The esteemed Mr. Jones might enjoy this article:
SUBJECT: New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations
By: Louisa Hearn
February 26, 2008
http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?
path=/articles/2008/02/26/1203788327976.html
http://tinyurl.com/2vbc87
What makes the gaming
Interesting analog observation Jones,
I had never connected this thought when observing the laws of human nature,
( alive and well in the Dime Box saloon).Public education provides and
equally valid example of the law governing cultures which allow that when
mixing cultures, the most base
Jed,
Is this the alternative wiki project you were keeping an eye on, or
another variation?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/27/it-took-16-months-but-google-relaunches-jotspot/
Looks interesting.
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Steve,
Don't know if you caught the full impact of the
double paradigm shift which is looming on the
immediate horizon, and which is hinted at the end of
this piece.
Probably not to the extent which is verbalized below,
since as usual, I am reading-in more information (and
personal expectation)
See:
http://www.scientificjournals.org/
Some quotes from the Home page:
SJI publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed open-access journals for
all disciplines. SJI has assembled a prestigious Editorial and
Advisory Board representing scholars from Yale, Oxford, Harvard,
Cambridge and hundreds
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From: R C Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snip
Jones wrote,
The very best human brain is 'around' the equivalent
of 1-10 teraflops although admittedly this is an
impossible comparison to make valid- since the brain
is analog not digital.
Animal brains are neither
This is getting seriously off-topic for alternative
energy (or maybe not!)...
But a techno-Geek Vortician sent me info about the
availability NOW of teraflop desktop supercomputers
and servers. If you have the buck$ for a parked
Beamer, say, but would rather have a 24/7 internet
screamer, go for
Jones Beene wrote:
Actually the price of entry into terabyte computing has dropped in
the past 4 years from $25 million(minimum) to less than $5,000, and
will likely continue to exceed Moore's Law for a while.
I believe that is because recent breakthroughs are mainly in
massively parallel
--- Jed Rothwell wrote:
This is weird:
http://www.wesh.com/education/15418063/detail.html
Speaking of weirdness and Nelson Ying in the same
breath, check this one out:
http://members.aol.com/balquhain/Magic.html
YUP! - this character Ying, cold-fusion genius
extraordinaire (by his own
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