ya,
i mean with windows running, you can't access most of the processor anyway. Have you checked the difference in flops btw say a pentium 120 with win98 and a p4 with XP? you might be suprised by how little you can actually use.
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this is absolutely true, i mean look how good it worked for the opt-com community...
remember them...
remember when we were all going to have an 80gbit/s line to our toasters...
this doesn't have anything to do with changing the nature vs nurture arguement. anything we are taught to feel good about would cause the same release of endorphins. The experiment is interesting but i don't see how it has anything to do with NvsN.
now i thought that the amount of stresses in the cable meant that any type of space elevator would be unlikely without some very strong new material.
for example, say i wanted to lift a 100kg man up to 380 km (ISS height). This would put a force of 1000N(the man) + 380km *area * density (of cable).area of say 30 cm^2 gives a force of 1000 +1140* density. failure is usually measured in stress (force per area) soooo lets see.....
SO nanotubes may handle the stress, but noone can make 380 km of nanotube rope yet. Even that much kevlar would be tough. and this is without incorporating the added stress of accelerating the man (starting his trip up the rope).
getting away from? the us airforce is already flying drones, its only a matter of time before we see the good old robo-armyguy!
yes, now not only will the civilian public see a nice war via embedded fluff reporters, but the armyguys themselves will also miss out on the real wars. That is right, war with no consequences for the agressor.
GW is gettin excited!
No more worry of vietnam repeats! Oil everywhere free for the taking!
I used to work for an englishman, and the only way he could explain the distances that are normal to us in north america to his contrymen was with the following
"Flying from Toronto to Calgary for a meeting and then back is like flying from london to ciaro for the day."*
*For the geographically challanged Toronto is near the middle of canada, and calgary is in the west, but neither are near our coasts;)
I don't mean human visual either, since most of this is in the micron range. also too bad because of the size of the wavelengths.
The widths of the bits are the problem, they begin to overlap - too much overlapping of colour channels and all you see is on, not on off on off. So this is maybe what you mean by bonded together. This uses all of our bandwith to make pulses smaller in time, and we must forget about using all colour for switching. making the small pulses is relatively easy (femtosecond pulse width lasers are not uncommon) so this is the route taken.
The real limitation of these schemes is the fact that waveguides (ie fiber) cannot be made "good" for a broad range of wavelenghts, this limits the amount of usable frequency space. then its down to whatever the reciever can detect for the number of colour channels that can be used.
sigh,
how many channels do you suppose you could get using a prism? think about the width of the pulse that actually carries the information. pulses in time must have frequency spread associated with them, the shorter the bits the bigger the spread in frequency. this is basically why colour schemes died along time ago.
btw this is known as a photonic bandgap device, and it is not a new idea. Don't get me wrong, better efficiency is great, but it is still a looooong way from being a workable switch
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this is totally the solution to our current energy problems! more gas burning engines...
ya, i mean with windows running, you can't access most of the processor anyway. Have you checked the difference in flops btw say a pentium 120 with win98 and a p4 with XP? you might be suprised by how little you can actually use.
remember them...
remember when we were all going to have an 80gbit/s line to our toasters...
those were the days...
"in other news, NASA commented that the likely cause of crash was that they dropped a weighted baloon from space..."
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this doesn't have anything to do with changing the nature vs nurture arguement. anything we are taught to feel good about would cause the same release of endorphins. The experiment is interesting but i don't see how it has anything to do with NvsN.
for example, say i wanted to lift a 100kg man up to 380 km (ISS height). This would put a force of 1000N(the man) + 380km *area * density (of cable).area of say 30 cm^2 gives a force of 1000 +1140* density. failure is usually measured in stress (force per area) soooo lets see.....
with
material/stress/density steel 250Mpa 7850 kg/m^3 nanotubes 63GPa 3520kg/m^3 calculated stress steel = 2.9Gpa calculated nanotubes = 1.3 GPa
SO nanotubes may handle the stress, but noone can make 380 km of nanotube rope yet. Even that much kevlar would be tough. and this is without incorporating the added stress of accelerating the man (starting his trip up the rope).
In short, new materials are needed!
gotta use the catch phrases or you get no funding;)
yes, now not only will the civilian public see a nice war via embedded fluff reporters, but the armyguys themselves will also miss out on the real wars. That is right, war with no consequences for the agressor.
GW is gettin excited!
No more worry of vietnam repeats! Oil everywhere free for the taking!
now, perhaps i missed the point, but i can afford the beowulf cluster in my basement. But, i don't think i can afford even a used cray:p
A system where the errors cannot be reported has absolutely no chance of evolving to its own betterment!
*For the geographically challanged Toronto is near the middle of canada, and calgary is in the west, but neither are near our coasts ;)
technically it is a south magnetic pole up here anyway...
The widths of the bits are the problem, they begin to overlap - too much overlapping of colour channels and all you see is on, not on off on off. So this is maybe what you mean by bonded together. This uses all of our bandwith to make pulses smaller in time, and we must forget about using all colour for switching. making the small pulses is relatively easy (femtosecond pulse width lasers are not uncommon) so this is the route taken.
The real limitation of these schemes is the fact that waveguides (ie fiber) cannot be made "good" for a broad range of wavelenghts, this limits the amount of usable frequency space. then its down to whatever the reciever can detect for the number of colour channels that can be used.
let me rephrase, in 32 channels (say) how wide (in time) must a bit be to get say 40 Gbit/s transmission rates?
seems to me that width is quite small
sigh, how many channels do you suppose you could get using a prism? think about the width of the pulse that actually carries the information. pulses in time must have frequency spread associated with them, the shorter the bits the bigger the spread in frequency. this is basically why colour schemes died along time ago. btw this is known as a photonic bandgap device, and it is not a new idea. Don't get me wrong, better efficiency is great, but it is still a looooong way from being a workable switch