Posts by Disco-Legend-Zeke 915 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2007
...Blue-Ray .iso that is now 2 hours and 20 minutes into a 30 hour render* would be finished in 15 minutes or so. That would make life better, but i am not sure it would make life $15,000 better.
beer because it makes life $1 better. **
beer doesn't really make the computer faster, it just makes you slower.
* Pentium 5 @ 2.8Ghz 100% Cpu Use
** 24 Ounce can of 211
...pervades the universe, and is more or less just a way of saying spacetime.
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/science/higgs-en.html
At the Big Bang, there was not enough room for even photons to exist in the free state.
"[Higgs, et al] suggested that all particles had no mass just after the Big Bang. As the Universe cooled and the temperature fell below a critical value, an invisible force field called the ‘Higgs field’ was formed"
At the critical point, some photons escaped, and I postulate that photons created timespace.
Timespace is moving in every direction at once at C, the so called speed of light. Photons merely attach themselves to time, much like a rider on a streetcar. This is why we say that photons do not experience time. (And why time slows as you move through space.)
OK... if you are with me so far, let's jump back a bit, there is nothing in the Universe except photons. In the Big Firecracker, all the photons in the universe existed in what i call the "Packed" state, but immediately began to attempt to expand into normal photons. As the universe expanded, there was more freedom of movement, and the photons were able to interact with each other in patterns which were persistant. EVERYTHING is built from these dancing photons. In future lines of research, we should be able to determine these patterns. We might find, for example, that the difference between an up quark and a down quark is merely the polarization of one of it's constituant electrons.
But wait, there's more! Let's go back to our single photon, it attaches to time space and moves at C. But now let's consider a proton, it has many many photons, each attempting to attach to timespace, but unable to move with it because it is bound to all the other photons in its "matter dance." So instead, timespace flows into it.
So a very tiny portion of timespace is now attempting to attach to our proton and is slowed by it. Now scale this up a bit to the size of your hand. Now sufficient timespace is being attracted to be discernable. Move your hand to the left, and a portion of timespace moves left with it, wave it back and forth, and you can feel timespace resisting the changes. Now scale this up to planet Earth, and the amount of timespace flowing into to it becomes so great that your hand, along with the rest of your body, in attempting to attach to timespace is dragged toward the center.
Ordinary photons passing near the edge of your fingernail appear to be bent because the matter in your fingernail is warping spacetime. Go ahead, read this text with a fingernail, pencil, or whatever matter is at hand, look closely at the edge, and you will see this for yourself!
Source: Zeke's Yin-Yang Model of the Universe.
Pint (yes it's 211) because the Universe made me do it.
...is not likely to exist.
There seems to be this notion that gravity is a force, and thus needs a boson of some sort to propigate.
Gravity is NOT a force, it is a distortion in spacetime caused by matter. If we want a better understanding, we should be looking at the nature and constituancy of spacetime.
...a camera built into the laptop, it would be trivial to include remote activation in "courseware" that the school provides.
Ditto url tracking and keylogging for that matter.
When I went to school, cameras still required film, and computers were something i read about in sci-fi books and built for science fair.
...to make the internet back into the Internet.
Traffic is money. Shared pipes lower the cost of generating traffic, and the Googers just need to increase traffic to make more of it. Until you can download or stream HD movies, Google won't be able to sell ads in them or in search results pointing to them.
How many made for Internet movies are there already? If you wanted a video of the disco legend, where would you search for it? Google.
They want not only to share that pipe with other ISP types, but also provide front end services for the producers.
Once Google is in your house, they will also have local content storage in your water heater and your set top box. You might even want the optional picocell on your roof. Moore's law has been working on com stuff too.
For myself as a content producer, Google has been my only reliable road to monetization. As an ISP, I , for one, look forward to our new omnsient overlords.
...as a family owned grocery store, which by importing workers instead of exporting jobs, had a huge chain in the california market.
When the family sold the business, none of the by then 250 or so key professionals wanted to work for the new owners, but they had a non-compete in the food business.
So they kept the family team together, and used their food marketing skills for electronics. Their 8 page color ads looked just like a supermarket ad; today, their great color section is the reason to buy the friday paper.
On the other hand, the GF points out to me that stuff from Tiffany and Co. takes MUCH less storage space. She also asks DARPA to hurry with that money.
Getting back to the problam, by working in the frequency domain, using several thousand mechanical resonators and neural logic should yield a noise tolerant trainable word discriminator.
Higher throughput can be obtained by overclocking, the upper limit being determined by the ability to construct small resonant structures and thermal noise, whichever comes first.
..my dog.
No matter what the background noise level, or the age and gender of the speaker, my doggie can hear the word "Cookie," and come running for a treat.
My GF, has an even larger recognition database, and reacts similarly to "Fry's,*" "Tiffany's," "Buffet," Etc., through all kinds of audio clutter.
What makes a human or dog better at this task? Massively parallel processing. Your ear has a separate receptor for each frequency, and embedded processing to correlate the harmonics.
A similar approach in hardware should solve the problem.
DARPA: just send the money to my Paypal Account...
....and I'll rent you my dog.
*Fry's is a ginormous electronics retailer here in Vegas.
...domains might provide a future takeover capability.
Imagine a "dead" botnet; thousands of compromised machines unable to get instructions because Endgame owns the command and control domains.
In an appropriate situation, Endgame could activate one or more of these, and suddenly have control over vast resources. Since it already has a database of infected mcahines, it could target attacks against specific countries or organizations.
Of course since they are wearing white hats, we have nothing to fear.
..the cheapest beer in the cooler is 211, a/k/a Steel Reserve.
It is also the strongest, coming in at 8.1 ABV. Nicely, it also claims extra hops, the cousin of cannabis, so its possible to remain blissfully ignorant of the state of the Universe.
Excellence in reporting, a hallmark of El Reg!
...is a community.
By setting up an app(le) store, The Jobsian have demonstrated the value added by having their own "Works With Windows" stickers for software makers to affix to their boxes. In similar fashion, phone makers and their carriers serve the consumer by testing products and offering them in "company stores."
Of note is that Apple does not make judgements as to the utility of a script, or quality of crepatation in the fart files. The only excess is blocking all nonapproved apps, which may deprive them of utilities that increase sales.
Having sponsored applications is community building, something every vendor should bring to the table. As finger-to-plane replaces mouse, and function replaces novelty, it is the depth of application the ultimately drives device sales.
...than I thought!
I seems Farm Town, one of the myspace games, has set it up to download a new Flash every time, apparently they get some kind of pay per download, and they are scamming adobe!
"Loading game.... If game doesn't load in 10 seconds or you experience problems, please upgrade your flash player version here. " Sneaky!
...brings you a briefcase full of swag cannot be supported in a consumer marketplace. "There's an Inverse Value rule at work," says Mrs. Zeke.
Separating a culture of high ticket service gear from a volume and value driven marketplace could benefit both parts of the company.
Culture clash killed what AOL Time Warner could have been. Maybe Motorola can dodge that bullet.
...consumes 18G at Default AVCHD compression. Reducing this bandwidth is more or less like moving the quality slider on a JPG, you would need a side by side to really see a difference between 18 or 12. If you have 3 TVs, you only need 60 meg. Netflix does a great job at 3Megs
You do not have a 100 meg pipe if you have 100baseT ethernet, ethernet overhead bites big bunches, 30-70%. We throttle our servers at a meg or so per user, but then i serve mostly photos, and rendering takes longer than the download.
Google will certainly cache, so unless you set nocache flag, the website will be available at hard drive or ram speeds depending on how long it's been since last hit.
...made the telcos shoot themselves in the foot. Here's Google offering a solution that would save at least half for every carrier's infrastructure by sharing cells, and give local governments virtually free public safety carriage..
It was a slap in the face to Google, so they are turning the other cheek and offering to let the both the big carriers and little Mom and Pop ISP's like me share the fiber they will lay to the end user's water heater and 4G picocell on the roof.
Google can afford to give you that Gig free^H^H^H^advertiser supported. Except for diehard freetards that need to fill hard drive after hard drive with trivia, faster connections dont result in more transfers, though the ability to watch HD at 18MHz quality levels will sure fill the pipes. Unless the carriers have engaged in a program of ripping up conduit and old oil pipelines, the cross country fiber capacity is darn near unlimited. After the Internet bubble burst, the upstrat fiber companies were bought up to artifically support bandwidth prices, today's 10 cents per gig is probably 100 times too much.
Google has the brains and money to bring this off. Watch the carriers pull every trick they know of to stop it.
..on the hardware is a tough habit to break. Especially during the design build phase.
Even Google assembles her Podified data centers in buildings full of tech types.
But burining black bituminous bites. Sites should stay situated so solar solutions send sparky.
I think google has a lead with spanner, although moving threads around the data center to balance heat loads is not that much different than shuttling bits across the continent. Once in service, data transmission is the cheapest part of the equation. Electricity costs have traditionally driven Data Center location.
...output from the space program are the images of the SUN
As you see in this example: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/latest_eit_171_full.gif? although the photos are still marvelous, the camera has suffered from its time in the harsh environment of space.
The new sat will give us 16 times the pixels compared to the existing one.
...in the US used to have cardboard kiosks which displayed packs of ciggies out of sight of the clerks at convenient shoplifting elevation.
The tobacco companies know they need to create addicts before they are old enough to understand the dangers. What's a couple hundred dollars compared to having a life long slave^H^H^H^Hloyal customer.
New laws in most states now require that tobacco products be kept where only the clerk can reach them.
...are the people and institutions that buy stock at the IPO. Their money flows into the corporation to capitalize whatever.
Buying stock after that is merely betting, just like a horse race. Worse, the stockholders pressure management for more profits with performance based rewards.
Once profits have been maximized by better planning and more efficient production, all that's left is screwing people.
...to choose a more realistic baseline, rather than the gimmicky 77mm. OTOH this is a gimmick sort of product. Viewmaster 3D images used baselines up to 4 feet.
I think we can expect more professional stereo cameras in the future. Adjustable baseline would be a creative boon. 1920 X 1080 movies are a must. Of course you could always wait for the $20K Panasonic P2HD, which also features optical toe in (convergance point) adjustment.
Nit Picking: The photo of the dripping water illustrates the importance of maintaining a vertical image plane for certain shots, although hardly annoing in a 2D photo, my poor old brain had trouble parsing drops of water falling at an angle.
..To You" Is merely new words set to "Good Morning To You," a public domain song.
Nonetheless, playing only the melody was deemed infringement when played with a visual of a birthday party. (searching madly for the reference)
This reeks the same fetid breath as patent trolling
...would swell as tweet. The gear-jacket has been around for a long time, a couple years ago, at the NAB convention, Panasonic gave away a very nice one for the Video Crowd.
Most hiker/camper dealers have versions with solar cells for keeping your batteries topped off.
I recall carrying my VELO in the inside pocket or a regulation suit coat. The real design issue is how small a screen you can tolerate for your pr0n.
It should also be beerproof.
...was tasked with creating a working radio that would fit in your shirt pocket.
Try as they might, they just couldn't quite shoehorn the needed components into the desired form factor.
Solution: for the rollout, they had shirts custom made with slightly larger pockets. Spot on, Tron.
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