winamp was there FIRST. I used winamp at a time when i still used the original frauenhofer encoder for dos. Back then it needed 50% cpu to play mp3s. All the users just didnt see any need to change.
Yeah, because those sites do represent a significant part of the internet traffic... oh wait, they dont. So whoever uses them for whatever, it doesnt matter in the summation.
I always hear this "overwritten 20 times can be recovered" claim, but it really sounds like a bunch of tinfoil myth to me.
It may have been true in the 80s, but modern drives arent like those old stepper things where thermal expansion would lead to misaligned tracks that arent totaly overwriten, and modern drives dont have any real space between the tracks that can have any information. Today, a bit is saved in little more that is needed to be termally stable. Any remains of an old bit (even if it was the last state) would have to be at least an order of magnitude smaller (or it would cause errors). Something that small would flip simply because of kT.
At least civilian recovery firms werent able to recover data even ONCE overwritten with zeros 2 years back in a C'T test (not even worth mentioning thats the hardest task, and they also send drives that were overwritten with random bits and some which were overwritten 5 times, no need to tell the results there). Just think about it: even if they pull out the platter and put it under an atomic force microscopy with a magnetic sensing tip, and really can identify a bit with 90% probability even after overwriting... if you need a byte, you are down to 50%, if you need a word, 18%. And 90% may be doable if its overwriten once, but if its overwritten 5 times, it isnt.
I didnt RTFA either, BUT: Both intel und amd have already demonstrated transistors with transition frequences (or a zero gain bandwith as you call it) of more than 2 THz (IIRC, the fastest one was 3.something THz, with a double base design).
So i dont think this would be worth mentioning if 600GHz were the transition frequency, so i guess its an actual usable for extreme HF signal processing.
i read? The one where the e-penis is now how many spam they get? (well, this might be a bit harsh, but come on. Everytime there is a spam topic, there will be a thread were the usual suspects get off with how much they get... "i get 300 per day!!!11"...
This species can be easily identified by bringing up that its most likely their own fault for using their email unwisely (you know, enter email for free pr0n, ect). The usual reply will be: "Im SOOOO important that i have to put my email into 153 acticles and on 3 xxmillion hits pages..."
Well, about spam. Shit happens. I never got spam till i once posted my email in a newsgroup post. Sicne then it das been 10 or 20 per day. Before (1995-2003) nearly nothing.
2 years ago 3 or 4 spams a day were very annoying. You had to delete them, and to delete them you had to click on them, and that would show nasty stuff in the preview window, ect...
But nowaday? The spams pop up for a second in the incoming folder of thunderbird and promptly dissapear to where they belong to after that. The felt exposure of spam is less than ever. The only thing is that its 200 or 300K traffic per day, but thats less than some flash adds have, neglectable.
Well, i dont really have the mood to calculate, but small things are VERY easy to cool. For example, your cpu die is 1cm^2 big, but all the heat is only generated in a few um height. Similar here: When downscaling, volume goes down with a d^3, surface are only with d^2. So there very small parts have a HUGE surface to volume ratio and are very easily cooled. Not to mention that there is a direct cooling path to the substrate they are build on.
but the total strenght has to be there, at least in the middle. Not to mention stress during building.
Its at least 100-200 years away with our current progress, if its possible at all (even nanotubes arent wonderobjects, and all those "it could be strong enough" calculations disregard that for every NORMAL bridge, you calculate "strong enough" and slap a mighty safty factor on top of it...
EMP works well against electronics, but NOT as well as oceans 11 makes people believe:)
To make a long story short: If the robots are even lightly shielded against emp, you would need to bring it so close that you could just use a normal bomb and get similar results.
If you have a total angular momentum of 0, you get an eliptical galaxy. All stars have totally random orbital orientations around the center, so it gives an elipsoid. it COULD be a sphere (but what do you mean with gravitational stable? all galaxies are dynamic), but the chances are rather slim). If there is a angular momentum, it will create a disc simply because thats a lower energy state with the same angular momentum compared to a sphere.
You know, its the new september that never ended...
Would be a good excuse. "sorry im late for the examn, but in this post 9/11 world, nobody can be sure to arrive in time" "sorry i could not finish the project, in this post 9/11 world i needed to check for terrorists which cost too much time..." hm seems only to work for state authorities.
Well, but they only test ansi contrast, which is USELESS. Sure your monitor is dark if nothing is displayed... but how dark are black areas near bright ones? The phosphor happily emmits in all directions and pulls down the actually usable contrast to 300-800:1
Yeah, right. Just like it is so stupid to let the government defend you, make laws, build streets, educate children... its the FUCKING job of a government to provide basic sevices to the people. And now internet access is one of those
Yeah, i know that a space based observatory has many advantages, but i just wanted to say that even if there is a break between hubble and the webb telescope, its not like there wont be high end optical data anymore. And i dont think its useful to just pump money senselessly into hubble if it could be better spend for a new one.
I agree. Voice recoginition is fine if the result is supposed to be a text, but commands?
Its like in star trek. Think about how many battles would have been won if they had a big red "fire phaser" and a green "modulate shield frequency" button an the captains chair (instead of wasting time speaking it out everytime):)
Slashdot Mirror
perhaps where you live...
Here a flatrate has leagally to be a flatrate, so nobody can complain if you use full bandwith 24/7
He had a copy of the magazine, but at some point the last decades it got lost and if nowhere to find...
winamp was there FIRST.
I used winamp at a time when i still used the original frauenhofer encoder for dos. Back then it needed 50% cpu to play mp3s.
All the users just didnt see any need to change.
Yeah, because those sites do represent a significant part of the internet traffic... oh wait, they dont.
So whoever uses them for whatever, it doesnt matter in the summation.
Im amazed you didnt read it.
THe gamma rays will split the N2 and O2 molecules, which will result in the creation of lots of NOx in the stratosphere which will destroy the ozone.
Or how do you think that a 10second burst could take weeks to destroy the ozone?
I always hear this "overwritten 20 times can be recovered" claim, but it really sounds like a bunch of tinfoil myth to me.
It may have been true in the 80s, but modern drives arent like those old stepper things where thermal expansion would lead to misaligned tracks that arent totaly overwriten, and modern drives dont have any real space between the tracks that can have any information. Today, a bit is saved in little more that is needed to be termally stable. Any remains of an old bit (even if it was the last state) would have to be at least an order of magnitude smaller (or it would cause errors). Something that small would flip simply because of kT.
At least civilian recovery firms werent able to recover data even ONCE overwritten with zeros 2 years back in a C'T test (not even worth mentioning thats the hardest task, and they also send drives that were overwritten with random bits and some which were overwritten 5 times, no need to tell the results there).
Just think about it: even if they pull out the platter and put it under an atomic force microscopy with a magnetic sensing tip, and really can identify a bit with 90% probability even after overwriting... if you need a byte, you are down to 50%, if you need a word, 18%.
And 90% may be doable if its overwriten once, but if its overwritten 5 times, it isnt.
I didnt RTFA either, BUT:
Both intel und amd have already demonstrated transistors with transition frequences (or a zero gain bandwith as you call it) of more than 2 THz (IIRC, the fastest one was 3.something THz, with a double base design).
So i dont think this would be worth mentioning if 600GHz were the transition frequency, so i guess its an actual usable for extreme HF signal processing.
i read?
The one where the e-penis is now how many spam they get?
(well, this might be a bit harsh, but come on. Everytime there is a spam topic, there will be a thread were the usual suspects get off with how much they get... "i get 300 per day!!!11"...
This species can be easily identified by bringing up that its most likely their own fault for using their email unwisely (you know, enter email for free pr0n, ect).
The usual reply will be: "Im SOOOO important that i have to put my email into 153 acticles and on 3 xxmillion hits pages..."
Well, about spam. Shit happens. I never got spam till i once posted my email in a newsgroup post. Sicne then it das been 10 or 20 per day. Before (1995-2003) nearly nothing.
2 years ago 3 or 4 spams a day were very annoying. You had to delete them, and to delete them you had to click on them, and that would show nasty stuff in the preview window, ect...
But nowaday? The spams pop up for a second in the incoming folder of thunderbird and promptly dissapear to where they belong to after that. The felt exposure of spam is less than ever. The only thing is that its 200 or 300K traffic per day, but thats less than some flash adds have, neglectable.
unobtainium. :)
Not magnetic, can be of advantage
Well, i dont really have the mood to calculate, but small things are VERY easy to cool.
For example, your cpu die is 1cm^2 big, but all the heat is only generated in a few um height.
Similar here: When downscaling, volume goes down with a d^3, surface are only with d^2. So there very small parts have a HUGE surface to volume ratio and are very easily cooled.
Not to mention that there is a direct cooling path to the substrate they are build on.
This isnt about physical objects, but the information.
A fingerprint is quickly sampled and a silicone mold will fool every scanner.
but the total strenght has to be there, at least in the middle.
Not to mention stress during building.
Its at least 100-200 years away with our current progress, if its possible at all (even nanotubes arent wonderobjects, and all those "it could be strong enough" calculations disregard that for every NORMAL bridge, you calculate "strong enough" and slap a mighty safty factor on top of it...
EMP works well against electronics, but NOT as well as oceans 11 makes people believe :)
To make a long story short: If the robots are even lightly shielded against emp, you would need to bring it so close that you could just use a normal bomb and get similar results.
BSD is dying....
:D
just kidding, but sounded on topic
Angular Momentum
If you have a total angular momentum of 0, you get an eliptical galaxy. All stars have totally random orbital orientations around the center, so it gives an elipsoid. it COULD be a sphere (but what do you mean with gravitational stable? all galaxies are dynamic), but the chances are rather slim).
If there is a angular momentum, it will create a disc simply because thats a lower energy state with the same angular momentum compared to a sphere.
You know, its the new september that never ended...
Would be a good excuse.
"sorry im late for the examn, but in this post 9/11 world, nobody can be sure to arrive in time"
"sorry i could not finish the project, in this post 9/11 world i needed to check for terrorists which cost too much time..."
hm
seems only to work for state authorities.
The funniest thing is, thats a variation of a line about saddam husseins relationship to america.
Only to give a hint that pet madmen can be a pain in the ass, later.
Well, but they only test ansi contrast, which is USELESS.
Sure your monitor is dark if nothing is displayed...
but how dark are black areas near bright ones? The phosphor happily emmits in all directions and pulls down the actually usable contrast to 300-800:1
So Yahoo is much friendlier to the people than google, giving more than twice enough jobs to people like me and you.
So you like blurry images.
:)
Be happy, with Longhorn you can apply a gausian blur pixel shader on you whole desktop, than everything will be fina again
Well, i guess having a multi-million hit site didnt hurt advertising revenues back in the time of the bubble....
Yeah, right.
Just like it is so stupid to let the government defend you, make laws, build streets, educate children...
its the FUCKING job of a government to provide basic sevices to the people. And now internet access is one of those
Yeah, i know that a space based observatory has many advantages, but i just wanted to say that even if there is a break between hubble and the webb telescope, its not like there wont be high end optical data anymore.
And i dont think its useful to just pump money senselessly into hubble if it could be better spend for a new one.
I agree.
:)
Voice recoginition is fine if the result is supposed to be a text, but commands?
Its like in star trek. Think about how many battles would have been won if they had a big red "fire phaser" and a green "modulate shield frequency" button an the captains chair (instead of wasting time speaking it out everytime)