioneers, not statistics.
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Every one of those astronauts that died understood the risks.
Did they? If they had realised that there was a significant risk of a piece of insulating foam causing a catastrophic failure and loss of all lives would they have gone?
If NASA had understood this risk would they have let the shuttle fly?
Of course not! That would be immoral, unethical, negligent and down right bad engineering practice.
I realise that you Americans come from a gung-ho pioneering frontier culture, but times have changed, standards are higher, and so has engineering. This was a classic failure of engnineering management. This sort of thing has been largely engineered out of the UK civillian Nuclear industry. Why can't you guys do that too in your space industry?
You're missing the point entirely.
Manned (personned?) space flight is dangerous. There are risks and some people choose to take those risks, because they believe that the potential benefits outweigh the risks.
The point about the space shuttle is that it's more dangerous than it needs to be in other words, the risks are unnecessarily large.
The space shuttle is a poor design. It should be replaced. It should have been replaced by now, but research into new vehicles keeps getting terminated. If the USA is serious about manned space flight, it needs to put it's will, courage, money and sweat where it's mouth and get on with it.
Sorry to hear about your dad. My grandmother died in the same way. It's a terrible fact of life that as things progress, there are things which if only we'd know about them sooner, things would be different. Although this can't bring back our relatives, it is a glimmer of hope for the future, for those who have or are going to develop brain tumours, and maybe even other kinds of tumour. Hindsight can be cruel, but this offeres hope too.
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Wow. And I thought it was only the UK that was a nation of internet luddites :-( I suppose it's up to the people to come up with their own soultions, independent of the big monopolies.
What's really sad is, I know places in the UK where on a BT line you can barely get 28kbit/s on an analogue modem, let alone broadband. We have a long way to go. :-(
But will they be competitive with this?
It ain't necessarily so. Not all instruments are tuned the same, or have exactly the same intervals. Look here to an introduction to what it's all about. Alternative tunings and all that, and their history.
Yes, very fishy, isn't it?
They are really the victim of "Rocket" Rick Belluzo. He was the one that tried to move them off of 64-bit RISC (MIPS) and IRIX on to 32-bit penium running Windows NT and then itanic. Poor SGI never recovered. I remember the day when SGI were so cool. They had 64-bit workstations with 3D and real-time live video when the rest of us were using 486/33s with Windows 3.1. Poor old SGI.
If only that stuff were true, we could be zooming about the solar system by now. Here's what NASA has to say about it though.
Does it really? How does that work then? That's very interesting.
You do realise that the intel Pentium 4 has a whopping 20k level 1 cache? 8k instruction, 12k data? My archaic K6-2/500 has 64k level 1 cache: 32k instruction, 32k data.
Indeed. I used to split atoms for a living. It ran for 40 years, not 30 as claimed on that web page.
I must be weird then. I found REG and LEO easier to remember. :-)
Remember your chemistry? REG and LEO? Reduction is Electron Gain, Loss of Electrons is Oxidation
The fact that oxygen is being removed from the compound should have given you a clue.
Kylix is all well and good if you only need to compile code for the i386 architecture. If you need UltraSPARC, MIPS, PowerPC, M68k etc. you're up the creek. If you want a nice Free IDE you could try anjuta. It needs the GNOME libs though.
...when I was doing physics, we used:
An Introduction to Quantum Physics, A.P. French and E.F. Taylor. ISBN 0-412-37580-X
When we went on to nuclear physics we used:
Introductory Nuclear Physics, Kenneth S. Krane. ISBN 0-471-85914-1
Evolutionists believe in evolution because that is what the observed evidence demonstrates. It is a matter of fact, not faith. They are not devout.
Get your facts straight.
He's entitled to his opinion. That's one thing. The facts, however, are completely different. He is wrong. Fact!=Opinion.
This is slashdot. Don't expect rational discussion or intelligent commentary. You'd be amazed at how many self-righteous Creationists there are around.
For the last 150 year these views have been accepted scientific fact. I need not reiterate them here. That would be redundant, even though there are a substantial number of people reading this site who are brought up to be superstitious and do not get proper science lessons. Google is your friend.
Wrong! You are plain wrong. Sod off back under your bridge in Arkansas, troll!
You're right. I never thought of it that way. Oh well. I suppose we'll just have to invent bigger, badder weapons to get around this.
What the article doesn't say is why this is any better than putting the nuclear material in a fast reactor and disposing of it that way? It would be orders of magnitude cheaper, and we've had the technology for decades. The heat produced can be used to generate electricity as well. France and Japan run fast reactors. The UK and USA used to have them too.
Well, say intel used a performance rating to compare the P4 to a PIII, and took the 1GHz PIII as the baseline. Since the Pentium 4 does a lot less per clock cycle than the PIII, they'd probably have to call their P IV 3.0GHz a "P IV 2300+" or something.
Did they? If they had realised that there was a significant risk of a piece of insulating foam causing a catastrophic failure and loss of all lives would they have gone?
If NASA had understood this risk would they have let the shuttle fly?
Of course not! That would be immoral, unethical, negligent and down right bad engineering practice.
I realise that you Americans come from a gung-ho pioneering frontier culture, but times have changed, standards are higher, and so has engineering. This was a classic failure of engnineering management. This sort of thing has been largely engineered out of the UK civillian Nuclear industry. Why can't you guys do that too in your space industry?
You're missing the point entirely.
Manned (personned?) space flight is dangerous. There are risks and some people choose to take those risks, because they believe that the potential benefits outweigh the risks.
The point about the space shuttle is that it's more dangerous than it needs to be in other words, the risks are unnecessarily large.
The space shuttle is a poor design. It should be replaced. It should have been replaced by now, but research into new vehicles keeps getting terminated.
If the USA is serious about manned space flight, it needs to put it's will, courage, money and sweat where it's mouth and get on with it.
Sorry to hear about your dad. My grandmother died in the same way. It's a terrible fact of life that as things progress, there are things which if only we'd know about them sooner, things would be different. Although this can't bring back our relatives, it is a glimmer of hope for the future, for those who have or are going to develop brain tumours, and maybe even other kinds of tumour. Hindsight can be cruel, but this offeres hope too.