There was a book I read a few years ago call Higher Education by Charles Sheffield. One of the items he talks about is how crapy the state of public education has become. In a high school biology test, they have a computer terminal showing a picture of a 'caterpillar, spider, ant, butterfly' (i think those were the four) and the question is "which of these is not an insect". It does seem to me that this is the way education is going.
I also blame calculators for most of the math problems kids have today. They are learning how to use the calculator too soon and not how to use their head for math. Last year I knew a College Sophmore who we were trying to help out with a basic algebra problem. The first thing he did was read for the calculator.
All electronic locks I have ever seen default to unlocked when the power goes off. This is the way they are built, not wired. So if the power goes out, they WILL unlock (and they did unlock too, when the power went out). This is probably required by the fire code so that people are not trapped in a burning building.
Actually, you can outmanuver a laser. All you need to do is not be where it is pointing. Considering they probably have a (relatively) slow turning mirror, all you need to do is get in close and you can move faster than the laser can turn. Fighterjets will remain unless they can turn AND aim those lasers very quickly. Otherwise the fighters can get in close and shoot. Hard to hit something moving at mach 2 relative to your position, and then turning around if you miss.
A few tens of millions of dollars could allow the installation of radiation detectors for every point of entry for Manhattan
Ok, so here's what someone does. They take their homemade Nuclear Fission Bomb, goto the radioation detectors (assuming it isn't shielded enough and is actually detected), wait till they set the alarms off and blow the bomb. GOOD BYE a chunk of New York New York. HELLO blast crater. You'd have to setup the detectors at a distance far enough to intercept the bombs without endangering the city if the bomb explodes. Good luck dooing that since you would need many more, and a survielence system to make sure no one sneeks through the net, or disables the detectors and then slips through.
Umm... I think there is one very important fact you missed. It looks to me like this plain can aim the laser UP. This says to me that if we have a Balistic Missle that has already launched, we can blow it up as it starts it's decent. That sounds to me like a defensive weapon. I'm not saying it can't be used for offense, any defensive weapon can be used for offense, what I am saying is that it is not a purely offensive weapon.
Head over to Salary.com, choose 'entry level', then 'programer I'. I selected DC as an example. Came up with 45k to 57k, with 50k as the median. You can go there and choose other locations as well. The link below gives you a direct link to the site with those options selected. Along with bonuses and benifits.
How about because Packetshaper is a Piece of Crap that prevents legitemit uses? No one on my campuss can play online games such as Unreal Tournament or Everquest because we have such lousy pingtimes due to Packetshaper (and yes, it is Packetshaper causing the problem and not lack of bandwidth).
Many users do nothing more than look at a few pages and send/receive email.
That is about all my parents ever do. The kicker is the attachments that they send and recieve. Do you know how long it takes to recieve 60megs of pictures? They have people they know sending them theses pictures (they need them for newsletters) who don't notice the size due to broadband. First time we find out about it is:
Ok, its at 2% and 15 minutes have gone by, what the #@%$ are we getting this time.
and spotty signals when traveling between buildings.
Actually, one of the things that is annoying regular radio broadcasters is that either XM or Serius (can't remember which, or if it was both) got special permission from the FCC to put microrepeaters in buildings in built up areas. (one repeater can cover a fairly large area) This allows people to still recieve even in areas with tall buildings if one of these is arround. The reason the radio broadcasters are annoyed is because the repeaters (being about the size of a desk, and having no external antennas and is installed inside of a building) were allowed to bypass local red tape for installation. AKA they only needed to get federal approval, not local.
Nuclear Reactor, creats steam, turns turbines, direct drive to the screws (propellers). There are only three ways to turn a screw, steam turbines, deasel engines, and electric motors. Carriers use the first. Everything else but subs use deasel.
Vrey Strong No kidding, i almost changed the color scheme on my TV when i got one of these things out of an old harddrive (3" TALL) and put it enar the screen. I remaned that way until i rotated the magnet 180 degrees and brought it near again.
Actually, considering how the US military is investing in a motor that will save 1 to 2% for their boats (and that is a lot saved over conventional steam), i wonder if they could use this in that design. If it truly savews that much and scales into the multimegawat range, i think we could see large scale application soon. Not just military boats, but private ships as well, such as large cruise chips and oil tankers.
I seem to remember the University of Florida was kicking students off its network who used any sort of server (including web). As they were claiming that they were basically doing this to prevent any peer to peer networks from running. I wonder if they could implement this to prevent the school from nocking them off the network and still be able to play their games and various other things. Course, blocking all on campus port searches using a firewall could also do that i think.
Never studied the US Constitution in school. But i keep a copy with me where ever I go. Makes for great reading when I can point out to someone that something the president is doing is in the constitution and not impeachable as they have heard others claim. (SEE apointment of judges, when congress is in recess. Clinton, Bush)
yeah, like how to up your power bill by a factor of 10 or more. Seriously, think how much condensed power a cray computer has that dubs as a desk or bench. How many top of the line G5 macs would it take to equal that, and compare the power requirements and size. I'm not saying that the Linux supers aren't week, but that in some cases it is easier to use Crays because you can pack more of them into a smaller area with less power, and get better results per cubic foot and kilowatt.
Also remember, these guys can customize their supers for specific applications to improve performance. You can't customize a linux super's harware very easily. Not unless you could make your own chips.
I hate to say it, but he's essentially right on this one. It takes a massive amount of general purepose computers to equal one cray. And if you have to worry about space, or if you need a couple of supercomputers to do various tasks at once, you can't very well afford to keep a couple of college size gyms on hand to keep them in, much less the cooling systems.
How much power does the Virginia Tech super consume? How much does it's cooling system consume?
Life? what life? We know that mars USED to be earthlike, therefore anything we do would actually be reverting it back to what it once was. As for the possiblity of life under the surface, give them a shovel and have them dig a hole, if they find anything, life is discovered. Otherwise, we may never find life. Rovers are only so good, it's like trying to use a satelite to spot an aphid in the sahara.
Your ofrget that US bombers have cutting edge stealth technology that require a repaint if they get scratched, since that makes tehm sho up on radar. Among other things, not neading that really cuts down on hte price. So it could be possible, just like the guy that made a cruise missle for 5k.
Actually, CD's did start at close to $20 a pop way back in the 80's. The record execs just claimed that the price would go down as the technology matured, volumes went up, and everyone started buying CD instead of tape. Think mass production. Only problem is, they have never gone down in price except for the one companyin the last year.
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There was a book I read a few years ago call Higher Education by Charles Sheffield. One of the items he talks about is how crapy the state of public education has become. In a high school biology test, they have a computer terminal showing a picture of a 'caterpillar, spider, ant, butterfly' (i think those were the four) and the question is "which of these is not an insect". It does seem to me that this is the way education is going.
I also blame calculators for most of the math problems kids have today. They are learning how to use the calculator too soon and not how to use their head for math. Last year I knew a College Sophmore who we were trying to help out with a basic algebra problem. The first thing he did was read for the calculator.
All electronic locks I have ever seen default to unlocked when the power goes off. This is the way they are built, not wired. So if the power goes out, they WILL unlock (and they did unlock too, when the power went out). This is probably required by the fire code so that people are not trapped in a burning building.
YES! Finally a cure for my acne, and zits everywhere will DIE!
Ummm... I know people who have looked at machines and caused them to crash. So I'm not sure if it always has something to do with the input.
Open box,
BOOM (insert mushroom cloud), and still goodbye a chunk of any area near it. Inspectors, Cities, Ports and so on.
Actually, you can outmanuver a laser. All you need to do is not be where it is pointing. Considering they probably have a (relatively) slow turning mirror, all you need to do is get in close and you can move faster than the laser can turn. Fighterjets will remain unless they can turn AND aim those lasers very quickly. Otherwise the fighters can get in close and shoot. Hard to hit something moving at mach 2 relative to your position, and then turning around if you miss.
A few tens of millions of dollars could allow the installation of radiation detectors for every point of entry for Manhattan
Ok, so here's what someone does. They take their homemade Nuclear Fission Bomb, goto the radioation detectors (assuming it isn't shielded enough and is actually detected), wait till they set the alarms off and blow the bomb. GOOD BYE a chunk of New York New York. HELLO blast crater. You'd have to setup the detectors at a distance far enough to intercept the bombs without endangering the city if the bomb explodes. Good luck dooing that since you would need many more, and a survielence system to make sure no one sneeks through the net, or disables the detectors and then slips through.
Umm... I think there is one very important fact you missed. It looks to me like this plain can aim the laser UP. This says to me that if we have a Balistic Missle that has already launched, we can blow it up as it starts it's decent. That sounds to me like a defensive weapon. I'm not saying it can't be used for offense, any defensive weapon can be used for offense, what I am saying is that it is not a purely offensive weapon.
Head over to Salary.com, choose 'entry level', then 'programer I'. I selected DC as an example. Came up with 45k to 57k, with 50k as the median. You can go there and choose other locations as well. The link below gives you a direct link to the site with those options selected. Along with bonuses and benifits.
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How about because Packetshaper is a Piece of Crap that prevents legitemit uses? No one on my campuss can play online games such as Unreal Tournament or Everquest because we have such lousy pingtimes due to Packetshaper (and yes, it is Packetshaper causing the problem and not lack of bandwidth).
Now remember, Vote Early, Vote Often. Thats how you get who you want into office.
Many users do nothing more than look at a few pages and send/receive email.
That is about all my parents ever do. The kicker is the attachments that they send and recieve. Do you know how long it takes to recieve 60megs of pictures? They have people they know sending them theses pictures (they need them for newsletters) who don't notice the size due to broadband. First time we find out about it is:
Ok, its at 2% and 15 minutes have gone by, what the #@%$ are we getting this time.
and spotty signals when traveling between buildings.
Actually, one of the things that is annoying regular radio broadcasters is that either XM or Serius (can't remember which, or if it was both) got special permission from the FCC to put microrepeaters in buildings in built up areas. (one repeater can cover a fairly large area) This allows people to still recieve even in areas with tall buildings if one of these is arround. The reason the radio broadcasters are annoyed is because the repeaters (being about the size of a desk, and having no external antennas and is installed inside of a building) were allowed to bypass local red tape for installation. AKA they only needed to get federal approval, not local.
Nuclear Reactor, creats steam, turns turbines, direct drive to the screws (propellers). There are only three ways to turn a screw, steam turbines, deasel engines, and electric motors. Carriers use the first. Everything else but subs use deasel.
Vrey Strong No kidding, i almost changed the color scheme on my TV when i got one of these things out of an old harddrive (3" TALL) and put it enar the screen. I remaned that way until i rotated the magnet 180 degrees and brought it near again.
Actually, considering how the US military is investing in a motor that will save 1 to 2% for their boats (and that is a lot saved over conventional steam), i wonder if they could use this in that design. If it truly savews that much and scales into the multimegawat range, i think we could see large scale application soon. Not just military boats, but private ships as well, such as large cruise chips and oil tankers.
I seem to remember the University of Florida was kicking students off its network who used any sort of server (including web). As they were claiming that they were basically doing this to prevent any peer to peer networks from running. I wonder if they could implement this to prevent the school from nocking them off the network and still be able to play their games and various other things. Course, blocking all on campus port searches using a firewall could also do that i think.
Too bad NVIDIA needs a freekin big fan in order to beat ATI.
I could find that the ATI XT card had 256 MB of RAM, could anyone find out how much the NVIDIA 6800 has?
Never studied the US Constitution in school. But i keep a copy with me where ever I go. Makes for great reading when I can point out to someone that something the president is doing is in the constitution and not impeachable as they have heard others claim. (SEE apointment of judges, when congress is in recess. Clinton, Bush)
yeah, like how to up your power bill by a factor of 10 or more. Seriously, think how much condensed power a cray computer has that dubs as a desk or bench. How many top of the line G5 macs would it take to equal that, and compare the power requirements and size. I'm not saying that the Linux supers aren't week, but that in some cases it is easier to use Crays because you can pack more of them into a smaller area with less power, and get better results per cubic foot and kilowatt.
Also remember, these guys can customize their supers for specific applications to improve performance. You can't customize a linux super's harware very easily. Not unless you could make your own chips.
I hate to say it, but he's essentially right on this one. It takes a massive amount of general purepose computers to equal one cray. And if you have to worry about space, or if you need a couple of supercomputers to do various tasks at once, you can't very well afford to keep a couple of college size gyms on hand to keep them in, much less the cooling systems.
How much power does the Virginia Tech super consume? How much does it's cooling system consume?
Fly me to the Moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
Ad Astra
Life? what life? We know that mars USED to be earthlike, therefore anything we do would actually be reverting it back to what it once was. As for the possiblity of life under the surface, give them a shovel and have them dig a hole, if they find anything, life is discovered. Otherwise, we may never find life. Rovers are only so good, it's like trying to use a satelite to spot an aphid in the sahara.
Your ofrget that US bombers have cutting edge stealth technology that require a repaint if they get scratched, since that makes tehm sho up on radar. Among other things, not neading that really cuts down on hte price. So it could be possible, just like the guy that made a cruise missle for 5k.
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Actually, CD's did start at close to $20 a pop way back in the 80's. The record execs just claimed that the price would go down as the technology matured, volumes went up, and everyone started buying CD instead of tape. Think mass production. Only problem is, they have never gone down in price except for the one companyin the last year.