I typed in y=x+1, and it didn't graph anytime, I'm not very impressed. I want to be able todo 3d graphs and such like I do with my TI-92+
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I guess google is no longer affiliated with itself, from the google cache of google: Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
You claim the Prius rides more smoothly than a traditional car, but I suspect your experience with cars is merely limited to low-end econoboxes. Try hopping into a decent mid-range Benz one day for a smooth ride.
My boss has a Benz, it is about as quiet and smooth as a Prius, only more expensive, flashy and less gas mileage.
The hybrid concept was not previously embraced because (1) people didn't care about that kind of thing (it doesn't come cheaply or easily), (2) the cars look awful; it is only recently that the national sense of style has been so stunted that the design of the Prius is considerd somewhat acceptable, and (3) the technology wasn't really up to the challenge until recently (in any affordably mass-producible sense). I would also question whether it's actually being "embraced" yet -- I'd say it is still something of a curiosity at best, although it is definitely gaining ground.
1) Alot of people have been and are interested, I have talked to people about the civic hybrid/prius/insight, they all loved the idea and want to know where to get one, I tell them the local car dealer. 2) The Civic Hybrid looks like a Civic, the Prius has a new body, and the Insight is going to be replaced with the Civic Hybrid most likely, and ford is working on a ford escape hybrid.
We don't have cars that drive themselves because this is a very complicated problem to solve. It may not seem like a hard problem to you because you probably spend too much time watching TV (an admittedly gratuitous conclusion I'm drawing at least partially based on your command of the written word). There are plenty of people doing real work on the problem (here [arizona.edu] and here [pcmag.com] are some examples).
Why do you think I watch alot of TV and why do you think I don't know that it is a hard problem? I just don't see as much publicity on the idea as I thought there would be.
Furthermore, "they" would be facing a mighty huge bill to "implement" these sensors you're dreaming up, and your statement that government involvement would somehow magically simplify everything only further detracts from the value of your commentary. The project you can read about here [berkeley.edu] estimates 7.5 miles of highway will cost $200 million to rebuild with a sensor-based system, with 80% of that cost being borne by "them"... who are, of course, actually us, better known by the name "taxpayers".
I think if it was implemented over time with an RFID-type of system, it could be done much cheaper, such a system is being researched. Oh, and if you hate buzzwords and marketing fluff, I don't know why you would be a fan of the Benz.
Coudln't it be a slow transition than, and everytime they build a new freeway, or do maintenance, they could add the system and slowly convert it that way, and they could map out which freeways and such do have it, and which don't, and they could have signs like, "This is an autodrive freeway" and when it ends, the car could alert the driver that they have to take over.
Airlines have already approved fuel-cell powered laptops on their planes, it is very harmless and such, and airport security is susposed to just keep joe-sixpack from bringing in a gun in his suitcase, they aren't going to check for a small lighter-sized thing in your laptop.
It's not more of a threat than a cigarate lighter, and the hydrogen they use in fuelcells is much less hot when burned than butane in a cigaratte lighter is, or battery acid in a laptop battery. It would just be a waste to try and use it as a weapon. Have you ever thrown a ciggarate lighter on pavement? It just pops and doesn't do much harm, and the butane evaporates, probably the same with a fuel cell, btw I'm not resonsible if you somehow get hurt throwing around a ciggarte ligter of a fuel cell trying to get hurt.
I want to know if the fuel can be stored in a canister like butane is, and have it so you can refill the little cartidges with somthing like that, so you can buy the stuff from any place like a gas station or any other type of store, for a cheap price. I also want to know if Apple has plans to embrace the technology, and if they could cram the entire fuelcell into a battery pack, so it can be an option to use a recharage laptop battery or a fuel cell, and have it use the same slot, etc. Out of curiousity, do the 12/15/17"PBG4s and the iBook have the same type of battery, as it would help a new option of a fuel cell in a batterypack form come along, and it could be easially refilled. Any input on this?
I love the Hybrid car philosophy, it is a step away from gas-guzzling SUV's. This is a great incentive for people to buy a Prius over another car too, and the body on the new models look alot better than the older ones. My friends dad has a Prius, and it drives fast, and it rides ALOT more smooth than a traditional car. I just don't know why this idea was never embrassed before. Also, how come we don't have cars that can drive themself on the interstate? It doesn't seem like it would be hard at all, since they could just implement sensors into an interstate quite simply since it is all managed by the government, an open standard could be created by the Govt, and all the car companies could follow.
I know that might sound a little off topic, but it seems if it can handle more electricity/heat/etc, there is more room for more variations of electricity for them to use to create a higher base system, say the silica could only old 1V, well for a base-4 number system, it would be 1/4 V, 1/2 V, 3/4 V, 1V, however if you could handle more heat and such, you could use up to 4V, so 1V, 2V, etc... So, could diamonds help pioneer this concept, or am I just ignorant?
It seems that the worst part about spam is wasted bandwidth and processing power. Wasted electricity from undesired messages being shoved through fiber optic cable seems like a waste, then even more power to process and discover if it is spam or not, then you have false positives. I think a better solution would be to weed out all the spammers, maybe take the internet away from countries that allow spammers or somthing?
They said they could have made the cables alot neater, but they were wanting to make it so that the cables can be changed over time since it's for research, it will be moved around and updated alot, so they wanted to keep it loose.
The site said that one year of power for the cluster would cost about as much as all the hardware cost. So I guess if you include power, it certainly doesn't beat the $100/GFLOPS barrier.
I absolutly agree, that server is starting to die off, I guess they were running Windows Longhorn. Have you ever noticed that everytime a server is slashdotted, it is normally running windows if it is a software problem (which it normally is). The stability problems about Windows are not a joke, they are real as real can be. A linux/freebsd/macosx box will run almost 10-100x faster than a Windows box on competitive or even the same hardware, I used to think people were joking about Windows when they were talking about stability.
If they are on a heart-lung machine, wouldn't that machine be on backup power? Anything that a human life depends on, should not be reliant on a public power source, since it isn't designed to have 100% uptime.
You know, the strangest thing about this is that it was never exploited before, since it existed so long. I can go into a command prompt anywhere, and without priviledges on another computer, I can use the shutdown command from any Winnt box and shutdown a remote computer (It's really fun at school). How come it is just now being exploited and fixed? Granted people will patch their boxes that is.
I wish that geeks would form their own party and have a say in gov't. All these basic human rights being taken away isn't acceptable. I'm glad we have someone fighting for us, are there any other people out there that do the same? It's always nice to have a big guy looking out for the little guy like IBM and Open Source.
I know this guy, and next we are going to be doing this with WinNT 3.51 and making it look/act like XP. We don't know about 4.47 MB, but it will be small enough to fit on one of those mini cd's and will be bootable from that mini cd to a complete and full Windows XP like enviroment.
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Is solaris the movie pronouced the same way as the OS? I always said, "SOL - AIR - US" instead of "SOL - ARE - US" like they said in the trailer.
>Do they have a copyright on the blank loop? If not I think I should hurry up and copyright it
>>I think it depends on the length of silence. I seem to remember a lawsuit brought by one "composer" of silence against another. The only difference between the two was the length. Forgot who they were and who one. Anybody know?
I think they should should copyright the silence for.1 seconds, and say the music was just thier song going over and over again.
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Is this project anything alike of Dracucell that was mentioned on slashdot a while back? Both of the projects seem pretty similar.
I typed in y=x+1, and it didn't graph anytime, I'm not very impressed. I want to be able todo 3d graphs and such like I do with my TI-92+
I guess google is no longer affiliated with itself, from the google cache of google: Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
You claim the Prius rides more smoothly than a traditional car, but I suspect your experience with cars is merely limited to low-end econoboxes. Try hopping into a decent mid-range Benz one day for a smooth ride.
My boss has a Benz, it is about as quiet and smooth as a Prius, only more expensive, flashy and less gas mileage.
The hybrid concept was not previously embraced because (1) people didn't care about that kind of thing (it doesn't come cheaply or easily), (2) the cars look awful; it is only recently that the national sense of style has been so stunted that the design of the Prius is considerd somewhat acceptable, and (3) the technology wasn't really up to the challenge until recently (in any affordably mass-producible sense). I would also question whether it's actually being "embraced" yet -- I'd say it is still something of a curiosity at best, although it is definitely gaining ground.
1) Alot of people have been and are interested, I have talked to people about the civic hybrid/prius/insight, they all loved the idea and want to know where to get one, I tell them the local car dealer. 2) The Civic Hybrid looks like a Civic, the Prius has a new body, and the Insight is going to be replaced with the Civic Hybrid most likely, and ford is working on a ford escape hybrid.
We don't have cars that drive themselves because this is a very complicated problem to solve. It may not seem like a hard problem to you because you probably spend too much time watching TV (an admittedly gratuitous conclusion I'm drawing at least partially based on your command of the written word). There are plenty of people doing real work on the problem (here [arizona.edu] and here [pcmag.com] are some examples).
Why do you think I watch alot of TV and why do you think I don't know that it is a hard problem? I just don't see as much publicity on the idea as I thought there would be.
Furthermore, "they" would be facing a mighty huge bill to "implement" these sensors you're dreaming up, and your statement that government involvement would somehow magically simplify everything only further detracts from the value of your commentary. The project you can read about here [berkeley.edu] estimates 7.5 miles of highway will cost $200 million to rebuild with a sensor-based system, with 80% of that cost being borne by "them"... who are, of course, actually us, better known by the name "taxpayers".
I think if it was implemented over time with an RFID-type of system, it could be done much cheaper, such a system is being researched. Oh, and if you hate buzzwords and marketing fluff, I don't know why you would be a fan of the Benz.
Coudln't it be a slow transition than, and everytime they build a new freeway, or do maintenance, they could add the system and slowly convert it that way, and they could map out which freeways and such do have it, and which don't, and they could have signs like, "This is an autodrive freeway" and when it ends, the car could alert the driver that they have to take over.
Airlines have already approved fuel-cell powered laptops on their planes, it is very harmless and such, and airport security is susposed to just keep joe-sixpack from bringing in a gun in his suitcase, they aren't going to check for a small lighter-sized thing in your laptop.
It's not more of a threat than a cigarate lighter, and the hydrogen they use in fuelcells is much less hot when burned than butane in a cigaratte lighter is, or battery acid in a laptop battery. It would just be a waste to try and use it as a weapon. Have you ever thrown a ciggarate lighter on pavement? It just pops and doesn't do much harm, and the butane evaporates, probably the same with a fuel cell, btw I'm not resonsible if you somehow get hurt throwing around a ciggarte ligter of a fuel cell trying to get hurt.
I want to know if the fuel can be stored in a canister like butane is, and have it so you can refill the little cartidges with somthing like that, so you can buy the stuff from any place like a gas station or any other type of store, for a cheap price. I also want to know if Apple has plans to embrace the technology, and if they could cram the entire fuelcell into a battery pack, so it can be an option to use a recharage laptop battery or a fuel cell, and have it use the same slot, etc. Out of curiousity, do the 12/15/17"PBG4s and the iBook have the same type of battery, as it would help a new option of a fuel cell in a batterypack form come along, and it could be easially refilled. Any input on this?
I love the Hybrid car philosophy, it is a step away from gas-guzzling SUV's. This is a great incentive for people to buy a Prius over another car too, and the body on the new models look alot better than the older ones. My friends dad has a Prius, and it drives fast, and it rides ALOT more smooth than a traditional car. I just don't know why this idea was never embrassed before. Also, how come we don't have cars that can drive themself on the interstate? It doesn't seem like it would be hard at all, since they could just implement sensors into an interstate quite simply since it is all managed by the government, an open standard could be created by the Govt, and all the car companies could follow.
I know that might sound a little off topic, but it seems if it can handle more electricity/heat/etc, there is more room for more variations of electricity for them to use to create a higher base system, say the silica could only old 1V, well for a base-4 number system, it would be 1/4 V, 1/2 V, 3/4 V, 1V, however if you could handle more heat and such, you could use up to 4V, so 1V, 2V, etc... So, could diamonds help pioneer this concept, or am I just ignorant?
It seems that the worst part about spam is wasted bandwidth and processing power. Wasted electricity from undesired messages being shoved through fiber optic cable seems like a waste, then even more power to process and discover if it is spam or not, then you have false positives. I think a better solution would be to weed out all the spammers, maybe take the internet away from countries that allow spammers or somthing?
They said they could have made the cables alot neater, but they were wanting to make it so that the cables can be changed over time since it's for research, it will be moved around and updated alot, so they wanted to keep it loose.
The site said that one year of power for the cluster would cost about as much as all the hardware cost. So I guess if you include power, it certainly doesn't beat the $100/GFLOPS barrier.
Then this post shall be a node of the great slashdot beowulf cluster. Just imaging a beowulf cluster of beowulf cluster jokes!
I absolutly agree, that server is starting to die off, I guess they were running Windows Longhorn. Have you ever noticed that everytime a server is slashdotted, it is normally running windows if it is a software problem (which it normally is). The stability problems about Windows are not a joke, they are real as real can be. A linux/freebsd/macosx box will run almost 10-100x faster than a Windows box on competitive or even the same hardware, I used to think people were joking about Windows when they were talking about stability.
If they are on a heart-lung machine, wouldn't that machine be on backup power? Anything that a human life depends on, should not be reliant on a public power source, since it isn't designed to have 100% uptime.
I'm only getting .7 KB/sec from it, what is everyone else getting?
You know, the strangest thing about this is that it was never exploited before, since it existed so long. I can go into a command prompt anywhere, and without priviledges on another computer, I can use the shutdown command from any Winnt box and shutdown a remote computer (It's really fun at school). How come it is just now being exploited and fixed? Granted people will patch their boxes that is.
I wish that geeks would form their own party and have a say in gov't. All these basic human rights being taken away isn't acceptable. I'm glad we have someone fighting for us, are there any other people out there that do the same? It's always nice to have a big guy looking out for the little guy like IBM and Open Source.
I'd just like to mention somewhere close to the top that you can get one cheaper here, and it is direct from the manufacturer.
I know this guy, and next we are going to be doing this with WinNT 3.51 and making it look/act like XP. We don't know about 4.47 MB, but it will be small enough to fit on one of those mini cd's and will be bootable from that mini cd to a complete and full Windows XP like enviroment.
Is solaris the movie pronouced the same way as the OS? I always said, "SOL - AIR - US" instead of "SOL - ARE - US" like they said in the trailer.
What if you wore contact lenses?
>Do they have a copyright on the blank loop? If not I think I should hurry up and copyright it >>I think it depends on the length of silence. I seem to remember a lawsuit brought by one "composer" of silence against another. The only difference between the two was the length. Forgot who they were and who one. Anybody know? I think they should should copyright the silence for .1 seconds, and say the music was just thier song going over and over again.
Have they tried throwing a person in it to see if the spiders will swarm/attack that person?