Oh let's see, maybe the difference in timber between between a strike caused by a 2000 pound dud torpedo moving at 20-40+ knots, and a 100 lb glider moving at substantially less than 10 knots.
I'd bet the US military would love these things. You could easily weaponize these things! From mine sweeping to hunting down enemy subs these things would rock.
I think you have to make a distinction between making into a weapon (true weaponizing), and making a detection/surveillance/tracking system.
I think you mean "and makes a faint tap on the hull" instead of "starts a war":-)
Reliability = media encased in cartridges
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All media, including +R, -R and -RAM, need to be stored and treated properly. This means: being handled along the edges...
You bring up some good points, but this isn't one of them. The whole point of DVD-RAM is that it is cartridge based. You never touch the disc, not even the edge. Now, I know there are non cartridge DVD-RAM media out there, but the original idea was cartridge, it was valid, and you can still get them in cartridges.
You got it nailed. Dozens of other hydrogen filled airships burned without anyone questioning that hydrogen ignition was the mechanism. None of them had HINDENBURG's supposedly uniquely dangerous doping compound on the fabric. All of them burned brightly because there was plenty of fabric and other materials to add brilliant color to the pale blue hydrogen flame.
It is pointless to stretch the imagination to contend that HINDENBURG was anything but a hydrogen ignition scenario.
AT&T can prevent anyone else from circumventing anti-spam filtering software with this patent.
That is not what a patent does. A patent prevents you from using the techniques described in the patent for the purpose described in the patent. It does not prevent you using different techniques to do the same thing, nor from using the same techniques to do completely different things.
Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. Nobody else could copy it to process cotton, but they could invent new ways to process cotton, and they could copy it to fabricate surfboards if they could figure out how.
"something like 15% of people clicked on spams, and 7% bought the stuff in them"
"Those numbers are very wrong. Spammers count returns in sales per MILLION emails"
I rather think whoever the original poster was paraphrasing meant that 15% of people click on at least ONE spam in their lifetime and 7% bought from at least ONE spam. That sounds pretty high but certainly not hundreds or thousands of times too high.
Hm, well, if you spend 10 seconds skimming the page you link, you'll see "Compared to lead-acid batteries, EC capacitors have lower energy density." They might have said "much much much lower."
Just what doesn't excite me. Something that can't even match century old battery technology.
[insert Edgar Buchanan's voice from Petticoat Junction]
Lazy? Why listen, sonny:-) Back in my day, we used slide rules and big heavy books with tables of logarithms. I had one of those new fangled all-aluminum slide rules, and the slide galled and bound to the stationary part. Let me tell you, it took real muscle to move that sucker.
These whippersnappers nowadays couldn't find an alternate universe if it was staring them in the face:-)
are you guys saying that a CPU only uses as much power as a regular lamp [bulb]
Absolutely. But grab a 60-100W light bulb that's been on a few minutes (PLEASE DON'T REALLY!) and tell me what it feels like. That is one heck of a lot of wasted heat energy.
BTW, the body heat of one human is also approximately the same as this figure, and look how much food (energy) we use up each day. It's just spread over a lot of surface area so the peak temperature isn't as high.
As for slow Flash memory, how about this: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,1 13332,0 0.asp
10MBps, that's pretty impressive (still several times slower than HD though), but it's still several hundred times as much $ per GB as a HD. Just call me Mr. Negative:-)
9 megabytes per second is not good enough for you?
I wish I could believe that spec is realizable in a real system, but even if so, no, it's really not good enough for me. I can push at least 5 times that into my hard disk, and if anything I want and need more, not less.
<pedantic> Probably? Assuredly, I would say. If transistor count continues to double every 2 years, with 42M transistors per CPU in 2000, you would have 43 billion in 2010, 44 trillion in 2020, 47*10^21 in 2050, and 53*10^36 in 2100. If that hasn't reached the number of atoms in the known universe, then keep counting years and it will. </pedantic>
It comes from "Le roi est mort. Vive le roi!", translated as "The King is dead. Long live the King!". It was used when the monarch died, proving his mortality, to indicate that the monarchy would endure.
Would Ron Paul "defender of the Constitution" let coal burning plants pollute your neighborhood because an overisght comission via the EPA is more "big bad government?"
Well, of course I can't speak for Ron Paul, but I rather think he would. I know I would. You see, while it is difficult to argue that "allowing" pollution is a good thing, it is easy to make the case that this kind of regulation always goes too far. The EPA is the very epitome of "big bad government". If it were a person, it could be said to be suffering from paranoia, delusions of grandeur, and power mania. Around 1980 or so it had succeeded in cleaning automotive exhaust in new cars by a couple of orders of magnitude. Anyone of average intelligence would have declared victory, stopped raising the bar, and gone on to other concerns. Instead, to this day, they bear down harder and harder, beating this dead horse to an insane degree, with no indication that they will EVER stop raising the bar.
Who will govern the governors? The voters? Bwahahaha. That doesn't work. No government, absent revolution, EVER gets smaller. That's the reason the US Constitution is full of limits on government power, but contains not a single limitation on personal liberty, and scarcely any on commercial freedom.
Ron Paul is the House gadfly. He's a former Libertarian candidate for President, and reflexively votes against anything that expands government regulation.
Well, as one with strong Libertarian tendencies, I reflexively want to believe Ron Paul is making sense here, but if your theory as to the rationale is right, I just can't see it.
Just how does this expand government regulation? It is an opt-in list of people who don't want to be bothered on the phone at home. So the government will enforce it. I can't imagine any other way to do it effectively. If the Libertarian Revolution ever comes about, then there are other non-governmental ways postulated to accomplish this kind of thing, but the Revolution hasn't happened, or maybe I missed it.
An external, compact and convenient box is the best choice for most of us. Whether it uses NAT or not is an implementation detail. Most of them are going to use NAT for a long time to come, and that is something that needs to be dealt with.
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I am getting the impression that the effect of the delayed action bomb that is Iraq blowing up in our face may stifle the impulse to invade elsewhere.
Oh let's see, maybe the difference in timber between between a strike caused by a 2000 pound dud torpedo moving at 20-40+ knots, and a 100 lb glider moving at substantially less than 10 knots.
I'd bet the US military would love these things. You could easily weaponize these things! From mine sweeping to hunting down enemy subs these things would rock.
I think you have to make a distinction between making into a weapon (true weaponizing), and making a detection/surveillance/tracking system.
I think you mean "and makes a faint tap on the hull" instead of "starts a war" :-)
All media, including +R, -R and -RAM, need to be stored and treated properly. This means: being handled along the edges...
You bring up some good points, but this isn't one of them. The whole point of DVD-RAM is that it is cartridge based. You never touch the disc, not even the edge. Now, I know there are non cartridge DVD-RAM media out there, but the original idea was cartridge, it was valid, and you can still get them in cartridges.
You got it nailed. Dozens of other hydrogen filled airships burned without anyone questioning that hydrogen ignition was the mechanism. None of them had HINDENBURG's supposedly uniquely dangerous doping compound on the fabric. All of them burned brightly because there was plenty of fabric and other materials to add brilliant color to the pale blue hydrogen flame.
It is pointless to stretch the imagination to contend that HINDENBURG was anything but a hydrogen ignition scenario.
AT&T can prevent anyone else from circumventing anti-spam filtering software with this patent.
That is not what a patent does. A patent prevents you from using the techniques described in the patent for the purpose described in the patent. It does not prevent you using different techniques to do the same thing, nor from using the same techniques to do completely different things.
Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. Nobody else could copy it to process cotton, but they could invent new ways to process cotton, and they could copy it to fabricate surfboards if they could figure out how.
"Those numbers are very wrong. Spammers count returns in sales per MILLION emails"
I rather think whoever the original poster was paraphrasing meant that 15% of people click on at least ONE spam in their lifetime and 7% bought from at least ONE spam. That sounds pretty high but certainly not hundreds or thousands of times too high.
"So, is this another Write Only Memory?"
No, WOM cannot be read back even once. Write Only means No Read. I.e., it's a gag.
WORM is write once, read many. This is WORM, like CD-R.
What happened to the super capacitors?
Hm, well, if you spend 10 seconds skimming the page you link, you'll see "Compared to lead-acid batteries, EC capacitors have lower energy density." They might have said "much much much lower."
Just what doesn't excite me. Something that can't even match century old battery technology.
What are we, lazy?
:-) Back in my day, we used slide rules and big heavy books with tables of logarithms. I had one of those new fangled all-aluminum slide rules, and the slide galled and bound to the stationary part. Let me tell you, it took real muscle to move that sucker.
:-)
[insert Edgar Buchanan's voice from Petticoat Junction]
Lazy? Why listen, sonny
These whippersnappers nowadays couldn't find an alternate universe if it was staring them in the face
are you guys saying that a CPU only uses as much power as a regular lamp [bulb]
Absolutely. But grab a 60-100W light bulb that's been on a few minutes (PLEASE DON'T REALLY!) and tell me what it feels like. That is one heck of a lot of wasted heat energy.
BTW, the body heat of one human is also approximately the same as this figure, and look how much food (energy) we use up each day. It's just spread over a lot of surface area so the peak temperature isn't as high.
Radisys ... LS855 with the Pentium M
Yum! I could go for that. Pentium M is ideal for SFF.
As for slow Flash memory, how about this:1 13332,0 0.asp
:-)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,
10MBps, that's pretty impressive (still several times slower than HD though), but it's still several hundred times as much $ per GB as a HD. Just call me Mr. Negative
9 megabytes per second is not good enough for you?
I wish I could believe that spec is realizable in a real system, but even if so, no, it's really not good enough for me. I can push at least 5 times that into my hard disk, and if anything I want and need more, not less.
Moore's Law is probably a limited phenomenon.
<pedantic>
Probably? Assuredly, I would say. If transistor count continues to double every 2 years, with 42M transistors per CPU in 2000, you would have 43 billion in 2010, 44 trillion in 2020, 47*10^21 in 2050, and 53*10^36 in 2100. If that hasn't reached the number of atoms in the known universe, then keep counting years and it will.
</pedantic>
The hard drive ... can ... be [replaced by] a ... flash disk [holding] 8 [GB}.
(1) You need more like 80-200GB to replace hard disk these days.
(2) Flash is appallingly slow writing and does not seem to be getting much faster anytime soon.
The hard disk is a moving target, and flash is not catching up.
I'd like to see ... 5W CPUs with the more processing muscle as today's 60W beasts
It would be a fine thing, but there's no sign of it happening. Instead, the next desktop CPUs are due to dissipate more like 103 watts. It's sad.
It comes from "Le roi est mort. Vive le roi!", translated as "The King is dead. Long live the King!". It was used when the monarch died, proving his mortality, to indicate that the monarchy would endure.
Would Ron Paul "defender of the Constitution" let coal burning plants pollute your neighborhood because an overisght comission via the EPA is more "big bad government?"
Well, of course I can't speak for Ron Paul, but I rather think he would. I know I would. You see, while it is difficult to argue that "allowing" pollution is a good thing, it is easy to make the case that this kind of regulation always goes too far. The EPA is the very epitome of "big bad government". If it were a person, it could be said to be suffering from paranoia, delusions of grandeur, and power mania. Around 1980 or so it had succeeded in cleaning automotive exhaust in new cars by a couple of orders of magnitude. Anyone of average intelligence would have declared victory, stopped raising the bar, and gone on to other concerns. Instead, to this day, they bear down harder and harder, beating this dead horse to an insane degree, with no indication that they will EVER stop raising the bar.
Who will govern the governors? The voters? Bwahahaha. That doesn't work. No government, absent revolution, EVER gets smaller. That's the reason the US Constitution is full of limits on government power, but contains not a single limitation on personal liberty, and scarcely any on commercial freedom.
Ron Paul is the House gadfly. He's a former Libertarian candidate for President, and reflexively votes against anything that expands government regulation.
Well, as one with strong Libertarian tendencies, I reflexively want to believe Ron Paul is making sense here, but if your theory as to the rationale is right, I just can't see it.
Just how does this expand government regulation? It is an opt-in list of people who don't want to be bothered on the phone at home. So the government will enforce it. I can't imagine any other way to do it effectively. If the Libertarian Revolution ever comes about, then there are other non-governmental ways postulated to accomplish this kind of thing, but the Revolution hasn't happened, or maybe I missed it.
An external, compact and convenient box is the best choice for most of us. Whether it uses NAT or not is an implementation detail. Most of them are going to use NAT for a long time to come, and that is something that needs to be dealt with.
"Please don't use NAT! "
My subject says all that needs to be said. The world is ignoring your plea, whether or not I agree to heed it. I think we need to deal with it.
Parent has posted a naughty link which is obscured.
This makes me question the entire TinyURL idea.
I just went there and can't figure out squat.
That is one of the most annoying sites I have ever visited. Even the FAQ doesn't reveal a single piece of useful information as to how it works.
Anybody know?