But it's rather unlikely. Anytime I hear catalyst and fusion in the same sentence I think "yet-to-be-accounted-for exothermic chemical reaction". Seriously. Not to mention that cold fusion defies much of what we know about the strong and electroweak nuclear forces. The inconclusiveness of the results and the particulars of the initial conditions does not bode well for it. If it works, there is no testable theory to explain it.
Sonoluminesence has a much better chance to acheive fusion, and yet that is actually HOT fusion (although convienently confined in its fuel).
The energy that was lighting up the LED came from your hand when you pushed the magnets together (hence why the LED would go out when you stopped pushing)
They did a little special on the upcoming pole flip. That we were due for one according to geological surveys. Anyway that field decrease lets us know that the flip is happening right now and pretty soon it'll switch to the other direction after shooting through 0 magnitude. So the south pole will be north and vice-versa. Yeah there will be a potential period of solar radiation wrecking havoc with stuff but there are ways we could prop up our own ionosphere with radio waves and maybe avoid the nastiest period.
I've had good luck with the NEC/Mitsubishi LCD4600 (MDT461S). It's not as cheap as the ones you'll find in Circuit City but it'll last a hell of a lot longer. The picture's great, it's decent looking, and it's got a lot of nice features. No tuner or HDMI, but you could add that as an option.
In many areas of consumer goods, you can always find a decent alternative with a potentially better service history by looking at a commercial line instead of one geared towards home users or prosumers.
We have some standard GE refridgerators, nothing fancy, but entry level commercial units. Not a single one out of the 12 we have in this building have needed service in the 6 years we've had them.
Anecdotal evidence, but it's just something I noticed.
Many Windows admins do not know about this little behavior and it comes back to bite them. It's been in there since Windows 2000: use it!
Also check this registry setting: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Consider changing the ProfilesDirectory to a mapped drive network share. If your network is fast enough this has the added benefit of having no profiles stored locally at all. Downside is you'll have to pre-emptively create all the folders on that drive because LOCAL SYSTEM won't have permission to create the folder at first logon to a machine. But it'll detect if it's there and think you've logged on before. Make sure you use Samba as the backing for a system like that though because you will need to play with oplocks settings so Windows doesn't bitch about loading the NTUSER.DAT hive from a network share.
These run between $150 and $400 depending on where you get them and options. It's a standard B/W NTSC camera with a clock sync so you can chain them together. CS lens mount, with electronic iris/zoom lens control.
Then you get yourself a few Osprey 1xxs in a mid-end server, and you can support 4 cameras pretty reliably. If you want to do more than 4, you might look at a Matrox Morphis; those are PCIe x4 or PCI-X, so they're a bit pickier. You could probably get 12 full frame streams from 3 of those on a suitably equipped system. But that's kinda expensive:(
Among all webcams, its the only one I've been able to positively determine has a 35mm screw mount. If the intended use is motion capture, they're going to want to have tripods and booms and stuff to hold these cameras in precise positions. Most other webcams just have some kinda suction cup or LCD clamp that isn't very useful for arbitrary positioning.
The reviews are not exaggerating, it's a nice camera.
I forgot, it has a usb-audio device endpoint two that's a built in mic, but that's not important. The 1280x960 modes mentioned are software scaling, so they're useless. It's a fairly standard CCD board in the unit that is 640x480. Since it uses a Bayer pattern to filter color, you're going to want to throw away the chroma components in your analysis. You might be able to use chroma for helping it distinguish the balls from the background, but you'll want to use the luma information for accurate tracking.
They run for about $100 and they are available at most CompUSA stores (and nowhere else, it seems).
Features:
* 640x480@30fps w/high compression enabled (15 or 10 without)
* 35mm camera screw mount
* Manual adjustments on camera (sensor angle and focus ring)
* Lots of software settings to play with (AGC, white balance, shutter speed, aperature)
* Compatible with the PWC 10.0.12 drivers from http://saillard.org/linux/pwc/
* Above all: stable.
Okay, I don't have a source offhand for anthropological evidence for why circumcision came about, but I'm sure I can cook up a few on Lexis Nexus or Wikipedia (I read it in some magazine for a class a few years back). And yes, you lose upwards of 50% (60% is typical) of the nerve endings because they are most concentrated in that area. Refs: http://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/
That if DOS never happened, then all of it would have happened still on MacOS. As another poster mentioned, Excel was released first for the Mac.
Windows didn't do anything that was particularly new or not being done by someone else that could have gotten a PC on every desk. Apple (just an example) could have gladly filled that role, and probably would have succeeded.
Remember Windows didn't really matter until Windows 95. That was the first time someone managed to MARKET (not make) an OS that could be used for business as easily as it could be used for entertainment, and have it work on a variety of PCs from different manufacturers. But by that time there were a billion other GUI systems that were even branching out into supporting multiple architectures. Windows 95 just happened to be backed by the right software company and had that killer Stones tune.
I guess my point is, if it wasn't Windows, it'd be something else. GEM, Amiga, OS/2, NeXT, X11, who knows.
The same couldn't be said for the other software on the list.
IBM is responsible for essentially creating the idea of computing in the commercial and industrial sectors. They invented databases, proto-ERP, and timesharing OSs. Kinda important stuff, wouldn't you say? What the hell do you want from them ?:-)
DOS more than Windows. If any Windows, Windows 95. Windows had enormous business impact and created a software ecosystem, but it didn't really drive any TRENDS in computing.
DOS might get a mention because it was critical in brining the PC to everyman. But then, the same could be said for the Macintosh OS if DOS never caught on.
Here are the breakdowns of software and major influence/contributions:
12) Morris Worm - Internet Security 11) Page Rank - "Search" (Internet utility in general) 10) Apollo Guidance System - Fault Tolerant / Embedded Computing (also historical significance) 09) Excel - Profound effect on business, put power in the hands of many professionals. 08) Mac OS - GUIs 07) Sabre - The proof of concept of large-scale BI, CRM and other "Enterprise Systems" 06) Mosaic - The Web 05) Java - Popularization of VMs and distributed/network computing 04) System 360 - Operating Systems 03) IGR - Pure wizardry and human impact (although I might posit that TeX or the Orbitz boking system could go here too) 02) System R - _the_ database. 01) BSD Unix - The Internet
That's 40 cores in 5U. Which is a good density but can't match the throughput of processors with quadruple SPEC scores. Plus there's only one FPU and vector unit for the whole die which totally kills it for any kind of media or scientific processing (which is pretty much the only reason why you want a massive N-way system anymore).
T1 is good for running IO bound java apps, a server for thin clients running interactive COTS Solaris applications, and virtual web hosting. That's about it. It's not even very good for databases because it lacks the memory bandwidth having to share one crossbar among all 8 cores [ and a single bank of DDR...:-( ]
If someone were to come out with an x86-compatible T1-like device it would kick ass for virtualizing windows servers though (for the same reason one hooks up a bunch of Sun Rays to a T1) Put all those propietary apps in one place with one node license... need a dev box? Sure... let me clone one for you.:-D
The main reason for circumcision was to reduce the sensitivity of the glans (it removes 60% of the nerve endings in the penis). This reduces masturbation and decreases sexual drive. This might have been necessary to prevent men from prematurely/off-handedly impregnanting women they couldn't afford to take care of. Instead you invent marriage, incorporate dowrys (sp), etc, where you create an environment where it's like: "OK, NOW you can fuck, make sum babies plz". Of course the guy can't acheive orgasm, he claims she's barren, and that's a stoning right there. Mmm Hmm.
I think all Christianity lets you do is to stand by smugly and look down upon everyone else.
Meanwhile the rest of us are trying _really hard_ to figure this damn universe out and squeeze a few more generations out of this planet before we fuck it up.
Go ahead. Give up. It doesn't matter in the end. Too bad you can't off yourself cause that's a one way trip to the lake of fire. (eye roll)
is that it's trivial to form a proof with innocent looking assumptions that shows that we are running "in a simulation" . So clearly you can't disprove the notion of a higher organization outside the universe which may or may not have influence on it (by design or by choice).
However, even if it is possible, we have no direct evidence of it. And to assume that what's outside is "God" is to jump the gun. It could be anything. It's just as likely that it's Lisa Simpson who created us accidentally for a science experiment.
I suppose it does no harm for someone to want to believe the possibility of such an entity being the God of Christiandom, as it were. But as it is also just as likely to be Eris the Goddess of Dischord, were this psycobabble to come up in weed-induced conversation with friends I'd rather dissuade anyone of calling it anything at all.
I don't imagine you do much work with neuroscience, or in simulation/agent based systems. These fields will encroach upon your beliefs concerning information theory, conciousness, and thus: the soul.
JESUS. That means I can get a 32-way system in that Tyan 5U case. That's just friggin' ludicrous.
IIRC, 32-cores is the limit for the current generation of Hypertransport. I think it has a 6-bit address and half of them are reserved for memory controllers. And that doesn't include I/O MCPs. So the practical limit is 28 (7x4).
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Or any of that other hydrogen mysticism claptrap.
But it's rather unlikely.
Anytime I hear catalyst and fusion in the same sentence I think "yet-to-be-accounted-for exothermic chemical reaction". Seriously.
Not to mention that cold fusion defies much of what we know about the strong and electroweak nuclear forces. The inconclusiveness of the results and the particulars of the initial conditions does not bode well for it. If it works, there is no testable theory to explain it.
Sonoluminesence has a much better chance to acheive fusion, and yet that is actually HOT fusion (although convienently confined in its fuel).
The energy that was lighting up the LED came from your hand when you pushed the magnets together (hence why the LED would go out when you stopped pushing)
They did a little special on the upcoming pole flip. That we were due for one according to geological surveys. Anyway that field decrease lets us know that the flip is happening right now and pretty soon it'll switch to the other direction after shooting through 0 magnitude.
So the south pole will be north and vice-versa.
Yeah there will be a potential period of solar radiation wrecking havoc with stuff but there are ways we could prop up our own ionosphere with radio waves and maybe avoid the nastiest period.
I've had good luck with the NEC/Mitsubishi LCD4600 (MDT461S).
It's not as cheap as the ones you'll find in Circuit City but it'll last a hell of a lot longer. The picture's great, it's decent looking, and it's got a lot of nice features. No tuner or HDMI, but you could add that as an option.
In many areas of consumer goods, you can always find a decent alternative with a potentially better service history by looking at a commercial line instead of one geared towards home users or prosumers.
We have some standard GE refridgerators, nothing fancy, but entry level commercial units. Not a single one out of the 12 we have in this building have needed service in the 6 years we've had them.
Anecdotal evidence, but it's just something I noticed.
CPUs are interesting again! I feel like it's the early 90s all over.
Many Windows admins do not know about this little behavior and it comes back to bite them. It's been in there since Windows 2000: use it!
Also check this registry setting:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Consider changing the ProfilesDirectory to a mapped drive network share. If your network is fast enough this has the added benefit of having no profiles stored locally at all.
Downside is you'll have to pre-emptively create all the folders on that drive because LOCAL SYSTEM won't have permission to create the folder at first logon to a machine. But it'll detect if it's there and think you've logged on before.
Make sure you use Samba as the backing for a system like that though because you will need to play with oplocks settings so Windows doesn't bitch about loading the NTUSER.DAT hive from a network share.
TLS w/AES is supported. You'll need to upgrade your RDP client to 5.2
Samsung SBC-331A.
:(
These run between $150 and $400 depending on where you get them and options.
It's a standard B/W NTSC camera with a clock sync so you can chain them together. CS lens mount, with electronic iris/zoom lens control.
Then you get yourself a few Osprey 1xxs in a mid-end server, and you can support 4 cameras pretty reliably. If you want to do more than 4, you might look at a Matrox Morphis; those are PCIe x4 or PCI-X, so they're a bit pickier. You could probably get 12 full frame streams from 3 of those on a suitably equipped system. But that's kinda expensive
Among all webcams, its the only one I've been able to positively determine has a 35mm screw mount.
If the intended use is motion capture, they're going to want to have tripods and booms and stuff to hold these cameras in precise positions. Most other webcams just have some kinda suction cup or LCD clamp that isn't very useful for arbitrary positioning.
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?p fp=SEARCH&Ntt=philips+900&N=0&Dx=mode+matchall&Nty =1&D=philips+900&Ntk=All&product_code=337160&pfp=s rch1
The reviews are not exaggerating, it's a nice camera.
I forgot, it has a usb-audio device endpoint two that's a built in mic, but that's not important.
The 1280x960 modes mentioned are software scaling, so they're useless. It's a fairly standard CCD board in the unit that is 640x480. Since it uses a Bayer pattern to filter color, you're going to want to throw away the chroma components in your analysis. You might be able to use chroma for helping it distinguish the balls from the background, but you'll want to use the luma information for accurate tracking.
They run for about $100 and they are available at most CompUSA stores (and nowhere else, it seems).
Features:
* 640x480@30fps w/high compression enabled (15 or 10 without)
* 35mm camera screw mount
* Manual adjustments on camera (sensor angle and focus ring)
* Lots of software settings to play with (AGC, white balance, shutter speed, aperature)
* Compatible with the PWC 10.0.12 drivers from http://saillard.org/linux/pwc/
* Above all: stable.
Okay, I don't have a source offhand for anthropological evidence for why circumcision came about, but I'm sure I can cook up a few on Lexis Nexus or Wikipedia (I read it in some magazine for a class a few years back).
And yes, you lose upwards of 50% (60% is typical) of the nerve endings because they are most concentrated in that area.
Refs: http://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/
That if DOS never happened, then all of it would have happened still on MacOS.
As another poster mentioned, Excel was released first for the Mac.
Windows didn't do anything that was particularly new or not being done by someone else that could have gotten a PC on every desk. Apple (just an example) could have gladly filled that role, and probably would have succeeded.
Remember Windows didn't really matter until Windows 95. That was the first time someone managed to MARKET (not make) an OS that could be used for business as easily as it could be used for entertainment, and have it work on a variety of PCs from different manufacturers. But by that time there were a billion other GUI systems that were even branching out into supporting multiple architectures. Windows 95 just happened to be backed by the right software company and had that killer Stones tune.
I guess my point is, if it wasn't Windows, it'd be something else. GEM, Amiga, OS/2, NeXT, X11, who knows.
The same couldn't be said for the other software on the list.
IBM is responsible for essentially creating the idea of computing in the commercial and industrial sectors. :-)
They invented databases, proto-ERP, and timesharing OSs. Kinda important stuff, wouldn't you say?
What the hell do you want from them ?
DOS more than Windows. If any Windows, Windows 95.
Windows had enormous business impact and created a software ecosystem, but it didn't really drive any TRENDS in computing.
DOS might get a mention because it was critical in brining the PC to everyman. But then, the same could be said for the Macintosh OS if DOS never caught on.
Here are the breakdowns of software and major influence/contributions:
12) Morris Worm - Internet Security
11) Page Rank - "Search" (Internet utility in general)
10) Apollo Guidance System - Fault Tolerant / Embedded Computing (also historical significance)
09) Excel - Profound effect on business, put power in the hands of many professionals.
08) Mac OS - GUIs
07) Sabre - The proof of concept of large-scale BI, CRM and other "Enterprise Systems"
06) Mosaic - The Web
05) Java - Popularization of VMs and distributed/network computing
04) System 360 - Operating Systems
03) IGR - Pure wizardry and human impact (although I might posit that TeX or the Orbitz boking system could go here too)
02) System R - _the_ database.
01) BSD Unix - The Internet
They have an abnormal number of chromosones and many don't even know.
That's 40 cores in 5U. Which is a good density but can't match the throughput of processors with quadruple SPEC scores. Plus there's only one FPU and vector unit for the whole die which totally kills it for any kind of media or scientific processing (which is pretty much the only reason why you want a massive N-way system anymore).
:-( ]
:-D
T1 is good for running IO bound java apps, a server for thin clients running interactive COTS Solaris applications, and virtual web hosting. That's about it.
It's not even very good for databases because it lacks the memory bandwidth having to share one crossbar among all 8 cores [ and a single bank of DDR...
If someone were to come out with an x86-compatible T1-like device it would kick ass for virtualizing windows servers though (for the same reason one hooks up a bunch of Sun Rays to a T1)
Put all those propietary apps in one place with one node license... need a dev box? Sure... let me clone one for you.
The main reason for circumcision was to reduce the sensitivity of the glans (it removes 60% of the nerve endings in the penis). This reduces masturbation and decreases sexual drive. This might have been necessary to prevent men from prematurely/off-handedly impregnanting women they couldn't afford to take care of.
Instead you invent marriage, incorporate dowrys (sp), etc, where you create an environment where it's like: "OK, NOW you can fuck, make sum babies plz". Of course the guy can't acheive orgasm, he claims she's barren, and that's a stoning right there. Mmm Hmm.
I think all Christianity lets you do is to stand by smugly and look down upon everyone else.
Meanwhile the rest of us are trying _really hard_ to figure this damn universe out and squeeze a few more generations out of this planet before we fuck it up.
Go ahead. Give up. It doesn't matter in the end. Too bad you can't off yourself cause that's a one way trip to the lake of fire. (eye roll)
*throws hands up*
is that it's trivial to form a proof with innocent looking assumptions that shows that we are running "in a simulation" .
So clearly you can't disprove the notion of a higher organization outside the universe which may or may not have influence on it (by design or by choice).
However, even if it is possible, we have no direct evidence of it. And to assume that what's outside is "God" is to jump the gun. It could be anything. It's just as likely that it's Lisa Simpson who created us accidentally for a science experiment.
I suppose it does no harm for someone to want to believe the possibility of such an entity being the God of Christiandom, as it were. But as it is also just as likely to be Eris the Goddess of Dischord, were this psycobabble to come up in weed-induced conversation with friends I'd rather dissuade anyone of calling it anything at all.
I don't imagine you do much work with neuroscience, or in simulation/agent based systems. These fields will encroach upon your beliefs concerning information theory, conciousness, and thus: the soul.
That is, assertions that are valid outside an axiomatic system.
Truths inside axiomatic systems are useful but only in the scope of the system.
We only have little 't' truth -- assertions backed by theories and empirical evidence.
JESUS.
That means I can get a 32-way system in that Tyan 5U case.
That's just friggin' ludicrous.
IIRC, 32-cores is the limit for the current generation of Hypertransport. I think it has a 6-bit address and half of them are reserved for memory controllers. And that doesn't include I/O MCPs. So the practical limit is 28 (7x4).
(that is: mod up)
At this point, I estimate more sites deploy Wakaba or Kareha (the revised engines that power the US *chans) than Slash and Scoop combined.
They're easy to setup, easy to administer and fit most people's needs.
I wonder where the Wiki engines fit in all this
(I really should do a codebase engine breakdown one day with an automated crawler...)