The oldest Supercomputer in the top100 is the good old asci blue mountain. Its at place 30. 5 years old now. Asci red (before the p2overdrive upgreade) would still be place 36. 6 Years old.
And those 2 are only present because they were the fastest of their kind.
For the record: The fastest machine 10 years( the cm5 from thinking machines) has only 20% of the performance of the LAST entry of the current top500.
15 years ago there was no top500 list, but at that time a cray ymp or hitachi s820 were the best of the best. Performance compareabloe to a dual p4xeon or dual opteron workstation.
btw: simulations arent some crazy thing only nuke-builders do. Some kickass machines of the top500 are doing useful simulation work for companies like basf, gm, bayer, ect.
There is a HUGE difference between png/tiff vs jpeg and raw vs jpeg. Raw isnt just lossless compression, but rather using the direct output of the image sensor. This preserves a higher dynamic range (like 12bit per pixel) and you can later set a white balance ect in your computer. Just make a underexposed picture with jpeg and try to salvage anything with photoshop. All formerly dark areas will be a happy 8x8 macroblock land...
40bit DES?!?!??!!? LOL the government wont need weeks to crackit, but minutes. There was an asic machine 3 years ago that could crack it in 3 days, and it was only a prototype....
Ok, you say the most fundamental concept in computer science is logic. What do you want to tell me? Only because i understand xor & nand doesnt mean i can write a clean programm, not does it mean i can develope an efficient algorithm.
Imho RAS enviroments like VB HELP future software archeologists: because of abstraction, there is much less work to do. Imagine you had to understand how every programmer decided to create is own comboboxes, database-interfaces, rtf-edit windows,... With RAS, you can skip the basics that are nor interesing and jump straight to the real effort archived by the programmer... Without wasting time for understanding the 312th reinvention of the wheel...
I wouldn't exactly say "just as good", you know, there is fundamental difference between the meaning of the word "good" and the quality of the review.
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?????? 12000years is VERY little time geologically. Im not a specialist, but the ice cap needed longer than that to reach its current thickness. Hey, after antarctica moved south due to continental drift, the mainland was lowered up to 2500m because of the ice pressure. That didnt happen 12000 years ago. add a factor of 1000 and you would be closer to reality
Well, i guess with all the pda fanboys around i should be happy to be informed about this awesome new product. WITH A 65000 SCREEN...
Ok ok, the horse is death, i can finally stop beating...
(mental notice: stop beeing annoyed about badly written acticles. People wont get a joke and you will only burn karma in a series of troll moderated post during you fruitless effort of explaining you position) ->entering karma recharge mode....
Problem with maser: 1. at least half of your 500watt will be lost somewhere in the air (water vapour ect) 2. Maser/Laser arent "ideal", parallism is a tradeoff: you can use a large dish to widen the beam and limit dispersion, but you get a lower energy density in your beam.
500watt wont be enough.
btw: i doubt youll get a 2 inch beam at 40 meter distance, much less at 40000 km, which you need to reach the geo.
Well, there is something like licences for usage of frequency bands. Somebody being allowed to do something doesnt equal EVERYBODY being allowed to do it.
Well, point is that the warnings in the pyramids WERE IRRATIONAL, only to keep the stuff from being stolen.
Our 102003ad ancestors will see a HUGE CONCRET SLAP on top oh a big hole with cruel symbols on it. They quickly turn on their x-ray vision to look whats beneath and see that there is a lot of alpha and gamma radiation. No probs.
Then whats your problem with the orignial post? He says that either humans will be (nearly) extinct or they will be smart enought to detect radiactivity.
You say: mankind will be extinct and you are an idiot and im an eco-nut und you suck.
Hey, if your definition of a "green" way of live is living like in the stoneage (you seem to suggest so with your "people living in tribes arent stupid but you for saying so", btw: ive never read a paper in phys. rev. ect by someone living in a tribe. They really seem to be dumb), then ok. But i believe nothing but total devastation will deprive mankind of detecting radioactivity and understanding a large international language.
Its just so simple nobody makes a fuss about it. This article is just like all the others claiming einstein is wrong or "the universe is 5731 years old".
You can levitate cones or spheres even in earths graviation well (if you use a light source bright enough). The author is just an idiot. Its like he picked of a tv show "physics for dummys", remembered a few complicated words and wrote some superduper article.
There are problems with solar sails. But they are engineering prolems, not concerning the scientific background.
When was the last innovation in the way papers are printed? Or books are read? Or imagine the CEO of a chair factory (with loosing market share) complaing that the whole market is damned because there isnt any innovation and all people do is sit down on their products?
What features does a browser need? -It has to view webpages -it has to run your average computer -it has to be user friendly
only the last thing has seen any innovation at all the last 5+ years. Sure, webbrowsers support new file formats, ect, but this is just maintainance.
And even userfriendlyness has only seen (imho) tabbed browsing and type ahead find.
Of course everybody can imagine some kind of totally new cool super geek way to share information using blabblabla, but the programm to access this wouldn't be a webbrowser anymore, because the web are html pages linking each other with embedded links to media files.
And im quite happy that there hasnt been any bigger innovation, because it is a hint that the programms are mature enough to do their task without NEED for innovation.
Question: Isnt it a huge strain on every pilot to fly such a machine for 10+ hours straight?
Yes, they take the best of the best but this aircraft isnt made for combat, so the added redundency of a second pilot would not cause to much problems with functionality...
have you considered that fuel cells based on "not hydrogen" need to completely crack the alcohol on the fly. I just guess that being the simpler molecule it would be easier to find a suitable enviroment.
btw: If you cant danger level, have you ever considered how dangerous lith/ion cells can be? Just throw an old on into fire...
Sensational discovery: Prehistoric Particle Physics Experiment Discovered!! Archeologiest find great hint for colliding experiments utilizing Atoms of Si,C and O in a compound material.
Only because incas used piss to etch a copper gold compound doesnt mean they knew about electron gases in metals or electronegativity.
Slashdot Mirror
Ha!
Just clone one....
The oldest Supercomputer in the top100 is the good old asci blue mountain.
Its at place 30. 5 years old now.
Asci red (before the p2overdrive upgreade) would still be place 36. 6 Years old.
And those 2 are only present because they were the fastest of their kind.
For the record: The fastest machine 10 years( the cm5 from thinking machines) has only 20% of the performance of the LAST entry of the current top500.
15 years ago there was no top500 list, but at that time a cray ymp or hitachi s820 were the best of the best. Performance compareabloe to a dual p4xeon or dual opteron workstation.
btw: simulations arent some crazy thing only nuke-builders do.
Some kickass machines of the top500 are doing useful simulation work for companies like basf, gm, bayer, ect.
There is a HUGE difference between png/tiff vs jpeg and raw vs jpeg.
Raw isnt just lossless compression, but rather using the direct output of the image sensor. This preserves a higher dynamic range (like 12bit per pixel) and you can later set a white balance ect in your computer.
Just make a underexposed picture with jpeg and try to salvage anything with photoshop. All formerly dark areas will be a happy 8x8 macroblock land...
40bit DES?!?!??!!?
LOL
the government wont need weeks to crackit, but minutes. There was an asic machine 3 years ago that could crack it in 3 days, and it was only a prototype....
Ok, you say the most fundamental concept in computer science is logic. What do you want to tell me? Only because i understand xor & nand doesnt mean i can write a clean programm, not does it mean i can develope an efficient algorithm.
Imho RAS enviroments like VB HELP future software archeologists: because of abstraction, there is much less work to do. Imagine you had to understand how every programmer decided to create is own comboboxes, database-interfaces, rtf-edit windows,...
With RAS, you can skip the basics that are nor interesing and jump straight to the real effort archived by the programmer... Without wasting time for understanding the 312th reinvention of the wheel...
Hubble isnt usable as spycam.
It cant focus on one point of the earth surface because it can only track orders of magnitues slower..
I wouldn't exactly say "just as good", you know, there is fundamental difference between the meaning of the word "good" and the quality of the review.
??????
12000years is VERY little time geologically. Im not a specialist, but the ice cap needed longer than that to reach its current thickness.
Hey, after antarctica moved south due to continental drift, the mainland was lowered up to 2500m because of the ice pressure. That didnt happen 12000 years ago. add a factor of 1000 and you would be closer to reality
Sorry, wrong movie :)
But the correct one was also fram james cameron
Who says i dont? :)
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Well, i guess with all the pda fanboys around i should be happy to be informed about this awesome new product. WITH A 65000 SCREEN...
Ok ok, the horse is death, i can finally stop beating
(mental notice: stop beeing annoyed about badly written acticles. People wont get a joke and you will only burn karma in a series of troll moderated post during you fruitless effort of explaining you position)
->entering karma recharge mode....
I dont complain about the content, but about the wording:
the new KILLER pda with all kind l33t a$$ features like ÜBER 65000 screen and blablabla.
It just sounds like one of the commercials i like least.
Hey, i get at least 10 messages like this story every day. Only those praise the technical features of penis enlargers ect.
Come on: this pda may be really good, but this is slashdot.com, not sony.com.
Long ago.
Only that in india the jobs are normaly paid...
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Problem with maser:
1. at least half of your 500watt will be lost somewhere in the air (water vapour ect)
2. Maser/Laser arent "ideal", parallism is a tradeoff: you can use a large dish to widen the beam and limit dispersion, but you get a lower energy density in your beam.
500watt wont be enough.
btw: i doubt youll get a 2 inch beam at 40 meter distance, much less at 40000 km, which you need to reach the geo.
Well, there is something like licences for usage of frequency bands.
Somebody being allowed to do something doesnt equal EVERYBODY being allowed to do it.
Well, point is that the warnings in the pyramids WERE IRRATIONAL, only to keep the stuff from being stolen.
Our 102003ad ancestors will see a HUGE CONCRET SLAP on top oh a big hole with cruel symbols on it. They quickly turn on their x-ray vision to look whats beneath and see that there is a lot of alpha and gamma radiation.
No probs.
Then whats your problem with the orignial post?
He says that either humans will be (nearly) extinct or they will be smart enought to detect radiactivity.
You say: mankind will be extinct and you are an idiot and im an eco-nut und you suck.
Hey, if your definition of a "green" way of live is living like in the stoneage (you seem to suggest so with your "people living in tribes arent stupid but you for saying so", btw: ive never read a paper in phys. rev. ect by someone living in a tribe. They really seem to be dumb), then ok. But i believe nothing but total devastation will deprive mankind of detecting radioactivity and understanding a large international language.
If a photon is absorbed, it transfers its momentum.
If it is reflected, it transfers twice its momentum. And additionally, your sail doesnt get hot.
Its just so simple nobody makes a fuss about it. This article is just like all the others claiming einstein is wrong or "the universe is 5731 years old".
You can levitate cones or spheres even in earths graviation well (if you use a light source bright enough).
The author is just an idiot. Its like he picked of a tv show "physics for dummys", remembered a few complicated words and wrote some superduper article.
There are problems with solar sails. But they are engineering prolems, not concerning the scientific background.
When was the last innovation in the way papers are printed? Or books are read?
Or imagine the CEO of a chair factory (with loosing market share) complaing that the whole market is damned because there isnt any innovation and all people do is sit down on their products?
What features does a browser need?
-It has to view webpages
-it has to run your average computer
-it has to be user friendly
only the last thing has seen any innovation at all the last 5+ years. Sure, webbrowsers support new file formats, ect, but this is just maintainance.
And even userfriendlyness has only seen (imho) tabbed browsing and type ahead find.
Of course everybody can imagine some kind of totally new cool super geek way to share information using blabblabla, but the programm to access this wouldn't be a webbrowser anymore, because the web are html pages linking each other with embedded links to media files.
And im quite happy that there hasnt been any bigger innovation, because it is a hint that the programms are mature enough to do their task without NEED for innovation.
Question: Isnt it a huge strain on every pilot to fly such a machine for 10+ hours straight? Yes, they take the best of the best but this aircraft isnt made for combat, so the added redundency of a second pilot would not cause to much problems with functionality...
have you considered that fuel cells based on "not hydrogen" need to completely crack the alcohol on the fly. I just guess that being the simpler molecule it would be easier to find a suitable enviroment.
btw: If you cant danger level, have you ever considered how dangerous lith/ion cells can be?
Just throw an old on into fire...
Sensational discovery:
Prehistoric Particle Physics Experiment Discovered!!
Archeologiest find great hint for colliding experiments utilizing Atoms of Si,C and O in a compound material.
Only because incas used piss to etch a copper gold compound doesnt mean they knew about electron gases in metals or electronegativity.
Same goes here....
yes, and now considere the wavelenght of the ir in comparison to hair thickness and you will see that hair cannot be shown.