Perhaps, Tokyo should consider using Japan's arsensal high-performance computers to advance the state of the art in fighter aircraft and space vehicles. Designing these devices requires intensive numerical simulations which are ideally suited to such high-performance computers, which have been relegated to more mundane tasks like terrestrial simulations (e.g. weather simulation).
I always hear people saying stuff like, "more powerful computers will allow us to build better aircraft and conquer cancer!!!!!"
The truth is that a faster computer doesn't really give you much more capability, it just delivers that same capability to you faster. It's still people who need to feed the computers the information, and we are limited by our ideas.
If we gave people in the 1940's a supercomputer, it wouldn't really have made their aircraft much different because they didn't even come up with many of the formulas yet. They didn't yet know what breaking the speed of sound would do, or what effect it would have on the plane's control surfaces. They need to discover the principles first, made formulas out of it next, and only then can you feed the formulas into a computer.
Obviously this wouldn't apply if you were comparing a computer that was *so* slow that it couldn't perform the calulations in any decent amount of time, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
There is only so much that computer calculations can do. They only solve problems that we create.
Clock for clock, yes. But due to different architectures you have to make tradeoffs. Some, like the P4, don't do as much work clock for clock but can run at a very high clockspeed. Others, like the G5, do a lot of work per clock cycle but were unable to clock very high.
The A64 is a pretty good tradeoff, it does more work than the P4 per clock cycle but can still clock pretty high.
There's no use comparing clock per clock performance between two completely different architectures. Sure, you can overclock the Pentium-M to make it it outperform the A64 in official form. But then you can also overclock the A64 to easily outperform an overclocked Pentium-M.
First of all, why would NASA have years worth of data coming in from a spacecraft they launched, and NOT have analysed it? I find this very hard to believe. Also, if they thought this information held valuable clues to a puzzling scientific mystery, they would have surely looked into it. In addition, how can this tape player be the only one on Earth that can read these tapes?
I think that the issue is being distorted and blown out of proportion. I have a feeling that someone wanted to further their pet cause and they didn't mind letting pesky facts get in their way.
Works well on insects, too.
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It's a disk redundancy technology and an insect killer.
I'm a contractor and I've been to many worksites. Macs are most definitely NOT 17-20% of the total number of computers at those companies.
I think the problem on Slashdot is most of the people seem to be very enthusiastic Mac advocates. They think more emotionally than logically. The flawed numbers don't mean much to them as long as their favorite platform is getting good publicity.
LOL there's the ticket. Hey, kids you should aspire to be astronauts so you can be a space janitor or a space maid in a space hotel. I wonder if illegal aliens will be able to make it in to space to fill these jobs.
Not illegal aliens, but space aliens. And they're 100% legal my friend.
It's a pretty violent ride. The acceleration is so harsh that it banged my head against the headpad and by the time it enters the first loop, the G-forces make me get lightheaded.
The acceleration is violent because electric motors make most of their torque at 0 rpm. (LM motors don't rotate but you get the point) So the holeshot is brutal.
There's also a ride here that's just about identical to the ride the article is about. It's called Kingda Ka and they have pictures of the motor on their website here:
Obviously they design the roller coaster so that people don't die if the software malfunctions or stops working.
These things do malfunction, but it's no big deal when they do. Sometimes the software DOES come up with the wrong solution, and the cars do fail to make it over the hill. They simply roll back down the hill.
I guess it is possible for one to be educated, but not have the intelligence to properly use that knowledge. In other words, a person's brain may be filled with valid information, but that person may not have the ability to sort or discern that information.
I've talked to people before that seemed to know many formulas off the top of their head, but they weren't able to figure out which formula to apply to the problem.
Somebody give this an underrated mod point. This isn't a troll and doesn't deserve a -1.
I think it is a troll. I can understand if someone out there thinks that we should spend money on other things than science and space exploration, but what would that person be on Slashdot for? Slashdot is largely about science and space exploration.
That would be like me belonging to a car modding forum and stating that we shouldn't spend money modding our cars. If I did, the only purpose would be to serve as a troll.
I took a look at that website and I can see that they're a bunch of loons. It surprises me when I read websites made by someone who obviously has a good grasp on math and science, but apparently little to no grasp on reality. I find it strange that people can turn out that way.
What's the name of that condition? They can accurately calculate the energy released when they open a bottle of soda, but when they can't find a belonging of theirs, the notion that a space alien came by and collected it for testing seems just as plausible to them as the possibility that they just misplaced it. No grasp on reality.
You seem to be ignoring a couple of little facts which is the real problem here: money value and standard of living.
The conversion rate favors Indian workers. $20 will go much farther in India than it will in the US. Not only will $20 buy more goods in India than it would in the US, the people in India aren't used to having all these goods, while an American/European worker expects it. The standard of living is much lower over there. While we're here in the US worrying about having a nice new car like the neighbor's, they'd be lucky if they had any car at all. It costs less money to keep them happy. At $10 an hour they're making quite a nice jump in salary and standard of living, while a US or European worker will be taking a pay cut.
I'm afraid that the real issue here isn't one that's easy to solve. When you have a population of people who are used to living with less, they'll be willing to work for a wage that a country of rich people would scoff at.
I seem to remember that MS was forced to offer a version without all the bundled goodies, and MS said that nobody would want it because customers want the free stuff.
The EU forces them to do it anyway, Microsoft complies, and then they're proven right because nobody wants to buy the stripped down version for the same price.
It sounds like you are comparing the explosion of a $100 billion space shuttle (and the loss of 7 lives) to the failure of a $4 million unmanned ICBM. Apples and oranges.
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And yet another reply which said the same thing and was posted a minute after mine got rated as "5, Insightful":
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15712
If Bill Gates had his way, here is what he'd want you to learn:
1. Learn computer science and how to program.
2. Learn to work for a dirt cheap wage.
That's business tycoon 101 for you.
The headline boldly reads, "Debris Seen Hitting Shuttle", and then the summary says, "debris was seen falling which did not hit the shuttle."
Great journalistic integrity.
Perhaps, Tokyo should consider using Japan's arsensal high-performance computers to advance the state of the art in fighter aircraft and space vehicles. Designing these devices requires intensive numerical simulations which are ideally suited to such high-performance computers, which have been relegated to more mundane tasks like terrestrial simulations (e.g. weather simulation).
I always hear people saying stuff like, "more powerful computers will allow us to build better aircraft and conquer cancer!!!!!"
The truth is that a faster computer doesn't really give you much more capability, it just delivers that same capability to you faster. It's still people who need to feed the computers the information, and we are limited by our ideas.
If we gave people in the 1940's a supercomputer, it wouldn't really have made their aircraft much different because they didn't even come up with many of the formulas yet. They didn't yet know what breaking the speed of sound would do, or what effect it would have on the plane's control surfaces. They need to discover the principles first, made formulas out of it next, and only then can you feed the formulas into a computer.
Obviously this wouldn't apply if you were comparing a computer that was *so* slow that it couldn't perform the calulations in any decent amount of time, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
There is only so much that computer calculations can do. They only solve problems that we create.
Clock for clock, yes. But due to different architectures you have to make tradeoffs. Some, like the P4, don't do as much work clock for clock but can run at a very high clockspeed. Others, like the G5, do a lot of work per clock cycle but were unable to clock very high.
The A64 is a pretty good tradeoff, it does more work than the P4 per clock cycle but can still clock pretty high.
There's no use comparing clock per clock performance between two completely different architectures. Sure, you can overclock the Pentium-M to make it it outperform the A64 in official form. But then you can also overclock the A64 to easily outperform an overclocked Pentium-M.
This is great..glad that Asus is keeping ahead of the game as always. I think I'll grab this simply for the great reduction in power consumption.
Getting a new motherboard +Pentium M processor will probably cost you $600. How much electricity costs will it save you? I bet not $600.
First of all, why would NASA have years worth of data coming in from a spacecraft they launched, and NOT have analysed it? I find this very hard to believe. Also, if they thought this information held valuable clues to a puzzling scientific mystery, they would have surely looked into it. In addition, how can this tape player be the only one on Earth that can read these tapes?
I think that the issue is being distorted and blown out of proportion. I have a feeling that someone wanted to further their pet cause and they didn't mind letting pesky facts get in their way.
It's a disk redundancy technology and an insect killer.
I'm a contractor and I've been to many worksites. Macs are most definitely NOT 17-20% of the total number of computers at those companies.
I think the problem on Slashdot is most of the people seem to be very enthusiastic Mac advocates. They think more emotionally than logically. The flawed numbers don't mean much to them as long as their favorite platform is getting good publicity.
LOL there's the ticket. Hey, kids you should aspire to be astronauts so you can be a space janitor or a space maid in a space hotel. I wonder if illegal aliens will be able to make it in to space to fill these jobs.
Not illegal aliens, but space aliens. And they're 100% legal my friend.
Somehow, it's always less funny when you mess up your delivery in the same manner as the person you're making fun of.
Please don't end your sentence in a preposition.
I've since grown too tall (6'4) to think of any time in space, but when columbia disentigrated, I was not.
6'4" is not too tall. That's the upper limit to fly on the Shuttle.
Singular entity. Is Cmdr Taco from the US or Europe? In the US, company names are referred to as singular proper nouns.
There's a ride at the Great Adventure near me that has linear induction motors. It's:
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http://www.sixflags.com/parks/greatadventure/Ride
It's a pretty violent ride. The acceleration is so harsh that it banged my head against the headpad and by the time it enters the first loop, the G-forces make me get lightheaded.
The acceleration is violent because electric motors make most of their torque at 0 rpm. (LM motors don't rotate but you get the point) So the holeshot is brutal.
There's also a ride here that's just about identical to the ride the article is about. It's called Kingda Ka and they have pictures of the motor on their website here:
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/greatadventure/gold
Here's the hydraulic motor:
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/greatadventure/imag
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/greatadventure/imag
The ride is pretty big:
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/greatadventure/imag
Travelling at speeds of up to 130km/hr (80mph), these teams will race from Austin Texas to Calgary Alberta all with no non-reusable energy.
I'll give $5 to the first person who can figure out how to reuse the sun after it goes out.
And oil is solar energy, it's just stored and packaged by nature.
The magnets in those rollercoaster aren't made of superconducting material, either.
Obviously they design the roller coaster so that people don't die if the software malfunctions or stops working.
These things do malfunction, but it's no big deal when they do. Sometimes the software DOES come up with the wrong solution, and the cars do fail to make it over the hill. They simply roll back down the hill.
I guess it is possible for one to be educated, but not have the intelligence to properly use that knowledge. In other words, a person's brain may be filled with valid information, but that person may not have the ability to sort or discern that information.
I've talked to people before that seemed to know many formulas off the top of their head, but they weren't able to figure out which formula to apply to the problem.
Somebody give this an underrated mod point. This isn't a troll and doesn't deserve a -1.
I think it is a troll. I can understand if someone out there thinks that we should spend money on other things than science and space exploration, but what would that person be on Slashdot for? Slashdot is largely about science and space exploration.
That would be like me belonging to a car modding forum and stating that we shouldn't spend money modding our cars. If I did, the only purpose would be to serve as a troll.
I took a look at that website and I can see that they're a bunch of loons. It surprises me when I read websites made by someone who obviously has a good grasp on math and science, but apparently little to no grasp on reality. I find it strange that people can turn out that way.
What's the name of that condition? They can accurately calculate the energy released when they open a bottle of soda, but when they can't find a belonging of theirs, the notion that a space alien came by and collected it for testing seems just as plausible to them as the possibility that they just misplaced it. No grasp on reality.
"A person died after apparently being hit by two speeding Shinkansen trains and a normal train on Monday morning, police said."
I bet it was that third train that did him in.
You seem to be ignoring a couple of little facts which is the real problem here: money value and standard of living.
The conversion rate favors Indian workers. $20 will go much farther in India than it will in the US. Not only will $20 buy more goods in India than it would in the US, the people in India aren't used to having all these goods, while an American/European worker expects it. The standard of living is much lower over there. While we're here in the US worrying about having a nice new car like the neighbor's, they'd be lucky if they had any car at all. It costs less money to keep them happy. At $10 an hour they're making quite a nice jump in salary and standard of living, while a US or European worker will be taking a pay cut.
I'm afraid that the real issue here isn't one that's easy to solve. When you have a population of people who are used to living with less, they'll be willing to work for a wage that a country of rich people would scoff at.
I don't know why people think this is hurting MS.
I seem to remember that MS was forced to offer a version without all the bundled goodies, and MS said that nobody would want it because customers want the free stuff.
The EU forces them to do it anyway, Microsoft complies, and then they're proven right because nobody wants to buy the stripped down version for the same price.
It's pointless, really. Just a technicality.
It sounds like you are comparing the explosion of a $100 billion space shuttle (and the loss of 7 lives) to the failure of a $4 million unmanned ICBM. Apples and oranges.
So a Space Shuttle costs $100 billion, huh?
That's not even close.
I just did show you the benchmarks.
This article was about gaming performance, so I showed gaming benchmarks.
How about you show me a benchmark where it beats the FX-57 in games, then I'll agree with you.