Ok. But what happens when you don't live in the optimal climate area? I'd like to see you start that car when it's 40 below with the standard battery. (Unless thats one hell of a standard)
The thing is, with more than one one read-write head on each arm, each arm would only be able to lookup data in 1 spot at a time, unless you had a really really good file system setup. And the additional controller to prevent head crashes would only be for seputs involving more than 3 arm units.
I don't know how you would be able to add another arm in the opposite corner though... you would need a fairly thick drive to mount the motor assembly and the bearing all in that little space. I haven't had a chance to rip appart any of the newer (circa > 2000) drives, so is there any significant changes in the actual structure of the drives since then? (Sides more platters, that sort of thing) Care to reply?
I can see that you've never ripped apart a old hard drive. Currently, how they are set up, the only way to add more read write heads (to maybe a max of 6x but that would be unlikely) would be to increase the dimensions of the drive by basically adding another read/write mechanism to the other side, etc, etc. Plus, if your going that route, you'd likely have to create a mini-stand alone hard drive that would contain the file structure, as to decrease load times. And then, there would have to be some control modulator that would prevent the heads from crashing into one another. (Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'my hard drive crashed' eh?
Maybe one day this would work, if there are no substantial changes in how hard drives work, and we start approaching the limits of hard drive capacity, but until then, it's just not economically feasible for this to work.
But then , if time is diating, would not they be going less than.6c? If this idea is correct, you would be unable to be observed at going more than.5c, no? But if you can't measure or observe something going at a certian rate, is it going at that rate at all, or is it even there in the first place...
//I've just genocided some brain cells, I'll go take a nap now.
I always wondered, that if you exceded the speed of light, and went back in time, would it look like you were gonna crash into yourself at some point along the timeline? And what about in that instant that you were at c + a little bit? Would there be a slight overlap of the matter in the front and rear ends of the spaceship? What would that do? Create a black hole?
//So that's where all thouse other advanced, extra-terrestrial, civilizations went
Damn, wasn't finished.
I meant:
We're not stupid, we are just enjoying some of the benifits Bush has created by making america an economic cesspit, in the views of the world.
Try to plot the future of the solar system, with +10k objects with +1 km diamter (guessing) for any significant length of time, factoring in merely the gravitational pull of all the objects upon one another. You'd be hard pressed to calculate that for on your little network there. The thing is, they are not even factoring in solar flares, etc, etc.
Or what about something that can predict solar flares, or even creat a reasonably working model of the sun? All the convection currents and magnetic field simulations would bring your system to it's knees.
There's quite a few resons why they need this much power, but, as you said, it's not exactly a large percentage. But then again, these things aren't all that common, either.
Er... I can run both mozzila (with a few tabs open) and OO at the same time on my 64MB ram turtle. So unless you got a lot of unnessesary programs running the backround, OO should work fine.
Hey, just be thankful that you *might* not know what you are compiling. You require *real* user intervention to use that viral sig that pop's up from time to time.
I didn't ask to be modded, I was just stating my general opinon on the article. Now if someone wants to mod me up, let them go right ahead, or if they want to mod me down, they can do the same thing. And I wasn't being alarmist, I was being cautionary.
Just because you karma-whore, doesn't mean we all do. If I was, wouldn't I be posting AC like you?
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Still, we have crossed a line. I'm not sure exactly where that line was, but I do know that people will be angry that we've crossed it. For better, or for worse, it's been crossed, and there is no reason to go back, and undo the experiment, infact, you couldn't. It will be interesting to watch where this field of science will go.
If I could tell these scientists but one thing, that would be to use a great deal, a great deal of caution in what they do, and what could happen becuase of their results.
Actually, more likely than not, it would itch, as it would get under the skin and stuff. As it's carbon, it might actually get rid of the oders. But all of this is eclipsed by the fact that it would probably cause cancer, like almost all current nano-technology. (Buckyballs anyone?)
I think he means that whenever you publish your main acount somewhere, you publish the fake ones too. That way, the people that do neet to get ahold of you, do. You could also publish just the fake ones in various places, but that would be useless, as they wouldn't help in cleaning out the main account.
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Well, you know the solution to that, don'tcha? You just merely put on enough bodysuits, so that any recognizable bodily crevice has disapeard. ;)
Two words:
Full Bodysuit.
Ok. But what happens when you don't live in the optimal climate area? I'd like to see you start that car when it's 40 below with the standard battery. (Unless thats one hell of a standard)
The thing is, with more than one one read-write head on each arm, each arm would only be able to lookup data in 1 spot at a time, unless you had a really really good file system setup. And the additional controller to prevent head crashes would only be for seputs involving more than 3 arm units.
I don't know how you would be able to add another arm in the opposite corner though... you would need a fairly thick drive to mount the motor assembly and the bearing all in that little space. I haven't had a chance to rip appart any of the newer (circa > 2000) drives, so is there any significant changes in the actual structure of the drives since then? (Sides more platters, that sort of thing) Care to reply?
I can see that you've never ripped apart a old hard drive. Currently, how they are set up, the only way to add more read write heads (to maybe a max of 6x but that would be unlikely) would be to increase the dimensions of the drive by basically adding another read/write mechanism to the other side, etc, etc. Plus, if your going that route, you'd likely have to create a mini-stand alone hard drive that would contain the file structure, as to decrease load times. And then, there would have to be some control modulator that would prevent the heads from crashing into one another. (Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'my hard drive crashed' eh?
Maybe one day this would work, if there are no substantial changes in how hard drives work, and we start approaching the limits of hard drive capacity, but until then, it's just not economically feasible for this to work.
/me claps This is the best ignorance troll I've seen in a long time. Hat's off to you!
But then , if time is diating, would not they be going less than .6c? If this idea is correct, you would be unable to be observed at going more than .5c, no? But if you can't measure or observe something going at a certian rate, is it going at that rate at all, or is it even there in the first place...
//I've just genocided some brain cells, I'll go take a nap now.
Yeah, but the bandwidth is incredible. And you don't gotta really worry about the jurisdiction of intelectual property rights, do you?
I always wondered, that if you exceded the speed of light, and went back in time, would it look like you were gonna crash into yourself at some point along the timeline? And what about in that instant that you were at c + a little bit? Would there be a slight overlap of the matter in the front and rear ends of the spaceship? What would that do? Create a black hole?
//So that's where all thouse other advanced, extra-terrestrial, civilizations went
Bedpans?
Damn, wasn't finished. I meant: We're not stupid, we are just enjoying some of the benifits Bush has created by making america an economic cesspit, in the views of the world.
Were not stupid, we are just enjoying some of the benifits bush has created by making america a cesspit.
Well, I think I speak for all of us when I say: Thank &ran(diety;1,100) it isn't running windows.
Try to plot the future of the solar system, with +10k objects with +1 km diamter (guessing) for any significant length of time, factoring in merely the gravitational pull of all the objects upon one another. You'd be hard pressed to calculate that for on your little network there. The thing is, they are not even factoring in solar flares, etc, etc.
Or what about something that can predict solar flares, or even creat a reasonably working model of the sun? All the convection currents and magnetic field simulations would bring your system to it's knees.
There's quite a few resons why they need this much power, but, as you said, it's not exactly a large percentage. But then again, these things aren't all that common, either.
Er... I can run both mozzila (with a few tabs open) and OO at the same time on my 64MB ram turtle. So unless you got a lot of unnessesary programs running the backround, OO should work fine.
Because it was there?
Ahh, but you forgot the Fun Factor.
Oh, yeah, this is slashdot, I forgot...
Hey, just be thankful that you *might* not know what you are compiling. You require *real* user intervention to use that viral sig that pop's up from time to time.
I didn't ask to be modded, I was just stating my general opinon on the article. Now if someone wants to mod me up, let them go right ahead, or if they want to mod me down, they can do the same thing. And I wasn't being alarmist, I was being cautionary. Just because you karma-whore, doesn't mean we all do. If I was, wouldn't I be posting AC like you?
I stand corrected.
Still, we have crossed a line. I'm not sure exactly where that line was, but I do know that people will be angry that we've crossed it. For better, or for worse, it's been crossed, and there is no reason to go back, and undo the experiment, infact, you couldn't. It will be interesting to watch where this field of science will go.
If I could tell these scientists but one thing, that would be to use a great deal, a great deal of caution in what they do, and what could happen becuase of their results.
255 my friend, 255.
/I'm sorry for my friend here, he's still learning.
Actually, more likely than not, it would itch, as it would get under the skin and stuff. As it's carbon, it might actually get rid of the oders. But all of this is eclipsed by the fact that it would probably cause cancer, like almost all current nano-technology. (Buckyballs anyone?)
Well, I still would be pretty wary of a john or jeff @gmail.com, cause gmail requires you to have a minimum 6 char nick, but I digress.
I think he means that whenever you publish your main acount somewhere, you publish the fake ones too. That way, the people that do neet to get ahold of you, do. You could also publish just the fake ones in various places, but that would be useless, as they wouldn't help in cleaning out the main account.