An external 7200rpm hard drive on FireWire 800 will be much faster than the internal drive. I found Final Cut much faster when I moved the scratch directory to one of my external disks.
Your speed gain is probably due to moving your scratch to a separate physical drive. There's no way an IDE->Firewire bridge is faster than native IDE. If you want serious speed, get a WD Raptor (or any other 10K RPM) drive, stick it internal, and use it as scratch.
But X2s don't even have the extra HyperTransport links necessary to support multisocket processing. AMD charges a premium for the parts that do (Opteron 2xx, 4xx, 8xx).
And well, yeah, 4x4 is obviously aimed at people with lots of money.
I was wandering through the library one day and came across a Rand report on superconducting electric transmission lines. Indeed, liquid H cooling is wasteful, and there's really no reason to, as current superconductors run at liquid N temperatures. It seems that superconducting lines are being targeted for power distribution hubs that simply don't have enough physical space for running copper, such as densely populated urban areas undergoing an increase in demand.
Table III in the paper quotes a half-life of 0.89 ms (+1.07, -0.31), based on observation of three decays.
Some other values (leaving off the uncertainty):
116 (A=291) 18 ms
(A=290) 7.1 ms 114 (A=287) 0.48 s
(A=286) 0.13 s 112 (A=283) 3.8 s
(A=282) 0.82 ms 110 (A=279) 0.20 s 108 (A=275) 0.19 s 106 (A=271) 1.9 min 104 (A=267) 1.3 h
Yeah, the blame for this lies squarely with the Chinese press -- not surprising, since Xinhua is the state news organ. A while back Xinhua was calling EAST the "first thermonuclear fusion reactor", an obvious falsehood. Given this pattern of factual inaccuracy, it's clear to me that Xinhua is more interested in spouting propaganda than reporting facts. I hope to see some "real" papers published soon.
After all, modern chemistry is incredibly useful for predicting how atoms interact with eachother to form compounds... even though it's based off the idea that electrons orbit a nucleus like a tiny little planet orbitting a sun... that is precisely NOT what an electron does, but who cares, the math allows you to make determinations.
At the high school level we use the Bohr ansatz, sure, but Chem 1A these days has plenty of QM.
Since we have had large FET power transistors it has been possible to make DC/DC conversion very efficient - especially since, if you were beginning again, you would not choose 50 or 60 Hz for best efficiency.
Sure, but ironically enough the process involves DC -> AC (or PWM, close enough) -> DC.
Yeah, the/. writeup fails to say that each 320-line frame was scanned into an NTSC field (~262 lines) and repeated six times to match timing.
This scan-conversion process produced lower resolution images than the SSTV (down from 320 to 262.5 lines) and introduced additional signal noise. (PDF, p6)
When I worked at STAR (RHIC) I was surprised at how much off-line software there was. So given the size of the LHC project, it's not surprising that there are still some bugs to be worked out.
The size difference between Blu-Ray and DVD is about a factor of 5. The jump from CD to DVD was about the same, in relative terms, and look how cheap DVDs are now. I expect history to repeat itself =).
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Your speed gain is probably due to moving your scratch to a separate physical drive. There's no way an IDE->Firewire bridge is faster than native IDE. If you want serious speed, get a WD Raptor (or any other 10K RPM) drive, stick it internal, and use it as scratch.
It's nice that most new science is coming out for free, but the publishers still hold control over the back issues. And they charge a lot for them...
But X2s don't even have the extra HyperTransport links necessary to support multisocket processing. AMD charges a premium for the parts that do (Opteron 2xx, 4xx, 8xx).
And well, yeah, 4x4 is obviously aimed at people with lots of money.
I was wandering through the library one day and came across a Rand report on superconducting electric transmission lines. Indeed, liquid H cooling is wasteful, and there's really no reason to, as current superconductors run at liquid N temperatures. It seems that superconducting lines are being targeted for power distribution hubs that simply don't have enough physical space for running copper, such as densely populated urban areas undergoing an increase in demand.
Nobody forces you to call up a license/key server every time you want to read a book.
Some other values (leaving off the uncertainty):No clear trend, I'd say.
Yeah, the blame for this lies squarely with the Chinese press -- not surprising, since Xinhua is the state news organ. A while back Xinhua was calling EAST the "first thermonuclear fusion reactor", an obvious falsehood. Given this pattern of factual inaccuracy, it's clear to me that Xinhua is more interested in spouting propaganda than reporting facts. I hope to see some "real" papers published soon.
At the high school level we use the Bohr ansatz, sure, but Chem 1A these days has plenty of QM.
I read the description for Salo once and that was enough for me.
The AIP's Physics News Update is a pretty fascinating look at the cutting edge, though it's a weekly.
Thanks for the explanation. I just looked at arXiv, and there are several relevant papers to be found.
The most relevant is probably http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309303 .
"Past couple years"? I've only started seeing mkv/h264 this year, and they're mostly hardsub.
Sure, but ironically enough the process involves DC -> AC (or PWM, close enough) -> DC.
Well, the RIAA has sued dead people and people without computers, so presumably they would ignore your excuses, even truthful ones.
When I worked at STAR (RHIC) I was surprised at how much off-line software there was. So given the size of the LHC project, it's not surprising that there are still some bugs to be worked out.
It's a one-man operation, I think. He did it using a self-written java app: Great Manga Application Onidzuka.
This sounds like window forwarding, except in 3D.
June 23, though.
x .x?pg=1
http://techreport.com/etc/2006q2/ecs-factory/inde
The size difference between Blu-Ray and DVD is about a factor of 5. The jump from CD to DVD was about the same, in relative terms, and look how cheap DVDs are now. I expect history to repeat itself =).
Yep: Homebrew RF Test Equipment and Software.
I've noticed that I get them after I win something on eBay.
Some of those comments are references to the opening credits of Mønti Pythøn lk den Hølie Grailen.
Heh, now I've got some ideas for this year's CampusMovieFest.
Over in the particle physics world, they're putting together some sort of grid for LHC. Seems to be a rather large undertaking.