I think that the discussion has drifted form the original intent of the posting. If I'm reading the original posting right, the intent of this person is to keep in touch with his old friends in a live, flesh and blood manner while RPGing with them. The key here would be to recreate the whole, "your buddies sitting at the table and chit chatting while playing" feeling. To include those things like tone inflection in voice and goofy dances of victory and the such while not being in the same room. The IRC concepts don't seem to me to fit what this person's intent is. The key is personal interactions at a level that is not available (identically, nut substitutionally) in classic text or possibly even voice only methods as compared to being in the same room. After creating that basic atmosphere, then add on top of it things like dice rolling or map sharing that work well in the environment. I think that throughout the postings so far, all of these elements have been hit, but not necessarily in a manner that is a monolithic fully functional solution. Aspects discussed could be combined in a mostly workable pattern, but not readily deployable, or maybe so, but that's for discussion spawned from this to decide. Another issue is, as has been hit upon in previous posts, what's the bandwidth? That's the key to deciding the proper method. If there are a lot of people on, (Insert favorite deity here) forbid, dial-up, IRC may be the only viable choice... And so on for different bandwidth. I also get the impression that a setup supported by Microsoft OSes is a plus, but I think the solutions so far are compatible with this. Anyways, I'm just trying to steer a discussion over to what I believe was the original intent of the post, but feel free to disagree or not steer that way.
Furthermore, Levine said that Zettacore believes it can tailor the molecules to vary attributes like the refresh speed of the memory cell. Zettacore memory could require refresh charges on the order of seconds to minutes, dramatically reducing operating power.
From this I get that the slowest decay rate for a given state of these molecules is in the minutes range, not the years range. This would mean that we'd have to go back to the old adage of "If your computer crashes, power down for at least 30 seconds before powering it back up." Actually it would be longer than that, but...
Also, "removable media" of this type could only be removed for no longer than a minute or so without a battery. Sorry dude, but the ascendant to the DVD is but a pipe dream for these molecules.
I know I should be talking about how this research opens up the possibilities for breakthrough research on an unprecedented level for most diseases dealing with changes in cells, or how bombarding tissue samples with radiation to make the graft work brings up some interesting points on the effects of the radiation on the results, or why radiating them is needed to make the implantation work, but all I can think of is, YEA BOOBS!!!
So how many slashdotters will it take to submit a request for 1000 numbers between 0 and 1 before it generates the binary code for Windows? What about the source code?
Much longer than it would take for a request for 1000 numbers between 0 and 8191 (2^13), but I digres into a useless rant. The executables generated from the RNG would work better than Windows, maybe.
Even better, use the RNG to create random code, then use it in conjunction with genetic algorithims (RNG for determining mutation) to create software for some random purpose. How long would it take to make a useful OS this way?
There is also the concern about thermal expansion, or in this case, thermal contraction. If the materials laminated togeher in the chip do not have the same thermal expansion rates, one material may debond, or crack, or somthing to that effect. There's nothing like a cracked chip. This would occur even if the whole chip was at the same temprature throughout during the whole of the cooling process. Not knowing the exact specifics of the chip layouts, in the material sense, I therefore cannot venture a guess as to the lower limit of cooling a chip. Also, unlike metals, simiconductors are more conductive at higher tempratures, which is opposite of metals, I assume there is a temprature crossover point where the simiconductors become too non-conductive to function preoperly in the whole scheme of a chip, but I'm going out on a limb with that one. Main point, I'd suspect that there is a lower limit to cooling where the chip drops performance, wether that point is condensing the chip to one super atom (Boesmen-Einstine(SP!) condensate), or just physical stress due to thermal contraction gradients. If someone knows a resonable estamate of the lower limite, I'd love to hear it.
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I think that the discussion has drifted form the original intent of the posting. If I'm reading the original posting right, the intent of this person is to keep in touch with his old friends in a live, flesh and blood manner while RPGing with them. The key here would be to recreate the whole, "your buddies sitting at the table and chit chatting while playing" feeling. To include those things like tone inflection in voice and goofy dances of victory and the such while not being in the same room. The IRC concepts don't seem to me to fit what this person's intent is. The key is personal interactions at a level that is not available (identically, nut substitutionally) in classic text or possibly even voice only methods as compared to being in the same room. After creating that basic atmosphere, then add on top of it things like dice rolling or map sharing that work well in the environment. I think that throughout the postings so far, all of these elements have been hit, but not necessarily in a manner that is a monolithic fully functional solution. Aspects discussed could be combined in a mostly workable pattern, but not readily deployable, or maybe so, but that's for discussion spawned from this to decide. Another issue is, as has been hit upon in previous posts, what's the bandwidth? That's the key to deciding the proper method. If there are a lot of people on, (Insert favorite deity here) forbid, dial-up, IRC may be the only viable choice... And so on for different bandwidth. I also get the impression that a setup supported by Microsoft OSes is a plus, but I think the solutions so far are compatible with this. Anyways, I'm just trying to steer a discussion over to what I believe was the original intent of the post, but feel free to disagree or not steer that way.
From this I get that the slowest decay rate for a given state of these molecules is in the minutes range, not the years range. This would mean that we'd have to go back to the old adage of "If your computer crashes, power down for at least 30 seconds before powering it back up." Actually it would be longer than that, but...
Also, "removable media" of this type could only be removed for no longer than a minute or so without a battery. Sorry dude, but the ascendant to the DVD is but a pipe dream for these molecules.
I know I should be talking about how this research opens up the possibilities for breakthrough research on an unprecedented level for most diseases dealing with changes in cells, or how bombarding tissue samples with radiation to make the graft work brings up some interesting points on the effects of the radiation on the results, or why radiating them is needed to make the implantation work, but all I can think of is, YEA BOOBS!!!
Much longer than it would take for a request for 1000 numbers between 0 and 8191 (2^13), but I digres into a useless rant. The executables generated from the RNG would work better than Windows, maybe.
Even better, use the RNG to create random code, then use it in conjunction with genetic algorithims (RNG for determining mutation) to create software for some random purpose. How long would it take to make a useful OS this way?
Or my IBM PCjr, with the fully upgraded 128K ram. And an off topic tangent, a beowulf jr. cluster. Any takers?
There is also the concern about thermal expansion, or in this case, thermal contraction. If the materials laminated togeher in the chip do not have the same thermal expansion rates, one material may debond, or crack, or somthing to that effect. There's nothing like a cracked chip. This would occur even if the whole chip was at the same temprature throughout during the whole of the cooling process. Not knowing the exact specifics of the chip layouts, in the material sense, I therefore cannot venture a guess as to the lower limit of cooling a chip. Also, unlike metals, simiconductors are more conductive at higher tempratures, which is opposite of metals, I assume there is a temprature crossover point where the simiconductors become too non-conductive to function preoperly in the whole scheme of a chip, but I'm going out on a limb with that one. Main point, I'd suspect that there is a lower limit to cooling where the chip drops performance, wether that point is condensing the chip to one super atom (Boesmen-Einstine(SP!) condensate), or just physical stress due to thermal contraction gradients. If someone knows a resonable estamate of the lower limite, I'd love to hear it.