Ok... to the nearest 0.1cm (0.03 inches) , a $1 note is approximatly 15.5cm (6.102 inches) long, and 6.5cm (2.559 inches) wide...
Now, using best judgement, a scale of 36 pixels per cm (91.44 per inch) [worked out to be a 1:1 copy of our image size at 1024x768], gives an image of 558 pixels by 234 pixels.
Note, the above is approximate, and can be obtained at higher accuracy with a ruler and some time:)
You are right about the fact that resolution determines the pixels across, the above being a sample at 104x768; however, using phsical dimentions, the program could then have an internal list of cm/inches to pixels on the most common resolutions, and use that (or even a fourmula, which I'm sure that we could work out given a bit of time).
Can it do hardware 32bit as well? Currently the Intel Itanium 64 bit chip has to emulate 32bit for applications that are not 64bit compliant, and therefore the AMD64 which can do hardware 64 and 32 bit sweeps the floor.
Plus, who is ready to receive 64 bit chips? Windows isn't quite yet there with their 64 bit OS, and many linux distros only have beta quality 64 bit OS'es.
>>You would then have more CPU clocks by fake -very long- second
I actualy never put 100% thought into it. Saying it like that actualy makes sense... as more operations can be completed in a longer second than an exact one... heh, thanks for spotting that.
And in the Australia reigon, Japan, Alaska, parts of South America... hell with the list, look at the number of quakes the earth gets per week: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/
Mabey we should think before OC'ing the earth:P
Now, since its been slow, surely that would be it going back in time by a second a year? and now that its accelerated back to normal, wouldn't that be time travel to the future by a second a year compaired with its speed in 1998?
Eh, they are only there because I took them last year when I used my account to archive images and other documents. I'm now self hosting on a server in my room.
Yes, I got 6.58Ghz out of my 1.2Ghz Intel Celeron.
Image1
Its a true screenshot. What isn't true is the actual clock... I ran some ASM that had a typo in it, and it somehow accelerated the windows timer, thus making apps see my CPU as something faster.
Even more amazing is what 3D mark 03 sees. Yes, to that program, I have a 60.1Ghz processor (not a typo)
One can only hope. But, as G. W. Bush shows, these type of people not only exsist, but somehow land jobs where they can make these kind of decisions...
>> like the off-centered dot on turbines to scare birds so they aren't sucked into a jet engine
Well, the only diffrence here is that jet engines (obvously) rotate faster, so it can convey movement better. These large blades can sometimes only rotate about once a minuite on calm days, moving up to nearly 50 rotations a minuite in a brezze. Although thats fast, its not nearly fast enough to make momentum visible. If the bird sees a gap, sometimes they go for it, regaurdless of any other factor.
The only thought then would be a thin paper strip between each blade, but they would have to be replaced frequently:\
Or the inverse: We are 80% sure that his PDA thing said that he broke his left hand, however, because of the 20% inaccuracy, we hedged our bets and plasterd his right hand...
Yes.... You see, the whole point of wind turbines is that wind drives them... If you encase them in glass... well, that rather defeats the object, no?
Anyway. I've actualy seen these things first hand. A solution is not easy to come by when your talking each blade being many meters across.
The main problem is not the birds getting sucked in. The blades, although moving fast, don't create enough vacumn to draw large objects towards them. The main problem is that birds don't see the overall movement of the blade, and thus fly through the blades path. Most of the time the blades are not above the bird as it enters and thus the bird makes it through. But every so often, the blade is above the bird as it goes through, and, you guessed it, it gets hit.
However, between 7000 turbines and 22,000 birds, thats not exactly a bad statistic. More birds are killed by lots of other things, such as aircraft, cars, and yes, even your humble domestic cat.
Hehe slashdotting the site doesn't help it, but it made me wonder... A quote from the letter: "The essential problem is that we do not currently have enough hardware to cope with routine failures of any kind. When any one of our machines goes down, we experience cascading problems due in part to the excess load on the entire system."
If their servers are crashing under user load, its not exactly hardware related. I would start by looking to see *why* its crashing, as I would say its more software configuration related. Plus, if you have alot of servers serving one website, a single crash of one of them shouldn't affect the main site in any way shape or form, more over, it should just drop the connected users, much like a netsplit on IRC.
Dunno. I'm not knocking them, but now they are getting slashdotted, I would start to look at the config, and fast...
Slashdot Mirror
>Yes, I am speaking about windows-program-clones.
Well, after my switch from Windows to RedHat, I found this helpful:
equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software for linux.
NeoThermic
From the article: "Tivo costs about $250. Plus another $299 for a lifetime service subscription. That is $600 beans. Not cheap."
Actualy, I make that about $549... thats about $51 short of his beans count...
NeoThermic
Or a direct link to your brain got posted on slashdot...
NeoThermic
they were just looking for the keyboard and mouse, rather than trying to use the screen...
NeoThermic
>>Instead of guessing
I didn't. I used a ruler like any sensable person would to measure the real thing in cm, and converted it into inches.
NeoThermic
Ok... to the nearest 0.1cm (0.03 inches) , a $1 note is approximatly 15.5cm (6.102 inches) long, and 6.5cm (2.559 inches) wide...
:)
Now, using best judgement, a scale of 36 pixels per cm (91.44 per inch) [worked out to be a 1:1 copy of our image size at 1024x768], gives an image of 558 pixels by 234 pixels.
Note, the above is approximate, and can be obtained at higher accuracy with a ruler and some time
You are right about the fact that resolution determines the pixels across, the above being a sample at 104x768; however, using phsical dimentions, the program could then have an internal list of cm/inches to pixels on the most common resolutions, and use that (or even a fourmula, which I'm sure that we could work out given a bit of time).
NeoThermic
>``Time Warp'' patent, which includes the method used to allow viewers to record one program while watching another
:P
Ohh... Technology these days...
You know... I think anyone with a correctly set up VCR can do just the same there...
NeoThermic
Can it do hardware 32bit as well? Currently the Intel Itanium 64 bit chip has to emulate 32bit for applications that are not 64bit compliant, and therefore the AMD64 which can do hardware 64 and 32 bit sweeps the floor.
Plus, who is ready to receive 64 bit chips? Windows isn't quite yet there with their 64 bit OS, and many linux distros only have beta quality 64 bit OS'es.
NeoThermic
>> from the article:
:\
The software was written in Visual Basic 6 for Windows
Great! But I wanted to control the STM from my linux box
It already controls my lights, coffie maker, telephone, network, CD player...
NeoThermic
>> According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
;)
I have a feeling that this falls under:
67% of all statistics are made up.
Go figure
NeoThermic
>>You would then have more CPU clocks by fake -very long- second
I actualy never put 100% thought into it. Saying it like that actualy makes sense... as more operations can be completed in a longer second than an exact one... heh, thanks for spotting that.
NeoThermic
I have a sense of humor. I decided to put it aside to make a point.
See a problem with that?
I don't.
NeoThermic
Here are the Images again:
6.58Ghz
60.1Ghz
NeoThermic
Yay! we slashdotted my account!
:)
I'm just finding my local copy of the images then I will paste the links to them from my own webserver.
Then you can have a go at slashdotting my bandwidth
NeoThermic
And in the Australia reigon, Japan, Alaska, parts of South America... hell with the list, look at the number of quakes the earth gets per week: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/
:P
Mabey we should think before OC'ing the earth
Now, since its been slow, surely that would be it going back in time by a second a year? and now that its accelerated back to normal, wouldn't that be time travel to the future by a second a year compaired with its speed in 1998?
NeoThermic
>> Time to get a better webhost.
Eh, they are only there because I took them last year when I used my account to archive images and other documents. I'm now self hosting on a server in my room.
NeoThermic
Its a true screenshot. What isn't true is the actual clock... I ran some ASM that had a typo in it, and it somehow accelerated the windows timer, thus making apps see my CPU as something faster.
Even more amazing is what 3D mark 03 sees. Yes, to that program, I have a 60.1Ghz processor (not a typo)
Image 2
And I didn't even have to use any more cooling than the laptops normal fan.
Any Questions? ;)
NeoThermic
>>Thank you, Captain obvious
You're welcome. Now try tell that to the parent I posted to...
NeoThermic
Surley there is a limit here? Plus, doesn't this remind you of that /. article about the person who put four compressor coolers in his computer?
:D
I wonder what they could OC a Graphics card to if they cooled that down with Liquid Nitrogen...
NeoThermic
>>I'm pretty sure he was joking.
One can only hope. But, as G. W. Bush shows, these type of people not only exsist, but somehow land jobs where they can make these kind of decisions...
NeoThermic
>> like the off-centered dot on turbines to scare birds so they aren't sucked into a jet engine
:\
Well, the only diffrence here is that jet engines (obvously) rotate faster, so it can convey movement better. These large blades can sometimes only rotate about once a minuite on calm days, moving up to nearly 50 rotations a minuite in a brezze. Although thats fast, its not nearly fast enough to make momentum visible. If the bird sees a gap, sometimes they go for it, regaurdless of any other factor.
The only thought then would be a thin paper strip between each blade, but they would have to be replaced frequently
NeoThermic
If it can translate 'All Your Bases Are Belong To Us' correclty?
Or the inverse: We are 80% sure that his PDA thing said that he broke his left hand, however, because of the 20% inaccuracy, we hedged our bets and plasterd his right hand...
NeoThermic
>> Just encase the fans in glass.
Yes....
You see, the whole point of wind turbines is that wind drives them... If you encase them in glass... well, that rather defeats the object, no?
Anyway. I've actualy seen these things first hand. A solution is not easy to come by when your talking each blade being many meters across.
The main problem is not the birds getting sucked in. The blades, although moving fast, don't create enough vacumn to draw large objects towards them. The main problem is that birds don't see the overall movement of the blade, and thus fly through the blades path. Most of the time the blades are not above the bird as it enters and thus the bird makes it through. But every so often, the blade is above the bird as it goes through, and, you guessed it, it gets hit.
However, between 7000 turbines and 22,000 birds, thats not exactly a bad statistic. More birds are killed by lots of other things, such as aircraft, cars, and yes, even your humble domestic cat.
NeoThermic
Hehe slashdotting the site doesn't help it, but it made me wonder...
A quote from the letter:
"The essential problem is that we do not currently have enough hardware to cope with routine failures of any kind. When any one of our machines goes down, we experience cascading problems due in part to the excess load on the entire system."
If their servers are crashing under user load, its not exactly hardware related. I would start by looking to see *why* its crashing, as I would say its more software configuration related. Plus, if you have alot of servers serving one website, a single crash of one of them shouldn't affect the main site in any way shape or form, more over, it should just drop the connected users, much like a netsplit on IRC.
Dunno. I'm not knocking them, but now they are getting slashdotted, I would start to look at the config, and fast...
NeoThermic