Re:okay, maybe it's a stupid idea...
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Water Computing
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Are you kidding, bubbles would be a great thing for exploring advanced principles in quasi-boolean computation...just as uncertainty can be dealt with by "fuzzy logic" in digital systems, the Beer Computer can employ "frothy logic".
hmm, right now I'm getting about 2.5 T1's for $39 a month, at least for downloading (about 340 Kbytes/sec most of the time). If my cable company capped it at 100 Kbytes/sec, I'd still be a customer, though below that I'd just get DSL. They really do advertise "unlimited use for a flat rate", and there would be a big customer uproar if they changed that....so I'm not too worried.
Tim, if Microsoft does this the *right* way, "intelligent programmers with Perl scripts" will make alternative 100% compatible, free, open source office tools that will kick Bill Gate's cheating, manipulative, lying asshole right out of the corporate office tool market.
(I thus don't believe Microsoft's XML "standard" will be good or too useful)
1. It is entirely possible to use open source tools, but not have to give out source code when software is sold, depending on license of the tools that you choose.
2. It is possible to make money AND give away source code to the software, for added value of services/support, or having software on CD, or bundling software with equipment
3. It is possible a company writes software to perform internal processing, and thus never needs to distribute it to the outside world (and the market for developers to write this kind of software will only grow, as more things in the world are automated)
I use DECnet on a coax from my galaxy to get to a TCP/IP gateway in the Milky Way, therefore IP TTL is not an issue. However, I did have to post this 4,000,000 years ago so you could read it now. Now I have to wait 8,000,000 years to be modded up.
In my old Physics textbook (Fundamentals of Physics, Holliday and Resnick, 3rd ed.) there is an essay by Jearl Walker (Cleveland State University and columnist for Scientific American. Some examples Walker performs:
* places his (wet) hand into a crucible of molten lead at 400 deg F.
* holds liquid nitrogen (-200 deg C) in his mouth.
* and yes, walks on hot coals:
"I have walked over hot coals on five occasions. For four of the walks I was fearful enough that my feet were sweaty. However, on the fifth walk I took my safety so much for granted that my feet were dry. The burns I suffered were extensive and terribly painful. My feet did not heal for weeks." He also relates some other mishaps: How too much water on his hand caused molten lead to spatter on his arms and face. Liquid nitrogen cracked two front teeth.
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id GAA20736; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 06:47:37 -0800 Received: (from andy@localhost) by neptune.chem.uga.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA00887; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:50:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:50:41 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dustman X-Sender: andy@neptune.chem.uga.edu To: georgia-skeptics@netcom.com Subject: Re: ATLANTA JOURNAL (1-9-96) 'A COOL HEAD ON HOT COALS' In-Reply-To: Message-ID:
Some of the things you said just aren't true. As an experienced handloader and target shooter, let me help you out:
Subsonic.223 rounds (which is really to say, a loading that propels a.224 [22 cal] projectile) do exist for ANY common weight of 22 caliber bullet, from 40 grains to 70 grains. My friend who has a Thompson Contender in.223 makes such loads for shooting on an indoor pistol range where supersonic loads are forbidden. The problem is to find a stable loading for the rate of twist of the barrel, mass and shape of bullet, and other factors.
Many, many loadings don't fill the brass all the way up. The primer will cause all powder to detonate whether next to the primer or at the other end of the case, there's plenty of time for that until the bullet leaves the weapon (pressure should build uniformly until that happens). Using a fast burning powder, you may have mostly space in the cartridge, while a slower one may fill it just about all the way up.
or even worse, what about my flatulence after eating meat product in airline meal?
Come to think of it, we don't need to use methanol filled fuel cells on an airplane, just methane ones with 3 foot hose and a butt plug. Could even carry "Y" adapter so person next to you could help out if they're not powering a laptop of their own.
naw, 2000 - 2500 Kcalories per 24 day for a slim, trim weenie yields 100 - 120 Watt per wuss. Much more for a robust, cola & pizza-fed slashdotter!
Don't know why you think airplanes "barely" circulate enough air, maybe you're scared & tense? Relax, hitting a mountain or ground at 550+ M.P.H. you likely aren't going to feel a thing!
Having programmed CADD models for years with LISP (well, ok, AutoLISP for AutoCAD), I can say Python is a very "LISP"y scripting language (for sets, lists, tuples), with the added benefit of libraries already available for Open Source graphics work, integration with SQL databases, and ease of calling high speed routines in C/C++/Objective C.
Actually, in the last sentence of your post you give the solution to the "man-centuries" dilemma - a good "core" project with API's can fire up a host of people to jump on the bandwagon. There's man-decades of work in a typical Linux distro, too, but that didn't stop Linus (or A.T. from making Minix AND a compiler AND a textbook) Let this guy jump in and do something to tackle the monster problem, put it on sourceforge, and see what happens.
I myself was heavily into CADD customization for 9 years, and am wondering WHAT IF I took my physics/math/CADD background and made (or started) an open source CADD package, since all the existing free ones are not what a real CADD person would use. In about a week I'll be done with the major spare-time project I've been doing for last 6 months; maybe the multi-user model/document management/CADD system will be next!
$2,000 is $2,000 too much for people who like Free Software, though someone will have to put in over $100K worth of time to realize this dream. If tens of thousands of people can have a 3D system for $0, that's worth more than hundreds of people who can have one for $2,000. Who cares if it does everything that Maya can, if people can use it?
By the way, I paid $350 for my dining room table with 4 chairs...I won't have a cardiac arrest when someone slams things on it or gouges it. Heck, I can even burn it for firewood if I get tired of it. My table is therefore superior to your table!:)
Re:Linux is a horrible, lost cause
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all the things you want are not even part of the operating system, just GUI sugar. If you're not a "computer person", then by all means DON'T use a Unix or Unix-like operating system. Get a Mac or Windows XP, plenty of sugar for you click-and-pointers who need a trash can on your desktop.
nonsense, remember the ncurses-like installs of the later versions of DOS? GUI assumes you have proper driver for graphics card and mouse, not always a good assumption given space limits of install media.
Re:No explanation != failure of Science != a mirac
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But what if this were a Virgin Mule Birth? Should the faithful chant Hail Mares?
Sounds like Hurd is a fun/educational exercise for computer science students, but to be honest we should say that the FSF, while producing great compilers & utilities, has basically failed after more than 10 years to produce a useful practical operating system kernel.....
I want free as in free from the brillant but whacky Richard Stallman
I can't help but make the 1970's version of this statement in my head:
32 bit processing just doesn't seem to be needed for the majority of tasks yet. We've had 32 bit mainframes for years now and its not like there is a great demand for them. In the common PC, the major bottlenecks are the tarbell tape drive interface and the 300 baud tty port.
Besides, who needs to address anything on the order of a billion bytes anyway? That much data would require a stack of punched cards 4,500 feet high!
Just looking at computer design from 1960 (IBM 1620 with magnetic core storage, discrete components) until now leads me to believe that even 100 years from now computer design will be radically different (quantum? biological? nano-mechanical?).....I really don't think anything x86 based or compatible would be seen outside of a museum!!
And in a related story, Dr. Futzup, who works in a room adjacent to Dr. Ellen Heber-Katz, was feeding Nutrasweet to a group of mice for 3 weeks, and one morning when his lab assistant brought in the cage he noticed "three holes had appeared in all their ears!". Also, he noted "the cage had changed color!"
you mean every old movie set of a saloon or salon had a piano. Don't fall into the trap of thinking movies really portray history, or that a movie about an issue has any bearing on reality about that issue.
It seems to me the only mechanism involved might be merely the beneficial effects of heating tissue! I bought a paraffin bath for my father to use on his arthritic hands; after a few minutes of use he can then move his hands without pain for a few hours.
the difference in chromosome count is due to a "fused pair" that exists "unfused" in the other. Similar design to be a biped on this planet, though: I don't belive the chimp to be an ancestor.
sure I have....and when FSF incorporates the names of the authors/designers of the programming languages into the names of their compilers, maybe I'll take the FAQ seriously. g++-stroustrup, gcc-ritchie......
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Are you kidding, bubbles would be a great thing for exploring advanced principles in quasi-boolean computation...just as uncertainty can be dealt with by "fuzzy logic" in digital systems, the Beer Computer can employ "frothy logic".
hmm, right now I'm getting about 2.5 T1's for $39 a month, at least for downloading (about 340 Kbytes/sec most of the time). If my cable company capped it at 100 Kbytes/sec, I'd still be a customer, though below that I'd just get DSL. They really do advertise "unlimited use for a flat rate", and there would be a big customer uproar if they changed that....so I'm not too worried.
you know, I'm tired of hearing about Linux based clustering.....let's have a good slashdot article about BSD based parallel computing clustering
Tim, if Microsoft does this the *right* way, "intelligent programmers with Perl scripts" will make alternative 100% compatible, free, open source office tools that will kick Bill Gate's cheating, manipulative, lying asshole right out of the corporate office tool market. (I thus don't believe Microsoft's XML "standard" will be good or too useful)
yes, flourescent office lighting, powering solar calculators at an efficiency of 0.0000001% from fossil and nuclear fuels since 1974!! hooray!!
1. It is entirely possible to use open source tools, but not have to give out source code when software is sold, depending on license of the tools that you choose.
2. It is possible to make money AND give away source code to the software, for added value of services/support, or having software on CD, or bundling software with equipment
3. It is possible a company writes software to perform internal processing, and thus never needs to distribute it to the outside world (and the market for developers to write this kind of software will only grow, as more things in the world are automated)
I use DECnet on a coax from my galaxy to get to a TCP/IP gateway in the Milky Way, therefore IP TTL is not an issue. However, I did have to post this 4,000,000 years ago so you could read it now. Now I have to wait 8,000,000 years to be modded up.
hilarious old mail message I found:
In my old Physics textbook (Fundamentals of Physics, Holliday and Resnick, 3rd
ed.) there is an essay by Jearl Walker (Cleveland State University and columnist for Scientific American. Some examples Walker performs:
* places his (wet) hand into a crucible of molten lead at 400 deg F.
* holds liquid nitrogen (-200 deg C) in his mouth.
* and yes, walks on hot coals:
"I have walked over hot coals on five occasions. For four of the walks I
was fearful enough that my feet were sweaty. However, on the fifth walk I
took my safety so much for granted that my feet were dry. The burns I
suffered were extensive and terribly painful. My feet did not heal for
weeks." He also relates some other mishaps: How too much water on his
hand caused molten lead to spatter on his arms and face. Liquid nitrogen
cracked two front teeth.
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From: Andy Dustman
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Subject: Re: ATLANTA JOURNAL (1-9-96) 'A COOL HEAD ON HOT COALS'
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Some of the things you said just aren't true. As an experienced handloader and target shooter, let me help you out: Subsonic .223 rounds (which is really to say, a loading that propels a .224 [22 cal] projectile) do exist for ANY common weight of 22 caliber bullet, from 40 grains to 70 grains. My friend who has a Thompson Contender in .223 makes such loads for shooting on an indoor pistol range where supersonic loads are forbidden. The problem is to find a stable loading for the rate of twist of the barrel, mass and shape of bullet, and other factors.
Many, many loadings don't fill the brass all the way up. The primer will cause all powder to detonate whether next to the primer or at the other end of the case, there's plenty of time for that until the bullet leaves the weapon (pressure should build uniformly until that happens). Using a fast burning powder, you may have mostly space in the cartridge, while a slower one may fill it just about all the way up.
or even worse, what about my flatulence after eating meat product in airline meal? Come to think of it, we don't need to use methanol filled fuel cells on an airplane, just methane ones with 3 foot hose and a butt plug. Could even carry "Y" adapter so person next to you could help out if they're not powering a laptop of their own.
naw, 2000 - 2500 Kcalories per 24 day for a slim, trim weenie yields 100 - 120 Watt per wuss. Much more for a robust, cola & pizza-fed slashdotter! Don't know why you think airplanes "barely" circulate enough air, maybe you're scared & tense? Relax, hitting a mountain or ground at 550+ M.P.H. you likely aren't going to feel a thing!
Having programmed CADD models for years with LISP (well, ok, AutoLISP for AutoCAD), I can say Python is a very "LISP"y scripting language (for sets, lists, tuples), with the added benefit of libraries already available for Open Source graphics work, integration with SQL databases, and ease of calling high speed routines in C/C++/Objective C.
Actually, in the last sentence of your post you give the solution to the "man-centuries" dilemma - a good "core" project with API's can fire up a host of people to jump on the bandwagon. There's man-decades of work in a typical Linux distro, too, but that didn't stop Linus (or A.T. from making Minix AND a compiler AND a textbook) Let this guy jump in and do something to tackle the monster problem, put it on sourceforge, and see what happens.
I myself was heavily into CADD customization for 9 years, and am wondering WHAT IF I took my physics/math/CADD background and made (or started) an open source CADD package, since all the existing free ones are not what a real CADD person would use. In about a week I'll be done with the major spare-time project I've been doing for last 6 months; maybe the multi-user model/document management/CADD system will be next!
$2,000 is $2,000 too much for people who like Free Software, though someone will have to put in over $100K worth of time to realize this dream. If tens of thousands of people can have a 3D system for $0, that's worth more than hundreds of people who can have one for $2,000. Who cares if it does everything that Maya can, if people can use it? By the way, I paid $350 for my dining room table with 4 chairs...I won't have a cardiac arrest when someone slams things on it or gouges it. Heck, I can even burn it for firewood if I get tired of it. My table is therefore superior to your table! :)
all the things you want are not even part of the operating system, just GUI sugar. If you're not a "computer person", then by all means DON'T use a Unix or Unix-like operating system. Get a Mac or Windows XP, plenty of sugar for you click-and-pointers who need a trash can on your desktop.
nonsense, remember the ncurses-like installs of the later versions of DOS? GUI assumes you have proper driver for graphics card and mouse, not always a good assumption given space limits of install media.
But what if this were a Virgin Mule Birth? Should the faithful chant Hail Mares?
Sounds like Hurd is a fun/educational exercise for computer science students, but to be honest we should say that the FSF, while producing great compilers & utilities, has basically failed after more than 10 years to produce a useful practical operating system kernel.....
I want free as in free from the brillant but whacky Richard Stallman
I can't help but make the 1970's version of this statement in my head: 32 bit processing just doesn't seem to be needed for the majority of tasks yet. We've had 32 bit mainframes for years now and its not like there is a great demand for them. In the common PC, the major bottlenecks are the tarbell tape drive interface and the 300 baud tty port. Besides, who needs to address anything on the order of a billion bytes anyway? That much data would require a stack of punched cards 4,500 feet high!
Just looking at computer design from 1960 (IBM 1620 with magnetic core storage, discrete components) until now leads me to believe that even 100 years from now computer design will be radically different (quantum? biological? nano-mechanical?).....I really don't think anything x86 based or compatible would be seen outside of a museum!!
And in a related story, Dr. Futzup, who works in a room adjacent to Dr. Ellen Heber-Katz, was feeding Nutrasweet to a group of mice for 3 weeks, and one morning when his lab assistant brought in the cage he noticed "three holes had appeared in all their ears!". Also, he noted "the cage had changed color!"
you mean every old movie set of a saloon or salon had a piano. Don't fall into the trap of thinking movies really portray history, or that a movie about an issue has any bearing on reality about that issue.
It seems to me the only mechanism involved might be merely the beneficial effects of heating tissue! I bought a paraffin bath for my father to use on his arthritic hands; after a few minutes of use he can then move his hands without pain for a few hours.
the difference in chromosome count is due to a "fused pair" that exists "unfused" in the other. Similar design to be a biped on this planet, though: I don't belive the chimp to be an ancestor.
sure I have....and when FSF incorporates the names of the authors/designers of the programming languages into the names of their compilers, maybe I'll take the FAQ seriously. g++-stroustrup, gcc-ritchie......