I like how the slashdot tag already says 'slashvertisement'. That just gets it over with, if you don't like these articles, you can skip it!
Anyway, I thought it interesting enough to look at it, there are several things I don't understand:
- There's still a fan in there! Why does this thing help reduce noise? Doesn't it just places all the heat to another place, using a just as noisy fan there to get rid of it? Is there anyone who can say something useful about this
- This is a very silly trend of course. If every device had its own complete water cooling system, your pc case would become pretty full with those bulky water cooling pci cards. Seems like not very good for the airflow in the case to me (or don't you need airflow then anymore?). If you're into water cooling, just make one cooling system to cool all. They'd better make a card with only the watercooling in/outlet connections built in so you can integrate it into your water cooling system.
I'd like google news to be a bit more smart. Sometimes I want to search for german news, sometimes for english news. However, if I fill in german words at the news search at google.com (set to english language), I won't get any results. I guess this is the same for all languages. Really, they have such an immense database on language use, why can't they just smartly suggest you the results in the language of the searched words, or for english speakers the automatical translations of these journals.
Or maybe I'm just too lazy to explicitly go to google.de to find german news.
My guess would be that they won't, but they might make it impossible to install anti-spyware, by having a built-in spyware program that will remove or malfunction any other anti-spyware program you'd like to install.
Ah, I was just wondering, is there really no nice program that can do simple mixing of songs on a pc?
I would like to use something like that, how limited it might be, just to get an ear for beat/tempo and playing the right songs after each other. I am just interested in this from an amateurist point of view, I don't want to impose this on my fellow humans;), and I'd like to learn and start somewhere, without having to invest loads of money on equipment or software. Maybe there is even software that can help you in learning to find the right beats in a song?
Hmm, how would you explain Ministry of Defense being one of the low scorers then? You'd think they would be pretty tech-minded.
Other agencies whose failing marks went unchanged from 2004 include the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, State, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs.
FTA: Most [agencies] are spending so much on the paperwork exercises that they don't have a lot of money left over to fix the problems they've identified.
It figures. Institutions like the DHS are completely focused on administrative, paper-tiger, security. Which in the end doesn't end up in a real security for anyone, but instead a freedom-diminishing administrative load on everyone.
The National Science Foundation and the General Services Administration each saw their scores rise from a C-plus in 2004 to an A last year. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Labor earned A-plus grades in 2005, up from B and B-minus respectively.
Good to see there are competent people out there, it should not be impossible. It's just sad that the more 'safety-critical' the organization is, the more sloppy they get on critical points in their organization.
Now, fighter-aircraft have a system which transmits data between the plane and the ground and integrates the plane in to the greater whole, and the Hornet is no exception. One of the first things we did was to rip the US-designed system out, and replaced it with a Finnish design, for the sole reason that the US system was just plain inferior.
Yeah, I guess they weren't so advanced in the days, and I understand you didn't want to do less than a 60.000 color display, polyphonic ringtones, and a camera with flash of course! Gotta love that nokia thechnology;)
You could make it a microkernel, and put all the device drivers outside of this, with very restricted and controlled functionality:
see: http://www.minix3.org/reliability.htm
There's other stuff out there, like eternal loop-catching etc. I just bounced into this a few days ago, and it looks interesting.
Ah, come on you people, the main post gives only the most flamebaitable side of it all, which isn't even very bad.
Instead of starting the reflexive games and violence discussions all over again, just go the article and look for example at the cool games on page 2
I played an online game similar to the strange attractors game, I was playing for hours launching things into orbit, waiting to see where they would end up, very addictive!
The rumble box game looks even more freaking out, reminds me of the IKEA / MacDonalds ball-boxes they use at the kids' corner, but then mixed with destructable robots, coolness garanteed!
Did you try the game? The worst it did was stealing my time due to all those stupid slow flash animations (and slow flash gameplay). The music brings a light tone to it all anyway, not really aiming at making you aggressive and all (depending on what you get aggressive from of course).
Hah, I did a fun calculation just last week, after someone gave me a link to http://www.extreme.outervision.com/index.jsp , where you can calculate how much your system will use effectively.
Say, a moderate PC will use about 175 Watt, which is 175 Joule/second. In an hour, that is 175 * 3600 / 1000 = 630 kJ. A peanut butter sandwich contains about 100 kcal, that is 420 kJ. So, with 100% conversion you would need to eat 1.5 peanut butter sandwiches to keep a pc running. Of course, you cannot directly convert, but you could use a home-trainer with a cycling dynamo. Human metabolic efficiency during cycling is about 25%, and a good cycling dynamo can have a 50% efficiency. This brings a factor 8 into the equation, you would therefore have to eat 12 peanut butter sandwiches per hour to keep your system running this way.
You'll directly burn them of course, so you won't get obese, but I'd say that it's financially not profitable (all that food! very costly, the healthier the food the more expensive it will be) in comparison to just getting it from the electricity net.
wouldn't be so much fun as the track is so completely flat and straight. You'd want something with more curves. Or do the real thing and go to the german autobahn! Make sure your brakes work well, though, you'll need them a lot;)
Ah thanks, you're right, and I am deeply ashamed of myself;)
I already figured it would most likely be 50 nanoseconds, but of course they might have used the wrong one on purpose to make it look like a bigger number:)
In the process I also found a very nice wiki on the history of the word 'billion': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
FTA:
The simulations followed the life of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus, but only for a very brief time,
The nature article mentions a runtime of 50 times a billionth of a second, which I guess is 50 nanosecond, or 50 femtosecond, depending on how you define 'billion'. 50 nanoseconds is pretty good for a simulation nowadays, especially for a system of that size.
Look, it al seems very nice that they did this, fancy pictures and nature paper garantueed, but this really won't help us much further. This is no big scientific step forward. Virus processes happen at least in the micro/millisecond timescale, there's a lot of protein diffusion and refolding going on. Since the short simulation done here was an immense effort, it means that going to the timescales studying the real important processes is still way too far away. But who knows, maybe in ten years.
Right now, you could better use the same computer power used for this single project to study a lot more smaller projects that actually will give us insight into real molecular processes. Or maybe I'm just jealous;)
for those that don't have flash: screenshots
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Google video is nice and all, but eats my cpu. So, here some screenshots for the people with underpowered pcs:
Thank you, I was looking for links to her website etc, as no single link is given in the interview. Djeez, these people haven't heard of hyperlinking I guess?
That second link you give does not seem to have its sources in an onion article. They just seem to state that it could have been an onion article. It isn't that funny, though;)
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Anyway, I thought it interesting enough to look at it, there are several things I don't understand:
- There's still a fan in there! Why does this thing help reduce noise? Doesn't it just places all the heat to another place, using a just as noisy fan there to get rid of it? Is there anyone who can say something useful about this
- This is a very silly trend of course. If every device had its own complete water cooling system, your pc case would become pretty full with those bulky water cooling pci cards. Seems like not very good for the airflow in the case to me (or don't you need airflow then anymore?). If you're into water cooling, just make one cooling system to cool all. They'd better make a card with only the watercooling in/outlet connections built in so you can integrate it into your water cooling system.
Or maybe I'm just too lazy to explicitly go to google.de to find german news.
My guess would be that they won't, but they might make it impossible to install anti-spyware, by having a built-in spyware program that will remove or malfunction any other anti-spyware program you'd like to install.
I would like to use something like that, how limited it might be, just to get an ear for beat/tempo and playing the right songs after each other. I am just interested in this from an amateurist point of view, I don't want to impose this on my fellow humans ;), and I'd like to learn and start somewhere, without having to invest loads of money on equipment or software. Maybe there is even software that can help you in learning to find the right beats in a song?
Come on, everyone wants to see it now! This is just ancient psychology, forbidden fruits....
- The senseo coffeemachine, making espresso the simple way!
- Those stickers you can put on your mobile phone and blink while you're talking?
- Toll collect systems that can register any car on the highway, and keep track of where it is?
- Bluetooth! I have nothing that uses it yet, but it might be handy for people.
- Male underwear with a slit at the side for easy access during peeing.
- Or alternatively: the peeing-funnel for women, so they can pee standing up?
Ah, I don't know, we'll just have to wait I guessOther agencies whose failing marks went unchanged from 2004 include the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, State, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs.
It figures. Institutions like the DHS are completely focused on administrative, paper-tiger, security. Which in the end doesn't end up in a real security for anyone, but instead a freedom-diminishing administrative load on everyone.
The National Science Foundation and the General Services Administration each saw their scores rise from a C-plus in 2004 to an A last year. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Labor earned A-plus grades in 2005, up from B and B-minus respectively.
Good to see there are competent people out there, it should not be impossible. It's just sad that the more 'safety-critical' the organization is, the more sloppy they get on critical points in their organization.
Yeah, I guess they weren't so advanced in the days, and I understand you didn't want to do less than a 60.000 color display, polyphonic ringtones, and a camera with flash of course! Gotta love that nokia thechnology ;)
see: http://www.minix3.org/reliability.htm
There's other stuff out there, like eternal loop-catching etc. I just bounced into this a few days ago, and it looks interesting.
Someone should simulate it! Bonuspoints for combining a double helix, the universe, and a very big supercomputer!
Instead of starting the reflexive games and violence discussions all over again, just go the article and look for example at the cool games on page 2
I played an online game similar to the strange attractors game, I was playing for hours launching things into orbit, waiting to see where they would end up, very addictive!
The rumble box game looks even more freaking out, reminds me of the IKEA / MacDonalds ball-boxes they use at the kids' corner, but then mixed with destructable robots, coolness garanteed!
Did you try the game? The worst it did was stealing my time due to all those stupid slow flash animations (and slow flash gameplay). The music brings a light tone to it all anyway, not really aiming at making you aggressive and all (depending on what you get aggressive from of course).
Say, a moderate PC will use about 175 Watt, which is 175 Joule/second. In an hour, that is 175 * 3600 / 1000 = 630 kJ. A peanut butter sandwich contains about 100 kcal, that is 420 kJ. So, with 100% conversion you would need to eat 1.5 peanut butter sandwiches to keep a pc running. Of course, you cannot directly convert, but you could use a home-trainer with a cycling dynamo. Human metabolic efficiency during cycling is about 25%, and a good cycling dynamo can have a 50% efficiency. This brings a factor 8 into the equation, you would therefore have to eat 12 peanut butter sandwiches per hour to keep your system running this way.
You'll directly burn them of course, so you won't get obese, but I'd say that it's financially not profitable (all that food! very costly, the healthier the food the more expensive it will be) in comparison to just getting it from the electricity net.
wouldn't be so much fun as the track is so completely flat and straight. You'd want something with more curves. Or do the real thing and go to the german autobahn! Make sure your brakes work well, though, you'll need them a lot ;)
offtopic: you DO realize that referring to the song you refer to in your sig is a jail-worthy offense in most civilized countries, I hope ;)
bah, official links is of course: http://uuoc.com/
yup, another one who fell into the useless use of cat trap!
oh, and another error: the actual paper was not in nature but in structure. I wonder if they tried Nature first...
I already figured it would most likely be 50 nanoseconds, but of course they might have used the wrong one on purpose to make it look like a bigger number :)
In the process I also found a very nice wiki on the history of the word 'billion': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
The simulations followed the life of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus, but only for a very brief time,
The nature article mentions a runtime of 50 times a billionth of a second, which I guess is 50 nanosecond, or 50 femtosecond, depending on how you define 'billion'. 50 nanoseconds is pretty good for a simulation nowadays, especially for a system of that size.
Look, it al seems very nice that they did this, fancy pictures and nature paper garantueed, but this really won't help us much further. This is no big scientific step forward. Virus processes happen at least in the micro/millisecond timescale, there's a lot of protein diffusion and refolding going on. Since the short simulation done here was an immense effort, it means that going to the timescales studying the real important processes is still way too far away. But who knows, maybe in ten years.
Right now, you could better use the same computer power used for this single project to study a lot more smaller projects that actually will give us insight into real molecular processes. Or maybe I'm just jealous ;)
http://www.thesporezone.co.uk/screens/index.php?ID =1
http://www.spore.com/screenshots.php
Reminds me of a "far side" cartoon: Movie Concepts Walt Disney Never Brought to Cinema: :)
"Bert the adventurous amoebe"
"Andy the sandworm"
etc
Thank you, I was looking for links to her website etc, as no single link is given in the interview. Djeez, these people haven't heard of hyperlinking I guess?
That second link you give does not seem to have its sources in an onion article. They just seem to state that it could have been an onion article. It isn't that funny, though ;)