CDs more robust than flash drives? What have you been smoking?.
Flash is nearly unkillable. CDs, otoh, need just a bad scratch and they are done for. COULD be happening in an "shit happens" scenario like descriped in the article... Not to mention that for me, CD-Rs showed the habbit of becoming sponaniously unreadable after a few months/years quite often, which is something you _dont_ want for an emergency storage.
"singularity" says nothing about "bright future" or "utopia" per sé, but more descripes a point where the ever increasing innovation rate makes predictions impossible.
They told the same thing 10 years ago about powerpc, and look what has happened.
Target market for Power(5): Servers. No mainframes (as those are a different area), no HPC (horrible FPU/$ performance compared to main competitors), no small servers (PPC970 is more or less dead in the water, and power5 with its horribly expensive MCMs isnt cost effective in the more "normal" enviroment.
SO i _seriously_ doubt "the entire world" will be using power in 10 years. They can be happy if the keep their market share.
And actually, the users currently running p2p dont want *any* $ per song models either. Why? Because they dont want to pay anything, although its superficial crap they dont really need.
The bigger reason why P2P if banned in universities is simple bandwith cost. At my university, ed2k and kazaa were blocked years before the local organisations started to bitch about piracy, simply because people liked running edonkey on computers with 100mbit connection to the backbone, thus doubling leading to a situation where p2p made up the majority of traffic (with bandwith costs in the 100.000s per month not to neglectable for a smaller university).
Well, even Xvid cant do magic, and for a 100minute movies, they could at last have mde it 700MB to fill a whole cd (that would have impreved things quite a bit already).
With google, there is nothing about being _that_ paranoid. They DO index and archive internally everything you send/recieve. And use it for ads (that alone would create a shitstorm of disgust if any other company did it)
One hint: ffdshow doesnt use the gpu for videa decoding AT ALL. And scalling if _free_ since 5 generations ago. Even a gforce 2 can scale 100fps to the maximum resolution the ramdac supports without _any_ problems.
Maybe you should upgrade your _CPU_ if you want to decode HD-quality compressed video...
It doesnt eleminate _a_ fan in a multifan enviroment, it eleminates the smallerst, highest RPM, loudest and easieast to clog up with dirt and fail fan in a multifan enviroment.
10 12cm case fans running at 7V dont come close to some of those 8000rpm 40mm fuckers
Those "huge servers" have nothing to do with edonkey, and dont even run their software. In fact, 90%-95% of the users on those servers dont even use edonkey clients. Also, the serverless network in emule is up and running for ages, so even if those servers were forced to be closed, it wouldnt hurt much.
A typical emule user will notice absolutely no change with edonkey gone...
Well, you moron. I am here at the university of würzburg. Sure, our last nobel price is 20 years gone already, but our physics department isnt that bad.
And let me tell you: Either maxwells laws or that generator is correct. And im betting all i will ever own on maxwell....
er... Wrong. Sorry mate, but e-ink will never reach the contrast ratios of even bad lcds, because its only reflective, so your CANNOT make the dark areas really dark because of diffuse reflections inside the pannel, and simple lambertian demands limit the reflectivity of the white areas (its no mirror, you know?)
a 100:1 ratio would be a dream for this kind of technology.
Submarines. You can build submarines capable of diving very deep. But those things are a) made from steel (many times stronger than _any_ glass b) self supporting (try cracking an egg by pressing on it from the outside, compare to pressure by chicken form inside) c) go nowhere near "deep water" besides very small ones (which would be a unsuitable size for an aquarium).
Just imagine: a 1000m deep sea aquarium would have a pressure of 1000 metric tons per m^2 on every surface. Thats a stack of 15 fully supplied M1 tanks. And it scales _baddly_. if you have a cube, and double the side length, you get square the surface, and thus square the force pushing on one side. But the line of material holding the the face in at the edge is only doubling, so you have to double glass thickness, too...
With those forces, you may build a pressure chamber (i.e. massivly externally supported structure with small volume) from glass (although i dont think it will work well), but an aquarium needs support (air/heating/cleaning), and any of those breaks would make the whole thing instable (remember, glass likes to crack).
The same (author studied it for 20 years, along with a lot of other people) is also true for electric universe, intelligent design and any other type of crackpot idea.
People can get so fanatic when dealing with revolutionary theories that they can lose any attachment to reality.
Which is SO possible with 20 year old technology, considering we are today still struggling to build maglev TRAIN tracks without them failing, not to speak of a 2000km long track into space . I always love how so many stuff is claimed to be "perfectly possible"...
Maybe i am a bit out of touch (although i doubt it, being physicist and seeing people who actively work in the nanoparticle research and astrophysics department everyday), but i think this is all such a bullshit.
Space elevator this, space elevator that. Its just a pie-in-the-sky dream, and will be for the next century(ies). We dont have bucktubes "thick as a hair but strong enough to lift a car". We dont even have them a meter long and strong enough to lift an apple. And even than, it took millenia to get from iron->steel->a few km steel wire for bridges/ect. Singularity this or that, you shouldnt expect something like the support of the golden gate bridge via nanotube based cables the next decade(s) (not even mentioning the hurdles of a structure 30.000km+ long and sturdy enough to support the lifting vehicle and atmospheric conditions).
Also, the best we ever did concerning long wires and space was a test a few years ago, where they even failed to unwind a 300km, unstained wire in free space.
Not to mention that to get the whole framework running you need an efficent way of getting material and people up there to begin with... without a shuttle mk2 or 3 or 4 or 5 there is not even a point to start the whole shit.
But it seems nowaydays you only need to throw some buzzwords like "nanotubes" into the crowed and they would believe you even if you promised them portable teleporters...
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Maybe its pragmatism.
I dont see many tibetian prime ministers on international meetings, or tibetian embassies in foreign capitals...
Many borders are shaped by unfriendly takeovers, but that doesnt negate those changes.
CDs more robust than flash drives?
What have you been smoking?.
Flash is nearly unkillable.
CDs, otoh, need just a bad scratch and they are done for. COULD be happening in an "shit happens" scenario like descriped in the article... Not to mention that for me, CD-Rs showed the habbit of becoming sponaniously unreadable after a few months/years quite often, which is something you _dont_ want for an emergency storage.
"singularity" says nothing about "bright future" or "utopia" per sé, but more descripes a point where the ever increasing innovation rate makes predictions impossible.
They told the same thing 10 years ago about powerpc, and look what has happened.
Target market for Power(5): Servers. No mainframes (as those are a different area), no HPC (horrible FPU/$ performance compared to main competitors), no small servers (PPC970 is more or less dead in the water, and power5 with its horribly expensive MCMs isnt cost effective in the more "normal" enviroment.
SO i _seriously_ doubt "the entire world" will be using power in 10 years. They can be happy if the keep their market share.
And actually, the users currently running p2p dont want *any* $ per song models either.
Why? Because they dont want to pay anything, although its superficial crap they dont really need.
The bigger reason why P2P if banned in universities is simple bandwith cost. At my university, ed2k and kazaa were blocked years before the local organisations started to bitch about piracy, simply because people liked running edonkey on computers with 100mbit connection to the backbone, thus doubling leading to a situation where p2p made up the majority of traffic (with bandwith costs in the 100.000s per month not to neglectable for a smaller university).
Otoh, it is an established fact that elite 2&3 sucked beyond believe.
Just because they are new a few years old doesnt make them better per default....
Thats why airbus is rivaling boing for the most succesful aircraft company, and ariane has the best track record of all recent commercial lifters.
Eat your propaganda yourself
Just putting the logic into the camera doesnt make it "computer free"
Well, even Xvid cant do magic, and for a 100minute movies, they could at last have mde it 700MB to fill a whole cd (that would have impreved things quite a bit already).
With google, there is nothing about being _that_ paranoid.
They DO index and archive internally everything you send/recieve. And use it for ads (that alone would create a shitstorm of disgust if any other company did it)
I can only agree with Perry Bible Fellowship.
Its different and great, although just to rarely updated.
One hint:
ffdshow doesnt use the gpu for videa decoding AT ALL. And scalling if _free_ since 5 generations ago. Even a gforce 2 can scale 100fps to the maximum resolution the ramdac supports without _any_ problems.
Maybe you should upgrade your _CPU_ if you want to decode HD-quality compressed video...
It doesnt eleminate _a_ fan in a multifan enviroment, it eleminates the smallerst, highest RPM, loudest and easieast to clog up with dirt and fail fan in a multifan enviroment.
10 12cm case fans running at 7V dont come close to some of those 8000rpm 40mm fuckers
Those "huge servers" have nothing to do with edonkey, and dont even run their software.
In fact, 90%-95% of the users on those servers dont even use edonkey clients.
Also, the serverless network in emule is up and running for ages, so even if those servers were forced to be closed, it wouldnt hurt much.
A typical emule user will notice absolutely no change with edonkey gone...
Well, you moron. I am here at the university of würzburg. Sure, our last nobel price is 20 years gone already, but our physics department isnt that bad.
And let me tell you:
Either maxwells laws or that generator is correct. And im betting all i will ever own on maxwell....
er... Wrong.
Sorry mate, but e-ink will never reach the contrast ratios of even bad lcds, because its only reflective, so your CANNOT make the dark areas really dark because of diffuse reflections inside the pannel, and simple lambertian demands limit the reflectivity of the white areas (its no mirror, you know?)
a 100:1 ratio would be a dream for this kind of technology.
ok, lets take your example:
Submarines. You can build submarines capable of diving very deep. But those things are
a) made from steel (many times stronger than _any_ glass
b) self supporting (try cracking an egg by pressing on it from the outside, compare to pressure by chicken form inside)
c) go nowhere near "deep water" besides very small ones (which would be a unsuitable size for an aquarium).
Just imagine: a 1000m deep sea aquarium would have a pressure of 1000 metric tons per m^2 on every surface. Thats a stack of 15 fully supplied M1 tanks.
And it scales _baddly_. if you have a cube, and double the side length, you get square the surface, and thus square the force pushing on one side. But the line of material holding the the face in at the edge is only doubling, so you have to double glass thickness, too...
With those forces, you may build a pressure chamber (i.e. massivly externally supported structure with small volume) from glass (although i dont think it will work well), but an aquarium needs support (air/heating/cleaning), and any of those breaks would make the whole thing instable (remember, glass likes to crack).
The same (author studied it for 20 years, along with a lot of other people) is also true for electric universe, intelligent design and any other type of crackpot idea.
People can get so fanatic when dealing with revolutionary theories that they can lose any attachment to reality.
Which is SO possible with 20 year old technology, considering we are today still struggling to build maglev TRAIN tracks without them failing, not to speak of a 2000km long track into space . I always love how so many stuff is claimed to be "perfectly possible"...
Because the technology does only exist in science fiction novels....
Maybe i am a bit out of touch (although i doubt it, being physicist and seeing people who actively work in the nanoparticle research and astrophysics department everyday), but i think this is all such a bullshit.
Space elevator this, space elevator that. Its just a pie-in-the-sky dream, and will be for the next century(ies). We dont have bucktubes "thick as a hair but strong enough to lift a car".
We dont even have them a meter long and strong enough to lift an apple.
And even than, it took millenia to get from iron->steel->a few km steel wire for bridges/ect.
Singularity this or that, you shouldnt expect something like the support of the golden gate bridge via nanotube based cables the next decade(s)
(not even mentioning the hurdles of a structure 30.000km+ long and sturdy enough to support the lifting vehicle and atmospheric conditions).
Also, the best we ever did concerning long wires and space was a test a few years ago, where they even failed to unwind a 300km, unstained wire in free space.
Not to mention that to get the whole framework running you need an efficent way of getting material and people up there to begin with... without a shuttle mk2 or 3 or 4 or 5 there is not even a point to start the whole shit.
But it seems nowaydays you only need to throw some buzzwords like "nanotubes" into the crowed and they would believe you even if you promised them portable teleporters...
well, it doesnt matter if those storm vary from year to year if they average out over the millenia.
_Every_ metal will stop WiFi...
But titanium is more expensive (as material, to shape, ect)
Zero, because it uses the earphone cable as antenna?
Its no size issue, i had a FM-radio wristwatch as a schoolkid 15 years ago.
Its just that apple wants people to listen to songs bought in i-tunes, not recieved via radio...