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About orbital death-rays burning individual insurgents. I suggest you watch this video to see some of the tactics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afv5el1-nhg

Your best bet is to play dead.

- Indrek

I spent a few minutes thinking about the strategic and tactic implications polywell could have on warfare. Now I'm a complete amateur here as well so don't take me too seriously :) With an energy source like polywell available directed energy weapons become a practical reality and one can shoot down...

I'm in Tallinn, Estonia. But I can go to London no problem. Could use the change in pace actually once in a while. Even if just for a beer in the pub

- Indrek

Indrek, Brute force is nice. If you can afford it. Still a team of 5 is going to produce higher quality software than a team of 500. People build new processors all the time. And if you insist on a C model a C compiler can be built. However, there really is no shortage of FORTH programmers. JAVA is...

The order is natural. If you design right no re-ordering is necessary. Most of designing right is inherent in FORTH. Really. If you have never done it it is very, very, very very, very, very, very very, very, very, very very, very, very, very very, very, very, very very, very, very, very very, very...

Because that LN2 plumbing is just another point of failure. And bigger power supplies have to come from some where and fit in to the total hardware. If I can get the speed with 1 W and no cooling why is it good engineering practice to get it with 200 W and massive cooling? The cooling is going to c...

Stacks are faster. You put the stack on the chip. Bottle neck eliminated. Registers eliminated (except for special functions). The stack is your cache. It can be quite small 16 deep is adequate for most stuff. 64 deep if you have an unusual problem. Branch prediction unnecessary. Random access of t...

In FORTH you just leave the parameters on the stack and call the subroutine. Other than the initial build no rebuilding is necessary. If you haven't worked with it, it is very hard to believe. Very hard. To leave parameters to the stack you have to leave them in a specified order. That is you have ...

C has a stack where it keeps input parameters the address of the calling routine and the one allowed output parameter ( if you want more output parameters you need temporary or permanent named variables which consume more stack space for the address. Every time you make use a new subroutine you hav...

This is not really on topic but. MSimon, what is this "C" stack thrashing you keep ranting about and how come forth does not suffer from it? I've worked with a CPU that had no cache and executed code off a ROM chip. It was dead slow. Caches, pipelines, branch predictions, etc. All of that "crap" doe...

Thanks. Maybe MSimon can find a permanent place for it.

- Indrek

Not to disturb your cloak and dagger games but can you please translate the interview into MP3? I'm unable to play it on my Linux system.

- Indrek

So now you put a 0.1m conducting sphere in the centre of the machine to basically emulate a wiffle ball and then calculated how the electric field would change with various charges. Is this correct ? That's correct. But it's not a conducting sphere (where charge is on the surface) but a sphere of u...

I did some work to understand the electric field, here:

http://www.mare.ee/indrek/ephi/pef2/

As the coils are also the accelerators - this again is a dynamic system, the electric field generated by the
coils is not static through the lifecycle of the potential well formation.

- Indrek

Not that I know that much about this but isn't the Large Hadron Collider going online early 2008? There's a big fat chance it'll uncover the higgs boson as well. So out of that list the higgs boson is most likely to be found first.

- Indrek