Interesting, so what you're basically saying is that SPDIF doesn't necessarily give the faithful data transmission that one would expect from a digital interface. We're being sold a crock.
Aren't all digital outputs created equal anyway? You're basically moving the quality issue outside of the case, and placing it entirely in the hands of the digital amp. This is surely the way to go, considering all the sources of noise/interference inside a PC case. Sound cards do also offer DSPs for processor offload, but how necessary is that with the power of modern CPUs?
I like the wanking term, I shall use it it future.
The thing is, attempts to explain the origins of existence are ultimately all wanking, whether from a scientific or religious perspective. If you go the God route, you're left with the problem of God him/her/itself. If you go the science route, whatever mechanism you discover will still leave you with the problem of the existence of the mechanism itself.
It all ultimately has to boil down to something from nothing, or something that has always been.
Even with the light-speed limit, we wouldn't necessarily need multi-generational ships. If we build a ship that can approach the speed of light, the passage of time on board would be different. A few "years" onboard could be the equivalent of centuries or millenia on Earth.
Regardless of the validity of the claims made in the paper, the results WERE suppressed and it took an eight year court battle to get them to release it.
At the very least, the paper deserves to be judged on its scientific merits before being dismissed.
Who's to say that didn't happen? It's most likely that the reason the institute didn't want to release the paper is that their own internal peer-review found it to be badly flawed and they didn't want to tarnish their reputation.
All we're seeing now is Greenpeace trying to spin the fact that they spent 8 years fighting for the release of a junk study in the paranoid belief it had been "suppressed".
I believe the theorical application is that you take a fertilized egg, use it to clone the patient by Cell Nuclear Replacement and harvest stem cells from the resulting clone embryo, which will have the patients DNA and thus be rejection-proof.
Of course, this would mean destroying several embryos in order to treat the patient. And no, I don't see that as ethically justifiable.
Oddly enough, MAPCs made a very poor argument for the use of adult stem cells, as (if true) they replicate the biggest problem of embryonic ones. The whole "can make any cell" thing, which so many researchers seem to obsess on, is of dubious benefit.
The biggest argument for adult stem cells is that the differention is a good thing. EG, you really don't want cells that might decide to make tooth or bone when you're trying to repair a nerve.
Sure, trees are big, but that doesn't necessarily make them big producers. They take a very long time to grow and need a large amount of land for each indivdual plant. A comparative measure of cellulose productivity would be to see how much each can produce from a given amount of land in a period of time. I've no idea how trees would compare to conventional crops, but I certainly wouldn't assume them to be ahead.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this before. "Virtual property" is ideal for money-laundering. Create something from nothing, sell it at whatever price you want to a collaborating partner, who pays with the proceeds of crime. Your money is completely clean - you're just a second life entrepreneur.
Yeah - if you notice, this system is only running with a 533MHz memory bus. As we all know, the P4 architecture is heavily dependent upon memory bandwidth.
They don't have any benches but I'm pretty sure this is past the point of diminishing returns for core multipliers.
I believe you're misintepreting that because of CPU-Zs misleading labels. When it says FSB 533Mhz, it means the base clock. The effective FSB in Intel's terms is 4x that, or "bus speed" as CPU-Z labels it.
They haven't changed the multplier. This P4 would originally have run at 15 * 200MHz, for 3Ghz CPU, and 4 * 200Mhz, for 800Mhz FSB. It's now running at an effective FSB of 2133Mhz. The RAM is 1066MHz (533 * 2) DDR2. They have hobbled the memory bandwidth by only running single channel, but if they'd run dual then the memory bandwidth would effectively be scaled up by the same factor as the CPU.
It probably wouldn't make much difference in quality. The last 3 articles on technology I read on the BBC (years ago) were either riddled with misuse of certain words, left out some important and key details, misstated the implications of the story, and/or came up with a very strange and subjective conclusion that came out of the blue.
Nothing specific about tech reporting, that's just the BBC in general.
For those unfamiliar with the history of Cinelerra, the developer(s) are anonymous so as not to jeopardize their current employment status; apparently the author(s) believe there might be a conflict of interest with regard to their day job(s).
Actually, these figures are just about achievable with contemporary hardware. Something like one of the latest Nforce motherboards with 6 SATA2 ports loaded with the latest fast, high capacity hard drives (like the Seagate 750GB 7200.10 drives) in a RAID0 stripe. I have an Nforce4 system with 4 500GB 7200.10 drives sitting under my desk right now. It nearly hits that transfer rate, but only on the faster part of the disk.
Of course, with a typical length movie you'll then have about 3TiB of uncompressed video that you'll need to run through a suitable codec (like X264), and that will take a while... but it's the sort of challenge that some people would relish.
Yeah, 0.1 micro-Curies is a tiny, tiny amount. Of course, 3,700 Bequerels would be a lot, right?
That's a rate of emission, 3,700 alpha-particles per second. The half-life of this stuff is 140 days, so it wouldn't drop off much over the timescale of this guy's illness.
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It's generating electricity, there has to be a net loss in the atmosphere.
Interesting, so what you're basically saying is that SPDIF doesn't necessarily give the faithful data transmission that one would expect from a digital interface. We're being sold a crock.
Wasn't Microsoft's argument that Apple had no case because they both stole their GUI concepts from Xerox?
Aren't all digital outputs created equal anyway? You're basically moving the quality issue outside of the case, and placing it entirely in the hands of the digital amp. This is surely the way to go, considering all the sources of noise/interference inside a PC case. Sound cards do also offer DSPs for processor offload, but how necessary is that with the power of modern CPUs?
and please, split off gecko from Mozilla, so that its a separate library.
That would be XULRunner. Firefox 3 is planned to use it.
RTFA! Oh hang on, there isn't one - it's just quoting the blurb from a commercial website.
I like the wanking term, I shall use it it future.
The thing is, attempts to explain the origins of existence are ultimately all wanking, whether from a scientific or religious perspective. If you go the God route, you're left with the problem of God him/her/itself. If you go the science route, whatever mechanism you discover will still leave you with the problem of the existence of the mechanism itself.
It all ultimately has to boil down to something from nothing, or something that has always been.
Surely it has to be *real* driving activity, or that braindead law would outlaw every movie with a car chase.
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Even with the light-speed limit, we wouldn't necessarily need multi-generational ships. If we build a ship that can approach the speed of light, the passage of time on board would be different. A few "years" onboard could be the equivalent of centuries or millenia on Earth.
Regardless of the validity of the claims made in the paper, the results WERE suppressed and it took an eight year court battle to get them to release it.
At the very least, the paper deserves to be judged on its scientific merits before being dismissed.
Who's to say that didn't happen? It's most likely that the reason the institute didn't want to release the paper is that their own internal peer-review found it to be badly flawed and they didn't want to tarnish their reputation.
All we're seeing now is Greenpeace trying to spin the fact that they spent 8 years fighting for the release of a junk study in the paranoid belief it had been "suppressed".
What corporation in their right mind would sponsor (and thereby endorse) pages that can be edited by anyone?
I believe the theorical application is that you take a fertilized egg, use it to clone the patient by Cell Nuclear Replacement and harvest stem cells from the resulting clone embryo, which will have the patients DNA and thus be rejection-proof.
Of course, this would mean destroying several embryos in order to treat the patient. And no, I don't see that as ethically justifiable.
Oddly enough, MAPCs made a very poor argument for the use of adult stem cells, as (if true) they replicate the biggest problem of embryonic ones. The whole "can make any cell" thing, which so many researchers seem to obsess on, is of dubious benefit.
The biggest argument for adult stem cells is that the differention is a good thing. EG, you really don't want cells that might decide to make tooth or bone when you're trying to repair a nerve.
...videotaping this crime spree is the best idea we've ever had!
What makes a tree a "big cellulose producer"?
Sure, trees are big, but that doesn't necessarily make them big producers. They take a very long time to grow and need a large amount of land for each indivdual plant. A comparative measure of cellulose productivity would be to see how much each can produce from a given amount of land in a period of time. I've no idea how trees would compare to conventional crops, but I certainly wouldn't assume them to be ahead.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this before. "Virtual property" is ideal for money-laundering. Create something from nothing, sell it at whatever price you want to a collaborating partner, who pays with the proceeds of crime. Your money is completely clean - you're just a second life entrepreneur.
Note the "validation failed" stamp.
Yeah - if you notice, this system is only running with a 533MHz memory bus. As we all know, the P4 architecture is heavily dependent upon memory bandwidth.
They don't have any benches but I'm pretty sure this is past the point of diminishing returns for core multipliers.
I believe you're misintepreting that because of CPU-Zs misleading labels. When it says FSB 533Mhz, it means the base clock. The effective FSB in Intel's terms is 4x that, or "bus speed" as CPU-Z labels it.
They haven't changed the multplier. This P4 would originally have run at 15 * 200MHz, for 3Ghz CPU, and 4 * 200Mhz, for 800Mhz FSB. It's now running at an effective FSB of 2133Mhz. The RAM is 1066MHz (533 * 2) DDR2. They have hobbled the memory bandwidth by only running single channel, but if they'd run dual then the memory bandwidth would effectively be scaled up by the same factor as the CPU.
It probably wouldn't make much difference in quality. The last 3 articles on technology I read on the BBC (years ago) were either riddled with misuse of certain words, left out some important and key details, misstated the implications of the story, and/or came up with a very strange and subjective conclusion that came out of the blue.
Nothing specific about tech reporting, that's just the BBC in general.
For those unfamiliar with the history of Cinelerra, the developer(s) are anonymous so as not to jeopardize their current employment status; apparently the author(s) believe there might be a conflict of interest with regard to their day job(s).
That sounds like a litigation timebomb.
Actually, these figures are just about achievable with contemporary hardware. Something like one of the latest Nforce motherboards with 6 SATA2 ports loaded with the latest fast, high capacity hard drives (like the Seagate 750GB 7200.10 drives) in a RAID0 stripe. I have an Nforce4 system with 4 500GB 7200.10 drives sitting under my desk right now. It nearly hits that transfer rate, but only on the faster part of the disk. Of course, with a typical length movie you'll then have about 3TiB of uncompressed video that you'll need to run through a suitable codec (like X264), and that will take a while... but it's the sort of challenge that some people would relish.
Deep Space Nine is widely considered the best Trek series
You gotta be kidding me.
That's like unilateral disarmament. When others have the patent weapon, it makes sense to maintain your own stockpile.
Yeah, 0.1 micro-Curies is a tiny, tiny amount. Of course, 3,700 Bequerels would be a lot, right?
That's a rate of emission, 3,700 alpha-particles per second. The half-life of this stuff is 140 days, so it wouldn't drop off much over the timescale of this guy's illness.