You might want to have a look at Richard Gooch's new init scripts. They start services in paralell, when possible, rather than trudging through them sequencially. There are also other benefits - it is designed to be something new and better than either BSD or SysV init.
With some insane new heatsinks wheighing in at over 700 grams, I would no longer place any bets that a heatsink will never tear lose.
However... i have a feeling that if one of these Godchillas go a-tumbling, they'll rip the entire cpu socket out with them, and the CPU will probably be saved because it is no longer connected to anything _but_ the heatsink. What that behemoth of a cooling device will do with the inside of your computer case and the remains of your motherboard as gravity makes it plummet down through cables, graphics cards and other peripherals like a giant mutant lizard through a major japanese city. I do not wish to speculate about.
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Now i can finally build my RADEOAKTIV WURM GUN! Still need that NUK tho...
(looks worriedly around and wonders if ANYONE else remembers the old Future vs. Fantasy Quake mod...)
You will only have get jerkiness if the footage was shot with short enough exposure time that each frame of film is perfectly sharp.
The human eye _does not_ update more than 22-24 times per second (at center vison, that is. peripheral vision updates faster), but real-life visual input ALWAYS gets motion-blur when rapid motion is viewed. This is not the case with pre-recorded film, which in high light conditions may have short enough exposure times to make every frame a perfectly sharp snapshot no matter how much motion is in the shot. Likewise with on-the-fly generated computer graphics. Actual motion-blur algorithms are very computationally expensive, so to get a motion-blurred "illusion", you need to render more than 24 fps in games. However, IF you actually had access to perfect motion-blurring algorithms, you WOULD never need more than 24 frames per second.
I used to think the "blurbflies" (genetically engineered flies that buzz out adverts) in Jeff Noon's "Nymphomation" were a hilarious satire on intrusive advertizing.
Now I'm starting to fear someone at one of the ad agencies that come up with ideas like TV popups during shows will read Noon's book, think blurbflies are a _great_ idea, and rush to contact some Biotech company specializing in designer lifeforms...
If by "array of smaller" you mean optical interferometry, then yes, you can, and its being done, (at the Keck observatory on Mauna Kea, and at Mt. Wilson, for example), but it is anything but "easy". Also, although it does give you equivalent _resolution_ of a single giant telescope, it only gives you the light-sensitivity of each of the smaller ones. Building a f*ckinghyouge telescope like the one the article talks about is really more about being able to see extremely _faint_ objects, and get enough light from them to do spectral analysis etc., than resolution. Although the fantastic resolution you'll get certainly is very nice too.
The reason you don't see scalpels being made from titanium is because scalpels need to be _sharp_, and titanium can't hold an edge. Titanium as a good metal for blades of any kind is a strange misconception fostered by comics and hollywood movies. Titanium may be "twice as strong as steel" per unit of wheight, but not per unit of _volume_, since it does not have half the density of steel, meaning that a blade of the same size and shape made of titanium will be considerably weaker if its made of titanium rather than steel. Add to this the fact that titanium cannot be heat-treated like steel, and hence there is no way to give the edge the higher hardness it needs. In short words, in general titanium sucks as a material for blades, although there may be specific situations, like diving knives, where its strengths (light wheight, "stainless") may matter more than its weaknesses.
A modern "high-end" x86 server in the same price range as a SUN Sparc-based server is most definitely NOT "little more than home machines with more memory and a bigger harddrive". In fact, the only components that you won't find hot-swappable in any x86 based server are the CPU and RAM, and I'm not 100% sure about RAM. PCI cards, Harddisks, powersupply etc can all be hot-swapped on decent x86 servers.
Braille keyboards & "display" devices should work just as well for a blind/deaf person as they would for someone who is only blind.
Which leads me to think... the primary sense for someone who is blind/deaf must be touch. I can't help but wonder if the silver lining to the VERY dark cloud of having no sight or hearing is that blind/deaf people end up being INCREDIBLE in bed...:)
I think the HeroineWarrior coders simply enjoy pulling people's chain. Its very obvious to me that they're pure-bred *NIX people with an over-active sarcasm-center. If you go through the site you'll find all sorts of odd statements, and ultimately, I think the whole "pulled because of liability concerns" thing was just another manifestation of their odd sense of humor, as is the "moving to win32" thing.
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You might want to have a look at Richard Gooch's new init scripts. They start services in paralell, when possible, rather than trudging through them sequencially. There are also other benefits - it is designed to be something new and better than either BSD or SysV init.
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With some insane new heatsinks wheighing in at over 700 grams, I would no longer place any bets that a heatsink will never tear lose.
However... i have a feeling that if one of these Godchillas go a-tumbling, they'll rip the entire cpu socket out with them, and the CPU will probably be saved because it is no longer connected to anything _but_ the heatsink. What that behemoth of a cooling device will do with the inside of your computer case and the remains of your motherboard as gravity makes it plummet down through cables, graphics cards and other peripherals like a giant mutant lizard through a major japanese city. I do not wish to speculate about.
Now i can finally build my RADEOAKTIV WURM GUN!
Still need that NUK tho...
(looks worriedly around and wonders if ANYONE else remembers the old Future vs. Fantasy Quake mod...)
You will only have get jerkiness if the footage was shot with short enough exposure time that each frame of film is perfectly sharp.
The human eye _does not_ update more than 22-24 times per second (at center vison, that is. peripheral vision updates faster), but real-life visual input ALWAYS gets motion-blur when rapid motion is viewed.
This is not the case with pre-recorded film, which in high light conditions may have short enough exposure times to make every frame a perfectly sharp snapshot no matter how much motion is in the shot. Likewise with on-the-fly generated computer graphics. Actual motion-blur algorithms are very computationally expensive, so to get a motion-blurred "illusion", you need to render more than 24 fps in games. However, IF you actually had access to perfect motion-blurring algorithms, you WOULD never need more than 24 frames per second.
Gah.
I used to think the "blurbflies" (genetically engineered flies that buzz out adverts) in Jeff Noon's "Nymphomation" were a hilarious satire on intrusive advertizing.
Now I'm starting to fear someone at one of the ad agencies that come up with ideas like TV popups during shows will read Noon's book, think blurbflies are a _great_ idea, and rush to contact some Biotech company specializing in designer lifeforms...
*shudder*
If by "array of smaller" you mean optical interferometry, then yes, you can, and its being done, (at the Keck observatory on Mauna Kea, and at Mt. Wilson, for example), but it is anything but "easy". Also, although it does give you equivalent _resolution_ of a single giant telescope, it only gives you the light-sensitivity of each of the smaller ones.
Building a f*ckinghyouge telescope like the one the article talks about is really more about being able to see extremely _faint_ objects, and get enough light from them to do spectral analysis etc., than resolution. Although the fantastic resolution you'll get certainly is very nice too.
The reason you don't see scalpels being made from titanium is because scalpels need to be _sharp_, and titanium can't hold an edge.
Titanium as a good metal for blades of any kind is a strange misconception fostered by comics and hollywood movies. Titanium may be "twice as strong as steel" per unit of wheight, but not per unit of _volume_, since it does not have half the density of steel, meaning that a blade of the same size and shape made of titanium will be considerably weaker if its made of titanium rather than steel.
Add to this the fact that titanium cannot be heat-treated like steel, and hence there is no way to give the edge the higher hardness it needs.
In short words, in general titanium sucks as a material for blades, although there may be specific situations, like diving knives, where its strengths (light wheight, "stainless") may matter more than its weaknesses.
A modern "high-end" x86 server in the same price range as a SUN Sparc-based server is most definitely NOT "little more than home machines with more memory and a bigger harddrive". In fact, the only components that you won't find hot-swappable in any x86 based server are the CPU and RAM, and I'm not 100% sure about RAM. PCI cards, Harddisks, powersupply etc can all be hot-swapped on decent x86 servers.
Braille keyboards & "display" devices should work just as well for a blind/deaf person as they would for someone who is only blind.
:)
Which leads me to think... the primary sense for someone who is blind/deaf must be touch. I can't help but wonder if the silver lining to the VERY dark cloud of having no sight or hearing is that blind/deaf people end up being INCREDIBLE in bed...
I think the HeroineWarrior coders simply enjoy pulling people's chain. Its very obvious to me that they're pure-bred *NIX people with an over-active sarcasm-center.
If you go through the site you'll find all sorts of odd statements, and ultimately, I think the whole "pulled because of liability concerns" thing was just another manifestation of their odd sense of humor, as is the "moving to win32" thing.