But the idea is that you could possibly rip your DVDs to MP4 and put them on the UMD... which would oWn. I think the main problem is the lack of hardware required to burn to UMD. My computer don't got no blueray-frickin'-lazers.
One thing that's amazing is that Melvill turned off the rocket something like 40 seconds early!! I wonder if SS1 could survive the stresses of atmosphere reentry falling from 200km altitude.
"About IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputing Project
Blue Gene is an IBM supercomputing project dedicated to building a new family of supercomputers optimized for bandwidth, scalability and the ability to handle large amounts of data while consuming a fraction of the power and floor space required by today's fastest systems. The full Blue Gene/L machine is being built for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and will have a peak speed of 360 teraflops. When completed in 2005, IBM expects Blue Gene/L to lead the Top500 supercomputer list. A second Blue Gene/L machine is planned for ASTRON, a leading astronomy organization in the Netherlands. IBM and its partners are currently exploring a growing list of applications including hydrodynamics, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, climate modeling and financial modeling."
-from the IBM website
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The wind itself isn't that dangerous. It's the stop signs and rocks hurtling through the air that is. In Antartica, the shit flying through the air is snow... so besides the fact this house is one big airfoil, i think it's great. Relying on an elevator is dumb though.
I was offering an alternative vision for Microsoft. Based on Paul Allen's investment/interest in space travel with Rutan's SpaceShipOne.
I think Microsoft has enough capital that they could simply decide, "Okay, we're an aerospace engineering company now" by hiring tons of engineers and building the appropriate facilities. I'm no business man. This is just my wishful allocation of billions that otherwise go to create shitty software.
If Microsoft is lacking excitement and vision, the company as a whole should follow the lead of Paul Allen who funded Rutan's SpaceShip One that will shortly be winning the X-Prize. As much as they might have screwed it up, I do believe that Bill Gates did honestly did set out to do 'good' with his software. Of course they also wanted to make a dump load of money and that's fine too.
The space industry is about to take off. Check out www.scaled.com, www.bigelowaerospace.com, and www.spacex.com.
There's that joke in Fight Club about the "Microsoft Galaxy." So be it! Microsoft has the capital and may have the vision to become the first business to really learn how to make money in space. If this increases the chance of you and I being possible space travelers and living in an age of ubiquitous space travel then I would be all for that vision. So maintain your OSes, but use your zillions on an exciting new frontier. Microsoft, turn to the stars!
I was under the impression that our sun had already gone through one period of violent mass shedding before "chilling out" again, allowing earth to become what it is today.
Hmm... I think I learned that in elementary school now that I think of it. Maybe it's time for a review, haha!
Uh, yeah, I think the star your referring to is that big bright one, the sun. haha
That's why the Earth has the heavy elements you are talking about. Are you claiming that our sun's first shedding experience seeded our local galactic area? I guess to some degree... but I always thought that our sun was pretty average, and maybe a bit on the small side.
I might point out that Linux exists today in its current state because of its fan base.
I just installed Linux (Mandrake 10.0) for the first time in my life last night. I can't believe I got all 2 gigs of this powerful/stable operating system for free! I'm totally humbled by the drive of the open source community.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find any mention of how they'll be using the 200 ton downward force of this 30 ton beast to create electrical potential.
If NASA lays down some power or transportation infrastructure on the moon, I'm saying that American investors should get first dibs to their use. I welcome foreign investors too, but after Americans. It makes sense.
If the base becomes profitable it doesn't need independence. I agree with you though that independence from supplies is definately desirable. With an initial nuclear reactor (however silly it seems with all that free sunlight out there) a lot can be done, and all in small steps. I think the lunar regolith is pretty versatile. The 2008 LRO (scroll down to April 2nd piece) will give us a lot of info we need about the resources available to us on the Moon's surface. It WILL happen.
Of course it CAN be done. Why not? We can get there, we can get food there, we can get power and life support systems there.
There are research bases in Antarctica, there are research bases underwater.
What are you rambling about??
Space will become sustainable as soon as it's profitable. We should get up to the moon and lay down some infrastructure for American investors to use to get their entrepeneurial space-based business ventures underway.
I'm a little concerned that their distribution plans and potentially that their "Grid" (formerly "Cell") technology won't work if it too heavily relies on high bandwith. It said at the end of the article that they are counting on 2-3 Mbs data transfer rates. And Ken Katsuragi (sp?) is banking on 30Mbs!
The best average speed I get on my cable modem is about 120kbs. I think we're a ways of from actual >1Mbs download speeds on average.
Hmm... ya know, I wonder what an all carbon sweater would feel like? I guess it would be super light, but even with a conductivity 1/10 that of copper it would probably not work too well at keeping you warm. I imagine the conductivity of cotton has got to be a couple order of magnitudes less.
Maybe if they reduced the size of the threads you might be able to make a really great wind-breaker? Just some ideas.
And if you're a new fan of nanotubes, here's a potentially revolutionary application: a space elevator.
Too bad about the crappy material properties of this nanotube thread. I really thought at first this might be our big break towards really affordable space travel.
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But the idea is that you could possibly rip your DVDs to MP4 and put them on the UMD... which would oWn. I think the main problem is the lack of hardware required to burn to UMD. My computer don't got no blueray-frickin'-lazers.
Nice, thanks.
I have a real question. Exactly whose DNA was used to "decode the human genome"? Is it possible to use DNA from multiple people?
"The monthly rental price of the SX-8 starts from approximately 1,170,000 yen, and shipment will commence in December 2004."
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Have you been a good little nerd?
One thing that's amazing is that Melvill turned off the rocket something like 40 seconds early!! I wonder if SS1 could survive the stresses of atmosphere reentry falling from 200km altitude.
"About IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputing Project Blue Gene is an IBM supercomputing project dedicated to building a new family of supercomputers optimized for bandwidth, scalability and the ability to handle large amounts of data while consuming a fraction of the power and floor space required by today's fastest systems. The full Blue Gene/L machine is being built for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and will have a peak speed of 360 teraflops. When completed in 2005, IBM expects Blue Gene/L to lead the Top500 supercomputer list. A second Blue Gene/L machine is planned for ASTRON, a leading astronomy organization in the Netherlands. IBM and its partners are currently exploring a growing list of applications including hydrodynamics, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, climate modeling and financial modeling."
-from the IBM website
The wind itself isn't that dangerous. It's the stop signs and rocks hurtling through the air that is. In Antartica, the shit flying through the air is snow... so besides the fact this house is one big airfoil, i think it's great. Relying on an elevator is dumb though.
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I was offering an alternative vision for Microsoft.
Based on Paul Allen's investment/interest in space travel with Rutan's SpaceShipOne.
I think Microsoft has enough capital that they could simply decide, "Okay, we're an aerospace engineering company now" by hiring tons of engineers and building the appropriate facilities. I'm no business man. This is just my wishful allocation of billions that otherwise go to create shitty software.
If Microsoft is lacking excitement and vision, the company as a whole should follow the lead of Paul Allen who funded Rutan's SpaceShip One that will shortly be winning the X-Prize. As much as they might have screwed it up, I do believe that Bill Gates did honestly did set out to do 'good' with his software. Of course they also wanted to make a dump load of money and that's fine too.
The space industry is about to take off. Check out www.scaled.com, www.bigelowaerospace.com, and www.spacex.com.
There's that joke in Fight Club about the "Microsoft Galaxy." So be it! Microsoft has the capital and may have the vision to become the first business to really learn how to make money in space. If this increases the chance of you and I being possible space travelers and living in an age of ubiquitous space travel then I would be all for that vision. So maintain your OSes, but use your zillions on an exciting new frontier. Microsoft, turn to the stars!
Why don't they just start rating their chips by peak, sustained MFlops?
That's a pretty universal scale right?
Maybe that would be too direct, and would undermine the expensive, shiny and flashy advertising.
No, for real though... what's that technology that creates 3d geometry from pictures? LIke they used in Fight Club for the kitchen scene.
This data could be used to create some wicked FPS levels. Deathmatch in our own neighborhood. Own3Z!
I'll be hanging my "All your base.." sign :)
Hey, Doom is intellectualy challenging okay?! All those keys... you even have to match the colors.
:)
A job like that pWn3z.
I was under the impression that our sun had already gone through one period of violent mass shedding before "chilling out" again, allowing earth to become what it is today.
Hmm... I think I learned that in elementary school now that I think of it. Maybe it's time for a review, haha!
Uh, yeah, I think the star your referring to is that big bright one, the sun. haha
That's why the Earth has the heavy elements you are talking about. Are you claiming that our sun's first shedding experience seeded our local galactic area? I guess to some degree... but I always thought that our sun was pretty average, and maybe a bit on the small side.
I disagree as far as the applicable content.
.txt dude!
I'm sure you'll be able to upload text files, but don't count on "standard format" like html or pdf... think
It would be quite cruel to ask your calculator to open a 10 megabyte PDF. I don't imagine this epaper will have any more horsepower.
I might point out that Linux exists today in its current state because of its fan base.
I just installed Linux (Mandrake 10.0) for the first time in my life last night. I can't believe I got all 2 gigs of this powerful/stable operating system for free! I'm totally humbled by the drive of the open source community.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find any mention of how they'll be using the 200 ton downward force of this 30 ton beast to create electrical potential.
If NASA lays down some power or transportation infrastructure on the moon, I'm saying that American investors should get first dibs to their use. I welcome foreign investors too, but after Americans. It makes sense.
If the base becomes profitable it doesn't need independence. I agree with you though that independence from supplies is definately desirable. With an initial nuclear reactor (however silly it seems with all that free sunlight out there) a lot can be done, and all in small steps. I think the lunar regolith is pretty versatile. The 2008 LRO (scroll down to April 2nd piece) will give us a lot of info we need about the resources available to us on the Moon's surface. It WILL happen.
Of course it CAN be done. Why not? We can get there, we can get food there, we can get power and life support systems there.
There are research bases in Antarctica, there are research bases underwater.
What are you rambling about??
Space will become sustainable as soon as it's profitable. We should get up to the moon and lay down some infrastructure for American investors to use to get their entrepeneurial space-based business ventures underway.
I'm a little concerned that their distribution plans and potentially that their "Grid" (formerly "Cell") technology won't work if it too heavily relies on high bandwith. It said at the end of the article that they are counting on 2-3 Mbs data transfer rates. And Ken Katsuragi (sp?) is banking on 30Mbs!
The best average speed I get on my cable modem is about 120kbs. I think we're a ways of from actual >1Mbs download speeds on average.
Still, I can't wait to get my hands on a PS3. : )
Hmm... ya know, I wonder what an all carbon sweater would feel like? I guess it would be super light, but even with a conductivity 1/10 that of copper it would probably not work too well at keeping you warm. I imagine the conductivity of cotton has got to be a couple order of magnitudes less.
Maybe if they reduced the size of the threads you might be able to make a really great wind-breaker? Just some ideas.
And if you're a new fan of nanotubes, here's a potentially revolutionary application: a space elevator. Too bad about the crappy material properties of this nanotube thread. I really thought at first this might be our big break towards really affordable space travel.