because the concrete is thinner, not because the concrete is lighter. This discerned from RTFA. We poured a pad for a picnic pavilion at the yacht club using concrete that is reinforced with polyethylene fibers. It allowed us to pour a large pad that will not crack without having to use tiebacks. Which brings to mind something I've often wondered about...
With concrete, when it's pre or post stressed in compression, it's much less likely to crack. Traditionally this is done by tensioning the steel prior to pouring or tensioning cable or rod 'tiebacks' after partial curing. Now this is very nice but... It should be possible to engineer a fiber that will shrink as it ages and bonds well as an aggregate. If the shrink time could be matched up reasonably well with the cure time of the concrete it would simplify many types of construction.
"They can't understand context, for example;
on
Gates on Google
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· Score: 2, Interesting
if you type "chip," they can't tell whether you are looking for a snack food or high-tech equipment..."
Was mentioned in the article as a shortcoming of search engines.
Any/.ers care to comment on possible directions for Wikipedia that would make it a threat to google?
"trying to build a google killer"
on
Gates on Google
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· Score: 1
BZZZZTT!
No BINGO for you!
If Gates wants to put himself software center stage, he needs to understand that there's no coon in the google tree. Give me the pick of 6 of programmers, 2 technical writers, 4 researchers, 4 hardware engineers, two machinists, atrio of HOT manageresses, access to the shop and access to a VLSI fab facility and I could put M$ back on center stage in less than 36 months. I suspect there are thousands of people who could do the same, some of them already working at Microsoft!
My point is that he's got no serious new product development/emergent technology lab going. Set one up and MS could be cranking out stuff as fast and as profitably as Edison ever did. Hell, the appeal of googles offerings has been staring him in the face since gopher and usenet were kings of the hill.
"Diagram Query and Image Retrieval in Design Gross, M. and E. Do Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Image Processing, Crystal City, Virginia, IEEEComputer Society Press, 1995 design machine group University of Washington Seattle WA USA 98195-5720 http://depts.washington.edu/dmachine DIAGRAM QUERY & IMAGE RETRIEVAL IN DESIGN Mark D Gross (1) and Ellen Yi-Luen Do (2) (1) College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0314 mdg@cs.colorado.edu (2) College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0155 ellendo@cc.gatech.edu ABSTRACT Architectural designers are voracious consumers of visual images, which play a crucial role especially in conceptual and creative design. Consequently architectural education revolves around visual references. Yet key word, texture and color retrieval schemes do not suit designers needs. Designers need shape based retrieval that is driven by free hand drawing, and ways to integrate retrieved images into their design environment. The paper describes Drawing Analogies, an image retrieval scheme for design based on the need for image retrieval that can be integrated with the act of free hand drawing."
CHina
Population:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
1,306,313,812 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
Definition Field Listing
0-14 years: 21.4% (male 148,134,928/female 131,045,415)
15-64 years: 71% (male 477,182,072/female 450,664,933)
65 years and over: 7.6% (male 47,400,282/female 51,886,182) (2005 est.)
USA
Population:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
Definition Field Listing
0-14 years: 20.6% (male 31,095,725/female 29,703,997)
15-64 years: 67% (male 98,914,382/female 99,324,126)
65 years and over: 12.4% (male 15,298,676/female 21,397,228) (2005 est.)
It's worth noting that the land area is almost the same for China ans USA.
As for the population and Broadband...
Articles 2007 numbers as a percentage of total population.
China-4.36
USA-18.25
Game developers should take note of the number of males in 0-14 age bracket.
China-148,134,928
USA-31,095,725
When you multiply by % of population with broadband, the numbers are almost identical.
comment regarding OS-SW. well time=$ and this remark is hogcleanser
perhaps a good bit of the cost could be subordinated by piggybacking with a commercial LSI developer from a different market. They will have the fab accounts and maybe be willing to contribute room on prototype wafers. I'm not really familiar with this sort of work, so this may be totally off in wonderland, but how much space is left over on a wafer when these guys are running prototypes?
I found the Bannerman books using google. I remembered the author from back when out children were small. Daughter will be a senior studying architecture at a school in Paris next year. Son is in Georgia and will be a junior studying applied mathematics at Georga Tech next year. Time passes too quickly.
Are you in India? I shared a house in Fiji with a lady from Delhi for a number of years. She had a Scottish accent having attended parochial school taught by nuns from Scotland. I live in Honolulu now but have been spending a lot of time in Georgia trying to sell some property we have in Atlanta and keeping an eye on the children.
Lead-tin-bismuth-cadmium alloys have low melting points. example.
In the early days of commercial radio these alloys were used as a conductive form to secure galena or other semiconductors for use as the detector in 'crystal' radio sets. Low melting point avoided damage to the mineral.
They are also used in making for many low temp(so as not to damage the mold) casting of patterns from a single rubber(latex) mold for use in making mold 'trees'.
I'm sure there are some/. readers who know of other uses for 'Woods' metal?
Yep, rather than the municipalities doing the WiFi stuff and fighting with the, gramdma in her rocking chair bring me my bedpan dammit old-fat-cats, they might fund a cooperative research foundation or some other animal, that's a political hot potato and legally difficult for the big companies to deal with, that will eventually become self supporting and do for net-comms what open source has doem for SW.
If you want to talk models reply and if it gets out of hand for/. I'll crank up a forum.
The DB as a big artificial brain. Associations are weighted. Parts of it 'dream' up new associations. It organizes itself based on assorted 'self conceived' recipes.
It's one very fuzzy wart on the ass of the AI as a black-box brain, rhinocerous. Kinda cool that folks are thinking about AI in functional rather than structural terms, even if they may not know it.
Mind you this is just a first cup of coffee opinion!
business practices addressed by legislation, i.e. giving away M$ windows based computers until Apple is out of business, until the GPL software drives someone out of business AND then requires payment.
I suspect a socket 939 laptop/notebook will be available by May 2006. This is when I'll be ready to buy. Why would they put a 939 in a laptop? To offer a version with a dual core part. What I would like is this venice core part, a 12-14 inch WSXGA daylight viewable screen, and sound with a quality 24bit 192kHz ADAC with line in and line out, firewire, wireless, optical drive, enough battery for a good 4 hours of full tilt CPU work, and a 3 year warranty. Of course a sub 5lb package with a digital I/O port, two of those mini-pci slots, and a tough case and keyboard would be nice too.
Who knows, in 12 months, there may be a couple to choose from. There should be enough market for portable scientific, industrial, and medical to justify building the things.
Slashdot Mirror
this is why you never put in a 'market order' on stocks like SCO ;-)
because the concrete is thinner, not because the concrete is lighter. This discerned from RTFA. We poured a pad for a picnic pavilion at the yacht club using concrete that is reinforced with polyethylene fibers. It allowed us to pour a large pad that will not crack without having to use tiebacks. Which brings to mind something I've often wondered about...
With concrete, when it's pre or post stressed in compression, it's much less likely to crack. Traditionally this is done by tensioning the steel prior to pouring or tensioning cable or rod 'tiebacks' after partial curing. Now this is very nice but... It should be possible to engineer a fiber that will shrink as it ages and bonds well as an aggregate. If the shrink time could be matched up reasonably well with the cure time of the concrete it would simplify many types of construction.
if you type "chip," they can't tell whether you are looking for a snack food or high-tech equipment..."
/.ers care to comment on possible directions for Wikipedia that would make it a threat to google?
Was mentioned in the article as a shortcoming of search engines.
Take a look at:
chip results on Wikipedia.
Any
BZZZZTT!
No BINGO for you!
If Gates wants to put himself software center stage, he needs to understand that there's no coon in the google tree.
Give me the pick of 6 of programmers, 2 technical writers, 4 researchers, 4 hardware engineers, two machinists, atrio of HOT manageresses, access to the shop and access to a VLSI fab facility and I could put M$ back on center stage in less than 36 months.
I suspect there are thousands of people who could do the same, some of them already working at Microsoft!
My point is that he's got no serious new product development/emergent technology lab going. Set one up and MS could be cranking out stuff as fast and as profitably as Edison ever did. Hell, the appeal of googles offerings has been staring him in the face since gopher and usenet were kings of the hill.
I attended a lecture back in '96 or '97 given by Ms. Yu at Ga Tech. She demonstrated a LISP program that did a very nice job...
+ image+designers+edu/
Following is from http://computing.breinestorm.net/design+retrieval
"Diagram Query and Image Retrieval in Design
Gross, M. and E. Do Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Image Processing, Crystal City, Virginia, IEEEComputer Society Press, 1995 design machine group University of Washington Seattle WA USA 98195-5720 http://depts.washington.edu/dmachine
DIAGRAM QUERY & IMAGE RETRIEVAL IN DESIGN Mark D Gross (1) and Ellen Yi-Luen Do (2) (1) College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0314 mdg@cs.colorado.edu (2) College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0155 ellendo@cc.gatech.edu ABSTRACT Architectural designers are voracious consumers of visual images, which play a crucial role especially in conceptual and creative design. Consequently architectural education revolves around visual references. Yet key word, texture and color retrieval schemes do not suit designers needs. Designers need shape based retrieval that is driven by free hand drawing, and ways to integrate retrieved images into their design environment. The paper describes Drawing Analogies, an image retrieval scheme for design based on the need for image retrieval that can be integrated with the act of free hand drawing."
Chinese.
From: CIA
CHina
Population:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
1,306,313,812 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
Definition Field Listing
0-14 years: 21.4% (male 148,134,928/female
131,045,415)
15-64 years: 71% (male 477,182,072/female
450,664,933)
65 years and over: 7.6% (male
47,400,282/female 51,886,182) (2005 est.)
USA
Population:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
Definition Field Listing
0-14 years: 20.6% (male 31,095,725/female
29,703,997)
15-64 years: 67% (male 98,914,382/female
99,324,126)
65 years and over: 12.4% (male
15,298,676/female 21,397,228) (2005 est.)
It's worth noting that the land area is almost the same for China ans USA.
As for the population and Broadband...
Articles 2007 numbers as a percentage of total population.
China-4.36
USA-18.25
Game developers should take note of the number of males in 0-14 age bracket.
China-148,134,928
USA-31,095,725
When you multiply by % of population with broadband, the numbers are almost identical.
have or are willing to learn the skills to work in software development?
they just reallocate.
comment regarding OS-SW.
well time=$ and this remark is hogcleanser
perhaps a good bit of the cost could be subordinated by piggybacking with a commercial LSI developer from a different market. They will have the fab accounts and maybe be willing to contribute room on prototype wafers. I'm not really familiar with this sort of work, so this may be totally off in wonderland, but how much space is left over on a wafer when these guys are running prototypes?
MARSIS instrument. Will shortwave radio work for Mars colonists? Ionospheric sounding, 0.1 to 5.5 MHz, will provide some clues.
Su Sai Babu writing from an alter-ego.
I found the Bannerman books using google. I remembered the author from back when out children were small. Daughter will be a senior studying architecture at a school in Paris next year. Son is in Georgia and will be a junior studying applied mathematics at Georga Tech next year. Time passes too quickly.
Are you in India? I shared a house in Fiji with a lady from Delhi for a number of years. She had a Scottish accent having attended parochial school taught by nuns from Scotland. I live in Honolulu now but have been spending a lot of time in Georgia trying to sell some property we have in Atlanta and keeping an eye on the children.
Good laugh, thanks.
But then she went and got all touchy feely on us when all we wanted was a slice of pie.
10cent bit of plastic for $15 and when it degrades to uselessness and you grab a copy off the net try to put your ass in jail.
To paraphrase NWA, 'Fuck the RIAA'
Su Senor Programmer
Jeez and I wasn't even fishing.
It's IC as n nternal combustion...
Now don't go getting all excited but in particular the suck squish pop blow sort
too bad for you big fella, I'm an artificial bait
"Do subscribers see the slashvertisements too?" /. article on forums mighthave some soggestions.
The
For example, a new forum...
In the early days of commercial radio these alloys were used as a conductive form to secure galena or other semiconductors for use as the detector in 'crystal' radio sets. Low melting point avoided damage to the mineral.
They are also used in making for many low temp(so as not to damage the mold) casting of patterns from a single rubber(latex) mold for use in making mold 'trees'.
I'm sure there are some /. readers who know of other uses for 'Woods' metal?
Let us know...
There are low MP alloys of tin-lead-cadmium-bismuth. This example melts at 70C.
Sodium filled valves are nothing new in IC engines.
Personally my favoite response phrase from the box has always been,
Curley's, "i'm trying think but nothing happens"
if anyone has in any audio format, i'd appreciate a pointer to copy
co-op
/. I'll crank up a forum.
Yep, rather than the municipalities doing the WiFi stuff and fighting with the, gramdma in her rocking chair bring me my bedpan dammit old-fat-cats, they might fund a cooperative research foundation or some other animal, that's a political hot potato and legally difficult for the big companies to deal with, that will eventually become self supporting and do for net-comms what open source has doem for SW.
If you want to talk models reply and if it gets out of hand for
Well that's the essence.
The DB as a big artificial brain.
Associations are weighted. Parts of it 'dream' up new associations. It organizes itself based on assorted 'self conceived' recipes.
It's one very fuzzy wart on the ass of the AI as a black-box brain,
rhinocerous. Kinda cool that folks are thinking about AI in functional rather than structural terms, even if they may not know it.
Mind you this is just a first cup of coffee opinion!
own alternative to a pay forum. At least as long as you mind the pie and don't let consolidation by a few big ISP's buggar things up for good.
So, after all the posturing, bent egos, and vented steam, I will not be surprised if the forum gains a renegade cousin...
business practices addressed by legislation, i.e. giving away M$ windows based computers until Apple is out of business, until the GPL software drives someone out of business AND then requires payment.
I suspect a socket 939 laptop/notebook will be available by May 2006. This is when I'll be ready to buy. Why would they put a 939 in a laptop? To offer a version with a dual core part. What I would like is this venice core part, a 12-14 inch WSXGA daylight viewable screen, and sound with a quality 24bit 192kHz ADAC with line in and line out, firewire, wireless, optical drive, enough battery for a good 4 hours of full tilt CPU work, and a 3 year warranty. Of course a sub 5lb package with a digital I/O port, two of those mini-pci slots, and a tough case and keyboard would be nice too.
Who knows, in 12 months, there may be a couple to choose from. There should be enough market for portable scientific, industrial, and medical to justify building the things.