Lithium-ion batteries are a lot like TFT backlights, you can accurately describe their degradation over time as a half life.
li-on half life is about 12 months, so you can say half the capacity in 12 months and therefore half the runtime.
What kills Li-on is heat, current li-on are good at flat power output, but no good for high current like portable electric drills, in any event charging is worked out in "C"
e.g. a 2000 mAh cell charged at 2 ampere for 1 hour is charged at 1C, charge at 0.5 amperes and it's 0.25C
Li-on typically, irrespective of capacity, are constant current constant voltage charging, and 80% of the charging is done in the first hour, with up to two more hours to top off the remaining 20%
They don't say recharging to 80%, they say recharging, but we'll play in their favour and assume it's 80% charging they are talking about.
60 minutes normal charging time over 3 minutes claimed charging time = 60/3=20
one twentieth the time, add real world electrochemisty and physics and rule of thumb lets say 25 x the charging current is required, pushing that current is going to take some serious charging voltage, which will totally screw every li-on battery chemistry and more importantly li-on safety circuits won't allow those sorts of volatges.
Quite apart from the voltage aspect, charging currents of the order of 25 times greater than present = LOTS of heat and MUCH heavier duty kit (150 watt dell cmains brick replaced with a 3.5 Kw 3 phase charger) and heat = lithium death.
No, I think if there is any truth at all in this article is will apply only to a very specialised and small capacity cell, not a laptop sized device.
Someone who merely THINKS about having sex with a child is not a paedophile any more than someone who merely THINKS about fucking that unconcious drunk girl is a rapist.
I can speak with some authority on this, obviously I can't name names publically but I've knows some of the top people in this area and quite a few victims too. So this isn't my opinion I'm quoting, it's genuine expert practitioner fact.
Paedophilia means literally "Love of children"
Looking at a young woman with a womans body, eg hips, breasts, developed vagina, and seeing something sexually attractive does NOT make you sick, no matter how young she is or how old you are. If you are a 70 year old man looking at a 16 year old bikini clad babe and thinking "phwooooargh" to yourself does not make you a paedophile.
pre-requisite #1 is the "target" of your lust must be pre-pubescent, eg sexually immature.
Paedophiles feel "threatened" for want of a better word, by things like developed breasts and pubic hair. (possibly its a power thing, you can have more power over a child, and sexual maturity is a sign of approaching adulthood, and much less power over them)
OK?, now lets move on.
You know that really pretty 10 year old girl neighbour / cousin / sister / daughter, you know the one who people say things like "she's gonna be a real heartbreaker when she grown up"
That's the ones you think the paedophile will be after, so that's the ones you try to protect, you couldn't be more wrong.
Paedophiles like androgynous kids (neither especially male or female to look at) and shy kids and quiet kids and lonely kids and neglected kids and overlooked kids, but most of all androgynous kids.
So, if you find pre-pubescent androgynous kids sexually attractive, you are a __potential__ paedophile. Do something about it and you are a paedophile.
If you see a sexually mature pretty and feminine 14 year old and think "phew, never like that when I was at school" then you're not a paedophile, and if you end up doing something about it and having consentual sex with her then you are a sick fuck and a pervert, but you're still not a paedophile.
BRITAIN faces a natural disaster that will flatten the Atlantic coastline for several miles inland, a scientist predicted yesterday.
A massive landslide caused by a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands would create a giant wave that would hit the coast at up to 500mph.
The largest mega-tsunami ever seen would be generated when an eruption of Cumbre Vieja on the island of La Palma caused a part of a mountain twice the size of the Isle of Man to plunge into the Atlantic.
"The first impact will be when 330ft waves crash into the west Saharan coast of Morocco," said Simon Day, of the Benfield Greig hazard research centre at University College London.
"It is not a question of if it will happen, only when it will happen. It could be in the next few decades; it could be hundreds of years hence."
Devastation from the tsunami was also highly likely in Florida, Brazil and the Caribbean. There the wave would reach heights of 130ft to 164ft - higher than Nelson's column - and could sweep four and a half miles inland.
Dr Day said: "It is a geologically definite process, a bit like a pressure cooker, with the volcano heating up the ground water and pressure building up inside the mountain."
In 1949 the mountain moved 12ft in two days, but the disaster waiting to happen would be much greater, according to Dr Day's report, published in Geophysical Research Letters.
The collapse of the mountain on the west of Cumbre Vieja would release enough energy, equivalent to the electricity consumption of America in six months, to generate a wave more than half a mile high and tens of miles long.
This would collapse and rebound on the Canaries. As the landslide continued to move underwater, a series of waves would develop, creating enormous surges all over the Atlantic.
"After only 10 minutes, the tsunami will have moved more than 150 miles," Dr Day said. It would reach America in little more than six hours.
There have been at least 11 tsunamis in the past 200,000 years, one of which wiped out Minoan civilisation on Crete.
The largest recorded wave to hit Britain was the Lisbo tsunami of 1755, when 12ft seas pounded Cornwall.
About 7,000 years ago, the Storegga tsunami, caused by a landslide off Norway, deposited silt several miles inland in northern Scotland.
"When the wave from the Canaries reaches Britain, it could be as high as the Storegga, which may have been up to 60ft," Dr Day said.
"It is difficult to know how far the ramifications will go. We should be looking at the doomed civilisation of Crete when assessing the effects."
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=canary+is la nds+mountain+landslide+tsunami&spell=1
I forget the exact details, but there is a MASSIVE mountainside in the canaries, which are just the sticky out above the surface bits of FAR larger undersea mounts, that is very unstable and waiting to slip.
This slip is in a sense like the NASA tracked 2004 MN4 in that nobody knows WHEN it will happen, but unlike it in that it WILL happen as there is no way for it to miss.
From my recollection the waves, when they hit the eastern US seaboard, will be much higher than the indian ocean event, due to the mass of water displaced by the falling mountainside, I believe wave heights of 100 feet were mentioned, and flatlands like florida being scoured as far inland as orlando etc... deaths would probably total millions, not tens of thousands.
A 1000 node neural net is nothing, but a 100 billion node net is suddenly a human with a soul.
So where does the soul start? At a billion nodes?
Bollocks, ten nodes or ten trillion each node is still very simple and in a very deterministic relationship with its neighbours.
You wanna know what human conciousness is and experience what it is like to be a lesser but still aware and intelligent brain, like perhaps a dog?
Easy.
Just do plenty of acid, you'll have all the insights you can handle, and come out of it lacking all the stupid self-delusional ideas about innate human superiority.
Out much vaunted "souls" are no more than a ghost in the machine, and only the truly stupid and self absorbed can see them as anything else or significant.
The very best top of the range INDUSTRIAL GRADE tft (which by definition excludes all the consumer stuff, remember tft are rated post production much like cpu cores) are absolutely spectacular, especially when paired with first class backlighting and first class video conversion circuitry, but you're looking at 2000 dollars per screen.
Consumer grade TFT is just muck, plain and simple, doesn't matter a damn what rebranding label is on it, even if the label is Apple.
Factory refurbished CRT is as cheap or cheaper than consumer grade TFT, I'm looking at this page on a Sony F520 that cost me about 400 bucks (but in Uk money) as a good as new factory refurb direct from the sony workshop here, it rocks.
If you're really short of money smaller / cheaper CRT are the way to go.
There is however ONE AREA ALONE where CRT can never compete with TFT, and that is power consumption / heat rejection.
If your application requires 4 or 6 stacked screens then TFT is the only game in town, think stock traders or other financials.
There is also one are where TFT cannot compete with CRT, and that is physical resolution and refresh rates, if your application requires equal sharpness in differing resolutions and high refresh rates then CRT is the only game in town, think 3d animation or video mastering or gaming or other scientific visualisation.
For everyone else it's just go faster stripes and penis envy and as valid an argument as Apple vs PC
Are you aiming for an open source equivalent to the original 98lite, which ripped just about everything out of win98 and left you with a bare OS, driver support and GUI?
It wasn't a straight choice between VHS or betamax, is was a three way split between VHS / Betamax / Video2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_2000
Thing is, everyone goes one about how betamax was superior quality to vhs in every area except max tape play time where vhs won, what people forget is v2000 beat them BOTH hands down in every single area.
I'll assume you have done a virgin install or reinstall of anything from win95a on up to XP, where you get a choice of DOS based GUI for the virgin install and "all the pretty colours" GUI for an upgrade or reinstall.
Let's say you're running a reasonably quick and modern box like my main box, p4 2.6 ghz on abit ai7, gig of good ddr, western digital raptor sata primary disk, blah blah.
WindowsXP install is probably around the 30 minutes mark, then add another ten minutes for sp2, from memory pretty much all the hardware and peripherals will more or less work out of the install cd drivers.
then allow another 2 hours or so to install all your application software.
then allow another 2 hours to clean everything up and run a decent defrag like O&O on "name"
then allow another hour for a full depth spyware / trojan / adware / cookie / anti-virus scan using several apps.
then allow anything from 30 minutes to another hour to re-introduce all your personal data and settings if the install was an upgrade from earlier hardware (eg AMD to Intel, or major mobo change, etc) or after a major crash.
So far you're looking at the thick end of six hours, basically a full days worth of productivity, in exchange you get your pretty simple GUI installer.
OK, the alternative available TODAY that will work on AT LEAST AS WIDE A RANGE OF HARDWARE as windows.
Mepis Linus, www.mepis.org, comes as a download ISO that burns to a single (live)CD (A Live CD distribution of linux is basically the operating system "installed" onto a regular compact disk. If you have your computer set to boot from the cd-rom then you can run linux directly from the cd using your RAM as a virtual hard drive. I think this is quite and ingenious idea and makes it easier to evaluate a distribution. Most major distributions have a live cd version.)
You take your liveCD of Mepis, at the BIOS make sure your host computer is set to boot from CD first, just sit back... we'll assume an identical spec box as mentioned above.
In the time it takes WinXP to finish booting off HD, the Mepis live CD will just about be finished booting.
If you can use windows you can use linux, the "windows" bit of windows is the "KDE" bit of Mepis, it comes up as default, only differences are different icons and different application names, eg no Outlook Express or "E" icon, but the "Kmail" application name is pretty self explanatory (and it is found under the "Internet" heading in the "start menu") as is the little envelope icon.
So, while remembering that you are sitting at a WORKING and functional system, not a windows installer, but a WORKING system that allows you to go online, write a letter, edit a spreadsheet, play mp3 or movies etc, you select the "Mepis Installation Centre" icon from the desktop.
The choices are easily as simle as the windows ones, with the bonus that if there is something you do not immediately understand, such as linux using "hda" (hard disk a) where windows uses "ide0" YOU HAVE A WOEKING ONLINE COMPUTER to go check it out, unlike windows.
some 30 minutes later, your install is complete.
that's it, NOT JUST THE OPERATING SYSTEM, but a whole wedge of about 1000 applications too. The WHOLE BLOODY LOT has been installed, WHILE YOU WERE USING THE PC.
Total time lost, 0 minutes.
that isn't even the really good bit.
wanna rip out the amd mobo / cpu and go intel, or vice versa? do it, no need to do a reinstall, everything will just boot up with zero fuss.
wanna reinstall user data after a major hardware crash, just do it, ten minutes.. (Mepis specifically offers the choice of leaving/home/user where ALL your personal data and preferences are stored intact when installing)
wanna upgrade every last piece of software on the box to the very latest versions (and all totally legit and free)? simply fire up Synaptic and three mouse clicks (update, mark all, apply) and it's done.
This lappie I'm typing on is running Mepis flavoured debian, I did briefly play with gentoo about a year ago...
As I understood it, the sole advantage of gentoo over the likes of debian (on the assumption that functionally apt-get = emerge etc) was that instead of installing precompiled packages in debain, the gentoo user compiles and optimises everything for their specific hardware, thus gaining anything from a miniscule amount to perhaps a few percentage points in performance boost versus the debian approach.
In the final analysis for me such minimal gains simply were not worth the CPU time and disk thrashing so I walked away from it.
So a GUI led gentoo live-cd installer is either going to be losing all that one area of bespoke compiling advantages, OR, you're going to be running that live cd in ramdisk and compiling the install in what's left until kernel 3x is out?
Which might initially sound like it is totally unconnected, but please bear with me.
I was actually talking with a friend about his new (to him) bmw k100 motorcycle compared to older britsh or japanese bikes... with the older stuff making them go very fast wasn't really a problem, thing is, when you were going fast you always knew it... my mate's beemer is different, he cruises along as smooth as anything and looks down at the speedo and is shocked to discover he is doing 12o mph, when it feels liek 70 mph.
The point being, the new beemer, complete with ABS and all the other goodies, isn't actually safer than a 25 year old tuned bike, it FEELS safer, and that lacks of visceral danger signals makes you ride more dangerously, wheras on the older, apparently more dangerous bikes, you were safer.
I think this applies to the usability vs security debate too...
just as with the bikes, the apparently more secure one is actually the more dangerous.
a secure system isn't therefore going to be a system that appears secure, a secure system will be a system that makes the user feel a bit vulnerable.
sat at a well set up linux box behind a pukka hardware firewall logged in via a user account I will feel very secure, so I will be paying almost no attention to security.. ok the system itself should be secure, but how often do you run chkrootkit compared to a windows user running AV software, how often to you routinely pass out root passwords to fellow geeks, how often do you watch out for people shoulder surfing while entering personal data?
on a direct to the internet connected winders box you know you aren't secure, so as a result you may be far more suspicious of everything and everyone. (sure, not all lusers are like this, I am using for example similarly clueful users on windows and linux)
I think the usability issue will follow on from this, like the bike example, the beemer is easier to ride, but when you wipe out it will be a major spill, with the old bikes when you have a moment there's a good chance of enough being left in the performance envelope to save your skin.
getting back to the computer security issue, I think this example follows, when you wipe out on linux it is usually dire, when you wipe out on windows, which does wobble long before linux, there's usually enough left in the OS to keep you going.
I'm sure this will generate some flames and troll accusations, but it isn't meant to be, I'm just trying to look at it from another angle and compare it to something different to look for parallels that might cast some light on the subject in question.
there's actually quite a lot of evidence to support this theory, certainly there was a lot of ancient civilisation in the depression that is now the black sea, and there is even archealogical evidence of rapid flooding rather than a gradual filling.
all it needs is some form of proof that the natural "dam" that stood just west of where istanbul is today actually existed, if it did and if it was breached then computer modelling suggests that those living near the centre would have had to flee over 150 kilometres, and also that the flood waters would have advanced at a speed somewhere between a fast walk and a jog, a speed that very few except those on horseback would have been able to sustain for enough hours to avoid drowning.
Kerry vs Bush, or anyone else, is just a competition between two talking heads, they don't matter.
Let's be honest, Bush as a human being is as thick as shit, he couldn't run a branch of blockbuster, much less a country.
So, despite the fact that American elections are esentially personality contest in the style of a television pop star junk thing, what you actually get is not just the puppet, but the puppeteers.
Bush getting re-elected is essentially a big hearty slap on the back and multi-million dollar tax free bonus to the Straussian Neo-Con puppeteers.
Expect them to see this as carte blanche.
Everyone one else on the planet OUTSIDE the USA is now expecting these bastards to start pushing for...
a/ military intervention in Iran b/ continued support for Isreal in terrorising Palestine and it's other neighbours. c/ Military intervention in equatorial Africa (oil again, surprise surprise) d/ possible military intervention in North Korea
The American people have managed to effectively declare christian and economic (oil and military might inc nuclear capability) jihad on the rest of the planet.
If any of you think this is going to make life within the borders of the United States SAFER then you're out of your fucking gourds.
I fully expect a "sum of all fears" scenario and deployment of biologically engineered pesticides in your belts against your wheat and corn growers within the next couple of years.
As it stands today my fee for any job that involved working in the USA or indeed anywhere else for an American company would be US$ 100,000 up front for every flight and US $50,000 per week to be within any major US city and US$ 10,000 per week to work for any american company, IN ADDITION to any salary and benefits offered as standard.
Wireless has inherent penalties, security, contention, and perhaps most of all the battery life of portable devices with little enough to spare to power wireless circuitry.
Wired is perfect for everything that is non mobile, it is secure, it doesn't have a power problem, and best of all it knocks everything else put together into a cocked hat when it comes to sheer bandwidth AND latency.
This isn't an article or issue about the various technologies, it is an article about money men trying to carve out markets, they don;t want to play with fibre because the world's littered with dark fibre that companies spent fortunes installing and can't sell, because the "last mile" doesn't exist.
In my considered opinion wireless of whatever form is not a solution for the last mile problem, there is only one harmonius solution to that, and that is wired, whether it be copper or fibre.
Clearly under the current market conditions in places like the ISA and UK nobody wants to invest in that, except of course the cable television companies, who have a ready business model for installing last mile cable bandwidth to every home sufficient for several hundred telly channels, and so are correctly placed for the "unexpected" demand from those customers for ever faster internet.
Speaking from here in the south west of the UK where 1 Uk pound currently = 1 dollar 88 cents american, I have a choice at home between BT ADSL of 512/256 for about 30 pounds per moth, but with MANY people being capped, and TW cable, offering 512/128 or 1.5/256 (my pick) for 30 quid a month or 3.0/256 for a tenner more.
Unlike BT, TW can not only offer me a telephone service, but also television, and it's a real small step from an internet connected computer at home to an internet connected SOHO LAN to an internet connected everything including MythTV time shifting and advert editing complete home entertainment system that will also play movies and mp3's downloaded over said connection.
The ONLY other solutions I can see for wireless is point to point, eg two sites on opposite sides of a river / road / valley / whatever where installing a wired solution would be prohibitive and involve several outside agencies and contractors, or you could just link the two by wireless, in either the radio spectrum or using laser modulation.
FWIW I have been a member of the UK fixed wireless committee for several years, I've seen more life i n roadkill, wireless last mile is dot com mania, nowt more.
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you could take a look at my site http://www.surfbaud.co.uk/news.php
which details experiments with peltiers and water cooling.
For those who can't be bother it boils down to this.
1/ water cooling is OK if done properly, but all the commercial "home" watercooling products are absolute shite
2/ peltiers work, but add huge heat loads to the system overall, and should never be directly interfaced to silicon.
Hopefully in the next few weeks (having just bought a vacuum pump) I can get around to playing with large scale home made heat pipes and report on those.
here are some hard facts. from them it is obvious why the move to deeper tech.
take 100 new recruits, doesn't matter what army or nation as this is a human universal truth.
train them fully and send them into battle.
you have 100 men going "over the top"
90 of these men will roar and scream and fire off bullets, but they will NOT aim at the enemy and IF they hit an enemy soldier it will be purely by chance.
9 men will aim at and kill enemy soldiers, they will do it to prevent those enemy soldiers from shooting their friends, they will not enjoy it, and when hailed as heroes and awarded medals they will try to avoid the limelight.
The remaining 1 man will aim at and kill enemy soldiers, he does this because he enjoys it, he does it so well that he accounts for as many enemy as the other 9 men out of the original 100, he is a psychopath.
Ideally you'd want an army made out of the 1% "beserkers", but what would you do with them when there wasn't a war to send them to? you wouldn't want them back home....
The solution to the 90 men who make a lot of noise and consume a lot of ammo and turn them into killers of the enemy is simple.
Crew Fed Weapons.
Any weapon that takes more than one man to operate, eg NOT a rifle, but a heavy machine gun or tank etc, because what happens here is everyone operating the weapon jointly places the guilt for firing at human beings on to the other members of his team.
ergo, ___all___ weapons and ___ALL___ soldiers must feel that they are a part of a machine, just like the human beings shoving other human beings into the ovens 60 years ago.
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Lithium-ion batteries are a lot like TFT backlights, you can accurately describe their degradation over time as a half life. li-on half life is about 12 months, so you can say half the capacity in 12 months and therefore half the runtime.
What kills Li-on is heat, current li-on are good at flat power output, but no good for high current like portable electric drills, in any event charging is worked out in "C"
e.g. a 2000 mAh cell charged at 2 ampere for 1 hour is charged at 1C, charge at 0.5 amperes and it's 0.25C
Li-on typically, irrespective of capacity, are constant current constant voltage charging, and 80% of the charging is done in the first hour, with up to two more hours to top off the remaining 20%
They don't say recharging to 80%, they say recharging, but we'll play in their favour and assume it's 80% charging they are talking about.
60 minutes normal charging time over 3 minutes claimed charging time = 60/3=20
one twentieth the time, add real world electrochemisty and physics and rule of thumb lets say 25 x the charging current is required, pushing that current is going to take some serious charging voltage, which will totally screw every li-on battery chemistry and more importantly li-on safety circuits won't allow those sorts of volatges.
Quite apart from the voltage aspect, charging currents of the order of 25 times greater than present = LOTS of heat and MUCH heavier duty kit (150 watt dell cmains brick replaced with a 3.5 Kw 3 phase charger) and heat = lithium death.
No, I think if there is any truth at all in this article is will apply only to a very specialised and small capacity cell, not a laptop sized device.
my 2c etc
Someone who merely THINKS about having sex with a child is not a paedophile any more than someone who merely THINKS about fucking that unconcious drunk girl is a rapist.
well said that man >;^)
I can speak with some authority on this, obviously I can't name names publically but I've knows some of the top people in this area and quite a few victims too. So this isn't my opinion I'm quoting, it's genuine expert practitioner fact.
Paedophilia means literally "Love of children"
Looking at a young woman with a womans body, eg hips, breasts, developed vagina, and seeing something sexually attractive does NOT make you sick, no matter how young she is or how old you are.
If you are a 70 year old man looking at a 16 year old bikini clad babe and thinking "phwooooargh" to yourself does not make you a paedophile.
pre-requisite #1 is the "target" of your lust must be pre-pubescent, eg sexually immature.
Paedophiles feel "threatened" for want of a better word, by things like developed breasts and pubic hair. (possibly its a power thing, you can have more power over a child, and sexual maturity is a sign of approaching adulthood, and much less power over them)
OK?, now lets move on.
You know that really pretty 10 year old girl neighbour / cousin / sister / daughter, you know the one who people say things like "she's gonna be a real heartbreaker when she grown up"
That's the ones you think the paedophile will be after, so that's the ones you try to protect, you couldn't be more wrong.
Paedophiles like androgynous kids (neither especially male or female to look at) and shy kids and quiet kids and lonely kids and neglected kids and overlooked kids, but most of all androgynous kids.
So, if you find pre-pubescent androgynous kids sexually attractive, you are a __potential__ paedophile. Do something about it and you are a paedophile.
If you see a sexually mature pretty and feminine 14 year old and think "phew, never like that when I was at school" then you're not a paedophile, and if you end up doing something about it and having consentual sex with her then you are a sick fuck and a pervert, but you're still not a paedophile.
HTH etc
Steam is just an energy transport mechanism, like roller chain, belt drives, gears, hydraulics or electricity.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2001/08/29/nwave29.xml
s la nds+mountain+landslide+tsunami&spell=1
BRITAIN faces a natural disaster that will flatten the Atlantic coastline for several miles inland, a scientist predicted yesterday.
A massive landslide caused by a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands would create a giant wave that would hit the coast at up to 500mph.
The largest mega-tsunami ever seen would be generated when an eruption of Cumbre Vieja on the island of La Palma caused a part of a mountain twice the size of the Isle of Man to plunge into the Atlantic.
"The first impact will be when 330ft waves crash into the west Saharan coast of Morocco," said Simon Day, of the Benfield Greig hazard research centre at University College London.
"It is not a question of if it will happen, only when it will happen. It could be in the next few decades; it could be hundreds of years hence."
Devastation from the tsunami was also highly likely in Florida, Brazil and the Caribbean. There the wave would reach heights of 130ft to 164ft - higher than Nelson's column - and could sweep four and a half miles inland.
Dr Day said: "It is a geologically definite process, a bit like a pressure cooker, with the volcano heating up the ground water and pressure building up inside the mountain."
In 1949 the mountain moved 12ft in two days, but the disaster waiting to happen would be much greater, according to Dr Day's report, published in Geophysical Research Letters.
The collapse of the mountain on the west of Cumbre Vieja would release enough energy, equivalent to the electricity consumption of America in six months, to generate a wave more than half a mile high and tens of miles long.
This would collapse and rebound on the Canaries. As the landslide continued to move underwater, a series of waves would develop, creating enormous surges all over the Atlantic.
"After only 10 minutes, the tsunami will have moved more than 150 miles," Dr Day said. It would reach America in little more than six hours.
There have been at least 11 tsunamis in the past 200,000 years, one of which wiped out Minoan civilisation on Crete.
The largest recorded wave to hit Britain was the Lisbo tsunami of 1755, when 12ft seas pounded Cornwall.
About 7,000 years ago, the Storegga tsunami, caused by a landslide off Norway, deposited silt several miles inland in northern Scotland.
"When the wave from the Canaries reaches Britain, it could be as high as the Storegga, which may have been up to 60ft," Dr Day said.
"It is difficult to know how far the ramifications will go. We should be looking at the doomed civilisation of Crete when assessing the effects."
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=canary+i
I forget the exact details, but there is a MASSIVE mountainside in the canaries, which are just the sticky out above the surface bits of FAR larger undersea mounts, that is very unstable and waiting to slip.
This slip is in a sense like the NASA tracked 2004 MN4 in that nobody knows WHEN it will happen, but unlike it in that it WILL happen as there is no way for it to miss.
From my recollection the waves, when they hit the eastern US seaboard, will be much higher than the indian ocean event, due to the mass of water displaced by the falling mountainside, I believe wave heights of 100 feet were mentioned, and flatlands like florida being scoured as far inland as orlando etc... deaths would probably total millions, not tens of thousands.
A 1000 node neural net is nothing, but a 100 billion node net is suddenly a human with a soul.
So where does the soul start? At a billion nodes?
Bollocks, ten nodes or ten trillion each node is still very simple and in a very deterministic relationship with its neighbours.
You wanna know what human conciousness is and experience what it is like to be a lesser but still aware and intelligent brain, like perhaps a dog?
Easy.
Just do plenty of acid, you'll have all the insights you can handle, and come out of it lacking all the stupid self-delusional ideas about innate human superiority.
Out much vaunted "souls" are no more than a ghost in the machine, and only the truly stupid and self absorbed can see them as anything else or significant.
It's actually pretty simple.
The very best top of the range INDUSTRIAL GRADE tft (which by definition excludes all the consumer stuff, remember tft are rated post production much like cpu cores) are absolutely spectacular, especially when paired with first class backlighting and first class video conversion circuitry, but you're looking at 2000 dollars per screen.
Consumer grade TFT is just muck, plain and simple, doesn't matter a damn what rebranding label is on it, even if the label is Apple.
Factory refurbished CRT is as cheap or cheaper than consumer grade TFT, I'm looking at this page on a Sony F520 that cost me about 400 bucks (but in Uk money) as a good as new factory refurb direct from the sony workshop here, it rocks.
If you're really short of money smaller / cheaper CRT are the way to go.
There is however ONE AREA ALONE where CRT can never compete with TFT, and that is power consumption / heat rejection.
If your application requires 4 or 6 stacked screens then TFT is the only game in town, think stock traders or other financials.
There is also one are where TFT cannot compete with CRT, and that is physical resolution and refresh rates, if your application requires equal sharpness in differing resolutions and high refresh rates then CRT is the only game in town, think 3d animation or video mastering or gaming or other scientific visualisation.
For everyone else it's just go faster stripes and penis envy and as valid an argument as Apple vs PC
Are you aiming for an open source equivalent to the original 98lite, which ripped just about everything out of win98 and left you with a bare OS, driver support and GUI?
It wasn't a straight choice between VHS or betamax, is was a three way split between VHS / Betamax / Video2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_2000
Thing is, everyone goes one about how betamax was superior quality to vhs in every area except max tape play time where vhs won, what people forget is v2000 beat them BOTH hands down in every single area.
living in centrally heated houses, wearing tight fitting underwear and trousers, etc, exactly how?
as they all raise the temperature of your nuts.
i fact just about every creature in nature and everything in nature has "handedness"
only a "scientist" could attribute this to something recent like language skills.
err, the COMPLETE mepis debian HD install is under 3 gig of footprint.
who cares if there is a load of stuff I wouldn't CHOOSE to install if I was rolling a bespoke system?
not me.
I'll assume you have done a virgin install or reinstall of anything from win95a on up to XP, where you get a choice of DOS based GUI for the virgin install and "all the pretty colours" GUI for an upgrade or reinstall.
Let's say you're running a reasonably quick and modern box like my main box, p4 2.6 ghz on abit ai7, gig of good ddr, western digital raptor sata primary disk, blah blah.
WindowsXP install is probably around the 30 minutes mark, then add another ten minutes for sp2, from memory pretty much all the hardware and peripherals will more or less work out of the install cd drivers.
then allow another 2 hours or so to install all your application software.
then allow another 2 hours to clean everything up and run a decent defrag like O&O on "name"
then allow another hour for a full depth spyware / trojan / adware / cookie / anti-virus scan using several apps.
then allow anything from 30 minutes to another hour to re-introduce all your personal data and settings if the install was an upgrade from earlier hardware (eg AMD to Intel, or major mobo change, etc) or after a major crash.
So far you're looking at the thick end of six hours, basically a full days worth of productivity, in exchange you get your pretty simple GUI installer.
OK, the alternative available TODAY that will work on AT LEAST AS WIDE A RANGE OF HARDWARE as windows.
Mepis Linus, www.mepis.org, comes as a download ISO that burns to a single (live)CD
(A Live CD distribution of linux is basically the operating system "installed" onto a regular compact disk. If you have your computer set to boot from the cd-rom then you can run linux directly from the cd using your RAM as a virtual hard drive. I think this is quite and ingenious idea and makes it easier to evaluate a distribution. Most major distributions have a live cd version.)
You take your liveCD of Mepis, at the BIOS make sure your host computer is set to boot from CD first, just sit back... we'll assume an identical spec box as mentioned above.
In the time it takes WinXP to finish booting off HD, the Mepis live CD will just about be finished booting.
If you can use windows you can use linux, the "windows" bit of windows is the "KDE" bit of Mepis, it comes up as default, only differences are different icons and different application names, eg no Outlook Express or "E" icon, but the "Kmail" application name is pretty self explanatory (and it is found under the "Internet" heading in the "start menu") as is the little envelope icon.
So, while remembering that you are sitting at a WORKING and functional system, not a windows installer, but a WORKING system that allows you to go online, write a letter, edit a spreadsheet, play mp3 or movies etc, you select the "Mepis Installation Centre" icon from the desktop.
The choices are easily as simle as the windows ones, with the bonus that if there is something you do not immediately understand, such as linux using "hda" (hard disk a) where windows uses "ide0" YOU HAVE A WOEKING ONLINE COMPUTER to go check it out, unlike windows.
some 30 minutes later, your install is complete.
that's it, NOT JUST THE OPERATING SYSTEM, but a whole wedge of about 1000 applications too. The WHOLE BLOODY LOT has been installed, WHILE YOU WERE USING THE PC.
Total time lost, 0 minutes.
that isn't even the really good bit.
wanna rip out the amd mobo / cpu and go intel, or vice versa? do it, no need to do a reinstall, everything will just boot up with zero fuss.
wanna reinstall user data after a major hardware crash, just do it, ten minutes.. (Mepis specifically offers the choice of leaving
wanna upgrade every last piece of software on the box to the very latest versions (and all totally legit and free)? simply fire up Synaptic and three mouse clicks (update, mark all, apply) and it's done.
wanna
This lappie I'm typing on is running Mepis flavoured debian, I did briefly play with gentoo about a year ago...
As I understood it, the sole advantage of gentoo over the likes of debian (on the assumption that functionally apt-get = emerge etc) was that instead of installing precompiled packages in debain, the gentoo user compiles and optimises everything for their specific hardware, thus gaining anything from a miniscule amount to perhaps a few percentage points in performance boost versus the debian approach.
In the final analysis for me such minimal gains simply were not worth the CPU time and disk thrashing so I walked away from it.
So a GUI led gentoo live-cd installer is either going to be losing all that one area of bespoke compiling advantages, OR, you're going to be running that live cd in ramdisk and compiling the install in what's left until kernel 3x is out?
Is this correct?
nothing here to see, move along
Which might initially sound like it is totally unconnected, but please bear with me.
I was actually talking with a friend about his new (to him) bmw k100 motorcycle compared to older britsh or japanese bikes... with the older stuff making them go very fast wasn't really a problem, thing is, when you were going fast you always knew it... my mate's beemer is different, he cruises along as smooth as anything and looks down at the speedo and is shocked to discover he is doing 12o mph, when it feels liek 70 mph.
The point being, the new beemer, complete with ABS and all the other goodies, isn't actually safer than a 25 year old tuned bike, it FEELS safer, and that lacks of visceral danger signals makes you ride more dangerously, wheras on the older, apparently more dangerous bikes, you were safer.
I think this applies to the usability vs security debate too...
just as with the bikes, the apparently more secure one is actually the more dangerous.
a secure system isn't therefore going to be a system that appears secure, a secure system will be a system that makes the user feel a bit vulnerable.
sat at a well set up linux box behind a pukka hardware firewall logged in via a user account I will feel very secure, so I will be paying almost no attention to security.. ok the system itself should be secure, but how often do you run chkrootkit compared to a windows user running AV software, how often to you routinely pass out root passwords to fellow geeks, how often do you watch out for people shoulder surfing while entering personal data?
on a direct to the internet connected winders box you know you aren't secure, so as a result you may be far more suspicious of everything and everyone.
(sure, not all lusers are like this, I am using for example similarly clueful users on windows and linux)
I think the usability issue will follow on from this, like the bike example, the beemer is easier to ride, but when you wipe out it will be a major spill, with the old bikes when you have a moment there's a good chance of enough being left in the performance envelope to save your skin.
getting back to the computer security issue, I think this example follows, when you wipe out on linux it is usually dire, when you wipe out on windows, which does wobble long before linux, there's usually enough left in the OS to keep you going.
I'm sure this will generate some flames and troll accusations, but it isn't meant to be, I'm just trying to look at it from another angle and compare it to something different to look for parallels that might cast some light on the subject in question.
cheers
there's actually quite a lot of evidence to support this theory, certainly there was a lot of ancient civilisation in the depression that is now the black sea, and there is even archealogical evidence of rapid flooding rather than a gradual filling.
all it needs is some form of proof that the natural "dam" that stood just west of where istanbul is today actually existed, if it did and if it was breached then computer modelling suggests that those living near the centre would have had to flee over 150 kilometres, and also that the flood waters would have advanced at a speed somewhere between a fast walk and a jog, a speed that very few except those on horseback would have been able to sustain for enough hours to avoid drowning.
Well, the view from here in the UK is this.
Kerry vs Bush, or anyone else, is just a competition between two talking heads, they don't matter.
Let's be honest, Bush as a human being is as thick as shit, he couldn't run a branch of blockbuster, much less a country.
So, despite the fact that American elections are esentially personality contest in the style of a television pop star junk thing, what you actually get is not just the puppet, but the puppeteers.
Bush getting re-elected is essentially a big hearty slap on the back and multi-million dollar tax free bonus to the Straussian Neo-Con puppeteers.
Expect them to see this as carte blanche.
Everyone one else on the planet OUTSIDE the USA is now expecting these bastards to start pushing for...
a/ military intervention in Iran
b/ continued support for Isreal in terrorising Palestine and it's other neighbours.
c/ Military intervention in equatorial Africa (oil again, surprise surprise)
d/ possible military intervention in North Korea
The American people have managed to effectively declare christian and economic (oil and military might inc nuclear capability) jihad on the rest of the planet.
If any of you think this is going to make life within the borders of the United States SAFER then you're out of your fucking gourds.
I fully expect a "sum of all fears" scenario and deployment of biologically engineered pesticides in your belts against your wheat and corn growers within the next couple of years.
As it stands today my fee for any job that involved working in the USA or indeed anywhere else for an American company would be US$ 100,000 up front for every flight and US $50,000 per week to be within any major US city and US$ 10,000 per week to work for any american company, IN ADDITION to any salary and benefits offered as standard.
Wireless has inherent penalties, security, contention, and perhaps most of all the battery life of portable devices with little enough to spare to power wireless circuitry. Wired is perfect for everything that is non mobile, it is secure, it doesn't have a power problem, and best of all it knocks everything else put together into a cocked hat when it comes to sheer bandwidth AND latency. This isn't an article or issue about the various technologies, it is an article about money men trying to carve out markets, they don;t want to play with fibre because the world's littered with dark fibre that companies spent fortunes installing and can't sell, because the "last mile" doesn't exist. In my considered opinion wireless of whatever form is not a solution for the last mile problem, there is only one harmonius solution to that, and that is wired, whether it be copper or fibre. Clearly under the current market conditions in places like the ISA and UK nobody wants to invest in that, except of course the cable television companies, who have a ready business model for installing last mile cable bandwidth to every home sufficient for several hundred telly channels, and so are correctly placed for the "unexpected" demand from those customers for ever faster internet. Speaking from here in the south west of the UK where 1 Uk pound currently = 1 dollar 88 cents american, I have a choice at home between BT ADSL of 512/256 for about 30 pounds per moth, but with MANY people being capped, and TW cable, offering 512/128 or 1.5/256 (my pick) for 30 quid a month or 3.0/256 for a tenner more. Unlike BT, TW can not only offer me a telephone service, but also television, and it's a real small step from an internet connected computer at home to an internet connected SOHO LAN to an internet connected everything including MythTV time shifting and advert editing complete home entertainment system that will also play movies and mp3's downloaded over said connection. The ONLY other solutions I can see for wireless is point to point, eg two sites on opposite sides of a river / road / valley / whatever where installing a wired solution would be prohibitive and involve several outside agencies and contractors, or you could just link the two by wireless, in either the radio spectrum or using laser modulation. FWIW I have been a member of the UK fixed wireless committee for several years, I've seen more life i n roadkill, wireless last mile is dot com mania, nowt more. end
you could take a look at my site
http://www.surfbaud.co.uk/news.php
which details experiments with peltiers and water cooling.
For those who can't be bother it boils down to this.
1/ water cooling is OK if done properly, but all the commercial "home" watercooling products are absolute shite
2/ peltiers work, but add huge heat loads to the system overall, and should never be directly interfaced to silicon.
Hopefully in the next few weeks (having just bought a vacuum pump) I can get around to playing with large scale home made heat pipes and report on those.
HTH etc.
here are some hard facts. from them it is obvious why the move to deeper tech.
take 100 new recruits, doesn't matter what army or nation as this is a human universal truth.
train them fully and send them into battle.
you have 100 men going "over the top"
90 of these men will roar and scream and fire off bullets, but they will NOT aim at the enemy and IF they hit an enemy soldier it will be purely by chance.
9 men will aim at and kill enemy soldiers, they will do it to prevent those enemy soldiers from shooting their friends, they will not enjoy it, and when hailed as heroes and awarded medals they will try to avoid the limelight.
The remaining 1 man will aim at and kill enemy soldiers, he does this because he enjoys it, he does it so well that he accounts for as many enemy as the other 9 men out of the original 100, he is a psychopath.
Ideally you'd want an army made out of the 1% "beserkers", but what would you do with them when there wasn't a war to send them to? you wouldn't want them back home....
The solution to the 90 men who make a lot of noise and consume a lot of ammo and turn them into killers of the enemy is simple.
Crew Fed Weapons.
Any weapon that takes more than one man to operate, eg NOT a rifle, but a heavy machine gun or tank etc, because what happens here is everyone operating the weapon jointly places the guilt for firing at human beings on to the other members of his team.
ergo, ___all___ weapons and ___ALL___ soldiers must feel that they are a part of a machine, just like the human beings shoving other human beings into the ovens 60 years ago.
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just what you want a couple of days after surgery...