I would rather said that germs were quite slow catching after Holy Inquisition or good old fellow Cortes (not counting innumerable other conquistadors in the broad sense, starting with Joshua Ben-Nun).
I'm holding an opinion that this is a simple ad. There are many companies doing great job with all kinds of consumer products, yet only Sony's new camera had made it here somehow.
What really makes me wonder is the persistence American people display when discussing Apollo program costs. Why nobody ever discusses Vietnam war costs in this context? I believe that Vietnam war was valued at more than 111 billion dollars for 8 years (1964 - 1972). Infinitely more useful, Apollo program only took 25.4 billions over 11 years. In this light, Apollo program was essentially very cheap.
I'm using 1969 dollars in this comparison - no inclination for stupid "effective present cost" amounts.
I bet, every low cost Samsung printer (they like ARM7 microcontrollers) has this ".netcpu" embedded inside - though without dependence on stupid microsoft dev tools.
Anyway, it'll take few hours at most to get ucLinux running on this module.
The proper name for a sub-micron etched tube is a "Charge Emission Device" (CED). It can provide record-breaking performance even in the "normal" transistor applications, due to very high electron mobility in vacuum (hitting a multi-10GHz switching speeds). It can also serve as an imaging element (when combined with luminophor) or as a light pick-up (like CCD and such).
Really, when high power tube pick-ups some static charge due to poor grounding it can explode on a TNT-bomb level. I had heard a stories about tubes accumulating more than 1MV of static field on their case (and exploding afterwards).
Anyway, what can be expected from device that packs 100kWt of power into one cubic decimeter.
>su
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Works every time for me!
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It seems like Cray is not capable of sustaining its heritage. Buying cheap AMD processor and connecting them with customized HT interconnect is not enough to build a machine capable of record-breaking single-task performance, old Crays exhibited.
When one could be sure with Cray XMP that he has the best machine money can buy (with outstanding scalar and vector abilities), new Cray is just another loosely-coupled AMD cluster. Thanks god it's not a NEC clone (at least).
The method of field swapping was used on early SGI Irix workstations to increase the perceived color depth of the screen (they had a 32 bpp framebuffer but only 8bit vdac). The same stuff can be used to increase apparent resolution, first by using sub-pixel (in a color sense) rendering and then swapping between differently colored fields.
I think the term "digital fountain" always comes up when erasure correcting codes are discussed. They are able to correct bit erasures and packet erasures too. There is great description of them in the D. Mackay's book, available on the net:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/DFountai n.html
It seems that my humble remark generated so much buzz that I simply have to left this last remark.
I had played every id game, starting with Wolf on some old 286 and then Doom, Doom2 (on customly overclocked 386sx - I had to replace its XO), Quake, Quake2 (on nice SGI machine) and Quake3.
None of this games was as much fun as HL1 (and HL1 is a direct discendant of Quake2 - but with much face lifting and great story).
However,
the story of the game (as written on the site) is suspiciously similar to that of HL1 (demonic army overrunning government/commercial research facility). I hoped for some more fantasy on the id's behalf (HL1 was really cool because of its well developed and fresh story).
The problem is maintenance. It can cost you a big deal of money to keep the flywheel in the working condition. But really, it seems it is the most efficient way to store energy at this specific moment.
And indeed they can. Being a representative, I can assure you that russian EE can solve any problem on Mars or on Earth. And they'll do it for very small fee (if any). Nikola Tesla was not russian, but he was east european (same thing). And what? He solved the energy problem of the entire world and got nothing in exchange.
Quite a good idea. Ther is one russian scientist (Nurbei Gulia - a wel known physicist) that promotes the use of flywheels for more than 30 years to this date. He has very interesting designs of ultra-high energy flywheels with magnetic bearing and so on. However, there are also great dangers associated to big flywheels. For example, if a flywheels breaks under full load, its pieces are as fast and destructive as cannon shells.
It is not too effective to store energy in the burning medium, beacuse of the 2nd law of the thermodynamics. The total efficiency of "store and burn" method will be awfully low. It's much better to invent a "cold" or even "hot" fusion reactor and to use hydrogen for what it was meant to: syntesizing matter and energy.
It is not too difficult to build a normal electric distribution system. Take a Germany as an example. The unlimited greed of the capitalists is what really need to be changed.
World Revolution Now!
The problem, mostly, is that the Big Bang created only finite amount of barions (as far as we know). As soon, as all barions will be trapped inside the heavy nuclei, the amount of free states available in the universe will become inadequate to perform any useful computation and the information letargy will prevail.
I also think that the total entropy will be quite small then (so it will not be "thermodynamic death").
No, it does not. Most of the US transmission lines have very low voltage ratings (compared to european) and thus large loss. And for claimed efficiency on the mentioned website, I know of no practical proof of it possible.
Benchmarks are for fulls. Only TAO (the way) matters. My favorite computer is SGI O2, terribly old. It takes 10 minutes for it to load Quake2. And still, it's much more lovable.
I can even add that I always loved and used only ATI cards, though very bad support policy, buggy drivers and horrible X support (before XFree 4 I mean). Why? Because I love how they look like.
Your argument was used by T. Edison some time ago. Did not held the test of time. Nowadays, using MV rated DC transmission systems and a handful of atomic power plants is the best way to make energy.
For these, who does not know, GOELRO was a plan to connect the entire USSR (in the early 1920th) to the unified electric grid. And since then, the grid worked fine and mostly without break-downs (even when Chernobyl gone kaput, taking a 4000MW of power with it to the grave). And all this only because the original inspirer of the program was V. I. Lenin.
The same Lenin said: kommunizm equals socialism plus unified electric grid. Therefore, my question is: what is capitalism without electricity?
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I would rather said that germs were quite slow catching after Holy Inquisition or good old fellow Cortes (not counting innumerable other conquistadors in the broad sense, starting with Joshua Ben-Nun).
I'm holding an opinion that this is a simple ad. There are many companies doing great job with all kinds of consumer products, yet only Sony's new camera had made it here somehow.
What really makes me wonder is the persistence American people display when discussing Apollo program costs. Why nobody ever discusses Vietnam war costs in this context? I believe that Vietnam war was valued at more than 111 billion dollars for 8 years (1964 - 1972). Infinitely more useful, Apollo program only took 25.4 billions over 11 years. In this light, Apollo program was essentially very cheap.
I'm using 1969 dollars in this comparison - no inclination for stupid "effective present cost" amounts.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
---- William Pitt, 1783I bet, every low cost Samsung printer (they like ARM7 microcontrollers) has this ".netcpu" embedded inside - though without dependence on stupid microsoft dev tools.
Anyway, it'll take few hours at most to get ucLinux running on this module.
The proper name for a sub-micron etched tube is a "Charge Emission Device" (CED). It can provide record-breaking performance even in the "normal" transistor applications, due to very high electron mobility in vacuum (hitting a multi-10GHz switching speeds). It can also serve as an imaging element (when combined with luminophor) or as a light pick-up (like CCD and such).
Really, when high power tube pick-ups some static charge due to poor grounding it can explode on a TNT-bomb level. I had heard a stories about tubes accumulating more than 1MV of static field on their case (and exploding afterwards). Anyway, what can be expected from device that packs 100kWt of power into one cubic decimeter.
>su >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda Works every time for me!
It seems like Cray is not capable of sustaining its heritage. Buying cheap AMD processor and connecting them with customized HT interconnect is not enough to build a machine capable of record-breaking single-task performance, old Crays exhibited. When one could be sure with Cray XMP that he has the best machine money can buy (with outstanding scalar and vector abilities), new Cray is just another loosely-coupled AMD cluster. Thanks god it's not a NEC clone (at least).
The method of field swapping was used on early SGI Irix workstations to increase the perceived color depth of the screen (they had a 32 bpp framebuffer but only 8bit vdac). The same stuff can be used to increase apparent resolution, first by using sub-pixel (in a color sense) rendering and then swapping between differently colored fields.
I think the term "digital fountain" always comes up when erasure correcting codes are discussed. They are able to correct bit erasures and packet erasures too. There is great description of them in the D. Mackay's book, available on the net: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/DFountai n.html
It seems that my humble remark generated so much buzz that I simply have to left this last remark. I had played every id game, starting with Wolf on some old 286 and then Doom, Doom2 (on customly overclocked 386sx - I had to replace its XO), Quake, Quake2 (on nice SGI machine) and Quake3. None of this games was as much fun as HL1 (and HL1 is a direct discendant of Quake2 - but with much face lifting and great story).
However, the story of the game (as written on the site) is suspiciously similar to that of HL1 (demonic army overrunning government/commercial research facility). I hoped for some more fantasy on the id's behalf (HL1 was really cool because of its well developed and fresh story).
The problem is maintenance. It can cost you a big deal of money to keep the flywheel in the working condition. But really, it seems it is the most efficient way to store energy at this specific moment.
And indeed they can. Being a representative, I can assure you that russian EE can solve any problem on Mars or on Earth. And they'll do it for very small fee (if any). Nikola Tesla was not russian, but he was east european (same thing). And what? He solved the energy problem of the entire world and got nothing in exchange.
Quite a good idea. Ther is one russian scientist (Nurbei Gulia - a wel known physicist) that promotes the use of flywheels for more than 30 years to this date. He has very interesting designs of ultra-high energy flywheels with magnetic bearing and so on. However, there are also great dangers associated to big flywheels. For example, if a flywheels breaks under full load, its pieces are as fast and destructive as cannon shells.
It is not too effective to store energy in the burning medium, beacuse of the 2nd law of the thermodynamics. The total efficiency of "store and burn" method will be awfully low. It's much better to invent a "cold" or even "hot" fusion reactor and to use hydrogen for what it was meant to: syntesizing matter and energy.
It is not too difficult to build a normal electric distribution system. Take a Germany as an example. The unlimited greed of the capitalists is what really need to be changed. World Revolution Now!
The problem, mostly, is that the Big Bang created only finite amount of barions (as far as we know). As soon, as all barions will be trapped inside the heavy nuclei, the amount of free states available in the universe will become inadequate to perform any useful computation and the information letargy will prevail. I also think that the total entropy will be quite small then (so it will not be "thermodynamic death").
No, it does not. Most of the US transmission lines have very low voltage ratings (compared to european) and thus large loss. And for claimed efficiency on the mentioned website, I know of no practical proof of it possible.
Benchmarks are for fulls. Only TAO (the way) matters. My favorite computer is SGI O2, terribly old. It takes 10 minutes for it to load Quake2. And still, it's much more lovable. I can even add that I always loved and used only ATI cards, though very bad support policy, buggy drivers and horrible X support (before XFree 4 I mean). Why? Because I love how they look like.
Your argument was used by T. Edison some time ago. Did not held the test of time. Nowadays, using MV rated DC transmission systems and a handful of atomic power plants is the best way to make energy.
For these, who does not know, GOELRO was a plan to connect the entire USSR (in the early 1920th) to the unified electric grid. And since then, the grid worked fine and mostly without break-downs (even when Chernobyl gone kaput, taking a 4000MW of power with it to the grave). And all this only because the original inspirer of the program was V. I. Lenin. The same Lenin said: kommunizm equals socialism plus unified electric grid. Therefore, my question is: what is capitalism without electricity?
May I have a table reserved for me?
Let it be war! Let the war to fire the flames of the world Revolution! Let the heretics to sink in their own blood.