They mention this (although they don't really address the issue):
One of the chief difficulties in developing the technology comes from the environment where computer chips live. Heat and vibration in this environment can cause chips to get out of the precise alignment needed for proximity communication. Sun is currently tinkering with different techniques and different packages to prevent, or correct, these effects.
This makes the post make a little more sense, in my opinion (from the article):
By contrast, proximity communication relies on capacitive coupling--the ability of two electrically charged devices close to each other to interact. Transmitters on one chip can send signals to another. These signals are then amplified. A much higher number of transmitter/receiver pairs than pins can be inserted in a specific area, which allows for more simultaneous connections.
Can't get rid of the pins without replacing them with something else.
I think the poster is confusing using quantum codes (first demostrated in 1991, currently commercially available) with breaking codes with quantum computers (still hugely theoretical).
Admittedly, this is anecdotal evidence, but it's certainly worthwhile nonetheless (and no more anecdotal than the fact that Linus Torvalds is an atheist)...
I recently heard a man by the name of John Polkinghorne lecture on the interaction of religion and science. He was a professor of particle physics at Cambridge, and then went on to become an Anglican priest. He's written lots of books, none of which I've read, but I'm told are good. His lecture was very interesting, and he brought up many points that were very natural.
The main point of his lecture was that as a society, and as individuals, we see better when we use both eyes: the eye of science, and the eye of religion.
Any source for this? Or is an anti-Bush accusation enough to get you modded up?
I'd be very interested if you could supply the source, if not, don't bother posting, and all you moderators, don't go encouraging rumors (which is all this amounts to at this point).
Just last Thursday I heard a lecture about digital effects in movies and games by George Joblove and Douglas Kay, two former ILM-ers who have now moved to Sony Imageworks and Mondo Media, respectively. One of the clips that Douglas Kay showed was a concept for a project they're doing which is a combined movie and game. The idea is that the movie is done entirely digitally, and at a technological level that can be reproduced on a game console, so that there is a seemless transition between the movie environment and the game. Sounded like a good idea to me.
The point is, everything else in the hoax is accurate. That's part of the joke. Inhalation of H2O can lead to death--it's called drowning. The rest of the facts presented are also accurate, just worded cleverly to catch people.
Les Mis is an opera, in that the whole thing is sung (so I guess you do lose the semantic argument). Also, I'd like to point out that I've seen it and consider it great music, maybe not on the level of some of the operas you mentioned, musically, but it also had the theatrical component that is frequently lacking in classical opera. What annoys me about classical opera is how many opera singers make little or no effort to act. The music is good, but how can you suspend disbelief when the performers don't appear to beleive it themselves?
In an opera like Les Mis, however, people don't usually come to the performance hoping to hear the orchestra. The majority of the art is performed on stage--in the form of acting and singing. The orchestra provides accompaniment to the main attraction on stage. Also, within the orchestra certain instruments usually "take center stage" more often--the first violins, the brass, and so on--and these are likely the last to be replaced by synth. So really, what they've done here is replaced the backup voices in the accompaniment with a machine. If it keeps the show open longer, it's worth it.
Yeah, what he doesn't seem to understand is that, unlike the bits on the internet, radio signals have power and cause interference. Where would the internet be if one website could be "louder" than another and drown it out?
The rest of the article was great, though. Good enough that I actually finished it before replying.
Long-range bandwidth crunches are all but unheard of, as I understand it. This is because fiber optic cables inherently have huge bandwidth, along with low cost. I think the current statistic is that we use ~10% of the capacity of long-haul lines. The other point to consider is that this is largely a weakest-link problem. Clearly, the last-mile stretch or the server at the end of the line will fail long before any long-haul lines will overload.
Well, the $20 is part of the general housing price, so you don't really see it (it used to be separate, but that was tough for some because it wasn't covered by financial aid). The traffic is only between Cornell and the rest of the world: all intranet traffic is free. The prices are a bit high, but everything is expensive here, as I've come to expect.
My campus network recently went to a network-usage-based billing system, where you get the first 2GB for "free" (you're already paying ~$20 per month for access), and then every megabyte over that is 0.3 cents. Although I was a bit wary of the system originally, I think it's helped a lot. Students who used to just let Kazaa sit uploading all day have learned to prevent or limit sharing music (probably helps get the RIAA off everyone's back here), and it helps find viruses on computers of people who are not as computer-savvy. Case in point is my girlfriend. The second month here, she supposedly had 30 GB of traffic. I realized this was ridiculous because she only had a 40 GB harddrive, and it was still half-empty (and she wasn't sharing anything on Kazaa). A quick investigation on my part led to the discovery of a trojan horse, using her computer as a porn server. Although IT has no refund policy for such occurances, they are willing to forgive a month's traffic for each user once in your life, so she didn't have to pay the $80 that the virus would have costed her.
On the whole, I have not noticed an increase in speed this year, as opposed to last year, but the network was pretty fast to begin with, and I'm not a very heavy user. The nice thing is that if I don't go over (which has only happened once), I'm paying half as much for the connection, and people who actually use a lot of bandwidth are paying for it.
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I'm not sure if that was meant sarcastically...
I kinda think it was.
A national list of valid email addresses sure sounds like a good way to reduce spam to me...
Leaving aside the question of whether such a thing is possible
Possible? It has been done.
I think the poster is confusing using quantum codes (first demostrated in 1991, currently commercially available) with breaking codes with quantum computers (still hugely theoretical).
Admittedly, this is anecdotal evidence, but it's certainly worthwhile nonetheless (and no more anecdotal than the fact that Linus Torvalds is an atheist)...
I recently heard a man by the name of John Polkinghorne lecture on the interaction of religion and science. He was a professor of particle physics at Cambridge, and then went on to become an Anglican priest. He's written lots of books, none of which I've read, but I'm told are good. His lecture was very interesting, and he brought up many points that were very natural.
The main point of his lecture was that as a society, and as individuals, we see better when we use both eyes: the eye of science, and the eye of religion.
How about the original poster doing the simple Google search? That was my point.
Any source for this? Or is an anti-Bush accusation enough to get you modded up?
I'd be very interested if you could supply the source, if not, don't bother posting, and all you moderators, don't go encouraging rumors (which is all this amounts to at this point).
Just last Thursday I heard a lecture about digital effects in movies and games by George Joblove and Douglas Kay, two former ILM-ers who have now moved to Sony Imageworks and Mondo Media, respectively. One of the clips that Douglas Kay showed was a concept for a project they're doing which is a combined movie and game. The idea is that the movie is done entirely digitally, and at a technological level that can be reproduced on a game console, so that there is a seemless transition between the movie environment and the game. Sounded like a good idea to me.
Do a quick Kazaa for Garrison Keillor's "Lutherans On Line." It's pretty funny.
So clearly the solution is to invade some neighboring town, taking the people as slaves to turn a giant generator for you.
Those Romans were smart people...
The point is, everything else in the hoax is accurate. That's part of the joke. Inhalation of H2O can lead to death--it's called drowning. The rest of the facts presented are also accurate, just worded cleverly to catch people.
Next big thing in computers: the then-if statement! Available only on Microsoft products, certainly.
Les Mis is an opera, in that the whole thing is sung (so I guess you do lose the semantic argument). Also, I'd like to point out that I've seen it and consider it great music, maybe not on the level of some of the operas you mentioned, musically, but it also had the theatrical component that is frequently lacking in classical opera. What annoys me about classical opera is how many opera singers make little or no effort to act. The music is good, but how can you suspend disbelief when the performers don't appear to beleive it themselves?
In an opera like Les Mis, however, people don't usually come to the performance hoping to hear the orchestra. The majority of the art is performed on stage--in the form of acting and singing. The orchestra provides accompaniment to the main attraction on stage. Also, within the orchestra certain instruments usually "take center stage" more often--the first violins, the brass, and so on--and these are likely the last to be replaced by synth. So really, what they've done here is replaced the backup voices in the accompaniment with a machine. If it keeps the show open longer, it's worth it.
Bit Torrent link: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/ut2004-mac-demo-3 120.dmg.bz2.torrent
But I'm sure there are some private contractors somewhere along the line, and so what about their software?
I've built this six-wheeled golf cart in my back yard, and I was hoping to find a good OS for it!
Yeah, what he doesn't seem to understand is that, unlike the bits on the internet, radio signals have power and cause interference. Where would the internet be if one website could be "louder" than another and drown it out?
The rest of the article was great, though. Good enough that I actually finished it before replying.
May I humbly suggest that you google for 'digital camcorder reviews'? You should get tons of results.
95% of others: Ooooh! Tech stocks! It's the next '90's!
Long-range bandwidth crunches are all but unheard of, as I understand it. This is because fiber optic cables inherently have huge bandwidth, along with low cost. I think the current statistic is that we use ~10% of the capacity of long-haul lines. The other point to consider is that this is largely a weakest-link problem. Clearly, the last-mile stretch or the server at the end of the line will fail long before any long-haul lines will overload.
Well, the $20 is part of the general housing price, so you don't really see it (it used to be separate, but that was tough for some because it wasn't covered by financial aid). The traffic is only between Cornell and the rest of the world: all intranet traffic is free. The prices are a bit high, but everything is expensive here, as I've come to expect.
My campus network recently went to a network-usage-based billing system, where you get the first 2GB for "free" (you're already paying ~$20 per month for access), and then every megabyte over that is 0.3 cents. Although I was a bit wary of the system originally, I think it's helped a lot. Students who used to just let Kazaa sit uploading all day have learned to prevent or limit sharing music (probably helps get the RIAA off everyone's back here), and it helps find viruses on computers of people who are not as computer-savvy. Case in point is my girlfriend. The second month here, she supposedly had 30 GB of traffic. I realized this was ridiculous because she only had a 40 GB harddrive, and it was still half-empty (and she wasn't sharing anything on Kazaa). A quick investigation on my part led to the discovery of a trojan horse, using her computer as a porn server. Although IT has no refund policy for such occurances, they are willing to forgive a month's traffic for each user once in your life, so she didn't have to pay the $80 that the virus would have costed her.
On the whole, I have not noticed an increase in speed this year, as opposed to last year, but the network was pretty fast to begin with, and I'm not a very heavy user. The nice thing is that if I don't go over (which has only happened once), I'm paying half as much for the connection, and people who actually use a lot of bandwidth are paying for it.