How much more would you be willing to pay for a CPU with these narrow, specific capabilities? The GPU on an x1900 is a MASSIVE piece of silicon, it has 384 million transistors. An Intel Core 2 CPU has 291 million transistors, an Athlon 64 X2 has 154 million.
Keeping them seperate just makes sense from an economic standpoint right now. Maybe in the long term future we'll see a merging like we did with the FPU, but right now it just isn't in the cards.
Hilarious. Seriously, I thought "oh, HELL no" when it was chosen as "the movie we are going to watch tonight", but I laughed my ass off. Le singe est dans l'arbre.
How many more janitors are dead thanks to Bush Jr.? How many more American citizens? I think Shrub wins hands down when it comes to international fuck ups both in overall scope and number of lives lost.
User-friendly web tools will be available to both the science community and the public to view/analyze HiRISE images and to submit observation requests.
Greaaaat. Now the nutcases can start submitting their "discovered" ancient Martian bases directly to NASA!
Or you could take his "math" to the next step. What would the CPU usage on a 104 key keyboard? By the same logic if it "only" uses 10% with 3 keys, with 104 it'd be... 347% CPU usage! Teh driverz are overclockn' my megahurtz!!
He is complaining that a game has too MUCH content?? This reeks of either stupidity or astroturf. "I paid $50 and I can't beat the game in a week. It's too looooooonnnnng. Boo hoo. Please charge me the same price for less content!" Seriously, WTF?
If it works as it's supposed to, it will charge up in five minutes and provide enough energy to drive 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. At today's gas prices, covering that distance can cost $60 or more; the EEStor device would power a car for the equivalent of about 45 cents a gallon.
My father is fond of the acronym "TANSTAFL" to describe situations like this. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. I don't care how hard you squeeze your eyes shut and wish for this, there is no way in hell you get a two orders of magnitude increase in efficiency.
The key to that entire quote is "If it works as it's supposed to". Talk about leaving yourself an out. This would be wonderful, but it just isn't going to happen, at least not the way described here.
The issue most people are bringing up is the "$9 of electricity in 5 minutes". Mostly by people with real engineering experience. And they have a point. $9 worth of electricity is a LOT of power, enough that if you try and transfer it in 5 minutes, things WILL melt. This isn't some vast conspiracy to keep this technology suppressed, it is common sense.
FWIW, I think the press release has padded the numbers a lot, like it is really going to be $3 worth of electricity that they will charge $9 for, "5 minutes" really means 15 minutes, and "500 miles" really means 150 miles. But still, it would be a step in the right direction. Now if they can answer how it'll heat a car when it is -10F to keep me from freezing to death on the way to work...
Couple of things. You have to understand what "to track" means. What specifically they are talking about with the AIM-54/AWG-9 weapons system is that it can engage 6 targets at once.
The AIM-54 Phoenix is guided initially by the F-14's AWG-9 radar is what is known as "semi-active radar homing". The missile sees the reflections off the target from the F-14's radar. Once the missile gets close enough, it spins up its own active radar which will take over terminal guidance.
"Old school" radars are directed mechanically (the dish actually moves left and right and up and down). To track a target, the dish points directly at the target instead of scanning back and forth. With the AIM-7 Sparrow for example, (a SARH missile) the firing aircraft could track one and only one target. With the AWG-9, a Tomcat can divide its attention among 6 targets at once, providing guidance for 6 missiles in the air at once. This was a Big Deal at the time. Now with electronically scanned array radars, it is a LOT easier to do (no pointing a physical dish).
The AIM-120 AMRAAM is guided initially by an inertial system (the firing plane tells it the target info, location, speed, etc) then when it gets close enough it starts looking for the target with its own radar. This leaves the firing platform free to do whatever it wants, there is no initial need to provide target illumination like with the Phoenix. Thus, with AMRAAMs you can engage as many targets as you have missiles. The AIM-120 is a damn fine missile, you have to keep in mind the AIM-54 was in service before the AMRAAM was even a glimmer in an engineer's eye.
Of course, some folks and even some nation-states occasionally decide "Eh, the Americans were probably kidding about actually using that whole military machine thing". Hiya, Saddam, tell me: how did that invasion of Kuwait go for you again?
Of course now with the whole Preemption Doctrine thing, we can invade countries even when they aren't in violation of international mandates!
Keep in mind that in it's later life they started hanging bombs on the Tomcat. Why? Because there was nothing for it to shoot down. The fleet no longer can justify a dedicated interceptor aircraft. And as lackluster as the Super Bug (F/A-18E and F) seems, it is a significant improvement over the F/A-18C and is a capable fighter and strike aircraft.
That was a rolling vertical scissors where they ended up canopy to canopy going straight up. It wasn't a "he's on my tail" thing. If he would have stalled out before the Mig overshot he probably never would have had a chance to accept bribes as a Congressman.
High AOA manuvers (Cobras, post-stall turns) are airshow manuvers. If you have someone on your tail close enough where dumping a lot of speed will make them overshoot, you're already getting a missile or cannon rounds up your rear end.
With the new generation of high off-boresight short range IR missiles and helmet mounted sights, a dogfight is going to be who pulls the trigger first.
Yes, I did. And the deputy director (acting director) WAS at the conference. Do you possibly think he may be furiously backpedaling now that what he said made it into an article that puts the almighty Yau in an unfavorable light?
Perhaps you should get in line for a cockpunch as well.
My favorite quote (trying to put the Chinese contribution above Perlman's (the Russian):
Hamilton contributed over fifty per cent; the Russian, Perelman, about twenty-five per cent; and the Chinese, Yau, Zhu, and Cao et al., about thirty per cent." (Evidently, simple addition can sometimes trip up even a mathematician.) Yau added, "Given the significance of the Poincaré, that Chinese mathematicians played a thirty-per-cent role is by no means easy. It is a very important contribution.
Yau needs a good cockpunch. He's trying to weasel his way into getting credit for solving Poincaré to elevate his status in the fight to be the head of Chinese mathmatics. Even though he has hardly ever set foot in China. The fact that he filed a lawsuit seems to shed some light on his true mentality. The Chinese don't air their dirty laundry in courts (whether or not they crapped their own bed). That is something that is, sadly, very American. I hope this tantrum causes him to not be considered for the post he is fighting to get.
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How much more would you be willing to pay for a CPU with these narrow, specific capabilities? The GPU on an x1900 is a MASSIVE piece of silicon, it has 384 million transistors. An Intel Core 2 CPU has 291 million transistors, an Athlon 64 X2 has 154 million.
Keeping them seperate just makes sense from an economic standpoint right now. Maybe in the long term future we'll see a merging like we did with the FPU, but right now it just isn't in the cards.
Hilarious. Seriously, I thought "oh, HELL no" when it was chosen as "the movie we are going to watch tonight", but I laughed my ass off. Le singe est dans l'arbre.
Soooo, we can expect terrorists to be trying to snipe while doing a crouching bunny-hop? I guess it will at least make them easier to spot...
I'd think a better "training" tool would be a Rainbow Six/Rogue Spear type game, where the object is to succeed without the enemy getting a shot off.
This is total FUD BS. Oh noes! Teh terrorists are using verbal speech to perfect their terrorist tactics!!! Must ban verbal speech!!!1!
How many more janitors are dead thanks to Bush Jr.? How many more American citizens? I think Shrub wins hands down when it comes to international fuck ups both in overall scope and number of lives lost.
...but a nuclear device exploding and showering particles over a city, mmm, slightly more problematic...
An RTG enclosure is designed to survive a launch vehicle failure (read: *KA-BOOM*) with no release of radioactive material.
The "single larger rover" is going to last FAR longer than the MERs, unless something breaks.
:)
While I agree with the gist of what you said, how did this sentence sound in your head? It's almost like you channeled Yogi Berra.
Or you could take his "math" to the next step. What would the CPU usage on a 104 key keyboard? By the same logic if it "only" uses 10% with 3 keys, with 104 it'd be... 347% CPU usage! Teh driverz are overclockn' my megahurtz!!
Jumping the shark jumped the shark about 6 months ago. Did you miss the memo? :)
He is complaining that a game has too MUCH content?? This reeks of either stupidity or astroturf. "I paid $50 and I can't beat the game in a week. It's too looooooonnnnng. Boo hoo. Please charge me the same price for less content!" Seriously, WTF?
Sure you can! It just won't hold up in court (trust me).
If it works as it's supposed to, it will charge up in five minutes and provide enough energy to drive 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. At today's gas prices, covering that distance can cost $60 or more; the EEStor device would power a car for the equivalent of about 45 cents a gallon.
My father is fond of the acronym "TANSTAFL" to describe situations like this. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. I don't care how hard you squeeze your eyes shut and wish for this, there is no way in hell you get a two orders of magnitude increase in efficiency.
The key to that entire quote is " If it works as it's supposed to ". Talk about leaving yourself an out. This would be wonderful, but it just isn't going to happen, at least not the way described here.
Flamebait much?
The issue most people are bringing up is the "$9 of electricity in 5 minutes". Mostly by people with real engineering experience. And they have a point. $9 worth of electricity is a LOT of power, enough that if you try and transfer it in 5 minutes, things WILL melt. This isn't some vast conspiracy to keep this technology suppressed, it is common sense.
FWIW, I think the press release has padded the numbers a lot, like it is really going to be $3 worth of electricity that they will charge $9 for, "5 minutes" really means 15 minutes, and "500 miles" really means 150 miles. But still, it would be a step in the right direction. Now if they can answer how it'll heat a car when it is -10F to keep me from freezing to death on the way to work...
But they did NOT see service during the Vietnam War (which ended in 1973).
Couple of things. You have to understand what "to track" means. What specifically they are talking about with the AIM-54/AWG-9 weapons system is that it can engage 6 targets at once.
The AIM-54 Phoenix is guided initially by the F-14's AWG-9 radar is what is known as "semi-active radar homing". The missile sees the reflections off the target from the F-14's radar. Once the missile gets close enough, it spins up its own active radar which will take over terminal guidance.
"Old school" radars are directed mechanically (the dish actually moves left and right and up and down). To track a target, the dish points directly at the target instead of scanning back and forth. With the AIM-7 Sparrow for example, (a SARH missile) the firing aircraft could track one and only one target. With the AWG-9, a Tomcat can divide its attention among 6 targets at once, providing guidance for 6 missiles in the air at once. This was a Big Deal at the time. Now with electronically scanned array radars, it is a LOT easier to do (no pointing a physical dish).
The AIM-120 AMRAAM is guided initially by an inertial system (the firing plane tells it the target info, location, speed, etc) then when it gets close enough it starts looking for the target with its own radar. This leaves the firing platform free to do whatever it wants, there is no initial need to provide target illumination like with the Phoenix. Thus, with AMRAAMs you can engage as many targets as you have missiles. The AIM-120 is a damn fine missile, you have to keep in mind the AIM-54 was in service before the AMRAAM was even a glimmer in an engineer's eye.
The F-14 was never IN Vietnam! It never, ever, ever, ever participated in the Vietnam conflict. Ever! Who started this meme and why won't it die?
Why would Israel want them? They already F-15s, and without the AIM-54 weapon system an F-15I is more desirable than a worn-out F-14D.
Of course, some folks and even some nation-states occasionally decide "Eh, the Americans were probably kidding about actually using that whole military machine thing". Hiya, Saddam, tell me: how did that invasion of Kuwait go for you again?
Of course now with the whole Preemption Doctrine thing, we can invade countries even when they aren't in violation of international mandates!
Mach 3? Did someone misplace an SR-71 or something? :)
More importantly the F-14 had nothing to do with VIETNAM!!
Keep in mind that in it's later life they started hanging bombs on the Tomcat. Why? Because there was nothing for it to shoot down. The fleet no longer can justify a dedicated interceptor aircraft. And as lackluster as the Super Bug (F/A-18E and F) seems, it is a significant improvement over the F/A-18C and is a capable fighter and strike aircraft.
Wow... that's some first class journalism. Why can't stupidity be painful for the stupid person instead of his audience?
That was a rolling vertical scissors where they ended up canopy to canopy going straight up. It wasn't a "he's on my tail" thing. If he would have stalled out before the Mig overshot he probably never would have had a chance to accept bribes as a Congressman. High AOA manuvers (Cobras, post-stall turns) are airshow manuvers. If you have someone on your tail close enough where dumping a lot of speed will make them overshoot, you're already getting a missile or cannon rounds up your rear end. With the new generation of high off-boresight short range IR missiles and helmet mounted sights, a dogfight is going to be who pulls the trigger first.
Yes, I did. And the deputy director (acting director) WAS at the conference. Do you possibly think he may be furiously backpedaling now that what he said made it into an article that puts the almighty Yau in an unfavorable light?
Perhaps you should get in line for a cockpunch as well.
My favorite quote (trying to put the Chinese contribution above Perlman's (the Russian):
Hamilton contributed over fifty per cent; the Russian, Perelman, about twenty-five per cent; and the Chinese, Yau, Zhu, and Cao et al., about thirty per cent." (Evidently, simple addition can sometimes trip up even a mathematician.) Yau added, "Given the significance of the Poincaré, that Chinese mathematicians played a thirty-per-cent role is by no means easy. It is a very important contribution.
Yau needs a good cockpunch. He's trying to weasel his way into getting credit for solving Poincaré to elevate his status in the fight to be the head of Chinese mathmatics. Even though he has hardly ever set foot in China. The fact that he filed a lawsuit seems to shed some light on his true mentality. The Chinese don't air their dirty laundry in courts (whether or not they crapped their own bed). That is something that is, sadly, very American. I hope this tantrum causes him to not be considered for the post he is fighting to get.