Science has always progressed from mysticism to cold hard fact. Read up on Pythagoras, Bacon, the early alchemists. The problem lies in the dis-empowerment of any approach to faith that demands a monopoly on magic or requires a static view and interpretation on the messages of nature that are all there for the mentally empowered and logically disciplined to grasp.
Because of his ability and dedication to uncovering and exposing as much universal truth as he possibly could with every watt of his own personal being, I suspect Dr.Hawking is a lot higher up in any hierarchy of angels than you or I, mate.
Again, it depends on the details - the energy might be "free," or it might just rob the engine of power just as an alternator does. You can't get around the laws of thermodynamics, though...
Thoughtful reply, but it's still likely to be significant. Personally I'd instrument the fool thing to save a few years of controversy, i.e. measure the total effect on an engine with and without this mod. Of course that would be an empirical approach and might offend the theorists (grin).
I'd also like to think of whether you could get away with a smaller coolant pump if you transferred some of the engine's waste heat through this mechanism rather than simply dumped it through the radiator. I'd also be interested in what percentage of the engine's heat could be dumped in such a recoverable way without (as you said) compromising the thermal efficiency of the engine. Such an alternatortive would need to be a net cooler in order to work.
It's a game of sums, just like a turbocharger. You lose a bit from a drop in scavenging efficiency but you gain a stronger combustion impulse as a result.
Part of the power over thought comes from the ready acquiescence over the term "piracy", a highly loaded and pejorative term. Both sides are guilty of this one.
Piracy is what people do when they take over boats with threat of force of arms and accompanied by danger to lives. Copyright violation is exactly what the words describe. Ascribing a sense of romantic villainy by the use of loaded words pushes the argument into emotion, rather than common sense.
I am one of the employees who recently faced a tough choice
Can't match your sublime India experience, but I once had to stitch together a Windows NT 4 network in an office that was above the main sewage distribution pumps of a major antipodean city. The pump was the size of a small house, the well they retrieved it from was open. There was no air conditioning in the office (one outside wall was breached due to a bit of architectural rework) and it was a sunny,40 degree Australian summer day.
That's nothing; I must go through at least a gallon of water at work every day... I keep a quart-size insulated travel mug at my desk, and fill it up at least 4-5 times/day.
Four litres per work day isn't too bad, but if you drink more than that you might think about having your blood sugar tested. If water is the most amazingly wonderful tasting stuff -/and/ you find you're losing weight rather quickly, you might be doing the ol' insulin burn. Get it checked before your feet fall off. (type 2D here).
You may see it here. I'm liking the idea of public disclosure here, Wikipatents, and BoingBoing. That is, if Cory and CmdrTaco don't life-ban me for opening this particular container of flexible, segmented invertibrates. Will finish reading the thread first.
No, I'm actually trying to distance myself from the costs. IAACP with about forty years experience. The inventions I have in mind have nothing whatever to do with computer hardware or software, so I was a bit at sea as to what to do with them. It is definitely all about the application of the adaptation of certain mathematical and physical principles to affect and improve an existing, familiar real world application.
The minus is, the entire product (which has a monetary value) is being distributed against the express wishes of the copyright holder. That's usually considered a bad thing.
"Making available" isn't distribution. Check the NYCL threads, probable google "beckerman"+"making available"
So have you found any measurements that I couldn't find that you could point out that demonstrate lingering categories in which a mainframe might consistently outperform commodity hardware (ie, any measurement that is or can be compared to another at least somewhat related measurement on commodity hardware which demonstrates an advantage for the mainframe)?
Have you tried http://tpc.org/ ? Transaction processing is a good measure, and the tpcc top 10 has a long and competitive history. You'll get a good idea of who's currently fastest processing a standard fairly complex (and reasonably representative) OLTP transaction. It's also a good measure of who's top dog in the database world. It's also worth some thought about database residency -- because of the needs of lock management, most databases (and I specifically exclude BigTables from this) tend to work better with scale-up rather than scale-out, thus the popularity of DB2 on big iron.
Hmm... in light of AKAImBatman's insight, I may have to re-think that...
I have noticed over the years that the top ten have seen a constant game of leapfrog between Oracle, SQL Server (yes, that's not a typo) and DB2.
If I remember correctly, a VT100 was something like $1,200 or $1,600. After a while, there were third party VT100 compatibles that were much cheaper.
Daewoo, iirc. Made quite good amber screen compatibles. Even with a 25% or more failure rate, they were cheaper. But the best was the Heathkit Lear-Sigler "dumb terminal" kit you could make for a couple hundred. VT52 compatible. Built and used one of those for a year or two. It rocked, especially when my only alternative was to sit with the fans and pound away at the console Decwriter.
What? You labour in an open-topped fabric-covered doorless half-height cube? Good god, that's barbaric!
Sheer luxury mate. I work in a hole in the road, it's a twenty mile commute on foot in the dark and thirty back. My father fed me stone cold poison and killed me every morning before work.
But can ye get the lads to believe you these days? Noooooo.....
I once put windows on my desktop while installing Windows...not a pretty sight
Strange, I had the opposite effect when I installed Windows in the walls of our house. All that blue was a rather lovely change from the opaque glass of my neighbor's bathroom. Hiding the USB dock in the sill was a bit of a challenge with that counterweight coming down and smashing the plastic and all, but overall I thought it was a good use of real estate.
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Because of his ability and dedication to uncovering and exposing as much universal truth as he possibly could with every watt of his own personal being, I suspect Dr.Hawking is a lot higher up in any hierarchy of angels than you or I, mate.
Tuesday night viewing would be a bitch though.
Again, it depends on the details - the energy might be "free," or it might just rob the engine of power just as an alternator does. You can't get around the laws of thermodynamics, though...
Thoughtful reply, but it's still likely to be significant. Personally I'd instrument the fool thing to save a few years of controversy, i.e. measure the total effect on an engine with and without this mod. Of course that would be an empirical approach and might offend the theorists (grin).
I'd also like to think of whether you could get away with a smaller coolant pump if you transferred some of the engine's waste heat through this mechanism rather than simply dumped it through the radiator. I'd also be interested in what percentage of the engine's heat could be dumped in such a recoverable way without (as you said) compromising the thermal efficiency of the engine. Such an alternatortive would need to be a net cooler in order to work.
It's a game of sums, just like a turbocharger. You lose a bit from a drop in scavenging efficiency but you gain a stronger combustion impulse as a result.
I always wondered if they could actually be the same person, or if Hubbard was an invention of Heinlein.
If he were, I think Hubbard would have been a better writer.
"What price salvation? Remarkably cheap! For only a low initial payment..." -- Stranger in a Strange Land
I am so not going to illegally copy your building sized mural. Promise.
Piracy is what people do when they take over boats with threat of force of arms and accompanied by danger to lives. Copyright violation is exactly what the words describe. Ascribing a sense of romantic villainy by the use of loaded words pushes the argument into emotion, rather than common sense.
I am one of the employees who recently faced a tough choice
Can't match your sublime India experience, but I once had to stitch together a Windows NT 4 network in an office that was above the main sewage distribution pumps of a major antipodean city. The pump was the size of a small house, the well they retrieved it from was open. There was no air conditioning in the office (one outside wall was breached due to a bit of architectural rework) and it was a sunny,40 degree Australian summer day.
I never worked so fast in my life.
'Cause if you wanna run cool....you have to run on heavy heavy fuel...
(Thanks Mark)
That's nothing; I must go through at least a gallon of water at work every day... I keep a quart-size insulated travel mug at my desk, and fill it up at least 4-5 times/day.
Four litres per work day isn't too bad, but if you drink more than that you might think about having your blood sugar tested. If water is the most amazingly wonderful tasting stuff - /and/ you find you're losing weight rather quickly, you might be doing the ol' insulin burn. Get it checked before your feet fall off. (type 2D here).
The physical principle I could almost post on Twitter. But that's a wee bit ephemeral ;)
You may see it here. I'm liking the idea of public disclosure here, Wikipatents, and BoingBoing. That is, if Cory and CmdrTaco don't life-ban me for opening this particular container of flexible, segmented invertibrates. Will finish reading the thread first.
No, I'm actually trying to distance myself from the costs. IAACP with about forty years experience. The inventions I have in mind have nothing whatever to do with computer hardware or software, so I was a bit at sea as to what to do with them. It is definitely all about the application of the adaptation of certain mathematical and physical principles to affect and improve an existing, familiar real world application.
Any possible way to mod TFA up?
The minus is, the entire product (which has a monetary value) is being distributed against the express wishes of the copyright holder. That's usually considered a bad thing.
"Making available" isn't distribution. Check the NYCL threads, probable google "beckerman"+"making available"
So... with 150$ and a month you can steal 460billion dollars worth of mp3s. Or the yearly gdp of Sweden.
(I totally get the RIAA now, really big numbers are fun!)
(gasp) Oh dear gods, for a mod point just now...
with capacities of virtual mountains per minute.
Wrong metric, guy.
So have you found any measurements that I couldn't find that you could point out that demonstrate lingering categories in which a mainframe might consistently outperform commodity hardware (ie, any measurement that is or can be compared to another at least somewhat related measurement on commodity hardware which demonstrates an advantage for the mainframe)?
Have you tried http://tpc.org/ ? Transaction processing is a good measure, and the tpcc top 10 has a long and competitive history. You'll get a good idea of who's currently fastest processing a standard fairly complex (and reasonably representative) OLTP transaction. It's also a good measure of who's top dog in the database world. It's also worth some thought about database residency -- because of the needs of lock management, most databases (and I specifically exclude BigTables from this) tend to work better with scale-up rather than scale-out, thus the popularity of DB2 on big iron.
Hmm... in light of AKAImBatman's insight, I may have to re-think that...
I have noticed over the years that the top ten have seen a constant game of leapfrog between Oracle, SQL Server (yes, that's not a typo) and DB2.
If I remember correctly, a VT100 was something like $1,200 or $1,600. After a while, there were third party VT100 compatibles that were much cheaper.
Daewoo, iirc. Made quite good amber screen compatibles. Even with a 25% or more failure rate, they were cheaper. But the best was the Heathkit Lear-Sigler "dumb terminal" kit you could make for a couple hundred. VT52 compatible. Built and used one of those for a year or two. It rocked, especially when my only alternative was to sit with the fans and pound away at the console Decwriter.
Dude, seriously. Would it have hurt you to read the FIRST *BLEEPING* REPLY
Give him a break. He probably typed that on an IBM 029.
I miss the days when you could tell where your compile was with an AM radio.
What? You labour in an open-topped fabric-covered doorless half-height cube? Good god, that's barbaric!
Sheer luxury mate. I work in a hole in the road, it's a twenty mile commute on foot in the dark and thirty back. My father fed me stone cold poison and killed me every morning before work.
But can ye get the lads to believe you these days? Noooooo.....
Now who here has an authorized nap time at work?
I do. That is, I effectively do.
Ok, you want the truth? Nobody knows the difference.
Does this mean I can stop fiddling with the log files now?
I once put windows on my desktop while installing Windows...not a pretty sight
Strange, I had the opposite effect when I installed Windows in the walls of our house. All that blue was a rather lovely change from the opaque glass of my neighbor's bathroom. Hiding the USB dock in the sill was a bit of a challenge with that counterweight coming down and smashing the plastic and all, but overall I thought it was a good use of real estate.
I keep hearing about these myths, particulary one of being...
I'm not sure if you got that post from RACTER or an inspired re-reading of the Peppermint Oil Soap label.
I am impressed, though possibly not in the way you intended.