If you had the choice of building a supercomputer for your school then would you use brand name inexpensive processor like AMD or expensive chips like G5's or Itaniums ?
I really don't get what you can get out of a single fancy expensive processor when a couple of less expensive chips can do the job .
Only the future of low cost broadband will be realized through municipal run companies like the electric company.
We are lagging behind the rest of the world.
Doubters,ask yourself this, how much would electricity cost if the electric companies were privatized ?
The folks California could help you out there. The big businesses who are always one step ahead of regulators were price fixing and gouging.
Broadband internet access is too important now to let companies like AT&T and Time Warner to control.
If the public and local governments would take control of the cable lines and implement WI - Fi Network over them then we would see some real fireworks. Leasing these lines to big business who put stupid shows and infomercials for the dumbest percentage of the population is not smart.
Cleaning and cooling and not one without the other.
I disagree the with the previous message that computers are like stereos. They are not. Computers are kind of like car engine. You have to get in there once in a while and change stuff that breaks and dust does screw my fans up.
January 29, 2000 -- AC Propulsion' s tzero out-accelerated a Ferrari F355, a new Corvette, and a Porsche Carrera 4 in a series of impromptu 1/8 mile drag races held last weekend at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, and at Calstart' s northern facility at the former Alameda Naval Air Station. The tzero was driven to the Bay Area from southern California last week. That journey spanned more than the geographic distance between those two areas, it spanned two cultures as well. Hot rodding, coming from the garages of Los Angeles, and high tech, growing from a garage in Palo Alto, are combined in the tzero.
The tzero is a silicon hot rod. It starts with the hot rodder's holy grail, horsepower - 200 of them. But the tzero harnesses the power with 120 IGBTs, equal to 7200 square millimeters of silicon-based control. The result is acceleration to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds, efficiency equivalent to 70 mpg, and emissions equal to zero. The tzero is an electric car.
The trip to Silicon Valley was planned to demonstrate the tzero to entrepreneurs and investors interested in the concept of a high-performance, environmentally-sensible, silicon-intensive automobile. As word of the tzero visit spread, the planned demonstrations took on an edge when a Ferrari-owner challenged the tzero to a race.
The race became reality when both Moffett Field and Calstart made their facilities available for the politically correct contest of speed. Saturday, January 22 dawned bright and sunny and an eager group of exotic car owners, high-tech gurus, venture capital investors and electric car enthusiasts gathered along the 4000-foot north taxiway at Moffett Field. Cones were set to mark the start and finish lines, and the tzero, with AC Propulsion vice-president Alec Brooks at the wheel, pulled up to the start line and sat silently. The Ferrari made glorious sounds as Rick Schick, a race car driver assigned to drive the Ferrari for the event paced the high-strung Italian thoroughbred up and down the track, warming its complex internals with nervous blips of the throttle and heating the tires with sudden burnouts. Finally the race was on. Immediately the crowd saw what it had not expected to see. The tzero leapt ahead at the start. The Ferrari' s 32-valve, 4-cam V8 engine screamed its delicious song in vain effort against the mute power of the tzero' s 120-IGBT-fed 3-phase induction motor. The spectators gasped at the sight of the tzero driving away from the automotive icon from Modena. At the end it was tzero by eight car lengths.
A Corvette C5, the newest example of American V8 muscle from Chevrolet stepped up to defend the honor of combustion power. Considered opinion had the Corvette, with its large displacement, high torque V8, putting up a good fight in the short 1/8 mile sprint. But against the tzero, the result was the same, proving in equally convincing fashion that American brawn fares no better than European sophistication against the tzero' s combination of light weight, high-current lead-acid batteries, and electric propulsion.
More races were run.
Different drivers wheeled the tzero. The result stayed the same. A Miata driver, unfamiliar with high power levels, got into the tzero and immediately blew away the Ferrari. She wants a tzero now. The Ferrari owner took a turn and was astounded by the continuous surge of smooth power. A newspaper reporter who arrived in an Escort allowed himself to be talked into driving the tzero and he beat the Ferrari. An investor from Sweden, after one victorious run in the tzero decided make a second run when challenged by his friend and investing partner who was proudly driving a brand new Porsche Carrera Cabriolet. By now everyone was surprised when the tzero lagged behind. Was the tzero battery dead? Was it collusion between two friends? Neither actually. The tzero inadvertently ran the whole race with its hand brake on, and the Porsche won by seven car lengths.
The terrorists don't like the U.S. because they don't like the culture because they are religous fanatics of lowest intelligence. Bin Ludite doesn't like the U.s because they have troops in his homeland and probably a billion other reasons . I would include economic jealousy across the arab countries.
Don't point to just one example and say thats the reason.
If your thinking there is going to be a huge difference , you would be wrong. It's how efficiently you use the silicon and not the bits. 64 bits only means you can access more memory. This whole bigger than 32 bits is better is misleading .
Michael Powell , head of FCC. He's too busy allowing a few companies dominate broadband,cable, tv and radio. He blocked all cable competition earlier this year.
Good Republican . Taking orders just for the wealthy.
Anyways the only way now for fast affordable broadband is through the municipalities like our powercompanies.
Has anyone noticed that basic cable tv is just infomercials and reality/fake and dating shows.
Where is the diversity ? Where is the intelligence ?
I crave a show that could actually help me like a consumer buying guide to help me save money or magazine science type show to that shows cutting edge science in all fields.
You'll never see it unless you have internet access or buy a magazine.
Capping ownership is VERY important.If it's not then selective,strategic censorship would be the norm. Learn from what happened to CORPORATE radio. Everything becomes consolidated to the RICHEST company/person.
Our Radio/Tv spectrum belong to US and not corporations. They only rent.
FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell wants more media in the hands of a few. Which is wrong. Remember this is the guy that stopped cable broadband competition by stopping competitors from using OUR own cable lines which WE paid for.
if you were game developer , would java swing be your language. NO. For you and your science program, it fits. Got to disagree with you on swing though.
Competition is important. Whats really needed.
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Java is not what it was intended for. It's a decent language . More so for Sun though. Don't care for it's memory consumption.
C# is good because it competes with java and therefore will make SUN competitive.
Whats really needed is a FAST language that can be run on all computers so the software developers don't have to develop different code for each OS so applications don't need porting and speed and memory consumption wont be noticed by the user like they do with java. Something that can also be run on all handhelds with speed.
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Are we at the LIMITS of compression technology ? Is there anything new being worked on by anyone ?
Sun and Intel don't like Linux. Too easy to switch to better alternatives. Not easy to lock-in customers as with Monopolysoft.
If you had the choice of building a supercomputer for your school then would you use brand name inexpensive processor like AMD or expensive chips like G5's or Itaniums ?
I really don't get what you can get out of a single fancy expensive processor when a couple of less expensive chips can do the job .
Only the future of low cost broadband will be realized through municipal run companies like the electric company. We are lagging behind the rest of the world. Doubters ,ask yourself this, how much would electricity cost if the electric companies were privatized ?
The folks California could help you out there. The big businesses who are always one step ahead of regulators were price fixing and gouging.
Broadband internet access is too important now to let companies like AT&T and Time Warner to control.
If the public and local governments would take control of the cable lines and implement WI - Fi Network over them then we would see some real fireworks. Leasing these lines to big business who put stupid shows and infomercials for the dumbest percentage of the population is not smart.
Slow news week.
Thanks for the link. Jolene has one of the best Maxim spreads. Totally nude in one pic.
Something for the R&D people to work on.
Cleaning and cooling and not one without the other.
I disagree the with the previous message that computers are like stereos. They are not. Computers are kind of like car engine. You have to get in there once in a while and change stuff that breaks and dust does screw my fans up.
Cars are all about getting girls and impressing friends. Electrics are ok for going to grocery store but not cruising.
What would "FAST AND THE FURIOUS" look like with only electric cars ? Vin diesel in a golf cart ?
Electric Tzero
January 29, 2000 -- AC Propulsion' s tzero out-accelerated a Ferrari F355, a new Corvette, and a Porsche Carrera 4 in a series of impromptu 1/8 mile drag races held last weekend at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, and at Calstart' s northern facility at the former Alameda Naval Air Station. The tzero was driven to the Bay Area from southern California last week. That journey spanned more than the geographic distance between those two areas, it spanned two cultures as well. Hot rodding, coming from the garages of Los Angeles, and high tech, growing from a garage in Palo Alto, are combined in the tzero.
The tzero is a silicon hot rod. It starts with the hot rodder's holy grail, horsepower - 200 of them. But the tzero harnesses the power with 120 IGBTs, equal to 7200 square millimeters of silicon-based control. The result is acceleration to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds, efficiency equivalent to 70 mpg, and emissions equal to zero. The tzero is an electric car.
The trip to Silicon Valley was planned to demonstrate the tzero to entrepreneurs and investors interested in the concept of a high-performance, environmentally-sensible, silicon-intensive automobile. As word of the tzero visit spread, the planned demonstrations took on an edge when a Ferrari-owner challenged the tzero to a race.
The race became reality when both Moffett Field and Calstart made their facilities available for the politically correct contest of speed. Saturday, January 22 dawned bright and sunny and an eager group of exotic car owners, high-tech gurus, venture capital investors and electric car enthusiasts gathered along the 4000-foot north taxiway at Moffett Field. Cones were set to mark the start and finish lines, and the tzero, with AC Propulsion vice-president Alec Brooks at the wheel, pulled up to the start line and sat silently. The Ferrari made glorious sounds as Rick Schick, a race car driver assigned to drive the Ferrari for the event paced the high-strung Italian thoroughbred up and down the track, warming its complex internals with nervous blips of the throttle and heating the tires with sudden burnouts. Finally the race was on. Immediately the crowd saw what it had not expected to see. The tzero leapt ahead at the start. The Ferrari' s 32-valve, 4-cam V8 engine screamed its delicious song in vain effort against the mute power of the tzero' s 120-IGBT-fed 3-phase induction motor. The spectators gasped at the sight of the tzero driving away from the automotive icon from Modena. At the end it was tzero by eight car lengths.
A Corvette C5, the newest example of American V8 muscle from Chevrolet stepped up to defend the honor of combustion power. Considered opinion had the Corvette, with its large displacement, high torque V8, putting up a good fight in the short 1/8 mile sprint. But against the tzero, the result was the same, proving in equally convincing fashion that American brawn fares no better than European sophistication against the tzero' s combination of light weight, high-current lead-acid batteries, and electric propulsion.
More races were run.
Different drivers wheeled the tzero. The result stayed the same. A Miata driver, unfamiliar with high power levels, got into the tzero and immediately blew away the Ferrari. She wants a tzero now. The Ferrari owner took a turn and was astounded by the continuous surge of smooth power. A newspaper reporter who arrived in an Escort allowed himself to be talked into driving the tzero and he beat the Ferrari. An investor from Sweden, after one victorious run in the tzero decided make a second run when challenged by his friend and investing partner who was proudly driving a brand new Porsche Carrera Cabriolet. By now everyone was surprised when the tzero lagged behind. Was the tzero battery dead? Was it collusion between two friends? Neither actually. The tzero inadvertently ran the whole race with its hand brake on, and the Porsche won by seven car lengths.
why not a air filtration system ?
The terrorists don't like the U.S. because they don't like the culture because they are religous fanatics of lowest intelligence. Bin Ludite doesn't like the U.s because they have troops in his homeland and probably a billion other reasons . I would include economic jealousy across the arab countries.
Don't point to just one example and say thats the reason.
What would you have the government do ?
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There are still some alchaeda(spelling) terrorists in this country.
I have zero problem with what they are doing to defend this country.
Remember one thing . These terrorists hate this nation because it is so open and free
There are many parallel arguments to internet privacy.
Should we want privacy when importing material ?
The terrorists would jump on that one.
That would doom us all.
don't like this but what is the alternative ?
Theres even a 50 foot homemade dish for ham radio. Build your own big dish
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How about systems with no monitor but in the ads there is always a 15 inch lcd display next to the computer. Kindof deceptive there.
If your thinking there is going to be a huge difference , you would be wrong. It's how efficiently you use the silicon and not the bits. 64 bits only means you can access more memory. This whole bigger than 32 bits is better is misleading .
Good Republican . Taking orders just for the wealthy.
Anyways the only way now for fast affordable broadband is through the municipalities like our powercompanies.
You'll never see it unless you have internet access or buy a magazine.
TV has ZERO diversity. Sad. It's unwatchable.
Our Radio/Tv spectrum belong to US and not corporations. They only rent.
FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell wants more media in the hands of a few. Which is wrong. Remember this is the guy that stopped cable broadband competition by stopping competitors from using OUR own cable lines which WE paid for.
I buy !
so a new computer every 2 years ?
Yes , i used java on a Pentium 5 2.6 ghz and it was good.
But startup was not.
And why does java have to be used and nothing else. A programming language for each problem ? !
if you were game developer , would java swing be your language. NO. For you and your science program, it fits. Got to disagree with you on swing though.
C# is good because it competes with java and therefore will make SUN competitive.
Whats really needed is a FAST language that can be run on all computers so the software developers don't have to develop different code for each OS so applications don't need porting and speed and memory consumption wont be noticed by the user like they do with java. Something that can also be run on all handhelds with speed.
Java will never be able to do that.