Does anyone know where to find a video of the RGB display? A video of the immediate predecessor of the above is available here ( dynamic stress testing )
Most of the research concerning space-based radiation shielding was done under the umbrella of the now defunct Nasa Institute for Advanced Concepts....
Actually, when I wrote a review article back in 1991-- quite a while before NIAC even was conceived-- it was already by no means anything like a new concept.
HA! I should known better to put "contemporary government funded" before "research"! %P I'm a major Space aficionado myself -- part of my brain must have segfaulted.:P
( strictly speaking NASA is not a government agency, but the money needed for the research they do in large part does come from the government, and therefore by proxy it's "government funded";) )
jdb2
By the way I'm honored ( and shocked/surprised! ) that someone of your caliber actually read and replied to one of my messages. I'm one of your fans by the way! ( Now I feel like an idiot )
Most of the research concerning space-based radiation shielding was done under the umbrella of the now defunct Nasa Institute for Advanced Concepts. One proposal, based on "multipole electrostatics" was developed to protect against not only space-borne radiation, but micrometeorites. See the/. story or here
Here's another one that uses some of the plasma ejected from a spacecraft's propulsion system ( eg. VASIMIR ) to set up a huge and extremely powerful magnetic field around the manned section of the spacecraft in order to create a "plasma magnetic shield".
Also, let's not forget that, as one poster mentioned, M2P2 ( Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion -- see here ) can be used as a propulsion mechanism whereby it deflects the solar wind and also as a shield against space born radiation. In a nutshell, it operates on the principle of a positive feedback loop wherein initially a magnetic field created by a conventional magnet traps injected ionized helium which itself strengthens the magnetic field which traps even more ionized helium and so on.
It's really sad NASA shut down one of their most promising research institutes. But, all the studies are still there, archived for some interesting reading. I highly recommend it.:)
I am NOT an "Apple fanboy" ( in fact, I can't stand them and I've never owned any Apple hardware or software in my life-- I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 ) My comment concerning IBM's competency was in the context of their supporting, actually giving away, their processor ISAs and encouraging everyone to join the Power.org custom ASIC bandwagon, yet at the same time crying about some idiotic non-compete agreement when they created the competition in the first place. Oh, and my "harangue about Apple's licensing rights" was actually meant to shed some light, for those not in the know, as to how Apple was legally capable of producing Power clones. Also, in case your English is rusty, the last time I checked "harangue" meant "a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe." I have no idea how you interpreted piece of informational prose (excepting the last sentence) for the above -- Now I want what you're smoking.
Power.org is the standards body that controls the POWER(PC) ISA specifications, among other things. Its members include IBM, *Apple*, Freescale and many others. If you want to build a custom designed chip based on one of the ISAs "owned" by Power.org, then all you need to do is become a member and license the ISA of your choice. You are then free to design any kind of custom *micro*-architecture your heart desires as long as the ISA presented by your chip/micro-architecture is compatible with the ISA you licensed from Power.org.
I can't remember if this was posted on/. or not but this Youtube video demonstrates Vista's suckiness, compared to Linux *and* XP, with respect to decompressing a 17MB Zip file. ( Guess which OS wins ) Of course, you already knew this anyway.
And Captain Obvious would mention that your statement is indicative of a Troll as you'd have to be a moron to think I didn't know such a basic thing, not to mention your ignorance of the other the 99% of my prose that contains correct grammar, and the fact that this was obviously a typo. Get a life. And by the way, one of my areas of study is Linguistics.
LOL. I didn't even see that. ( Damn my fingers! )
Seems the communications uplink from my eyes to my brain and the communications downlink from my brain to my fingers are malfunctioning.;) ( I swear my hands have a mind of their own... hmmmm..... that could be a multiple entendre)
I recently upgraded my Kubuntu 8.04 install to 8.10 and although there are many new features, specifically the main one being KDE 4.1.x, I experienced constant segfaults, lock-ups, and crashes, mostly associated in some way with KDE4 . Also, there were the "little" bugs , a multitude of minor but very annoying UI glitches. So, I went back to my old 8.04 install. I don't see how they could have managed to fix all the above problems in just a few weeks.
The idea of Nvidia producing an x86 CPU might seem dubious but perhaps not in the light of the fact that Nvidia bought Stexar in 2006. Stexar was a little known and quite secretive startup composed of a large portion of ex-Intel engineers and higher-ups from Intel's Xeon team. Before being swallowed by Nvidia they were intimating that work was being done on some sort of x86 "DSP".
I've noticed, at least since I switched from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3, that when Adobe Flash Player 9 ( or 10 )
is installed the browser exhibits sporadic lockups and crashes when navigating the Web -- not just when viewing Flash video or a site
that makes heavy use of Flash, although that does seem to increase the odds of the browser eating itself.
After the release of Firefox 3.0 I opted to install Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta. The performance was much better as was the video quality and I didn't experience as many crashes. This all changed when Adobe updated the Beta and the details can be found
in the bug report that I filed here. To summarize, after the update, Flash Player 10 would cause the browser to segfault and lockup so frequently, sometimes even upon startup, that the browser became unusable -- I had to downgrade to Flash Player 9. Currently there is someone from Adobe assigned to work on the "problem" whatever it is, but I haven't heard anything in weeks.
Sorry if I misinterpreted your post as inflammatory. I have problems "reading between the lines" in real life social situations ( Asperger's ) not to mention on-line where there aren't any non-verbal social cues to begin with.
Apparently you have trouble with the idiomatic use of the English language. If you read the dictionary entry you'll discover that it also means "Deceptive or delusive nonsense."
I lived in Houston for 20 years myself, and if you're getting into arguments I somehow get the feeling that *you're* the one picking fights with people who have a different belief system.
Different belief system? You mean delusional bullshit. Sorry to nitpick, but you later refer to said belief systems as bullshit yourself. And sorry, I'm not the kind of person to pick a fight, but when someone attacks my character or spouts a bunch of "Mega-Churchian" Voodoo in my face, I will vigorously defend logic and reason.
You hear a viewpoint grounded in religion or other bullshit and you just *have* to make an issue of it. But then, my college roomate was exactly like that, so maybe I'm just projecting.
Sometimes that's the case, but most of the time it's when somehow I'm targeted personally, directly or indirectly -- it's when someone spouts some "Christian" garbage and everyone else except me is wagging their heads. In that situation, for me at least, to not respond would be to let others think that you believe in the garbage being talked about -- I'm not one of those people.
I live in Houston. There are 4 churches on my street. (Bering, if you must know) Yet I have never been approached by any of them... Perhaps you find what you are looking for.
Huh? Neither have I. What I'm referring to is eg. when I talk to people I often get a line of biblical bullshit or the blind assumption that I think this or that is God's will, that I think I need to "trust in God/Jesus", or that I think morality has a direct correlation with "Belief in God/Jesus". For example, I've had neighbors that have gone around preaching that Halloween is the work of the devil. And if you want a specific case of "trying to be converted" I was directly referring to several incidents where I have done residential computer tech work but when the client got wind that I don't believe in any God(s) or Higher Power(s) I was intimated as being amoral -- and I've gotten into many arguments, especially in certain social settings.
But maybe that's just my low threshold for bullshit kicking in.
So am I.:) But in contrast to you, I can remember people here trying to "convert" me.
Perhaps you're lucky and live in Austin -- the "Silicon Hills" - the land locked country in Texas where everyone usually has a brain that can think independently. Unfortunately I live in Houston, deep in the "Bible Belt", where there is a church every half mile.
I called the idea of boiling water to produce energy on a spacecraft "stupid".
Oh, and in case you ever actually read this: go back and reread the "stupid" comment you replied to. It said nothing about boiling water.
Do you have basic reasoning abilities? I was referring to my absurd mistaken idea that the OP was talking about a light-water reactor, which would use steam. Please read before you post.
Actually, I knew, but thought that the power conversion would be too inefficient when trying to produce the plasma electrically and would reduce the thrust to a level too low needed for large-scale missions. I was wrong and corrected myself -- something you conveniently ignored.
but in that case you should probably think twice before insulting anyone (yes, "your idea is stupid" is an unnecessary insult) who tries to correct you.
First, he wasn't trying to correct me, or at least I didn't take it that way. I took his remark as inflammatory because of his use of "good luck with that" with reference to using a nuclear reactor in space -- and that comment *was* stupid as there has been a huge amount of work on space-based reactors ( look into the history of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and eg. projects Kiwi, Rover, and NERVA )
for the purposes of energy generation and propulsion in space. What was *stupid* on *my* part was mistaking his reference to "a heat exchanger and turbine" as a reference to a light water reactor, which I should have known to be absurd. It was just a misunderstanding, and your continual involvement in this with your cocky attitude of moral superiority and the need to treat me like a baby makes you everything but a Troll.
And as for "Please just stop", are you referring to my "stupid" remarks that you're obviously above, since everyone knows that you have the moral authority and anyone who dares contest what you say is either immature, stupid, or an *sshole? If that's the case then your replies to my post would seem to indicate a double standard : you are right, and I am wrong. On the other hand if you are telling me to stop because, obviously, I'm making a fool of myself by trying to defend my weak, small-minded idea that my character and intellect are being harassed because of my delusion of your misrepresentation of my remarks, then you've just proven yourself to be the cocky, condescending, self-appointed moral authority that you say you are not.
If you think that being corrected when you post something mistaken and insulting is "patronizing", imagine how it looks when you try to correct people who are trying to post something factual and polite.
Again, you misrepresent my statements, and you're continual reference to my remarks being "mistaken" and "insulting" and that they need to be "corrected" is what gives me the idea that you're getting some type of power trip out of this.
I was mistaken in the fact that I thought the OP was talking about a light-water reactor when he referred to heat-exchangers and turbines -- that was stupid on my part. But, as for you "correcting" me, obviously you neglected to read or conveniently forgot the comments I made in my previous posts such as 'I think I'm in error with producing a plasma by "pass[ing] it through the reactor core"' . I had conceded that idea of direct heating of the working fluid ( gas ) to produce a plasma was wrong and that using electricity was probably what the article was referring to.
And on the topic of you or the OP being "factual", that is highly questionable in the context of this discussion because you made that remark after I replied to "he may have instead been talking about an electric rocket" and now it appears that you are retroactively extending your *factual* statement about the plasma being produced electrically to my previous comment -- in essence, you are accusing me of lacking the ability to foretell the future. Furthermore, the OP had thrown out the possibility of conventional nuclear power and instead was referring to antimatter, so I don't see how you can draw the c
I think I'm in error with producing a plasma by "pass[ing] it through the reactor core" unless you're using something similar to a nuclear light-bulb setup.
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Does anyone know where to find a video of the RGB display? A video of the immediate predecessor of the above is available here ( dynamic stress testing )
jdb2
Same results here.
/usr/share/dict/words
gives the same results that you posted.
grep -i -E '^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]{12,}$'
For reference I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy.
jdb2
Use Mplayer .
mplayer -fs -cache 1024 -cache-min 99 'http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h.640.mov'
works just fine on my crappy K7 system. ( Kubuntu 8.04 )
jdb2
This brings a whole new meaning to Aughra's "I'll get my eye to you!"
;)
( You have to be a Dark Crystal fan to get this one
jdb2
Most of the research concerning space-based radiation shielding was done under the umbrella of the now defunct Nasa Institute for Advanced Concepts. ...
Actually, when I wrote a review article back in 1991-- quite a while before NIAC even was conceived-- it was already by no means anything like a new concept.
HA! I should known better to put "contemporary government funded" before "research"! %P I'm a major Space aficionado myself -- part of my brain must have segfaulted. :P
( strictly speaking NASA is not a government agency, but the money needed for the research they do in large part does come from the government, and therefore by proxy it's "government funded" ;) )
jdb2
By the way I'm honored ( and shocked/surprised! ) that someone of your caliber actually read and replied to one of my messages. I'm one of your fans by the way! ( Now I feel like an idiot )
Most of the research concerning space-based radiation shielding was done under the umbrella of the now defunct Nasa Institute for Advanced Concepts. One proposal, based on "multipole electrostatics" was developed to protect against not only space-borne radiation, but micrometeorites. See the /. story or here
:)
Here's another one that uses some of the plasma ejected from a spacecraft's propulsion system ( eg. VASIMIR ) to set up a huge and extremely powerful magnetic field around the manned section of the spacecraft in order to create a "plasma magnetic shield".
Also, let's not forget that, as one poster mentioned, M2P2 ( Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion -- see here ) can be used as a propulsion mechanism whereby it deflects the solar wind and also as a shield against space born radiation. In a nutshell, it operates on the principle of a positive feedback loop wherein initially a magnetic field created by a conventional magnet traps injected ionized helium which itself strengthens the magnetic field which traps even more ionized helium and so on.
It's really sad NASA shut down one of their most promising research institutes. But, all the studies are still there, archived for some interesting reading. I highly recommend it.
jdb2
I am NOT an "Apple fanboy" ( in fact, I can't stand them and I've never owned any Apple hardware or software in my life-- I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 ) My comment concerning IBM's competency was in the context of their supporting, actually giving away, their processor ISAs and encouraging everyone to join the Power.org custom ASIC bandwagon, yet at the same time crying about some idiotic non-compete agreement when they created the competition in the first place. Oh, and my "harangue about Apple's licensing rights" was actually meant to shed some light, for those not in the know, as to how Apple was legally capable of producing Power clones. Also, in case your English is rusty, the last time I checked "harangue" meant "a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe." I have no idea how you interpreted piece of informational prose (excepting the last sentence) for the above -- Now I want what you're smoking.
Power.org is the standards body that controls the POWER(PC) ISA specifications, among other things. Its members include IBM, *Apple*, Freescale and many others. If you want to build a custom designed chip based on one of the ISAs "owned" by Power.org, then all you need to do is become a member and license the ISA of your choice. You are then free to design any kind of custom *micro*-architecture your heart desires as long as the ISA presented by your chip/micro-architecture is compatible with the ISA you licensed from Power.org .
I want some of whatever the hell IBM is smoking.
jdb2
I can't remember if this was posted on /. or not but this Youtube video demonstrates Vista's suckiness, compared to Linux *and* XP, with respect to decompressing a 17MB Zip file. ( Guess which OS wins ) Of course, you already knew this anyway.
jdb2
And Captain Obvious would mention that your statement is indicative of a Troll as you'd have to be a moron to think I didn't know such a basic thing, not to mention your ignorance of the other the 99% of my prose that contains correct grammar, and the fact that this was obviously a typo. Get a life. And by the way, one of my areas of study is Linguistics.
jdb2
LOL. I didn't even see that. ( Damn my fingers! ) Seems the communications uplink from my eyes to my brain and the communications downlink from my brain to my fingers are malfunctioning. ;) ( I swear my hands have a mind of their own... hmmmm..... that could be a multiple entendre)
;)
P.S. You missed s/4\.1\.x,/4\.1\.x \./
jdb2
For the grammar Nazi's ;) : s/are/were/ ; s/bugs ,/bugs :/
jdb2
I recently upgraded my Kubuntu 8.04 install to 8.10 and although there are many new features, specifically the main one being KDE 4.1.x, I experienced constant segfaults, lock-ups, and crashes, mostly associated in some way with KDE4 . Also, there were the "little" bugs , a multitude of minor but very annoying UI glitches. So, I went back to my old 8.04 install. I don't see how they could have managed to fix all the above problems in just a few weeks.
I'm sticking to 8.04 until I hear otherwise.
jdb2
The idea of Nvidia producing an x86 CPU might seem dubious but perhaps not in the light of the fact that Nvidia bought Stexar in 2006. Stexar was a little known and quite secretive startup composed of a large portion of ex-Intel engineers and higher-ups from Intel's Xeon team. Before being swallowed by Nvidia they were intimating that work was being done on some sort of x86 "DSP".
jdb2
I've noticed, at least since I switched from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3, that when Adobe Flash Player 9 ( or 10 ) is installed the browser exhibits sporadic lockups and crashes when navigating the Web -- not just when viewing Flash video or a site that makes heavy use of Flash, although that does seem to increase the odds of the browser eating itself.
After the release of Firefox 3.0 I opted to install Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta. The performance was much better as was the video quality and I didn't experience as many crashes. This all changed when Adobe updated the Beta and the details can be found in the bug report that I filed here. To summarize, after the update, Flash Player 10 would cause the browser to segfault and lockup so frequently, sometimes even upon startup, that the browser became unusable -- I had to downgrade to Flash Player 9. Currently there is someone from Adobe assigned to work on the "problem" whatever it is, but I haven't heard anything in weeks.
jdb2
Sorry if I misinterpreted your post as inflammatory. I have problems "reading between the lines" in real life social situations ( Asperger's ) not to mention on-line where there aren't any non-verbal social cues to begin with.
jdb2
Apparently you have trouble with the idiomatic use of the English language. If you read the dictionary entry you'll discover that it also means "Deceptive or delusive nonsense."
"You hear a viewpoint grounded in religion or other bullshit"
And when you imply someone is an asshole you're usually a hypocrite.
I lived in Houston for 20 years myself, and if you're getting into arguments I somehow get the feeling that *you're* the one picking fights with people who have a different belief system.
Different belief system? You mean delusional bullshit. Sorry to nitpick, but you later refer to said belief systems as bullshit yourself. And sorry, I'm not the kind of person to pick a fight, but when someone attacks my character or spouts a bunch of "Mega-Churchian" Voodoo in my face, I will vigorously defend logic and reason.
You hear a viewpoint grounded in religion or other bullshit and you just *have* to make an issue of it. But then, my college roomate was exactly like that, so maybe I'm just projecting.
Sometimes that's the case, but most of the time it's when somehow I'm targeted personally, directly or indirectly -- it's when someone spouts some "Christian" garbage and everyone else except me is wagging their heads. In that situation, for me at least, to not respond would be to let others think that you believe in the garbage being talked about -- I'm not one of those people.
jdb2
I live in Houston. There are 4 churches on my street. (Bering, if you must know) Yet I have never been approached by any of them... Perhaps you find what you are looking for.
Huh? Neither have I. What I'm referring to is eg. when I talk to people I often get a line of biblical bullshit or the blind assumption that I think this or that is God's will, that I think I need to "trust in God/Jesus", or that I think morality has a direct correlation with "Belief in God/Jesus". For example, I've had neighbors that have gone around preaching that Halloween is the work of the devil. And if you want a specific case of "trying to be converted" I was directly referring to several incidents where I have done residential computer tech work but when the client got wind that I don't believe in any God(s) or Higher Power(s) I was intimated as being amoral -- and I've gotten into many arguments, especially in certain social settings. But maybe that's just my low threshold for bullshit kicking in.
jdb2
Oops. That is I live near ( ~30 miles ) Houston.
jdb2
So am I. :) But in contrast to you, I can remember people here trying to "convert" me.
Perhaps you're lucky and live in Austin -- the "Silicon Hills" - the land locked country in Texas where everyone usually has a brain that can think independently. Unfortunately I live in Houston, deep in the "Bible Belt", where there is a church every half mile.
jdb2
I called the idea of boiling water to produce energy on a spacecraft "stupid".
Oh, and in case you ever actually read this: go back and reread the "stupid" comment you replied to. It said nothing about boiling water.
Do you have basic reasoning abilities? I was referring to my absurd mistaken idea that the OP was talking about a light-water reactor, which would use steam. Please read before you post.
If you don't know that VASIMR is an electro-thermal rocket, ie. one that uses an electric power source to excite the plasma, that's okay,
Actually, I knew, but thought that the power conversion would be too inefficient when trying to produce the plasma electrically and would reduce the thrust to a level too low needed for large-scale missions. I was wrong and corrected myself -- something you conveniently ignored.
but in that case you should probably think twice before insulting anyone (yes, "your idea is stupid" is an unnecessary insult) who tries to correct you.
First, he wasn't trying to correct me, or at least I didn't take it that way. I took his remark as inflammatory because of his use of "good luck with that" with reference to using a nuclear reactor in space -- and that comment *was* stupid as there has been a huge amount of work on space-based reactors ( look into the history of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and eg. projects Kiwi, Rover, and NERVA ) for the purposes of energy generation and propulsion in space. What was *stupid* on *my* part was mistaking his reference to "a heat exchanger and turbine" as a reference to a light water reactor, which I should have known to be absurd. It was just a misunderstanding, and your continual involvement in this with your cocky attitude of moral superiority and the need to treat me like a baby makes you everything but a Troll.
And as for "Please just stop", are you referring to my "stupid" remarks that you're obviously above, since everyone knows that you have the moral authority and anyone who dares contest what you say is either immature, stupid, or an *sshole? If that's the case then your replies to my post would seem to indicate a double standard : you are right, and I am wrong. On the other hand if you are telling me to stop because, obviously, I'm making a fool of myself by trying to defend my weak, small-minded idea that my character and intellect are being harassed because of my delusion of your misrepresentation of my remarks, then you've just proven yourself to be the cocky, condescending, self-appointed moral authority that you say you are not.
If you think that being corrected when you post something mistaken and insulting is "patronizing", imagine how it looks when you try to correct people who are trying to post something factual and polite.
Again, you misrepresent my statements, and you're continual reference to my remarks being "mistaken" and "insulting" and that they need to be "corrected" is what gives me the idea that you're getting some type of power trip out of this.
I was mistaken in the fact that I thought the OP was talking about a light-water reactor when he referred to heat-exchangers and turbines -- that was stupid on my part. But, as for you "correcting" me, obviously you neglected to read or conveniently forgot the comments I made in my previous posts such as 'I think I'm in error with producing a plasma by "pass[ing] it through the reactor core"' . I had conceded that idea of direct heating of the working fluid ( gas ) to produce a plasma was wrong and that using electricity was probably what the article was referring to.
And on the topic of you or the OP being "factual", that is highly questionable in the context of this discussion because you made that remark after I replied to "he may have instead been talking about an electric rocket" and now it appears that you are retroactively extending your *factual* statement about the plasma being produced electrically to my previous comment -- in essence, you are accusing me of lacking the ability to foretell the future. Furthermore, the OP had thrown out the possibility of conventional nuclear power and instead was referring to antimatter, so I don't see how you can draw the c
I think I'm in error with producing a plasma by "pass[ing] it through the reactor core" unless you're using something similar to a nuclear light-bulb setup.
jdb2