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Update: 27th of May 2014
1. Batch 1 hasn't shipped.
2. Batch 2 hasn't shipped.
3. No shipping date provided.
4. Refunds refused.
5. After 3 weeks of sitting on useless chips Minion customers finally receive the pinout and can start their PCB designs.
I'm guessing Black Arrow resolved the SPI issue (properly terminated the transmission lines?) and have some units hashing in their data centre. Holding back the pinout was a bit shady don't you think?
Oh BTW Alex, page 4 of the data sheet still says the Minion has 64 cores.
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It's not often I get in over my head on technical or scientific subjects. It does look like I need to learn more on subject before posting paradoxical half-baked theories about the sun being cold. I still strongly suspect the prevailing established view is somehow ass backwards. I should also note that nuclear physics, plasma physics and cosmology aren't exactly primary school basics. I'll do some digging, I'm sure I can salvage some of my argument. Sorry for going off-topic... even in the off-topic section  |
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If you two are done being idiots, the real reason the sun's temperature can be measured from its colour is because its colour is due to black-body radiation, which is the light and other radiation emitted by non-reflective objects due to incandescence (or, in more basic terms, hot things glow). LEDs are not incandescent (unless you're doing something horribly wrong); LEDs emit light due to electroluminescence, which is in no way related to temperature. If you're wondering how we know the sun is incandescent, we know because black-body radiation has a distinct spectrum that is not produced by any other phenomenon (and more specifically looks absolutely nothing like the spectrum of light emitted by an LED). Incidentally, we know the sun is powered by fusion not because it is hot (there are plenty of other process that can produce such heat), but because it emits other kinds of radiation that are only produced by nuclear fusion. The problem with this theory is that black body radiation results from energy absorbed being re-radiated excluding "fueled" nuclear fusion as the source. A bit of research on the subject indicates the spectrum is perfectly in line with that of cold helium plasma in a vaccume diode. |
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I've got a paradox...
The established method for calculating the temperature of the sun is by it's colour in reference to molten iron.
Why is a blue LED not hotter than the sun?
That's just you not understanding basic science. physicists are made of atoms. a physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
Trying to understand one's self is NOT a paradox. Perhaps you would care to explain it if this science is so basic. The amount of power going into an LED is very, very small. If you were to put more than the power of the sun into an LED, it'd be hotter than the sun -- and a good chance not blue anymore. The color of an LED doesn't really show it's temperature, as the temperature is invisible to the naked eye (because it's so low). We use shadings to show the color. This doesn't explain why colour can be used to determine the sun's tempeture but not that of an LED. You've simply stated that the sun has more power. If I have enough LEDs strung together and power them all with the equivalent power of the sun they still won't be any hotter. If you pump over 3.83 * 10^26watts into the LED, it would be as hot as the sun. This is basic science man. OK, so make a single LED the size of the sun and power it with the energy of the sun. Can you still say it's as hot as the sun? Yes, or very, very close to the same temperature as the sun. Do they not teach basic laws of thermodynamics during primary school anymore? Useing primary school basic science as the foundation for your argument simply allows you to make a jack-ass rebuttle of the question while dodging any intellectual footwork. Clearly the sun sized blue LED is going to be cool compaired with the so-called established temperature of the sun. Give this a read, please: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeatAnd this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnergyThen come back to me. The LED doesn't have to be sun-sized. As long as the same amount of power is going into it, it should be around the same temp as the sun. I agree that the sun should be the same temperature as a sun sized LED. However established science disagrees and states that it's much hotter based solely on its colour. It then goes on to claim based on these rediculious temperatures that the sun is fueled by nuclear fusion. You've not provided an argument as to why the sun's temperature can be determined soley by its colour but an LED cannot. Being blue in colour the LED should be many orders of magnatude geater in temoerature than the sun using this methology. |
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I've got a paradox...
The established method for calculating the temperature of the sun is by it's colour in reference to molten iron.
Why is a blue LED not hotter than the sun?
That's just you not understanding basic science. physicists are made of atoms. a physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
Trying to understand one's self is NOT a paradox. Perhaps you would care to explain it if this science is so basic. The amount of power going into an LED is very, very small. If you were to put more than the power of the sun into an LED, it'd be hotter than the sun -- and a good chance not blue anymore. The color of an LED doesn't really show it's temperature, as the temperature is invisible to the naked eye (because it's so low). We use shadings to show the color. This doesn't explain why colour can be used to determine the sun's tempeture but not that of an LED. You've simply stated that the sun has more power. If I have enough LEDs strung together and power them all with the equivalent power of the sun they still won't be any hotter. If you pump over 3.83 * 10^26watts into the LED, it would be as hot as the sun. This is basic science man. OK, so make a single LED the size of the sun and power it with the energy of the sun. Can you still say it's as hot as the sun? Yes, or very, very close to the same temperature as the sun. Do they not teach basic laws of thermodynamics during primary school anymore? Useing primary school basic science as the foundation for your argument simply allows you to make a jack-ass rebuttle of the question while dodging any intellectual footwork. Clearly the sun sized blue LED is going to be cool compaired with the so-called established temperature of the sun. |
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I've got a paradox...
The established method for calculating the temperature of the sun is by it's colour in reference to molten iron.
Why is a blue LED not hotter than the sun?
That's just you not understanding basic science. physicists are made of atoms. a physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
Trying to understand one's self is NOT a paradox. Perhaps you would care to explain it if this science is so basic. The amount of power going into an LED is very, very small. If you were to put more than the power of the sun into an LED, it'd be hotter than the sun -- and a good chance not blue anymore. The color of an LED doesn't really show it's temperature, as the temperature is invisible to the naked eye (because it's so low). We use shadings to show the color. This doesn't explain why colour can be used to determine the sun's tempeture but not that of an LED. You've simply stated that the sun has more power. If I have enough LEDs strung together and power them all with the equivalent power of the sun they still won't be any hotter. If you pump over 3.83 * 10^26watts into the LED, it would be as hot as the sun. This is basic science man. OK, so make a single LED the size of the sun and power it with the energy of the sun. Can you still say it's as hot as the sun? |
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I've got a paradox...
The established method for calculating the temperature of the sun is by it's colour in reference to molten iron.
Why is a blue LED not hotter than the sun?
That's just you not understanding basic science. physicists are made of atoms. a physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
Trying to understand one's self is NOT a paradox. Perhaps you would care to explain it if this science is so basic. The amount of power going into an LED is very, very small. If you were to put more than the power of the sun into an LED, it'd be hotter than the sun -- and a good chance not blue anymore. The color of an LED doesn't really show it's temperature, as the temperature is invisible to the naked eye (because it's so low). We use shadings to show the color. This doesn't explain why colour can be used to determine the sun's tempeture but not that of an LED. You've simply stated that the sun has more power. If I have enough LEDs strung together and power them all with the equivalent power of the sun they still won't be any hotter. |
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I've got a paradox...
The established method for calculating the temperature of the sun is by it's colour in reference to molten iron.
Why is a blue LED not hotter than the sun?
That's just you not understanding basic science. physicists are made of atoms. a physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
Trying to understand one's self is NOT a paradox. Perhaps you would care to explain it if this science is so basic. |
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I've got a paradox...
The established method for calculating the temperature of the sun is by it's colour in reference to molten iron.
Why is a blue LED not hotter than the sun?
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Some games are guaranteed to terminate in a fixed amount of time. For example, tournament chess has time limits. Call a game that is guaranteed to terminate in a fixed amount of time "normal". Now, consider this game:
1) Two players are required.
2) The first player is chosen arbitrarily.
3) The first player chooses any normal game.
4) The game is played to its conclusions.
5) The winner of the chosen game wins.
Let's call this game "hypergame". The paradox: Is hypergame normal?
The game time has a fixed limit therefore the game limit is normal and the game time is not. |
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Black Arrow ows it's customers 6Th/s per X-3 for the February 24th lie.
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Update: 26th of May 2014
1. Batch 1 hasn't shipped.
2. Batch 2 hasn't shipped.
3. No shipping date provided.
4. Refunds refused.
5. Total BTC mining revenue lost since 24 February 2014 per X-3: BTC16.5
6. CROOKS
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Bitcoin Difficulty: 10,455,720,138
Estimated Next Difficulty: 12,084,667,216 (+15.58%)
Adjust time: After 1944 Blocks, About 13.4 days
In lieu of a shipping date I propose to use the difficulty adjustment jumps as milestones for the delay train.
Next stop June 7th.
Then you need to ignore the estimates until they happen. At this point in the 2016 - no estimate is going to be more than a guess. Bitcoin Difficulty: 8,853,416,309
Estimated Next Difficulty: 10,136,609,467 (+14.49%)
Adjust time: After 1573 Blocks, About 10.1 days
It's called an estimate, looks pretty fucking close to me. In contrast Black Arrows shipping date of FEBRUARY 24th is way the fuck off. |
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I wish all the pre-order ASIC manufacturers would go to hell. Fucking thieves.
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"This video is not available in your country." -- youtube
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Care to show us some evidence on the matter?
As I stated before, I have no evidence. My tin-foil hat conspiracy theory has been thoroughly debunked and there's no communist under any bed anywhere. |
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Update: 25th of May 2014
1. Batch 1 hasn't shipped.
2. Batch 2 hasn't shipped.
3. No shipping date provided.
4. Refunds refused.
5. US reseller offers up sample minion chips to PCB developers.
With no pinout for the chip what are they supposed to do with them, play poker?
6. BAD ACTORS
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Bitcoin Difficulty: 10,455,720,138
Estimated Next Difficulty: 12,084,667,216 (+15.58%)
Adjust time: After 1944 Blocks, About 13.4 days
In lieu of a shipping date I propose to use the difficulty adjustment jumps as milestones for the delay train.
Next stop June 7th.
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It's becoming ever more clear to to me that the communists are actively trying to centralise and control Bitcoin.
Assholes want to micromanage peoples daily lives, thoughts and have the ability fuck with your money at will.
Keep bitcoin decentralized at all cost!
Where do you people come up with this stuff??? The goal of communism is to centralize power for the big banks. Considering this is it not then reasonable to conclude that communists would conspire against a decentralized monetary system? |
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