I read an article about soft tissue's being found in a T-Rex bone a year or so ago, is this the same article or did they find another bone with soft tissue??
Look here for more information on the technical specs;
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jht ml;jsessionid=13DOWA104O1JYQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=19 3005741
From the article:
"When combined with our recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics, these experimental chips address the three major requirements for terascale computing -- teraOPS of performance, terabytes-per-second of memory bandwidth, and terabits-per-second of I/O capacity," Rattner said in a statement. "While any commercial application of these technologies is years away, it is an exciting first step in bringing tera-scale performance to PCs and servers."
I'm still in the "believe it when I see it" phase.
Okay even if they have increased the energy density of an ultra-capacitor to allow a vehicle to travel 500 miles (based on a 15 Kw engine), and can charge in a few minutes (~1.4 Megawatts). How long does the charge last? typical capacitors do not hold their charge indefenitely. What happens if there is a short? I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a vehicle if it discharges ~1.4 Megawatts of electricity in a few seconds. Finaly what happens if you over charge it? capacitors can easily be damaged due over charging.
Just some questions I would ask before I bought a vehicle that used these ultra-capacitors.
Photon's are counter intuitive, picture it as having mass only when it's at rest, but none when it's moving. On the same note energy, in large enough quantities can warp spacetime, this could only happen in concentrated regions.
Dark Matter can easily be defined as the particle alot of scientists are looking to as an explanation, the Axion. The Axion is defined as a weakly interacting, low mass particle, almost invisible to normal matter.
So something that fits the bill, such as a neutrino with a low mass, could also explain what dark matter is.
Although IMHO a neutrino's tend to move to fast (~C) and do not concentrate around galaxies, as far as can be detected. It doesn't appear that these people are factoring Neutrino Oscillation either, but i could be wrong.
Often information security is a comprimise, we try to secure a company as much as they will allow. I've found that politics is a major factor and very few of a companies employee's like to be reigned in. Add to the fact that many software applications can't be locked down very much or they will cease to function, and you have a comprimised security. It's balancing game, try to secure as much as possible, within the limits a company sets for you.
Besides, as we all know, there is no perfect security system/method, if a hacker wants to get in bad enough, he will find away. We just try and make it as hard as possible.
Maybe this will allow me to make a copy of my entire life experience and put it on disk. Then I can make a mint by selling copies! Could this be the start of true reality shows??
Novell never really marketed Netware to the point Microsoft did.
Technically though Netware NDS was better than AD.
Being a CNE for a couple of decades, I can say that NDS handled replication much better than Active Directory (AD). I've had replication going to outer offices with just a 16k CIR with NDS, while AD has to have a minimum of 512kb CIR for replication.
Of course Novell stuck with Console1 for to long and Java is just to painfully slow to be useful.
I can't speak for anyone else, but when playing violent games such as Battle Field 2 SF, tere is an adrenaline rush that makes one more aggressive, specially playing for a couple of hours. Now, that doesn't mean I'm going to go out and kill someone. You learn to channel the agressiveness like most people do.
With most telecommunication companies moving to IP based Eeverything (telephone, movies, radio, etc.) this won't be an issue since they will be able to implement BWM (BandWidth Management) and have dedicated whatever amount of traffic for downloads they so choose...
I am familiar with semiconductors.
You mention molecular layers thick, the author references atom's thick.
It's just I have heard to many people throw around the "atom's thick" with out proper reference. It's not a valid measurement.
A hydrogen atom is relatively smaller than a silicon atom, at approximately ~0.12nm, while a Silicon atom is ~0.20nm,(sorry can't find the angstrom size) doesn't sound like much but at the level we are discussing,it is a large difference.
Boardroom in top floor of building in Manhatten,
Pointy-haired boss: "Alright we need to figure out a new marketing strategy to expand our presence in Asia, I want you guys hit the sack and we'll discuss this in five hours"
Larry: *SNORE*
Pointy-haired boss: "I wish I had more hard workers like Larry over there"
Betty mutters: "brown noser"
Also consider the tension on a ribbon that long and that heavy, held up by what would have to be a very heavy counter-weight! Just the enineering of a rope/ribbon to with stand that would boggle the mind. Even if it was made from nano-tubes, none have been made over an inch long.
At best, we still could only get to around.001 percent of light with todays technology. Even if what this guy claims is true, and I'm far from believing it, it still would take alot of progress to achieve 57 percent the speed of light. no weapons, no spaceships for a long while.
I'm waiting to see a DIY project where someone contructs a small nuclear battery or reactor from transmuted Thorium 232 (Which is easily avalable) into Uranium 233, using this method. The price of these crytals are not relatively high, a 3" disk goes for $200 - $250 US.
The TRS-80 came out in last year of high school. I had worked with the Sinclair Z80 and the best one I had was the Atari 500, I had a tape backup that would load programs when the 16k of memory would fill up.
Man those were the days. One program I wrote was for graphics rendering, it took 10 minutes for it to render one object.
It certainly been a long time.
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What he said! Even with the tongue and cheek, this is why I originaly placed this article on slashdot, this is really big news.
I agree, somwhere someone misquoted something.
I read an article about soft tissue's being found in a T-Rex bone a year or so ago, is this the same article or did they find another bone with soft tissue??
Look here for more information on the technical specs; http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jht ml;jsessionid=13DOWA104O1JYQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=19 3005741
From the article:
"When combined with our recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics, these experimental chips address the three major requirements for terascale computing -- teraOPS of performance, terabytes-per-second of memory bandwidth, and terabits-per-second of I/O capacity," Rattner said in a statement. "While any commercial application of these technologies is years away, it is an exciting first step in bringing tera-scale performance to PCs and servers."
I'm still in the "believe it when I see it" phase.
Okay even if they have increased the energy density of an ultra-capacitor to allow a vehicle to travel 500 miles (based on a 15 Kw engine), and can charge in a few minutes (~1.4 Megawatts). How long does the charge last? typical capacitors do not hold their charge indefenitely. What happens if there is a short? I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a vehicle if it discharges ~1.4 Megawatts of electricity in a few seconds. Finaly what happens if you over charge it? capacitors can easily be damaged due over charging.
Just some questions I would ask before I bought a vehicle that used these ultra-capacitors.
Photon's are counter intuitive, picture it as having mass only when it's at rest, but none when it's moving. On the same note energy, in large enough quantities can warp spacetime, this could only happen in concentrated regions. Dark Matter can easily be defined as the particle alot of scientists are looking to as an explanation, the Axion. The Axion is defined as a weakly interacting, low mass particle, almost invisible to normal matter. So something that fits the bill, such as a neutrino with a low mass, could also explain what dark matter is. Although IMHO a neutrino's tend to move to fast (~C) and do not concentrate around galaxies, as far as can be detected. It doesn't appear that these people are factoring Neutrino Oscillation either, but i could be wrong.
I'm curious to see what kind of heat these transistors would generate, as thats a growing problem already.
Often information security is a comprimise, we try to secure a company as much as they will allow. I've found that politics is a major factor and very few of a companies employee's like to be reigned in. Add to the fact that many software applications can't be locked down very much or they will cease to function, and you have a comprimised security. It's balancing game, try to secure as much as possible, within the limits a company sets for you. Besides, as we all know, there is no perfect security system/method, if a hacker wants to get in bad enough, he will find away. We just try and make it as hard as possible.
Maybe this will allow me to make a copy of my entire life experience and put it on disk. Then I can make a mint by selling copies! Could this be the start of true reality shows??
Novell never really marketed Netware to the point Microsoft did. Technically though Netware NDS was better than AD. Being a CNE for a couple of decades, I can say that NDS handled replication much better than Active Directory (AD). I've had replication going to outer offices with just a 16k CIR with NDS, while AD has to have a minimum of 512kb CIR for replication. Of course Novell stuck with Console1 for to long and Java is just to painfully slow to be useful.
I can't speak for anyone else, but when playing violent games such as Battle Field 2 SF, tere is an adrenaline rush that makes one more aggressive, specially playing for a couple of hours. Now, that doesn't mean I'm going to go out and kill someone. You learn to channel the agressiveness like most people do.
With most telecommunication companies moving to IP based Eeverything (telephone, movies, radio, etc.) this won't be an issue since they will be able to implement BWM (BandWidth Management) and have dedicated whatever amount of traffic for downloads they so choose...
Okay, what I was trying for was a more accurate angstrom measurement than nanometer measurement.
I am familiar with semiconductors. You mention molecular layers thick, the author references atom's thick. It's just I have heard to many people throw around the "atom's thick" with out proper reference. It's not a valid measurement. A hydrogen atom is relatively smaller than a silicon atom, at approximately ~0.12nm, while a Silicon atom is ~0.20nm,(sorry can't find the angstrom size) doesn't sound like much but at the level we are discussing,it is a large difference.
Can you be more precise than "11 atoms thick". This erronous since each type of atom ie. Hydrogen, Carbon, silicon, are different sizes.
Boardroom in top floor of building in Manhatten, Pointy-haired boss: "Alright we need to figure out a new marketing strategy to expand our presence in Asia, I want you guys hit the sack and we'll discuss this in five hours" Larry: *SNORE* Pointy-haired boss: "I wish I had more hard workers like Larry over there" Betty mutters: "brown noser"
Damn, I knew I shouldn't have had that etra degree.
Also consider the tension on a ribbon that long and that heavy, held up by what would have to be a very heavy counter-weight! Just the enineering of a rope/ribbon to with stand that would boggle the mind. Even if it was made from nano-tubes, none have been made over an inch long.
At best, we still could only get to around .001 percent of light with todays technology. Even if what this guy claims is true, and I'm far from believing it, it still would take alot of progress to achieve 57 percent the speed of light. no weapons, no spaceships for a long while.
I'm waiting to see a DIY project where someone contructs a small nuclear battery or reactor from transmuted Thorium 232 (Which is easily avalable) into Uranium 233, using this method. The price of these crytals are not relatively high, a 3" disk goes for $200 - $250 US.
The TRS-80 came out in last year of high school. I had worked with the Sinclair Z80 and the best one I had was the Atari 500, I had a tape backup that would load programs when the 16k of memory would fill up. Man those were the days. One program I wrote was for graphics rendering, it took 10 minutes for it to render one object. It certainly been a long time.
To many features? Think about it, even if the PS3 sells for $400, a Blue-ray DVD player sells now for $1400, trust me it's worth every penny.