Sorry to burst your applesauce bubble, but 512mb ram is hardly ample in 2011.
Truth mod me up, fanboy mod me down. In the end, you know an expensive piece of tech like this should have at least double, if not quadruple that ram... its 2011, don't forget that.
Ahh, the passion of youth. The unadulterated joy of believing that the new way is the best way, that nearly a million years of human history can be shoveled under the Pergo flooring with nary an afterthought. The exuberance that comes from a knowledge base spanning months in time.
Get over it kid, people have been running entire rocket systems on much less than 512 MB RAM. It's a limited appliance designed to do a couple of things well. Running Crysis isn't one of them. Sorry to bust your nihilist bubble, but Apple is laughing all the way to the bank.
Nonetheless it's interesting. Especially the details. According to TFA, shutdown was doing OK even after the primary, secondary and tertiary systems failed. Then they had to bring in mobile diesel generators.
Within the 8 hours, another power source had to be found and connected to the power plant. The power grid was down due to the earthquake. The diesel generators were destroyed by the tsunami. So mobile diesel generators were trucked in.
This is where things started to go seriously wrong. The external power generators could not be connected to the power plant (the plugs did not fit). So after the batteries ran out, the residual heat could not be carried away any more.
U.S. nuclear-powered capital ships can do that, I understand. I don't know how much power they can produce for shore facilities. Does anyone?
From various sources, the Ronald Regan has two 104 MW reactors which have enough power to 'light a small city' (which is pretty much what a Nimitz class carrier is). I can't find anywhere where specifics. Probably not a whole lot, all things considering.
A bigger issue would be the advisability of sticking a 5 billion dollar carrier close enough to a tsunami infested shore to dump the power. Even a couple of megawatts would imply some big battery jumpers.
Sure, I'm a 14 y.o. girl who likes ponies. But I'm also a guy with a house and a job that creates a public trail. It's just a matter of time till they can merge the two.
You might want to be a bit careful. The way things are going, you're liable to get arrested for talking to yourself.
Not that I think WP7 doesn't deserve some praise... but/. really needs a filter to prevent ACs and UIDs > 1,600,000 from getting 1st-2nd-3rd post on articles.
Why? Are you saying us old folk aren't as fast at the keyboard as we used to be? That are minds are dulled by decades of Cheetos, Mountain Dew and Aricept? You think we need a handicapping system?
You mean like the one at the top of the front page of TFA?
No, I meant "show me some real data". My point being that a device that can identify most cancer cells from a fine needle aspirate is a very important discovery. The gushing of the TFA coupled with the bizarre hookup to a smartphone makes me (and the fungus dude) a bit leery of the whole concept.
Yes. This is a totally bizarre way to do things. If indeed the 'microMRI' device (which is the heart of the system) works as advertised you have a golden device without the dippy smartphone angle. You can take your magical results and modem them into another computer, to an EMR, to a consultant, to Twitter if you felt like it. The TFA also implies (but does not explicity state) that this device works on many, if not all tumors.
That's Holy Grail level stuff.
Color me jaded and cynical as usual, but pics or GTFO.
We got a automated call at 3:34AM Alaska time about a potential tsunami in 45 minutes. Pretty neat. Fairly informative as to expected magnitude (small) and timing. Fortunately they didn't trigger the air raid sirens that sit a quarter mile from my house. The fire department is looking at the tidal gauges to see if we picked up anything (SE Alaska) - doesn't seem to be measurable.
Although 70 cm isn't one of the major ham bands, ARRL views any encroachment as problematical since we are unlikely to get any new spectrum. As to the hobby 'dying out' - not really. It's changing in ways a lot of old time hams aren't happy with (sound familiar?) but it is still a vibrant and important activity.
While the ARRL has in the past supported band readjustment, this one doesn't really pass the sniff test.
The government itself may not come out ahead on a deal like that, but I'd imagine there's a very good chance that King himself or one of his good friends would.
Bingo. Just think of all that (now obsolete) Government equipment that needs to be replaced. General Dynamics is listed as one of his major PAC contributors (albeit at only $12,500 - representatives are pretty cheap these days). Always follow the money.
As opposed to "I am brought in for questioning", offered a drink of water, a cigarette, or WHATEVER as a ruse for the police to get a DNA sample, a fingerprint, etc. -- tactics that have been held to be legal in many many court cases. Why would I as a police department risk the inevitable lawsuit and serious legal expense, or the loss of a predator/violent criminal/murderous type with an arrest when I can do something much cheaper to get the DNA sample I need?
The big risk with these sorts of 'fill the database' rules isn't in getting a sample of a suspected perp - as you point out, that's easy. It is to allow for fishing expeditions - potentially along a grand scale. Just plug the 'number' into a computer and poof - problem solved. Of course, that's not quite true. There are serious issues with data fidelity and the statistical accuracy of the testing. But that's just some little technical detail, not of much interest to those politicians and DA's who want to fight crime.
What competent engineer would design an important system that depends on GPS, with no backup? The satellite signals are very faint, and can be disrupted for seconds or hours by lots of different causes, including entirely natural causes like solar flares.
they will taze you about 900 times on the way to the jail, then they will taze you just for fun, and the judge will taze you out of spite in the courtroom, your lawyer will also probably taze you as well, before you go to a big bad prison.
Now, when you have several thousand people doing scientific research into one subject, you're going to get some dissenting results, either as a result of the "law of averages"-kind of thinking, or because sloppy methodology will creep in. It doesn't matter how rigorous the review system is, this is going to happen occasionally. So we need to figure out how to prevent people from latching onto the one result that shows what they want it to show, as opposed to the thousands that show the opposite.
No we don't. Science isn't advanced by having large groups of people latching on to a particular result vs. another. That's politics. Science is being able to take an 'unpopular' theory and find evidence for or against it, rinse, lather and repeat. Science can be ignoring the 'right' answer for hundreds of years, only to eventually (re)discover the answer when either enough evidence has been brought forward and / or a new generation of people look at the data (and their assumptions and attitudes) differently.
Politics is intimately intertwined in whatever humans do - it's the nature of our beast. So there is a lot of politics in science. But one should be careful to separate the two endeavors.
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Transmission is easy; convert the interior hold of an old container ship as a capacitor. I bet it could carry enough power to run Tokyo all week.
Right. Doesn't that seem a little dangerous to you? All Godzilla has to do is short out the terminals and Zap! - No more Tokyo.
No, whoosh, WHOOSH!
DHS is involved in EVERYTHING.
I'm not exaggerating. Name something and DHS has or can assert authority over it.
Gundam?
Sorry to burst your applesauce bubble, but 512mb ram is hardly ample in 2011.
Truth mod me up, fanboy mod me down. In the end, you know an expensive piece of tech like this should have at least double, if not quadruple that ram... its 2011, don't forget that.
Ahh, the passion of youth. The unadulterated joy of believing that the new way is the best way, that nearly a million years of human history can be shoveled under the Pergo flooring with nary an afterthought. The exuberance that comes from a knowledge base spanning months in time.
Get over it kid, people have been running entire rocket systems on much less than 512 MB RAM. It's a limited appliance designed to do a couple of things well. Running Crysis isn't one of them. Sorry to bust your nihilist bubble, but Apple is laughing all the way to the bank.
You can use a microwave as well - it's a bit faster.
I imagine that an oxyacetylene torch would be faster yet, but speed isn't always the only metric.
(People these days, no patience.)
Within the 8 hours, another power source had to be found and connected to the power plant. The power grid was down due to the earthquake. The diesel generators were destroyed by the tsunami. So mobile diesel generators were trucked in.
This is where things started to go seriously wrong. The external power generators could not be connected to the power plant (the plugs did not fit). So after the batteries ran out, the residual heat could not be carried away any more.
The plugs didn't fit.
It's always the stupid little details.
U.S. nuclear-powered capital ships can do that, I understand. I don't know how much power they can produce for shore facilities. Does anyone?
From various sources, the Ronald Regan has two 104 MW reactors which have enough power to 'light a small city' (which is pretty much what a Nimitz class carrier is). I can't find anywhere where specifics. Probably not a whole lot, all things considering.
A bigger issue would be the advisability of sticking a 5 billion dollar carrier close enough to a tsunami infested shore to dump the power. Even a couple of megawatts would imply some big battery jumpers.
I love +5 funny first posts.
According to wired the machines have never been tested against mice.
Are you fucking crazy?
Don't believe him, guys. It's Saturday. He's posting on Slashdot.
Winner, indeed.
Fuck it. Too complicated.
Stick everybody on GMT / UTC / Zulu (whatever you want to call it) and just deal with it.
Sure, I'm a 14 y.o. girl who likes ponies. But I'm also a guy with a house and a job that creates a public trail. It's just a matter of time till they can merge the two.
You might want to be a bit careful. The way things are going, you're liable to get arrested for talking to yourself.
Not that I think WP7 doesn't deserve some praise... but /. really needs a filter to prevent ACs and UIDs > 1,600,000 from getting 1st-2nd-3rd post on articles.
Why? Are you saying us old folk aren't as fast at the keyboard as we used to be? That are minds are dulled by decades of Cheetos, Mountain Dew and Aricept? You think we need a handicapping system?
Remove yourself from my landscaping, please.
You mean like the one at the top of the front page of TFA?
No, I meant "show me some real data". My point being that a device that can identify most cancer cells from a fine needle aspirate is a very important discovery. The gushing of the TFA coupled with the bizarre hookup to a smartphone makes me (and the fungus dude) a bit leery of the whole concept.
Yes. This is a totally bizarre way to do things. If indeed the 'microMRI' device (which is the heart of the system) works as advertised you have a golden device without the dippy smartphone angle. You can take your magical results and modem them into another computer, to an EMR, to a consultant, to Twitter if you felt like it. The TFA also implies (but does not explicity state) that this device works on many, if not all tumors.
That's Holy Grail level stuff.
Color me jaded and cynical as usual, but pics or GTFO.
We got a automated call at 3:34AM Alaska time about a potential tsunami in 45 minutes. Pretty neat. Fairly informative as to expected magnitude (small) and timing. Fortunately they didn't trigger the air raid sirens that sit a quarter mile from my house. The fire department is looking at the tidal gauges to see if we picked up anything (SE Alaska) - doesn't seem to be measurable.
Although 70 cm isn't one of the major ham bands, ARRL views any encroachment as problematical since we are unlikely to get any new spectrum. As to the hobby 'dying out' - not really. It's changing in ways a lot of old time hams aren't happy with (sound familiar?) but it is still a vibrant and important activity.
While the ARRL has in the past supported band readjustment, this one doesn't really pass the sniff test.
The government itself may not come out ahead on a deal like that, but I'd imagine there's a very good chance that King himself or one of his good friends would.
Bingo. Just think of all that (now obsolete) Government equipment that needs to be replaced. General Dynamics is listed as one of his major PAC contributors (albeit at only $12,500 - representatives are pretty cheap these days). Always follow the money.
I'd better go see a doctor.
Or a veterinarian.
As opposed to "I am brought in for questioning", offered a drink of water, a cigarette, or WHATEVER as a ruse for the police to get a DNA sample, a fingerprint, etc. -- tactics that have been held to be legal in many many court cases. Why would I as a police department risk the inevitable lawsuit and serious legal expense, or the loss of a predator/violent criminal/murderous type with an arrest when I can do something much cheaper to get the DNA sample I need?
The big risk with these sorts of 'fill the database' rules isn't in getting a sample of a suspected perp - as you point out, that's easy. It is to allow for fishing expeditions - potentially along a grand scale. Just plug the 'number' into a computer and poof - problem solved. Of course, that's not quite true. There are serious issues with data fidelity and the statistical accuracy of the testing. But that's just some little technical detail, not of much interest to those politicians and DA's who want to fight crime.
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Great. You broke it, Slashdot. Good going.
Being this wrong is seldom considered an 'epic success'.
Except in Economics.
What competent engineer would design an important system that depends on GPS, with no backup? The satellite signals are very faint, and can be disrupted for seconds or hours by lots of different causes, including entirely natural causes like solar flares.
The competent engineer with the incompetent boss.
they will taze you about 900 times on the way to the jail, then they will taze you just for fun, and the judge will taze you out of spite in the courtroom, your lawyer will also probably taze you as well, before you go to a big bad prison.
Another bad day, eh, Lumpy?
Now, when you have several thousand people doing scientific research into one subject, you're going to get some dissenting results, either as a result of the "law of averages"-kind of thinking, or because sloppy methodology will creep in. It doesn't matter how rigorous the review system is, this is going to happen occasionally. So we need to figure out how to prevent people from latching onto the one result that shows what they want it to show, as opposed to the thousands that show the opposite.
No we don't. Science isn't advanced by having large groups of people latching on to a particular result vs. another. That's politics. Science is being able to take an 'unpopular' theory and find evidence for or against it, rinse, lather and repeat. Science can be ignoring the 'right' answer for hundreds of years, only to eventually (re)discover the answer when either enough evidence has been brought forward and / or a new generation of people look at the data (and their assumptions and attitudes) differently.
Politics is intimately intertwined in whatever humans do - it's the nature of our beast. So there is a lot of politics in science. But one should be careful to separate the two endeavors.