You mean like how they keep around a stable of horses in case all the vehicles go down in an EMP? The funny thing is that horses and carriages are a lot more capable of filling the roles of vehicles than a tube powered computer is to filling the needs of a modern data center.
Actually, we just don't think there was a widescale reversion to earlier life forms, but our evidence is on the million year scale not the fine grain needed to see this sort of thing. When a large number of organisms die out, they leave a lot of open niches and organisms rapidly fill in these recently opened niches. From a distant enough perspective it would just look like things as normal but a bit faster. I imagine if we were PRESENT and INVOLVED in one of the great die-offs, our perspective would be quite different.
Exactly. Why does everyone think that evolution only leads to more and more complex life forms? Evolution is simply the never ending meat grinder getting the most out of the available resources. More often than not simple life forms are actually favored, which is why we live in a world with a thousand species of bacteria for every "higher" life form and a few billion individual bacteria for every "higher" life form.
We (meaning animals) are almost an anomaly, not the rule. Anyway, as you said, as the environment changes so do the life forms that thrive in it. The very small are generally more able to cope with changing environments so they definitely win out in the short term.
There are LOTS of companies that do asbestos removal, but Joe Blow contractor can't. Just like he can't come out and do your plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc unless he is certified.
I'm betting you used a chlorine compound and not chlorine gas, because chlorine gas is quite a bit MORE toxic than ozone. Between the two, I know which I would prefer to breathe in a 1% solution.
Each card has two GPUs with it's own memory, so there would need to be just 20 MB/s per GPU which is feasible. The rest of your argument still holds though. I agree that a lot of this is marketspeak. I have a feeling that the 148 MPixel thing is related to FSAA and not a real metric.
Here is the problem though, you are the type of person who would have bought an SUV 20+ years ago (yea, they've been making several for at least that long). Most people that buy them now are NOT like you. When one can go to a center city Chicago car dealership and the lot is more than half full of SUVs most of their clientele isn't buying them to go offroading.
Another example, I live in a mostly rural state (Arkansas). I happen to live in an area that is fairly urban but not too far from significant outdoor activities (Fayetteville...around 400,000 people in the metro area) but was born in a town with under 15,000 people that was about an hour and a half away from any sizeable city and was completely surrounded by farmland. One would think that there would be far more SUVs in the small town when I go to visit than in the larger city that I currently live in, but the opposite is true and in a big way. I attribute this to the fact that incomes here are about double what they are in the smaller town and people can afford what they want not just what they need, so people that never do much WALKING off of concrete, much less driving, buy SUVs.
This is far from a general purpose supercomputer. If you read the more technical article at http://mdgrape.gsc.riken.jp/modules/tinyd0/index.p hp you will see that this thing is designed from the ground up to do molecular dynamics. So while folding@home might be able to make some use out of it, none of the other distributed projects would.
I'll point out one problem with this that no one else has already, it is in New Scientist. That alone makes it probable pseudoscience. These guys have made a career out of taking one valid data point and building the rest of the line as they see fit. If this is believable, we will see mention in journals in the near future.
1791 Luigi Galvani accidentally closing an electrical circuit through a frog's leg, causing it to jerk violently. This rapidly led to the understanding of how nerves and muscles work.
1879 Louis Pasteur accidentally inoculated chickens with an old cholera culture. The chickens should have died from cholera, but they got sick and then got better. After discovering the mistake, Pasteur re-inoculated the chickens with fresh culture and the chickens didn't even get sick. This lead to the modern vaccination.
1895 Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally discovered X-rays.
1928 Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered that a type of mold (later named Penicillium) significantly inhibited bacterial growth. This lead to antibiotics.
Never assume that all discoveries are predicted before they are "discovered." I would actually say that most INSIGNIFICANT technological advancement is predicted well out, most of these are evolutionary. Many significant advancements are revolutionary and there is no way many of them could be predicted as there was no information related to the new process before the discovery of the process itself.
I sure hope the local police don't take to these new techniques, otherwise anyone in your neighborhood is suspected of burglary they just might round everyone up and waterboard them all to see who knows something. After all, I guess the police just say please and thank you to people now.
There is a long divide between courtesy and torture. There are many ways to get someone to confess to their crimes or knowledge without torture. It is against everything we stand for to torture someone, even if it meant that a terrorist suspect would go free. After all, not all murderers are convicted because of confession. I figure under your system of goverment they probably would.
There is another massive problem too, if we impeach and subsequently remove Bush everyone gets an automatic promotion. I personally think we are better off under Bush than Cheney, holy cow...at least now he is just the "power behind the throne."
I agree that vegetable oil is a decent replacement for diesel, but if we were to convert all the gasoline vehicles too we would easily overwhelm our ability to produce vegetable oil.
Because, after all, gasoline and oil don't cause any sorts of medical problems when burned in incredibly large quantities non-stop for 75+ years straight.
A well built reactor could have FAR more than adequate shielding to prevent escape of either the beta radiation or the Sr90 itself (where the bone cancer comes in...it gets absorbed as Ca and then is an internal and localized beta emitter). Hyping up the danger of this while ignoring the danger of 10-40 gallons of explosive liquid in every car on Earth, which has to be refueled CONSTANTLY, is crazy. These generators would EASILY last longer than virtually any car. Electric motors are at a pretty close to perfection state, combine it with a long term source of power like this and you have cars which drive for all but free.
Don't forget that this is a source of fuel which we are already MAKING in abundance as a by-product of another industry.
Even better, wait until the second gen (they will still be FAR from mainstream) and Wal-Mart will start stocking them. They more than likely will only stock one, and that will be the defacto winner. Not just because a lot of people buy consumer electronics at WM, but also because they will more than likely not stock movies in the other format. A huge mass of people will not even know that another standard EXISTS.
This 500GHz chip is massively smaller than a general purpose CPU. With CPUs the size of the modern A64 or P4 (or Core for that matter), 500 GHz would be physically impossible without using some alternative to electricity to propagate signals or at least run async. Electricity literally doesn't flow across the chip fast enough. Now a 2 square millimeter DSP doesn't have near those issues.
Well, technically, they could have the jet engine intake port going into the server room and passive heatsinks open to the outside on everything. Probably not a great idea, but it would be better than the output port.
PHB: "Why is the system down" Tech2: "Well, we forgot to power down the cooling system before Tech1 went in to service the system and it sprayed him all over the outside of the building" PHB: "OK, whatever, I guess you got a promotion. Can you get the thing back up ASAP? Oh, and hire another tech too, maybe this time you should aim for a heavier one..."
I can see it now "On Monday, October 13th don't miss the premiere of "Flowers!" filmed in our proprietary ultraviolet format!
---while watching "Flowers!" with a UV equipped television, remember to wear sunscreen and sit at least eight feet away from the screen or risk sunburn"
I've read novels on my PDA, and I don't mean one time to prove a point, more like 50-70 novels total. Of course a PDA screen isn't a PC screen, but it isn't that much different than a decent laptop screen.
Um, how can you make this calculation without knowing the mass of the meteorite. The article states that it was substantially larger than 90 kg, but the actual size it unknown.
Substantially larger could be 300 kg, or it could be 3000 kg. That is a massive difference, a 3 metric ton rock would deliver a pretty substantial blow. More than likely they ARE overstating this a bit, but an explosion even a tenth that size would be quite substantial and the closest thing most readers could relate to would be an atomic bomb.
It is important to note that while Sony may have really wanted the PS2 to be used as a general purpose PC, the real intent with that effort and probably this one as well is to get around several European import taxes that apply to video game consoles.
All true, if this were a survey of ALL students no matter what educational level. However, this is a survey of college undergraduates, which generally are between 18-22.
Again, most of which can't legally drink, but a lot less of a percentage than your post would indicate.
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You mean like how they keep around a stable of horses in case all the vehicles go down in an EMP? The funny thing is that horses and carriages are a lot more capable of filling the roles of vehicles than a tube powered computer is to filling the needs of a modern data center.
Actually, we just don't think there was a widescale reversion to earlier life forms, but our evidence is on the million year scale not the fine grain needed to see this sort of thing. When a large number of organisms die out, they leave a lot of open niches and organisms rapidly fill in these recently opened niches. From a distant enough perspective it would just look like things as normal but a bit faster. I imagine if we were PRESENT and INVOLVED in one of the great die-offs, our perspective would be quite different.
Exactly. Why does everyone think that evolution only leads to more and more complex life forms? Evolution is simply the never ending meat grinder getting the most out of the available resources. More often than not simple life forms are actually favored, which is why we live in a world with a thousand species of bacteria for every "higher" life form and a few billion individual bacteria for every "higher" life form.
We (meaning animals) are almost an anomaly, not the rule. Anyway, as you said, as the environment changes so do the life forms that thrive in it. The very small are generally more able to cope with changing environments so they definitely win out in the short term.
You just called some place that isn't certified to DO the work.
http://www.thebluebook.com/cl/all203.htm
There are LOTS of companies that do asbestos removal, but Joe Blow contractor can't. Just like he can't come out and do your plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc unless he is certified.
I'm betting you used a chlorine compound and not chlorine gas, because chlorine gas is quite a bit MORE toxic than ozone. Between the two, I know which I would prefer to breathe in a 1% solution.
Each card has two GPUs with it's own memory, so there would need to be just 20 MB/s per GPU which is feasible. The rest of your argument still holds though. I agree that a lot of this is marketspeak. I have a feeling that the 148 MPixel thing is related to FSAA and not a real metric.
Here is the problem though, you are the type of person who would have bought an SUV 20+ years ago (yea, they've been making several for at least that long). Most people that buy them now are NOT like you. When one can go to a center city Chicago car dealership and the lot is more than half full of SUVs most of their clientele isn't buying them to go offroading.
Another example, I live in a mostly rural state (Arkansas). I happen to live in an area that is fairly urban but not too far from significant outdoor activities (Fayetteville...around 400,000 people in the metro area) but was born in a town with under 15,000 people that was about an hour and a half away from any sizeable city and was completely surrounded by farmland. One would think that there would be far more SUVs in the small town when I go to visit than in the larger city that I currently live in, but the opposite is true and in a big way. I attribute this to the fact that incomes here are about double what they are in the smaller town and people can afford what they want not just what they need, so people that never do much WALKING off of concrete, much less driving, buy SUVs.
This is far from a general purpose supercomputer. If you read the more technical article at http://mdgrape.gsc.riken.jp/modules/tinyd0/index.p hp you will see that this thing is designed from the ground up to do molecular dynamics. So while folding@home might be able to make some use out of it, none of the other distributed projects would.
I'll point out one problem with this that no one else has already, it is in New Scientist. That alone makes it probable pseudoscience. These guys have made a career out of taking one valid data point and building the rest of the line as they see fit. If this is believable, we will see mention in journals in the near future.
Are you serious?
How about these:
1791 Luigi Galvani accidentally closing an electrical circuit through a frog's leg, causing it to
jerk violently. This rapidly led to the understanding of how nerves and muscles work.
1879 Louis Pasteur accidentally inoculated chickens with an old cholera culture. The chickens should have died from cholera, but they got sick and then got better. After discovering the mistake, Pasteur re-inoculated the chickens with fresh culture and the chickens didn't even get sick. This lead to the modern vaccination.
1895 Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally discovered X-rays.
1928 Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered that a type of mold (later named Penicillium) significantly inhibited bacterial growth. This lead to antibiotics.
Never assume that all discoveries are predicted before they are "discovered." I would actually say that most INSIGNIFICANT technological advancement is predicted well out, most of these are evolutionary. Many significant advancements are revolutionary and there is no way many of them could be predicted as there was no information related to the new process before the discovery of the process itself.
I sure hope the local police don't take to these new techniques, otherwise anyone in your neighborhood is suspected of burglary they just might round everyone up and waterboard them all to see who knows something. After all, I guess the police just say please and thank you to people now.
There is a long divide between courtesy and torture. There are many ways to get someone to confess to their crimes or knowledge without torture. It is against everything we stand for to torture someone, even if it meant that a terrorist suspect would go free. After all, not all murderers are convicted because of confession. I figure under your system of goverment they probably would.
There is another massive problem too, if we impeach and subsequently remove Bush everyone gets an automatic promotion. I personally think we are better off under Bush than Cheney, holy cow...at least now he is just the "power behind the throne."
I agree that vegetable oil is a decent replacement for diesel, but if we were to convert all the gasoline vehicles too we would easily overwhelm our ability to produce vegetable oil.
Because, after all, gasoline and oil don't cause any sorts of medical problems when burned in incredibly large quantities non-stop for 75+ years straight.
A well built reactor could have FAR more than adequate shielding to prevent escape of either the beta radiation or the Sr90 itself (where the bone cancer comes in...it gets absorbed as Ca and then is an internal and localized beta emitter). Hyping up the danger of this while ignoring the danger of 10-40 gallons of explosive liquid in every car on Earth, which has to be refueled CONSTANTLY, is crazy. These generators would EASILY last longer than virtually any car. Electric motors are at a pretty close to perfection state, combine it with a long term source of power like this and you have cars which drive for all but free.
Don't forget that this is a source of fuel which we are already MAKING in abundance as a by-product of another industry.
Even better, wait until the second gen (they will still be FAR from mainstream) and Wal-Mart will start stocking them. They more than likely will only stock one, and that will be the defacto winner. Not just because a lot of people buy consumer electronics at WM, but also because they will more than likely not stock movies in the other format. A huge mass of people will not even know that another standard EXISTS.
Yes, but one is feasible and the other isn't.
This 500GHz chip is massively smaller than a general purpose CPU. With CPUs the size of the modern A64 or P4 (or Core for that matter), 500 GHz would be physically impossible without using some alternative to electricity to propagate signals or at least run async. Electricity literally doesn't flow across the chip fast enough. Now a 2 square millimeter DSP doesn't have near those issues.
Well, technically, they could have the jet engine intake port going into the server room and passive heatsinks open to the outside on everything. Probably not a great idea, but it would be better than the output port.
PHB: "Why is the system down"
Tech2: "Well, we forgot to power down the cooling system before Tech1 went in to service the system and it sprayed him all over the outside of the building"
PHB: "OK, whatever, I guess you got a promotion. Can you get the thing back up ASAP? Oh, and hire another tech too, maybe this time you should aim for a heavier one..."
I can see it now "On Monday, October 13th don't miss the premiere of "Flowers!" filmed in our proprietary ultraviolet format!
---while watching "Flowers!" with a UV equipped television, remember to wear sunscreen and sit at least eight feet away from the screen or risk sunburn"
Oklahoma actually removed the tattoo restriction a month or so ago.
I've read novels on my PDA, and I don't mean one time to prove a point, more like 50-70 novels total. Of course a PDA screen isn't a PC screen, but it isn't that much different than a decent laptop screen.
Um, how can you make this calculation without knowing the mass of the meteorite. The article states that it was substantially larger than 90 kg, but the actual size it unknown.
Substantially larger could be 300 kg, or it could be 3000 kg. That is a massive difference, a 3 metric ton rock would deliver a pretty substantial blow. More than likely they ARE overstating this a bit, but an explosion even a tenth that size would be quite substantial and the closest thing most readers could relate to would be an atomic bomb.
Versus ethereal.org, they're just sniffing plain old glue from the looks of the site.
It is important to note that while Sony may have really wanted the PS2 to be used as a general purpose PC, the real intent with that effort and probably this one as well is to get around several European import taxes that apply to video game consoles.
Most highly open-ended games are like this. Think of how difficult it would be to play test a game like Oblivion versus a typical FPS.
All true, if this were a survey of ALL students no matter what educational level. However, this is a survey of college undergraduates, which generally are between 18-22.
Again, most of which can't legally drink, but a lot less of a percentage than your post would indicate.