So, exactly what's the difference between this and Indymedia?
The interface?
More publicity?
I volunteer at a radio show, and Writing news is a lot of work, it's hard to find people to do it for free and professionally. Generally the result is poor quality, or just stuff copy-pasted from BBC or other sources.
It flew so fast that it traveled forward in time. Have you noticed that the X-43A has a little box attached. What do you think the little box does? (Reference to Primer movie)
If they replace the fragile LCD screnns of laptops with tiny solid state projectors, they will be more rugged and maybe cheaper in the long run. One step further in the way to the disposable laptop that you can carry everywhere without worring about it being lost, broken, stolen.
Hey, maybe you wont even need a Best Buy extended warranty after all. How's that.
I thought the same, if you dilute it enough the waste is not as harmful. They should put it in a boat that spreads it by microgram on the oceans.
Same thing with batteries, heavy metals and stuff.
The only problem I see is the bioaccumulaiton. I.e. some metals accumulate in fish livers and stuff and then we eat them.(In japan they used to have a big problem with mercury pollution in fish, with dozens of people going blind)
Electronic equipment usually fails in the first few days of use or else much later when it's lifetime is over. The extended warranty basically covers the period in between when the equiment is not expected to fail, therefore it's a waste of money (besides most people forgetting the receipt, not caring to use it, etc.).
Solar panel idea = good.
Propeller = not good
The propeller idea sounds a little bit like a perpetual motion machine, which we know it's thermodinamically incorrect.
However, the original idea of the spray was somewhat resembling a "perpetual mobile". The initial design had in mind taking advantage of the temperature differences in the sea to produce the density change, and theoretically no energy source was needed in the glider, It will take it from the environment. Apparently that didn't quite work as expected, so they use batteries. But they last long.
The machine requires little energy to operate, the pump only runs every once in a while to change its density
The battery packs are used as counterweights to steer the vehicle
Talk about clever design, this is like the Burt Rutan of underwater. I wonder if we'll see new developments on this technology, like submarine tourism, the underwater X-prize or something like that.
A mexican friend of mine has an ongoing discussion with a spanish friend, about the spelling of Mexico vs Mejico. I tell you, when they get started they can argue for hours.
In mexico they write mexico and pronounce it mejico, whereas in spain they write and pronouce it mejico.
Before final fantasy or resident evil, there was doom. Oh wait, what about Wolfestein.
Oh wait.... PONG the movie, that's what i want to see. (Actually not a bad idea for a short film)
Please refrain of using the word boom when referring to Brazil's rockets. The previous launch attempt ended exactly in that (boom) with some loss of life too
Maybe for strategic reasons
Historically the first rockets in space exploration were basically modified icbms, from a militaristic viewpoint those who can launch a satellite into orbit can launch a warhead everywhere in the planet more or less.
This is interesting for rheologists. If you heat the liquid the viscosity probably increases a lot before it turns into a solid.
This certainly has many mechanical applications such as shock absorbers, clutches, etc.
I've been coding a lot of vector, matrix, tensor stuff for hydrodynamic research. F90 is friendly for that. For example you can move matrix blocks in one statement, or set them all to zero at once. It's almost like using a math package but fast.
In problems like molecular dynamics, where you need to simulate great numbers of particles which interact with each other, the more computer power you can get the better.
The computing requirements increase nonlinearly with the number of particles.
Same thing with stuff like optimization of large systems, like chemical plants.
If computers become let's say 1 million times more powerful, It still will be short for many practical problems.
Seems like you haven't been exposed to scientific computing problems.
Even seemingly simple things like solving a linear system Ax=b (if the number of rows is high enough), is impossible to solve with current hardware.
And you can bet there are plenty of those models.
To have a taste of that try to solve a linear system of 6000 equations and 6000 unknowns in a PC (I do that daily)
What about a machine in which you put some quarters, stick a USB drive and it copies software there.
Talk about cost reduction!
I could use one of these If a urgently need some specific piece of software at 3:00 AM
Another pipeline built in 1981 exploded recently, look at this
Source: http://www.svanhovd.no/abstracts/ab_2003/gov_2003/ mnrnews_oct2003.pdf
20.10.2003 Gas explosion in the Perm Region
The State Service for Control of Nature use and Ecological safety started investigations of the
reasons of why a gas explosion happened 17.10.2003 in the Perm region. The diameter of the
damaged pipeline (Permtransgas) is 1420 mm. The irrecoverable natural gas loss is estimated
to 10 million 846 thousand m3 on the 1461st km of the main gas-line Urengoi-Petrovsk. The
pipeline was built in 1981 and taken into use in 1982. Imported materials were used under the
construction.
Im' no expert in this technology, but is it possible that somebody could remotely set up the power of the transmitter in such a way to produce this kind of damage on purpose.???
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So, exactly what's the difference between this and Indymedia?
The interface?
More publicity?
I volunteer at a radio show, and Writing news is a lot of work, it's hard to find people to do it for free and professionally. Generally the result is poor quality, or just stuff copy-pasted from BBC or other sources.
You think mach 10 is fast. Well.. guess what... that's nothing. Mine goes to 11. It's one faster.
It flew so fast that it traveled forward in time. Have you noticed that the X-43A has a little box attached. What do you think the little box does? (Reference to Primer movie)
If they replace the fragile LCD screnns of laptops with tiny solid state projectors, they will be more rugged and maybe cheaper in the long run. One step further in the way to the disposable laptop that you can carry everywhere without worring about it being lost, broken, stolen.
Hey, maybe you wont even need a Best Buy extended warranty after all. How's that.
Please don't tell him. We don't need another slashdot. Servers worlwide surrender
OK.It's easy. There are three steps involved
1.Build a low performance infrastructure.
2.Put a RT sticker and chromed exhaust pipes
3.Done
I thought the same, if you dilute it enough the waste is not as harmful. They should put it in a boat that spreads it by microgram on the oceans. Same thing with batteries, heavy metals and stuff. The only problem I see is the bioaccumulaiton. I.e. some metals accumulate in fish livers and stuff and then we eat them.(In japan they used to have a big problem with mercury pollution in fish, with dozens of people going blind)
Electronic equipment usually fails in the first few days of use or else much later when it's lifetime is over. The extended warranty basically covers the period in between when the equiment is not expected to fail, therefore it's a waste of money (besides most people forgetting the receipt, not caring to use it, etc.).
Solar panel idea = good.
Propeller = not good
The propeller idea sounds a little bit like a perpetual motion machine, which we know it's thermodinamically incorrect.
However, the original idea of the spray was somewhat resembling a "perpetual mobile". The initial design had in mind taking advantage of the temperature differences in the sea to produce the density change, and theoretically no energy source was needed in the glider, It will take it from the environment. Apparently that didn't quite work as expected, so they use batteries. But they last long.
Human mistakes could affect results in voting machines.
The voting machines should be supervised by robots...with shotguns
Talk about clever design, this is like the Burt Rutan of underwater. I wonder if we'll see new developments on this technology, like submarine tourism, the underwater X-prize or something like that.
A mexican friend of mine has an ongoing discussion with a spanish friend, about the spelling of Mexico vs Mejico. I tell you, when they get started they can argue for hours. In mexico they write mexico and pronounce it mejico, whereas in spain they write and pronouce it mejico.
Before final fantasy or resident evil, there was doom. Oh wait, what about Wolfestein. Oh wait.... PONG the movie, that's what i want to see. (Actually not a bad idea for a short film)
Please refrain of using the word boom when referring to Brazil's rockets. The previous launch attempt ended exactly in that (boom) with some loss of life too
Maybe for strategic reasons Historically the first rockets in space exploration were basically modified icbms, from a militaristic viewpoint those who can launch a satellite into orbit can launch a warhead everywhere in the planet more or less.
Well, argentina has developed its own technology in a few areas, the invap company has built a few satellites as well as nuclear reactors for export.
Too bad Rutan started boasting and criticizing NASA. He IS obviously an aircraft genius, but I guess he's not a PR genius.
This is interesting for rheologists. If you heat the liquid the viscosity probably increases a lot before it turns into a solid. This certainly has many mechanical applications such as shock absorbers, clutches, etc.
I've been coding a lot of vector, matrix, tensor stuff for hydrodynamic research. F90 is friendly for that.
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For example you can move matrix blocks in one statement, or set them all to zero at once. It's almost like using a math package but fast.
This online manual is teh goodness:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HTMLF90Course/HTMLF90Cou
If they exist I want to buy a Fortran related T-Shirt. Also one about TI-994A's but not the ones in cafepress.
In problems like molecular dynamics, where you need to simulate great numbers of particles which interact with each other, the more computer power you can get the better.
The computing requirements increase nonlinearly with the number of particles.
Same thing with stuff like optimization of large systems, like chemical plants.
If computers become let's say 1 million times more powerful, It still will be short for many practical problems.
Seems like you haven't been exposed to scientific computing problems. Even seemingly simple things like solving a linear system Ax=b (if the number of rows is high enough), is impossible to solve with current hardware. And you can bet there are plenty of those models. To have a taste of that try to solve a linear system of 6000 equations and 6000 unknowns in a PC (I do that daily)
Wouldn't be nice if the "dragon's head" feature would be named Trogdor the Burninator http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html
What about a machine in which you put some quarters, stick a USB drive and it copies software there. Talk about cost reduction! I could use one of these If a urgently need some specific piece of software at 3:00 AM
Another pipeline built in 1981 exploded recently, look at this Source: http://www.svanhovd.no/abstracts/ab_2003/gov_2003/ mnrnews_oct2003.pdf
20.10.2003 Gas explosion in the Perm Region
The State Service for Control of Nature use and Ecological safety started investigations of the
reasons of why a gas explosion happened 17.10.2003 in the Perm region. The diameter of the
damaged pipeline (Permtransgas) is 1420 mm. The irrecoverable natural gas loss is estimated
to 10 million 846 thousand m3 on the 1461st km of the main gas-line Urengoi-Petrovsk. The
pipeline was built in 1981 and taken into use in 1982. Imported materials were used under the
construction.
This would make a nice Sci Fi catastrophic scenario. Actually if it doesnt work, it still can be used in a fictitious technological context.
Im' no expert in this technology, but is it possible that somebody could remotely set up the power of the transmitter in such a way to produce this kind of damage on purpose.???