Whoever marked the parent as a troll is obviously ignorant, and I hope it gets fixed in meta.
91degrees is correct. Inmos was a British company that released the transputer around 1985, and was specifically designed to be used in a network of interconnected processors. These chips were 32 bits and were programmed in the Occam programming language. Data transfer between nearest neighbors was over a 10-20 megabit serial connection. Each processor had 2K of memory onboard, and the entire transputer array was meant to be controlled from another computer. Typically that meant that a transputer array was implemented as a daughter card that fit into a computer such as a PC.
In a perverse sort of way, I'm hoping that this experiment generates all the wrong data. Data that is completely the opposite of what people expect.
Think of all the fun that would be! Think of the chaos, the pontificating, the explanations, the TV specials! Think of all the dissertations that would generate! Yes sir, that would be wonderful.
The question you should be asking is what kind of moron would be stupid enough to buy one of them?
A moron like me? I bought a 64 Mb Nvidia 400mx about 6 months ago, cheap. It runs all my games really fast, the drivers are excellent, and I am completely satisfied with its performance.
Seems like the morons are the suckers who spend too much on expensive video cards that they don't need. Who needs 300 frames a second anyway?
This shouldn't affect the manned mission. The money spent and the care taken on the manned missions makes that situation a whole different game. I'd feel very safe launching on a Soyuz rocket - better than riding the shuttle to orbit.
Arsenic is an element, and ammonia is NH3. Neither of them are organic. Organic molecules contain carbon. Better to say eating the screen would be like drinking gasoline or getting your mouth washed out with soap.
Yes, I agree. If I ask a hit man to kill you, but I don't pay him a penny, then I should get the punishment that is on the books for talking. See the problem with the kind of justice that is performed with a simple lookup table?
Give me a break. Airplanes do not have a stall as a typical result of an engine failure. You lose an engine, and you find a field. Big deal. Pilots are trained for this. Every pilot you run into will will be able to control their plane with no engine.
And if you're cruising at 8000 feet, then you'd better be able to find a landing spot within 13 miles or so, because that's how far you can glide in a Cessna from 8000 feet.
On the other hand, you've completely ignored the infamous "dead man zone" in a helo. Too low to autorotate, too high to survive. Oops. Nice crater.
Moderators are having trouble picking the right item from a very short list?
That wasn't a troll. I looked at the man's website, found that he wrote a bunch of neat Newton software. I thought to myself "cool". I had a Newton and really like it. When I saw the list of stuff he wrote, it was clear that he wasn't a typical AOL'er. So, I retracted the other comment that I made about his AOL account.
Or, are we not allowed to retract a comment that might not be accurate on Slashdot? I've only got a UID less than 10,000 so I might not understand the rules. Perhaps the wise moderators could help me out?
That's easy. No religious items should be displayed in public by the government. And gays should have the same rights as everyone else, including marriage, the right to share benefits like health coverage, and the right to adopt children.
Easy. Everyone is protected, majority and minority.
b) A 13 year old who lacks in social skills c) An overweight 42 year old who lives in his mother's basement and spells "Microsoft" as "Micro$oft" (all credit to Gabe and Tycho)
A modicum of research would have answered your questions. Just a quick look at my website would have removed your need to guess what I am.
d) A cynical idiot who doesn't really have anything constructive to add to the discussion.
And that's different from your comments in what particular way?
OK, to focus on that question then: I think that it's not a bad thing to make it a business/patent the idea. If he really does have a great invention, he should patent it. Later on he can decide to license it to open source developers for free or not.
I also think there's nothing wrong with not making it open source if that's what he wants. Generous is a nice thing, but nobody is required to be generous. Selling it for a fair price is a good honest way to make money.
Oh, and another thing I forgot to add. The story starts out "Kip Knight asks". Well, Kip's e-mail address is newtsprism@AOL.COM. That ought to tell you something.
That this invention is a bunch of crap. Most likely scenario: inventor releases a press release that gets widely reported and the most secure thing ever invented. Claims like "unbreakable" and "proven secure" and "many time pad" will be thrown around freely.
And then someone with a decoder ring will crack that puppy wide open.
I see the explosion of porn on the Internet to be mostly a positive thing. Before the Internet, porn was under constant attack everywhere. A lot of busybodies interjected themselves into the bedrooms of others, telling adults what they can and cannot do between themselves in the privacy of their own homes. In Austin TX where I live, it's still illegal for someone to own more than 6 dildos. Why? Who's business is it to tell another what they can put in what hole?
Porn on the Internet is the #1 example of technology allowing a minority of people to assert their rights as adult human beings to do what they want with their own bodies and their own homes. Porn on the Internet has improved our country and our government a great deal, because I measure how good a country is not by how well it protects the majority, but how well it protects the minority.
Why not just live a good life, love your neighbor, and be productive and happy? You still end up dead. No need to go through the trouble of killing yourself if your goal is to end up dead.
Obviously you've never tried and failed to deploy various third party software like Nimda, Klez, or Code Red on Linux. By comparison, Windows machines practically install themselves!
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Whoever marked the parent as a troll is obviously ignorant, and I hope it gets fixed in meta.
91degrees is correct. Inmos was a British company that released the transputer around 1985, and was specifically designed to be used in a network of interconnected processors. These chips were 32 bits and were programmed in the Occam programming language. Data transfer between nearest neighbors was over a 10-20 megabit serial connection. Each processor had 2K of memory onboard, and the entire transputer array was meant to be controlled from another computer. Typically that meant that a transputer array was implemented as a daughter card that fit into a computer such as a PC.
Don't mod me up, mod the parent post up.
In a perverse sort of way, I'm hoping that this experiment generates all the wrong data. Data that is completely the opposite of what people expect.
Think of all the fun that would be! Think of the chaos, the pontificating, the explanations, the TV specials! Think of all the dissertations that would generate! Yes sir, that would be wonderful.
The question you should be asking is what kind of moron would be stupid enough to buy one of them?
A moron like me? I bought a 64 Mb Nvidia 400mx about 6 months ago, cheap. It runs all my games really fast, the drivers are excellent, and I am completely satisfied with its performance.
Seems like the morons are the suckers who spend too much on expensive video cards that they don't need. Who needs 300 frames a second anyway?
The search for "blue screen of death" comes back with 30,500 results
And to add to that, Goedel Escher Bach. That book really has a lot of programming theory. Amazon has it here
This shouldn't affect the manned mission. The money spent and the care taken on the manned missions makes that situation a whole different game. I'd feel very safe launching on a Soyuz rocket - better than riding the shuttle to orbit.
The plural of virus is viruses. Virii just makes you look as smart as a bowl of chickenpoxen
Arsenic is an element, and ammonia is NH3. Neither of them are organic. Organic molecules contain carbon. Better to say eating the screen would be like drinking gasoline or getting your mouth washed out with soap.
Yes, I agree. If I ask a hit man to kill you, but I don't pay him a penny, then I should get the punishment that is on the books for talking. See the problem with the kind of justice that is performed with a simple lookup table?
Give me a break. Airplanes do not have a stall as a typical result of an engine failure. You lose an engine, and you find a field. Big deal. Pilots are trained for this. Every pilot you run into will will be able to control their plane with no engine.
And if you're cruising at 8000 feet, then you'd better be able to find a landing spot within 13 miles or so, because that's how far you can glide in a Cessna from 8000 feet.
On the other hand, you've completely ignored the infamous "dead man zone" in a helo. Too low to autorotate, too high to survive. Oops. Nice crater.
165 grand wouldn't get you a decent Porsche. It'd get you about 4 decent Porsches. Or one hella Porsche.
Moderators are having trouble picking the right item from a very short list?
That wasn't a troll. I looked at the man's website, found that he wrote a bunch of neat Newton software. I thought to myself "cool". I had a Newton and really like it. When I saw the list of stuff he wrote, it was clear that he wasn't a typical AOL'er. So, I retracted the other comment that I made about his AOL account.
Or, are we not allowed to retract a comment that might not be accurate on Slashdot? I've only got a UID less than 10,000 so I might not understand the rules. Perhaps the wise moderators could help me out?
That's easy. No religious items should be displayed in public by the government. And gays should have the same rights as everyone else, including marriage, the right to share benefits like health coverage, and the right to adopt children.
Easy. Everyone is protected, majority and minority.
My employment contract. It's the most useful thing in a politically charged environment.
Well, I take back my comments about his AOL address. Anyone who likes the Apple Newton is obviously intelligent. Don't moderate me funny, I'm serious.
a) A techno-bigot
Yes, I am. I freely admit my guilt.
b) A 13 year old who lacks in social skills
c) An overweight 42 year old who lives in his mother's basement and spells "Microsoft" as "Micro$oft" (all credit to Gabe and Tycho)
A modicum of research would have answered your questions. Just a quick look at my website would have removed your need to guess what I am.
d) A cynical idiot who doesn't really have anything constructive to add to the discussion.
And that's different from your comments in what particular way?
OK, to focus on that question then: I think that it's not a bad thing to make it a business/patent the idea. If he really does have a great invention, he should patent it. Later on he can decide to license it to open source developers for free or not.
I also think there's nothing wrong with not making it open source if that's what he wants. Generous is a nice thing, but nobody is required to be generous. Selling it for a fair price is a good honest way to make money.
Oh, and another thing I forgot to add. The story starts out "Kip Knight asks". Well, Kip's e-mail address is newtsprism@AOL.COM. That ought to tell you something.
That this invention is a bunch of crap. Most likely scenario: inventor releases a press release that gets widely reported and the most secure thing ever invented. Claims like "unbreakable" and "proven secure" and "many time pad" will be thrown around freely.
And then someone with a decoder ring will crack that puppy wide open.
Yawn. Snake oil.
I see the explosion of porn on the Internet to be mostly a positive thing. Before the Internet, porn was under constant attack everywhere. A lot of busybodies interjected themselves into the bedrooms of others, telling adults what they can and cannot do between themselves in the privacy of their own homes. In Austin TX where I live, it's still illegal for someone to own more than 6 dildos. Why? Who's business is it to tell another what they can put in what hole?
Porn on the Internet is the #1 example of technology allowing a minority of people to assert their rights as adult human beings to do what they want with their own bodies and their own homes. Porn on the Internet has improved our country and our government a great deal, because I measure how good a country is not by how well it protects the majority, but how well it protects the minority.
So, it's just a matter of making two, half-height, AA batteries at 0.75 Volts a piece
If you make a half-height battery it'll be 1.5 volts. Do you know what a half-cell voltage is?
Why not just live a good life, love your neighbor, and be productive and happy? You still end up dead. No need to go through the trouble of killing yourself if your goal is to end up dead.
I'm going to start charging for sex. And to think, I've just been giving it away for free! Thanks Microsoft!
How much do they give for used CueCats?
Obviously you've never tried and failed to deploy various third party software like Nimda, Klez, or Code Red on Linux. By comparison, Windows machines practically install themselves!