I believe his motive is to help the handicapped or otherwise disabled. Personally, I'd take my chances on computerized implants before spending the rest of my days in a wheelchair or god forbid in a bed paralyzed from the neck down.
I don't believe these implants would offer anyone any superhuman abilities, due to the fact that they're still your muscles, your nerves and your body. If he was talking about replacing muscles with some kind of substance that contracted with electrical impluses like muscles do, but was ten times faster or stronger than muscle, well then... --
Infact, seeing as how it's a DoD secure site, I seriously doubt they even *have* access to the web for non-research purposes
Well, after the whole Chinese spying fiasco, I imagine it IS much harder to copy files from their machines onto your laptop or vice versa. However, I know people who work there and they do in fact have access to the net, just not with "secure" machines, which I'm sure the big machines are. The only catch is, all the pr0n you download also gets reviewed by the IT sercurity people. D'oh! --
It would be great to have SGI addressing those issues, bringing Linux closer to "enterprise" level. Of course, I can't see it meaning too much to those of us running Linux on single or dual Pentiums, as SGI's modifications to the kernel would be aimed at the freak of a machine they'll be running it on. But then again, we can always hope for some of that work to be applied for x86 systems. --
Agreed! It's time to adopt the versioning they use at Jane's Combat Simulations. We're patiently awaiting the arrival of: Red Hat v6.1 '99 Gold Anthology (Limited Edition) Or pretty soon they'll just start naming them after the year. Slackware 2001, here I come! --
T1 is what, 1.53 megabits per second? So, 1.53 megabit / 8 = 192,000 bytes / 1024 = 187.5 kBytes per second. My cable here delivers around 600-700 kBytes downstream. Upstream is quite another matter. That's typically in the 100kByte range. But, you could feed 27 56k modems simultaneously with a T1. Your real bottleneck is the machine your T1 is going to and it's connection. A dozen T1s going full force to a machine with a single T3 might cause some headaches. Another plus with T1 is you can 'legally' run servers on it, and your IP should be static. I'm getting dedicated DSL at some point soon, I'll have to see how that stacks up speedwise... --
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I don't believe these implants would offer anyone any superhuman abilities, due to the fact that they're still your muscles, your nerves and your body. If he was talking about replacing muscles with some kind of substance that contracted with electrical impluses like muscles do, but was ten times faster or stronger than muscle, well then...
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Well, after the whole Chinese spying fiasco, I imagine it IS much harder to copy files from their machines onto your laptop or vice versa. However, I know people who work there and they do in fact have access to the net, just not with "secure" machines, which I'm sure the big machines are.
The only catch is, all the pr0n you download also gets reviewed by the IT sercurity people. D'oh!
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It would be great to have SGI addressing those issues, bringing Linux closer to "enterprise" level. Of course, I can't see it meaning too much to those of us running Linux on single or dual Pentiums, as SGI's modifications to the kernel would be aimed at the freak of a machine they'll be running it on. But then again, we can always hope for some of that work to be applied for x86 systems.
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Agreed! It's time to adopt the versioning they use at Jane's Combat Simulations. We're patiently awaiting the arrival of:
Red Hat v6.1 '99 Gold Anthology (Limited Edition)
Or pretty soon they'll just start naming them after the year. Slackware 2001, here I come!
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T1 is what, 1.53 megabits per second? So, 1.53 megabit / 8 = 192,000 bytes / 1024 = 187.5 kBytes per second. My cable here delivers around 600-700 kBytes downstream. Upstream is quite another matter. That's typically in the 100kByte range.
But, you could feed 27 56k modems simultaneously with a T1. Your real bottleneck is the machine your T1 is going to and it's connection. A dozen T1s going full force to a machine with a single T3 might cause some headaches. Another plus with T1 is you can 'legally' run servers on it, and your IP should be static.
I'm getting dedicated DSL at some point soon, I'll have to see how that stacks up speedwise...
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