You are on the right track. Religion and morality are two different things.
The two are logically separate from each other. (even if they weren't in theory, they certainly are in practice)
A non religious person can be moral and religion doesn't prevent a person from being immoral.
Morality only requires empathy and reciprocity. No coercion from invisible beings required.
A closer speed estimate:
The Atari's chip took about 4 clock cycles per instruction.
The Intel chip does 4 instructions per clock cycle. (so multiply by 16)
The byte size is 8 bit vs 64 bits. (multiply again by 8)
The Intel has a floating point subsystem. (multiply by 10? if you are doing math calculations.
Probably more like 40 if you were to have each do 32bit floats.)
The Intel has 2 cores. (multiply by 2)
The Intel has L1 L2 RAM cache. (probably factored in to the 4 instructions per clock timing)
So the actual speedup is more like 1000 x 16 x 8 x 10 x 2 = 2,560,000 for floating point
and 1000 x 16 x 8 x 2 = 256,000 for data manipulation.
Multiply by another 10 for the newer faster 8 core desktop machines.
I guess I was too lazy to proofread my semi-coherent post previously also.
Anyway here's a link for the delayed choice thought experiment using the gravitational lens...
Too lazy to look it up but I seem to remember a thought experiment that someone cooked up where a photon is passed throug a gravitational lens a billion light years in the past. The problem was what if you were able to do a measurement now to collapse the wave? I seem to recall that someone prooved that this is the case: where the photon then appears to go back in time a billion years and choose which side of the lens to traverse. Anyone read about this?
One food that's quick and doesn't need cooking is almonds. Make sure you get the plain unroasted ones without oil or salt. They are good for replacing potatos, rice or other carb. They have good fat (monosaturated), vitamin E and magnesium among other nutrients. Walnuts have omega 3's in them but don't taste as good.
One of the biggest problem with many processed foods are trans fats. It looks like they behave like the opposite of anti-cholestorol drugs where they raise the bad cholestorol and lower the good one. The food industry is in a sweat to remove them before the class action lawyers start sniffing around. Some European countries have banned them already.
Avoid hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, also called vegetable oil shortening. They are found in abundance in deep fried foods such as precooked potato patties/fries and anything with batter on it. Many cookies have them also since trans fats are more stable for a longer shelf life. To find out how much trans fat is in a product if it isn't listed, subtract all the saturated, poly and monosaturated fats from the total fat listed on the label and what's left over is trans fat. Deep fried restaraunt food is likely loaded with the stuff also.
The most disturbing thing about the latest spyware is that it seems they are hiring virus writers to enhance the unwanted installation of their software.
Before this most virus writers wrote viruses just for kicks. Now there's a financial incentive to do their thing.
Here's a great link
link to illustate how bad it's gotten and one person's fight against it. Hats off to merijn for writing cwshredder.
Offtopic but....
Just a guess, but someone may have seen the way the latest digital cameras autofocus. The latest Sony V1 uses a laser and others shoot white/red/infrared for focus or redeye reduction.
Not something you want shining on any painting with dye based pigments. (especially if the insurance company knows about it)
This doesn't make sense though because the worst culprits are cheap film cameras that don't let you disable the flash. Go to the Louvre and you'll see lots of idiots happily flashing away at the Mona Lisa. (which is now under several inches of special flash proof glass)
Not sure why they would ban camcorders unless they figure someone would use a light on one or have the same autofocus stuff for still shots.
The amount of tape surface area in a tape cartridge is much more than 10 square inches. I'm hoping that they can either increase the density so that a single sheet will store 10TB or somehow figure out how to stream/step the polymer under the probes so that it can be fed from a spool.
I realize that spooling it gives some of the drawbacks of current tape formats but the storage would be immense. If you could stuff 300 feet of.5" polymer tape in a cartridge, you could get 45TB storage. It would remove some of the disadvantages of current tape also. It should be cheap to make. No fancy magnetic oxides to bind/flake off. Hard to erase accidentally. (put in an oven?) Longer lasting.
This isn't flash memory. It's an entirely new method of recording data (at that scale anyway). 100,000 rewrites is several orders of magnitude better than what tape can do. By the looks of things, the technology will be 4x cheaper than fast flash to start and get much cheaper as time passes.
Have you ever had to do offsite storage for multi-terrabytes of data every day? Not fun. Linear tape doesn't have the reliability or speed to do it easily. (Dirty/bad heads, bad tape, all night backup runs, a suitcase full of tapes, slow restores, lots of fun..)
By the looks of this new technology it's going to be a lot cheaper than flash or any type of tape (eventually). Since it's highly parallelizable the speed looks good also.
The sooner tape disappears as a backup medium the better. The tape drive manufacturers haven't been keeping up with drive space increases for the last 10 years. This would put things back in balance.
If IBM can get this technology to back up 10TB in one small package that sells for under $100 per cartridge they will own the market for offsite storage. This sounds like a lot but it's only one order of magnitude greater than the largest tape drives around now.
Lately, if you get the demo version of either the Linux or Win32 version and register it with a valid email, you get an email from Programmer's Paradise a few days later with pricing of $255 for either version. (downloadable version - no shipping cost) Not sure how long the deal will last.
It's a clever product. If you can market it, you get money for each computer regardless of which operating system it's running. I can understand why MS bought Virtual PC.
Virtual PC lets MS-
- virtualize their old operating systems so that they can slide DRM in without making old software/OS's obsolete. New software would run in a DRM'd OS isolated from the others.
- create an OS under the OS (virtualizing BIOS?) so they still get a cut, even if you want to run Linux etc.
VMWare has the same opportunity and a lead in the server area. I'm not supprised they got bought out. Need disaster recovery or deployment of a complex app server? Just copy out the VM to DVD or tape. Very handy.
I agree. The vote (data) should be separate from the counting (processing).
The voter shouldn't have their vote sucked into a black box to become part of a proprietary system that can't be recounted by another system if needed.
This year's Toronto elections had a large 14"x10" or so ballot that was scanned in. The scanner rejected invalid vote combinations and the total was phoned in by voice as well as dialed in using a modem in the scanner as a double check.
You had results in 20 minutes with fewer errors and an anonymous paper trail if needed for a recount.
That's the best description of the problem I've seen yet. The voting system should be counting data outside the system, not taking the data into a black box, never to be seen again in it's original format.
A paper trail is the only way voters will trust the system.
By the width of that tire I'd say they are accounting for the fact that the average (too lazy to move their fat ass by walking) North American will weigh 450lb by 2025!
I've even tested it on servers to see if it works with hardware raid arrays. (It does)
The only problem is that they aren't going to have any new versions after IC3 4.61. I called to get support and that's what they said. It looks like and end of life product or that they will shift focus to the manufacturing sector. Too bad because it's great. They have a wizard for Sysprep called Win2kprep that works great for migrating images from one motherboard chipset to another. (although I haven't tried single to dual processor yet)
On the server you could use it for disaster recovery because I don't trust the backup programs that claim bare metal restores from an image made when Windows is running.
The only trick is getting the boot floppy working with new network drivers but it's usually just a matter of finding the right version of the driver.
I voted in the Toronto election this week.
They used a ballot where you fill in a line with a gap in the middle so that a scanner can detect it.
It looked like they used this machine to scan it:
www.essvote.com
Very clean. The number of votes was called in and double checked against the smart card inside which connects by modem. Results 20 minutes after the polls closed and a paper trail if needed. Great stuff.
I voted in Toronto today also. That hybrid electronic/paper voting system is excellent.
Scanning the ballots and having a paper trail is really the best method. Twenty minutes after the polls close you know the winner and any disputes are easily recounted.
Any other electronic method that doesn't leave a paper trail will lose the confidence of the public, no matter how well it works.
Does anyone know if Vmware would be a solution for this?
ie. Create a master clean install image and then copy it off to a different directory for safe keeping.
When you need a clean version, copy it back in and fire it up.
I don't think that XP's product activation would know what's happening. The main limitation would be that you couldn't test hardware drivers since they would be limited to those of the the virtual machine .
We have laptop users who don't use monitors at their desks, only the laptop screen.
Ones that have been used for a couple of years are much yellower and dimmer than the laptop screens of users who only use them when on the road. (same model)
Will the newer LCD TV's have the same problem? If so, is it the backlight that's fading or the plastic screen that's darkening? Will white LED's come to the rescue for backlights?
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I want to see what it would do if a cat jumped up on the table...
You are on the right track. Religion and morality are two different things. The two are logically separate from each other. (even if they weren't in theory, they certainly are in practice) A non religious person can be moral and religion doesn't prevent a person from being immoral. Morality only requires empathy and reciprocity. No coercion from invisible beings required.
A closer speed estimate: The Atari's chip took about 4 clock cycles per instruction. The Intel chip does 4 instructions per clock cycle. (so multiply by 16) The byte size is 8 bit vs 64 bits. (multiply again by 8) The Intel has a floating point subsystem. (multiply by 10? if you are doing math calculations. Probably more like 40 if you were to have each do 32bit floats.) The Intel has 2 cores. (multiply by 2) The Intel has L1 L2 RAM cache. (probably factored in to the 4 instructions per clock timing) So the actual speedup is more like 1000 x 16 x 8 x 10 x 2 = 2,560,000 for floating point and 1000 x 16 x 8 x 2 = 256,000 for data manipulation. Multiply by another 10 for the newer faster 8 core desktop machines.
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/quantum_astrono my_041216.html/
Too lazy to look it up but I seem to remember a thought experiment that someone cooked up where a photon is passed throug a gravitational lens a billion light years in the past. The problem was what if you were able to do a measurement now to collapse the wave? I seem to recall that someone prooved that this is the case: where the photon then appears to go back in time a billion years and choose which side of the lens to traverse. Anyone read about this?
From the classic Spongebob episode: http://www.telery.com/Idiot_Box.htm
Anybody notice this? Link
One of the biggest problem with many processed foods are trans fats. It looks like they behave like the opposite of anti-cholestorol drugs where they raise the bad cholestorol and lower the good one. The food industry is in a sweat to remove them before the class action lawyers start sniffing around. Some European countries have banned them already.
Avoid hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, also called vegetable oil shortening. They are found in abundance in deep fried foods such as precooked potato patties/fries and anything with batter on it. Many cookies have them also since trans fats are more stable for a longer shelf life. To find out how much trans fat is in a product if it isn't listed, subtract all the saturated, poly and monosaturated fats from the total fat listed on the label and what's left over is trans fat. Deep fried restaraunt food is likely loaded with the stuff also.
Male: Over 70, yells at kids to "get off the grass", drives wearing a hat, hard of hearing
Female: Over 60, thinks everything is "lovely", collects pretty watercolors, has more than 2 cats
Before this most virus writers wrote viruses just for kicks. Now there's a financial incentive to do their thing.
Here's a great link link to illustate how bad it's gotten and one person's fight against it. Hats off to merijn for writing cwshredder.
Not something you want shining on any painting with dye based pigments. (especially if the insurance company knows about it)
This doesn't make sense though because the worst culprits are cheap film cameras that don't let you disable the flash. Go to the Louvre and you'll see lots of idiots happily flashing away at the Mona Lisa. (which is now under several inches of special flash proof glass)
Not sure why they would ban camcorders unless they figure someone would use a light on one or have the same autofocus stuff for still shots.
I realize that spooling it gives some of the drawbacks of current tape formats but the storage would be immense. If you could stuff 300 feet of .5" polymer tape in a cartridge, you could get 45TB storage. It would remove some of the disadvantages of current tape also. It should be cheap to make. No fancy magnetic oxides to bind/flake off. Hard to erase accidentally. (put in an oven?) Longer lasting.
Have you ever had to do offsite storage for multi-terrabytes of data every day? Not fun. Linear tape doesn't have the reliability or speed to do it easily. (Dirty/bad heads, bad tape, all night backup runs, a suitcase full of tapes, slow restores, lots of fun..)
By the looks of this new technology it's going to be a lot cheaper than flash or any type of tape (eventually). Since it's highly parallelizable the speed looks good also.
If IBM can get this technology to back up 10TB in one small package that sells for under $100 per cartridge they will own the market for offsite storage. This sounds like a lot but it's only one order of magnitude greater than the largest tape drives around now.
Lately, if you get the demo version of either the Linux or Win32 version and register it with a valid email, you get an email from Programmer's Paradise a few days later with pricing of $255 for either version. (downloadable version - no shipping cost) Not sure how long the deal will last.
Virtual PC lets MS-
- virtualize their old operating systems so that they can slide DRM in without making old software/OS's obsolete. New software would run in a DRM'd OS isolated from the others.
- create an OS under the OS (virtualizing BIOS?) so they still get a cut, even if you want to run Linux etc.
VMWare has the same opportunity and a lead in the server area. I'm not supprised they got bought out. Need disaster recovery or deployment of a complex app server? Just copy out the VM to DVD or tape. Very handy.
The voter shouldn't have their vote sucked into a black box to become part of a proprietary system that can't be recounted by another system if needed.
This year's Toronto elections had a large 14"x10" or so ballot that was scanned in. The scanner rejected invalid vote combinations and the total was phoned in by voice as well as dialed in using a modem in the scanner as a double check.
You had results in 20 minutes with fewer errors and an anonymous paper trail if needed for a recount.
That's the best description of the problem I've seen yet. The voting system should be counting data outside the system, not taking the data into a black box, never to be seen again in it's original format.
A paper trail is the only way voters will trust the system.
By the width of that tire I'd say they are accounting for the fact that the average (too lazy to move their fat ass by walking) North American will weigh 450lb by 2025!
I've even tested it on servers to see if it works with hardware raid arrays. (It does)
The only problem is that they aren't going to have any new versions after IC3 4.61. I called to get support and that's what they said. It looks like and end of life product or that they will shift focus to the manufacturing sector. Too bad because it's great. They have a wizard for Sysprep called Win2kprep that works great for migrating images from one motherboard chipset to another. (although I haven't tried single to dual processor yet)
On the server you could use it for disaster recovery because I don't trust the backup programs that claim bare metal restores from an image made when Windows is running.
The only trick is getting the boot floppy working with new network drivers but it's usually just a matter of finding the right version of the driver.
It looked like they used this machine to scan it: www.essvote.com
Very clean. The number of votes was called in and double checked against the smart card inside which connects by modem. Results 20 minutes after the polls closed and a paper trail if needed. Great stuff.
Scanning the ballots and having a paper trail is really the best method. Twenty minutes after the polls close you know the winner and any disputes are easily recounted.
Any other electronic method that doesn't leave a paper trail will lose the confidence of the public, no matter how well it works.
ie. Create a master clean install image and then copy it off to a different directory for safe keeping.
When you need a clean version, copy it back in and fire it up.
I don't think that XP's product activation would know what's happening. The main limitation would be that you couldn't test hardware drivers since they would be limited to those of the the virtual machine .
Ones that have been used for a couple of years are much yellower and dimmer than the laptop screens of users who only use them when on the road. (same model)
Will the newer LCD TV's have the same problem? If so, is it the backlight that's fading or the plastic screen that's darkening? Will white LED's come to the rescue for backlights?
This is really annoying because I'd like to have the extra safety factor of gold media for archiving purposes.
See: Mitsui-MAM Product List
Switching to DVD-RAM may be an option but the risk factor there is the possibility of not having a drive handy that can read the disks 10 years later.