While I think we all know this, if we could abolish war and the particular "waste" that goes with it and its preparation, there is virtually no limit to what we as a race could accomplish.
The problem is that like wolves, lions, and Apes, we are a highly territorial creature*. So long as we keep pissing on fence posts to say "this is mine" then we will have war where two peoples have pissed on the same post. -nB
* as am I, and I ain't volunteering to change first (fourth or fifth maybe...)
you know something funny? NetBurst was not a mistake... I have two high end machines. A Prescott 3.6 GHz machine and a core2duo extreme edition machine. the core2duo is faster in all apps, yes. In games and such it kicks ass, yes. In the one app where I *really* care, repetitive mathematical transforms the core2duo is faster, by only 5% and it has double the ram of the Prescott, interesting eh?
Now while I will gladly concede that if you're a gamer the Prescott was abysmal; for scientific, encryption, and encoding applications it really kicked ass.
Now since that is fundamentally the only thing I've used the P4 for since I've built it I have to come to the conclusion that the only reason to buy a core2duo was heatloading. (though being winter I kinda appreciate the wattage, at least I'm doing something with the damn electrons on their way to becoming heat, unlike my spaceheater) -nB
I'm using e-nom(domain) and pagesgarden(previous domain and current host). In both cases I have had my host stand up to BS letters from lawyers (see link in sig). When I moved my domain from Pagesgarden to e-nom I told them I wanted a blinded whois. They happily transferred the domain reg and even helped me with the transition to ensure minimal exposure to downtime.
"Have you seen those electronic dumpsites in China? Thats where the electronic wastes go after you chuck em in the garbage."
Maybe if you chuck them in the trash in China. If you chuck them in the trash in the US they go to a US landfill (or maybe a Mexican landfill). I work for the semiconductor industry and you would not believe how anti old equipment China is. I have to fill out a mile of paperwork to ship a used tester there, and if it's defunct earlier then about 5 years I have to pay to ship it out of the country.
I swear there would be a market for a "shipping" company who could loose a shipment on-demand. Just chuck it overboard in international waters and claim it must have slipped off it's pallet.
I should have been more precise: Logical recovery. In theorey it uses EXT3 so there should be no issue, but with large volumes corruption occures from the fsck. -nB
I'm guessing that the cost of living is more expensive there. A 1000sqft house is probably around $500k or something ridiculous.
"our median single family home price in San Jose is currently $715000" from a local realitor site. Durring the heyday of the dot bomb, a 680 SqFt condo sold for over one mil. your asking price for a home was an opening bid. A crap house (doze and build new quality) on 1/10 acre of land commanded a minimum of 1.3 mil and often sold for vastly more.
Funny story. We were carrying Sprint cell phones right when they started rolling out their CDMA service. We had a live demo phone to show off the clarity. My (now wife) GF was helping these two retards from the next door Hometown Buffet (who had stolen the phone from the demo kiosk). They were asking about car chargers and she said: "I'll be happy to help you once you give me my phone back". Well, they bolted (nevermind the Hometown Buffet polo shirts or the name tags), and my GF called the sprint store. These fools went to make a call, where upon a security officer from sprint (pretexting as a customer service rep) said: "Oh, the store must have accidently sold you a demo unit. Bring it into the Sprint store on Fulton for a free replacement and activation." Like all crooks who've been caught, these guys were morons and went into the store. While the replacement phone was "activating" the cops were on the way:-)
Nevermind that my GF was also in the Buffet chewing out the manager about these two. She successfully recovered the value of the demo kiosk (which they damaged when they stole the phone) from their final paychecks, leaving them with (IIRC) under a buck each for the "you're fired" pay check.
Not really. As the capacity desired goes up 1, 2.2, 4.7uF etc the cost curve tends to get worse. 1uF ~7-10X aluminum electrolytic, 10uF? About 15x the price. Thing is the total number of aluminum electrolytic caps in a system is fairly low so this should not impact price too much. -nB
Do the Viiv and Live! branded systems include special hardware transcoders? (I wouldn't think so, because then how would they deal with all the different codecs out there?
I do not know that actual answer, but one solution to allow hardware support is to have a reasonably sized FPGA with vector capability and loading the codec into the FPGA as needed. Sure teh codecs would have to be optimized in VHDL for the FPGA, but that really isn't an issue as they would likely be all rolled up into a driver. -nB
Yes, but as he points out as long as there is a gradient there is energy to be had. The wider the margin, the better the efficency, and possibly you could design in two or three working fluids that can be switched as appropriate? It should be nominally more expensive to introduce a decent vaccume purge cycle to minimize contamination? -nB
All I know is that I applaud his making it "free". Likely if he had tried to make money off of this tech it would fail, but now enough tinkerers may pick it up that it has a hells chance (kinda like the EV). -nB
Assuming I have limitless energy I can make the metal atomically correct. After bombardment I can seperate the gold atoms by density, and re-bombard the light ones with neutrons, the heavy ones with protons to the point they fission (or should I manage to capture enough positrons I can smack those around to lighten it), and the random other bits can be used to operate my antimatter reaction vessle:-)
Point I was making is that once it costs less than gold to make gold, then the market for gold (as currency) will be broken.
Not impossible, but highly impractical. Lead bars are far too thick. Lead ribbon, now you're talking. Just need *free* energy and we're all set to ruin the metals markets:-) -nB
I make one's I know I can keep. Last year was: be fat and happy. you know what? I am not too much heavier than last year 243 vs 235 and sure as hell I'm actually happy:-) This year it's enjoy caffine and my kids, while attempting to smuggle in a handful of Cuban Cigars. If I get caught I'll raise a constitutional discrimination issue out of it. (our congress critters can import up to 100 at a time at-will, without the prerequisite of having traveled to Cuba, mearly leaving the country is sufficent).
See easy to keep resolutions are good for you. -nB
"2) They also investigated Al Gore, and actually managed to catch him in a few things, like using his official phone to make non-official calls, which I'm sure is right up there legally with 'illegally invading Cambodia' and 'selling cocaine to finance the overthrow of Iran'. I mean, I sometimes print personal stuff using work printers, and just last election cycle I was able to hire assassins to take out the sheriff using proceeds from my meth lab, allowing me to install my own puppet in the sheriff's office. Who hasn't bent the law in some way or another?"
of course it's not the same thing. I do believe that Al's calls were excessive though (and IIRC fundraising related, though likely IRIC). As to printer access for personal docs, my employer says this is fine if in small ammounts and non-commercial in nature. I.E. printing some tax forms: OK, printing quotes for your car purchase: OK, printing brocures (sp?) for your up and coming photo business? not OK. Printing your lost dog flyer in mid-high volume? not OK. -nB
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Especially in the case of economic advantage, that's still territory.
Territory of money, territory of thought, still is control.
-nB
While I think we all know this, if we could abolish war and the particular "waste" that goes with it and its preparation, there is virtually no limit to what we as a race could accomplish.
The problem is that like wolves, lions, and Apes, we are a highly territorial creature*. So long as we keep pissing on fence posts to say "this is mine" then we will have war where two peoples have pissed on the same post.
-nB
* as am I, and I ain't volunteering to change first (fourth or fifth maybe...)
you know something funny?
NetBurst was not a mistake...
I have two high end machines. A Prescott 3.6 GHz machine and a core2duo extreme edition machine. the core2duo is faster in all apps, yes. In games and such it kicks ass, yes. In the one app where I *really* care, repetitive mathematical transforms the core2duo is faster, by only 5% and it has double the ram of the Prescott, interesting eh?
Now while I will gladly concede that if you're a gamer the Prescott was abysmal; for scientific, encryption, and encoding applications it really kicked ass.
Now since that is fundamentally the only thing I've used the P4 for since I've built it I have to come to the conclusion that the only reason to buy a core2duo was heatloading.
(though being winter I kinda appreciate the wattage, at least I'm doing something with the damn electrons on their way to becoming heat, unlike my spaceheater)
-nB
I think positrons would be more app. in this instance, no?
I'm using e-nom(domain) and pagesgarden(previous domain and current host). In both cases I have had my host stand up to BS letters from lawyers (see link in sig). When I moved my domain from Pagesgarden to e-nom I told them I wanted a blinded whois. They happily transferred the domain reg and even helped me with the transition to ensure minimal exposure to downtime.
Two thumbs up to both.
-nB
Damn that made my night, thanks. :(
2:20 and at least an hour ahead of me before I can quit
My favorite is when the dupe and the first article are both on the main page. Forget what that one was for...
-nB
"Have you seen those electronic dumpsites in China? Thats where the electronic wastes go after you chuck em in the garbage."
Maybe if you chuck them in the trash in China.
If you chuck them in the trash in the US they go to a US landfill (or maybe a Mexican landfill).
I work for the semiconductor industry and you would not believe how anti old equipment China is. I have to fill out a mile of paperwork to ship a used tester there, and if it's defunct earlier then about 5 years I have to pay to ship it out of the country.
I swear there would be a market for a "shipping" company who could loose a shipment on-demand. Just chuck it overboard in international waters and claim it must have slipped off it's pallet.
-nB
should be an < between the 48,000 and 66,l16, sorry.
just some quick math in my head:
4800 x 10 == 48,000 66,116 != 8 x 4800
I should have been more precise: Logical recovery. In theorey it uses EXT3 so there should be no issue, but with large volumes corruption occures from the fsck.
-nB
That SOB is responsible for killing 4 drives (my bro and I both lost two drives attached). It has shitty recovery from a power-off event.
-nB
Think DT Manhattan as opposed to NYC in general.
-nB
"our median single family home price in San Jose is currently $715000" from a local realitor site.
Durring the heyday of the dot bomb, a 680 SqFt condo sold for over one mil.
your asking price for a home was an opening bid. A crap house (doze and build new quality) on 1/10 acre of land commanded a minimum of 1.3 mil and often sold for vastly more.
-nB
IIRC Base Pay @ McDonalds in the heart of San Jose is $14/hr
-nB
Funny story. :-)
We were carrying Sprint cell phones right when they started rolling out their CDMA service. We had a live demo phone to show off the clarity. My (now wife) GF was helping these two retards from the next door Hometown Buffet (who had stolen the phone from the demo kiosk). They were asking about car chargers and she said: "I'll be happy to help you once you give me my phone back". Well, they bolted (nevermind the Hometown Buffet polo shirts or the name tags), and my GF called the sprint store. These fools went to make a call, where upon a security officer from sprint (pretexting as a customer service rep) said: "Oh, the store must have accidently sold you a demo unit. Bring it into the Sprint store on Fulton for a free replacement and activation." Like all crooks who've been caught, these guys were morons and went into the store. While the replacement phone was "activating" the cops were on the way
Nevermind that my GF was also in the Buffet chewing out the manager about these two. She successfully recovered the value of the demo kiosk (which they damaged when they stole the phone) from their final paychecks, leaving them with (IIRC) under a buck each for the "you're fired" pay check.
-nB
"Although I bet these cost twice as much...."
Not really. As the capacity desired goes up 1, 2.2, 4.7uF etc the cost curve tends to get worse.
1uF ~7-10X aluminum electrolytic, 10uF? About 15x the price.
Thing is the total number of aluminum electrolytic caps in a system is fairly low so this should not impact price too much.
-nB
"Also, I doubt the time required being a month"
He obviously has an 80386DX40
-nB
Yes, but as he points out as long as there is a gradient there is energy to be had. The wider the margin, the better the efficency, and possibly you could design in two or three working fluids that can be switched as appropriate? It should be nominally more expensive to introduce a decent vaccume purge cycle to minimize contamination?
-nB
All I know is that I applaud his making it "free". Likely if he had tried to make money off of this tech it would fail, but now enough tinkerers may pick it up that it has a hells chance (kinda like the EV).
-nB
Assuming I have limitless energy I can make the metal atomically correct. After bombardment I can seperate the gold atoms by density, and re-bombard the light ones with neutrons, the heavy ones with protons to the point they fission (or should I manage to capture enough positrons I can smack those around to lighten it), and the random other bits can be used to operate my antimatter reaction vessle :-)
Point I was making is that once it costs less than gold to make gold, then the market for gold (as currency) will be broken.
-nB
Not impossible, but highly impractical. Lead bars are far too thick. Lead ribbon, now you're talking. Just need *free* energy and we're all set to ruin the metals markets :-)
-nB
-1 pedantic but shouldn't it Earth Fly Traps when on Mars? :-)
-nB
I make one's I know I can keep. Last year was: be fat and happy. :-)
you know what? I am not too much heavier than last year 243 vs 235 and sure as hell I'm actually happy
This year it's enjoy caffine and my kids, while attempting to smuggle in a handful of Cuban Cigars. If I get caught I'll raise a constitutional discrimination issue out of it. (our congress critters can import up to 100 at a time at-will, without the prerequisite of having traveled to Cuba, mearly leaving the country is sufficent).
See easy to keep resolutions are good for you.
-nB
"2) They also investigated Al Gore, and actually managed to catch him in a few things, like using his official phone to make non-official calls, which I'm sure is right up there legally with 'illegally invading Cambodia' and 'selling cocaine to finance the overthrow of Iran'. I mean, I sometimes print personal stuff using work printers, and just last election cycle I was able to hire assassins to take out the sheriff using proceeds from my meth lab, allowing me to install my own puppet in the sheriff's office. Who hasn't bent the law in some way or another?"
of course it's not the same thing. I do believe that Al's calls were excessive though (and IIRC fundraising related, though likely IRIC). As to printer access for personal docs, my employer says this is fine if in small ammounts and non-commercial in nature. I.E. printing some tax forms: OK, printing quotes for your car purchase: OK, printing brocures (sp?) for your up and coming photo business? not OK. Printing your lost dog flyer in mid-high volume? not OK.
-nB