I always thought that Slashdot would be the vehicle for getting information about the industry that was ignored by the mainstream media but lately it seems to be 1-3 days behind the mainstream and a pointer to the mainstream media article in any case. I'm reading things on CNN and News.com that I would have expected here first and other things here that just seem to be posted to fill the article quota for the day. Is there really any point to providing pointers to other services like this? Doesn't anyone surf any other news sites besides/.?
There are sense wires that detect a field in the "spot" so you can read the memory field direction to specify a 1 or a zero. Just like the old magnetic donuts used in core memory without the hundreds of Tiwainese ladies stringing the beads (they had the smallest fingers to be able to do it in the 60s)
Nice to see what goes around, comes around. Core memory in a dip package. Magnetic bubble memory was a first attempt at this but it took too long to move the bubbles around the ramps. This looks more feasable and the heat dissipation problem is gone. Is there any real reason to have mobile mass storage when you can have high density static memory? If you remove the heat problem, there's no real limitation to using three dimensions for the layout. Just build the chip up in layers.
Remember the whole bit of Methane production from cow digestion? methane is also a cheap source of hydrogen and yet the conversion of biological waste into Methane as a fuel hasn't gone too far. Certainly the byproducts of straight hydrogen use are better but using macroscopic biomass fermentation might be easier than something that has specific microenvironment needs.
16 February 2000: Mars Polar Lander Failure Uncovered? According to someone@jpl.nasa.gov: "A potential problem with the MPL descent sequence may have been located. During footpad deployment for the MPL, tests indicate that the touchdown sensors may have thought that the spacecraft had landed due to the force of landing gear deployment. If this occurred, the spacecraft would have separated from its parachute and descended normally to an altitude of forty meters. When the radar indicated this altitude, the spacecraft was programmed to descend at constant velocity until it touched down. But if the footpad sensors indicated a touchdown, the spacecraft would have shut off its descent engines at 40 meters altitude, dooming the mission."
Think you could use 500 hours of free AOL access? There are also places in the states that rent mobile phones on a short term (month at a time) basis for outgoing calling. it isn't the cheapest option
This is really so 60s. Suddenly the young, rising rebels discover the changes they're fighting for are so easily done within the system. The ability to fight the establishment, USING the establishment becomes an accepted method and then suddenly they wake up and discover...
Agreed. I was just reading some stuff about the testing being done at those resolutions at IBM and realized that it was getting into the "within 5 years" realm. Can someone refresh my memory as to what the current lithography limit is? I mean, we're getting down into traces that are hundreds of atoms wide that we need to avoid voids in over wafer scale surfaces. I believe I also just read that Intel was just moving into.18 so AMD s leading the technology curve since they're already in copper production as well.
And this is made on.18 fab lines which leaves.13 and.07 yet to come. This processor is going to have so much more in it that Intel isn't going to be able to play the matching gigahertz game much longer. You do have to admire a company that not so long ago had been totally written off and now has processors in most of the Intel strongholds. What's next? PPC overtaking Intel marketshare?
And the supposedly true story of one of the early windows demo of a speaker independent voice enabled system where various audience members shouted: "Format C:" "Return" "Yes" "Return"
There are some areas where it would be a nice addition to a standard PDA. Not to replace the handwriting recognition but as an alternate entry method. I could see myself using it in the car in a hands free manner while driving. I know in previous jobs we did medical form/record entry and we would have liked to have recognition as part of it. Many of those customers use microcassette recorders that then need to be sent to a transcriber. Those areas with limitied technical vocabularies would be well suited. In a cubicle environment it's crazy. The woman over the wall drives me crazy with listening to her voice mail with her speaker phone as it is now... then again, the ability to yell "format c: return Y return" is tempting 8^)
There's already been articles out about smart dust doing exactly this and giving you a sensor net that self configures. The article a couple of months ago mentioned that this was feasable with micro-scale devices, stuff within today's lithographic limitations. They seemed to imply that the current state of the art in light emitting technology could be used for them to inter-communicate. And yes, with a dumptruck load dispersed in the ar, you'll get useful coverage.
I've seen a lot of stuff go by about journelling file systems and understand the theory/needs. Can someone in the know do a comparison between the various ones out in the marketplace (*nix in general, commercial and other) and how the IBM system stacks up? Is there a review/FAQ available that compares the product in the market niche?
I keep flashing back to the cartoon of the robot on the analysts couch saying, "Just because my intelligence is artificial, doesn't mean my problems aren't real".
From what I've seen from my kids chatting and other list experiences, the problem of a bot on IRC shouldn't be that difficult. Short, pat answers with cryptic acronyms and a serious streak to talk about themselves regardless of the reply given. Can't be any worse than have a marital phone answering machine that just keeps repeating uh-huh... yep... I'm sure you're right... of course honey...
Lurking is fine, as I originally said but to make the most of the interchange, it needs to be interactive. That doesn't mean you need to provide data, just that you'll get more out of it by asking questions of the knowledgable participants. Chances are you'll learn more by asking specific questions that you lack answers to rather than just absorbing the meme-stream (after a short initial reading period).
As for your devil's advocate position, clueless people serve a purpose in an interactive exchange because you need to restate and revisit your position in multiple ways to try to reach their level of understanding and bring them forward. I find describing methods and algorithms with our non-technical QE people at work, very useful because I have to cover all aspects since I need to provide them with a full context. I'm not expecting them to design objects within the application but I may think of an alternate method while describing it.
I think a lot of what you've covered is perfectly valid. I also think there are other areas that you've left out. In many cases, such as/.'s first posters, the only thing people are striving for is visability and notice (note that this is different from recognition). There are also people that are lurkers on lists and portals that are simply looking for an information source. Both these types are using the medium in half-duplex mode and not making optimum use of the interchange. This is seen in real life in situations where people are talked at/lectured, rather than conversed with. You can think of the lurkers as being the tv/radio consumers and the first posters as the evangelical preachers, in the pulpit and saying their beliefs, regardless of the interest of the listeners. I think that the infomation exchange seen in interacting with the web and others is really a two way street for it to have any value and half-duplex usage is like posting to/dev/null.
There, I feel better... I wonder if it'll get read?
There is certainly a range of people that write code and I've seen both extremes. Poorly written higher level language programs aren't going to be improved by a compiler. There might be suggestions by a good level syntax checker but that isn't the topic here. One of the long term comments I've always made is that you can write Fortran in any language. If you don't understand the language constructs sufficiently, you aren't going to be saved by the compiler. There is no substitute for programming competence.
Well, the obvious thing they'd do to pay for the free email portion is the same thing as all the other free email accounts, sell advertising space along with the messages.
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I always thought that Slashdot would be the vehicle for getting information about the industry that was ignored by the mainstream media but lately it seems to be 1-3 days behind the mainstream and a pointer to the mainstream media article in any case. I'm reading things on CNN and News.com that I would have expected here first and other things here that just seem to be posted to fill the article quota for the day. Is there really any point to providing pointers to other services like this? Doesn't anyone surf any other news sites besides /.?
There are sense wires that detect a field in the "spot" so you can read the memory field direction to specify a 1 or a zero. Just like the old magnetic donuts used in core memory without the hundreds of Tiwainese ladies stringing the beads (they had the smallest fingers to be able to do it in the 60s)
Nice to see what goes around, comes around. Core memory in a dip package. Magnetic bubble memory was a first attempt at this but it took too long to move the bubbles around the ramps. This looks more feasable and the heat dissipation problem is gone. Is there any real reason to have mobile mass storage when you can have high density static memory? If you remove the heat problem, there's no real limitation to using three dimensions for the layout. Just build the chip up in layers.
We already have the online environments for both cows and pigs. MOOs and MUDs
(oh come on)
But think of the bumper sticker possibilities:
Powered by farts!
Farts inside!
Caution: Car makes frequent ventings.
Remember the whole bit of Methane production from cow digestion? methane is also a cheap source of hydrogen and yet the conversion of biological waste into Methane as a fuel hasn't gone too far. Certainly the byproducts of straight hydrogen use are better but using macroscopic biomass fermentation might be easier than something that has specific microenvironment needs.
of a tape drive diagnostic I once had to use. I discovered that it would pass if there was no tape loaded.
from http://www.reston.com/nasa/watch.html
16 February 2000: Mars Polar Lander Failure Uncovered? According to someone@jpl.nasa.gov: "A potential problem with the MPL descent sequence may have been located. During footpad deployment for the MPL, tests indicate that the touchdown sensors may have thought that the spacecraft had landed due to the force of landing gear deployment. If this occurred, the spacecraft would have separated from its parachute and descended normally to an altitude of forty meters. When the radar indicated this altitude, the spacecraft was programmed to descend at constant velocity until it touched down. But if the footpad sensors indicated a touchdown, the spacecraft would have shut off its descent engines at 40 meters altitude, dooming the mission."
Lucky for them Transmeta didn't feel that way...
And no sign of course notes, as mentioned.
Think you could use 500 hours of free AOL access? There are also places in the states that rent mobile phones on a short term (month at a time) basis for outgoing calling. it isn't the cheapest option
Talk about the only thing constant is change...
This is really so 60s. Suddenly the young, rising rebels discover the changes they're fighting for are so easily done within the system. The ability to fight the establishment, USING the establishment becomes an accepted method and then suddenly they wake up and discover...
My god, I've turned into my parents!
Agreed. I was just reading some stuff about the testing being done at those resolutions at IBM and realized that it was getting into the "within 5 years" realm. Can someone refresh my memory as to what the current lithography limit is? I mean, we're getting down into traces that are hundreds of atoms wide that we need to avoid voids in over wafer scale surfaces. I believe I also just read that Intel was just moving into .18 so AMD s leading the technology curve since they're already in copper production as well.
And this is made on .18 fab lines which leaves .13 and .07 yet to come. This processor is going to have so much more in it that Intel isn't going to be able to play the matching gigahertz game much longer. You do have to admire a company that not so long ago had been totally written off and now has processors in most of the Intel strongholds. What's next? PPC overtaking Intel marketshare?
Obviously you need a boy/girlfriend! I'd say spouse but I'm not sure pleading is "voice driven".
And the supposedly true story of one of the early windows demo of a speaker independent voice enabled system where various audience members shouted:
"Format C:"
"Return"
"Yes"
"Return"
There are some areas where it would be a nice addition to a standard PDA. Not to replace the handwriting recognition but as an alternate entry method. I could see myself using it in the car in a hands free manner while driving. I know in previous jobs we did medical form/record entry and we would have liked to have recognition as part of it. Many of those customers use microcassette recorders that then need to be sent to a transcriber. Those areas with limitied technical vocabularies would be well suited. In a cubicle environment it's crazy. The woman over the wall drives me crazy with listening to her voice mail with her speaker phone as it is now... then again, the ability to yell "format c: return Y return" is tempting 8^)
There's already been articles out about smart dust doing exactly this and giving you a sensor net that self configures. The article a couple of months ago mentioned that this was feasable with micro-scale devices, stuff within today's lithographic limitations. They seemed to imply that the current state of the art in light emitting technology could be used for them to inter-communicate. And yes, with a dumptruck load dispersed in the ar, you'll get useful coverage.
It appears that you need to take multiple pictures for the effect. That seems to kill any "action" images right there.
I've seen a lot of stuff go by about journelling file systems and understand the theory/needs. Can someone in the know do a comparison between the various ones out in the marketplace (*nix in general, commercial and other) and how the IBM system stacks up? Is there a review/FAQ available that compares the product in the market niche?
Everyone seems to be forgetting the most malicious tag of all... (blink)!(/blink)
I keep flashing back to the cartoon of the robot on the analysts couch saying, "Just because my intelligence is artificial, doesn't mean my problems aren't real".
From what I've seen from my kids chatting and other list experiences, the problem of a bot on IRC shouldn't be that difficult. Short, pat answers with cryptic acronyms and a serious streak to talk about themselves regardless of the reply given. Can't be any worse than have a marital phone answering machine that just keeps repeating uh-huh... yep... I'm sure you're right... of course honey...
and I came back to read your reply... 8^)
Lurking is fine, as I originally said but to make the most of the interchange, it needs to be interactive. That doesn't mean you need to provide data, just that you'll get more out of it by asking questions of the knowledgable participants. Chances are you'll learn more by asking specific questions that you lack answers to rather than just absorbing the meme-stream (after a short initial reading period).
As for your devil's advocate position, clueless people serve a purpose in an interactive exchange because you need to restate and revisit your position in multiple ways to try to reach their level of understanding and bring them forward. I find describing methods and algorithms with our non-technical QE people at work, very useful because I have to cover all aspects since I need to provide them with a full context. I'm not expecting them to design objects within the application but I may think of an alternate method while describing it.
I think a lot of what you've covered is perfectly valid. I also think there are other areas that you've left out. In many cases, such as /.'s first posters, the only thing people are striving for is visability and notice (note that this is different from recognition). There are also people that are lurkers on lists and portals that are simply looking for an information source. Both these types are using the medium in half-duplex mode and not making optimum use of the interchange. This is seen in real life in situations where people are talked at/lectured, rather than conversed with. You can think of the lurkers as being the tv/radio consumers and the first posters as the evangelical preachers, in the pulpit and saying their beliefs, regardless of the interest of the listeners. I think that the infomation exchange seen in interacting with the web and others is really a two way street for it to have any value and half-duplex usage is like posting to /dev/null.
There, I feel better... I wonder if it'll get read?
8^)
There is certainly a range of people that write code and I've seen both extremes. Poorly written higher level language programs aren't going to be improved by a compiler. There might be suggestions by a good level syntax checker but that isn't the topic here. One of the long term comments I've always made is that you can write Fortran in any language. If you don't understand the language constructs sufficiently, you aren't going to be saved by the compiler. There is no substitute for programming competence.
Well, the obvious thing they'd do to pay for the free email portion is the same thing as all the other free email accounts, sell advertising space along with the messages.