I wish I'd receive a CueCat in the mail without having to go all the way to Radio Shack and ask for one.
In order for his complaint to have any meaning, that's what must have happened.
He doesn't state anywhere that he never asked for one (though perhaps it is implied?)
...we may find that individual tubes have their own resonant frequencies
(remember, heat is being carried as sound energy one-way down the tube)
which are close enough together so as to interfere with each other.
No.
The heat travels in phonons, just like in everything else.
And phonons are vibrational modes in the lattice, which can be transverse (in the way that waves on a vibrating string move) or longitudinal (in the way that sound moves).
Nanotubes happen to be dominated by longitudinal phonons, so they call the heat "sound".
Yeah Katz. He has power over magnetic fields, not power over colors. Otherwise Magneto's machine wouldn't have irradiated/mutated everyone, it would have turned them all purple.:)
They also said that the older model used 4 video cards and had 4 cables running to it. That's actually more appealing to me than the single-cable version. This would be a nice screen to hook up to 4 different boxes and have them all displayed simultaneously, rather than have a switchbox to one monitor.
If you want a MMORPG (minus the RP part at the moment, though they claim that aspect is coming soon) try 10six. It runs 24/7 on heat's dedicated servers and supports one million (10^six) users, which for now is probably close enough to unlimited. 10six on heat.net
You don't need a windowing envorinment to use graphical applications - programs run from a CLI are perfectly capable of switching between text and graphics modes on their own. int 10h is your friend.
Can we use nanotubes, single-walled structures of carbon with diameters of one or two nanometers and lengths of less than a micron, as the next generation of interconnects between molecular-scale devices?
Now that's just silly. Why use nanotubes as interconnects between molecular transistors when you can use the nanotubes as transistors themselves? Nanotubes come in metallic and semiconducting flavors and consequently it's not difficult to make diodes and transistors out of them (and the popular single-electron transistor is also doable with nanotubes). One can lay down nanotubes in patterns to form gates and whatnot, which imnsho seems easier than trying to twist strange molecules with fields between substrates. Oh well.
I also was probed late last night - perhaps they're actually doing what they said they would. Their plan might not be the best course of action, but at least they're doing something.
"Linux does not have the robustness built in it yet for mission critical applications," the HP spokesperson said. Apparently this spokesperson has never run an HP-UX system -- I'm assuming HP-UX was the OS of comparison there, since there isn't the faintest possibility of someone referring to NT as robust. Just comparing average uptimes of various systems I've used, Linux > HP-UX > NT.
For all we know, this is just a plot to get the names/addresses of people the military would consider cyber-terrorist threats so they know whose phone to tap, etc.
Granted, this would be an excellent form of BSOD-prevention for Windows, but there may be more to it than that. A few of the more subtle points in the patent could also be used as a sort of virus defense. For instance, it mentions virtual hardware devices and suggests that the emulator would know some things about how hardware will behave when certain I/O instructions are executed. So, in addition to being able to prevent exceptions, it could also make sure a program doesn't do anything naughty to the hard drive. I don't think this is exactly what they had in mind, but it's something that occurred to me as I was reading the patent (and before my brain began to bleed from the redundancy).
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I wish I'd receive a CueCat in the mail without having to go all the way to Radio Shack and ask for one. In order for his complaint to have any meaning, that's what must have happened. He doesn't state anywhere that he never asked for one (though perhaps it is implied?)
GPulp will also add a powerful location capability to networks.
It's spelled "gPulp". gPulp isn't supposed to be capitalized, even at the beginning of a sentence. Didn't the editor read the jargon file?
I got a CS degree, and most of the skills I use on a day to day basis I learned on my own outside of classes.
:)
Ahem, on your own?
...we may find that individual tubes have their own resonant frequencies (remember, heat is being carried as sound energy one-way down the tube) which are close enough together so as to interfere with each other.
No. The heat travels in phonons, just like in everything else. And phonons are vibrational modes in the lattice, which can be transverse (in the way that waves on a vibrating string move) or longitudinal (in the way that sound moves). Nanotubes happen to be dominated by longitudinal phonons, so they call the heat "sound".
at what cost though? and how will it perform vs silver based paste? you can get 77% silver based paste for $14/5.6oz...
:)
Smalley's group at Rice has nanotubes at $1000/g.
Wait, you want to use Objective C? I could never figure out how to keep from lapsing into seizure.
Yeah Katz. He has power over magnetic fields, not power over colors. Otherwise Magneto's machine wouldn't have irradiated/mutated everyone, it would have turned them all purple. :)
They also said that the older model used 4 video cards and had 4 cables running to it. That's actually more appealing to me than the single-cable version. This would be a nice screen to hook up to 4 different boxes and have them all displayed simultaneously, rather than have a switchbox to one monitor.
"...they were almost impossible to reverse-engineer."
IIRC, that's because whenever someone tried to open one, it blew up violently and killed everyone nearby.
If you want a MMORPG (minus the RP part at the moment, though they claim that aspect is coming soon) try 10six. It runs 24/7 on heat's dedicated servers and supports one million (10^six) users, which for now is probably close enough to unlimited.
10six on heat.net
You don't need a windowing envorinment to use graphical applications - programs run from a CLI are perfectly capable of switching between text and graphics modes on their own. int 10h is your friend.
Can we use nanotubes, single-walled structures of carbon with diameters of one or two nanometers and lengths of less than a micron, as the next generation of interconnects between molecular-scale devices?
Now that's just silly. Why use nanotubes as interconnects between molecular transistors when you can use the nanotubes as transistors themselves? Nanotubes come in metallic and semiconducting flavors and consequently it's not difficult to make diodes and transistors out of them (and the popular single-electron transistor is also doable with nanotubes). One can lay down nanotubes in patterns to form gates and whatnot, which imnsho seems easier than trying to twist strange molecules with fields between substrates. Oh well.
I also was probed late last night - perhaps they're actually doing what they said they would. Their plan might not be the best course of action, but at least they're doing something.
"Linux does not have the robustness built in it yet for mission critical applications," the HP spokesperson said.
Apparently this spokesperson has never run an HP-UX system -- I'm assuming HP-UX was the OS of comparison there, since there isn't the faintest possibility of someone referring to NT as robust. Just comparing average uptimes of various systems I've used, Linux > HP-UX > NT.
For all we know, this is just a plot to get the names/addresses of people the military would consider cyber-terrorist threats so they know whose phone to tap, etc.
Granted, this would be an excellent form of BSOD-prevention for Windows, but there may be more to it than that. A few of the more subtle points in the patent could also be used as a sort of virus defense. For instance, it mentions virtual hardware devices and suggests that the emulator would know some things about how hardware will behave when certain I/O instructions are executed. So, in addition to being able to prevent exceptions, it could also make sure a program doesn't do anything naughty to the hard drive. I don't think this is exactly what they had in mind, but it's something that occurred to me as I was reading the patent (and before my brain began to bleed from the redundancy).