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Comments · 38
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Re:Frying eggs with your CPU is now a feature
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Re:How will they prevent it from overheating?
I thought AMD beats Intel at this.
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Re:Space
The nice thing about space travel is that it's feasible according to the known laws of physics.
Space travel perhaps, but I think getting to the nearest galaxy will still take so long that nobody survives it (accelerating to the speed of light in time would generate too much g-force).
Actually you'll get to Andromeda in 28 years. You'll need a fair amount of fuel on the way though, especially if you want to stop.
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/mirrors/physicsfaq/Relativity/SR/rocket.html
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Re:Original Pentium
"Place Coffee Here to Keep Warm"
This guy cooked an egg on an AMD CPU.
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Re:Don't start planning that vacation just yet
In order to see the broken causality, you need to take into account an observer moving at a differente velocity. If the events you describe, consider an observer moving from C towards B at 0.99c. In that frame of reference, the superluminal ship will arrive before it leaves. Not "he will see it that way", the time at which the ship arrives is before the time it leaves, for him. It is equivalent to the pole-barn paradox
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Re:Relativity is just a model
The conservation laws are *NOT* based on rigorous mathematics, but rather inference from observation.
As to whether they are a "complete description", there is a major hurdle to overcome when defining "energy" on a subatomic level -- for one thing, because of the example of Maxwell's Demon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon the definition must depend on the "information", which is an even less well-defined concept, although "conservation of information" has been posited as a law that seems to work well except around black holes.
See http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/mirrors/physicsfaq/Relativity/GR/energy_gr.html for other problems.
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Re:Hardware
early 90s Pentiums were the first CPUs to spark the "you could fry an egg" jokes
At first people ignored that, then they laughed at it, and then they fou^H^H^Hfried it
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Re:Canadians? Snow? Mars?
No. Here is photographic proof of water on mars.
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Re:Yes but...
He should have had a CLUE and made a little pan out of foil, instead of just dumping the egg into the heatsync grill.
I mean EVERYONE has to have seen the "How to cook with XP" page!
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.ht ml
People who ruin these things should never have had them in the first place.
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You really want to bake?
Well, if you want to bake some food with a computer, and you don't have a mac, use http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.h
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Toaster meet frying pan
If you can fry an egg on a CPU, then it shouldn't be too hard to toast bread with your computer. A converted CD Rom drive aligned with the CPU might be made to accomodate a Pop-Tart...
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Re:HEAT!
Cooked an egg? people have.
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Re:I call shenanigans!
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Eggs XP
I personally preffer to fry my eggs on an Athlon XP. Just make sure it's an original Athlon as new ones run too damn cool.
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What about *MORE* power?
C'mon, we've done fried eggs on a CPU, but that's not enough. I wanna cook a T-bone on that sucker!
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Re:Cool it down
From the article:
Fry an egg on an Athlon XP
Mind you, I've been running an XP 1700+ for two years now with a crappy HSF/low noise fan, and it's been doing fine (usually runs at about 70C). -
How to fry an egg on......
Use your hot CPU to cut breakfast
:)
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.ht ml/ -
Obligatory link
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Re:Teflon underside
Why turn it over? Just make a heatsink cooker like this guy did.
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Re:News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Something similar has been done before.
How to fry an egg on an Athlon XP -
Re:Kinda obvious
It's an Athlon XP. I'm tempted to take convergence to the extreme and use it to fry an egg.
It has been done. -
With an Athlon XP...
A breakfast-making game console would've been a real possibility had Microsoft used an Athlon XP instead of a Pentium III. Why, you can cook eggs on them!
I'm gonna go hide now...
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Re:hot hot
I thought AMD was king of egg frying.
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Re:In other news...
Would that be an isotope of Administratium?
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How exactly am I supposed to ...fry my eggs if this sort of behavior becomes standard?
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Re:Well of course. This was utter nonsense.
And, I discovered that this reponse is also incorrect. Even Britannica still gives the incorrect explanation that I wrote above.
This is the right answer.
Something interesting you may try with your radiometer to prove to yourself that it is not light radiation propelling it is to cool the device. You'll discover that it turns the opposite direction. -
Jerk
"10Gs" isn't really that informative. In addition to meters per second squared, the key units to report for the landing are meters per second cubed or "jerk". That tells you how much destructive load is imparted by the acceleration. If they published the accelerometer output it should be easy to figure.
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Finally, images of gigantic optical jets
I don't read Chinese, so it was difficult. Here are some colorized images superimposed on fanciful daytime scenes from this page. The original images are not in color, and they come from this mostly illegible (to me) page. Most of the other images appear to be of sprites. I'm not certain how they know the tops are red and the bottoms are blue.
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Finally, images of gigantic optical jets
I don't read Chinese, so it was difficult. Here are some colorized images superimposed on fanciful daytime scenes from this page. The original images are not in color, and they come from this mostly illegible (to me) page. Most of the other images appear to be of sprites. I'm not certain how they know the tops are red and the bottoms are blue.
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Finally, images of gigantic optical jets
I don't read Chinese, so it was difficult. Here are some colorized images superimposed on fanciful daytime scenes from this page. The original images are not in color, and they come from this mostly illegible (to me) page. Most of the other images appear to be of sprites. I'm not certain how they know the tops are red and the bottoms are blue.
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Finally, images of gigantic optical jets
I don't read Chinese, so it was difficult. Here are some colorized images superimposed on fanciful daytime scenes from this page. The original images are not in color, and they come from this mostly illegible (to me) page. Most of the other images appear to be of sprites. I'm not certain how they know the tops are red and the bottoms are blue.
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Finally, images of gigantic optical jets
I don't read Chinese, so it was difficult. Here are some colorized images superimposed on fanciful daytime scenes from this page. The original images are not in color, and they come from this mostly illegible (to me) page. Most of the other images appear to be of sprites. I'm not certain how they know the tops are red and the bottoms are blue.
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but not the right kind....
Yes, they are nice images, but oddly enough I found the same images in the same directory without the annoying lettering. The lettering tipped me off to the fact that the images were the front cover of an issue of Geophysical Research Letters from last year (a pdf copy can be found in the same directory). The images are of a type of sprite known as a carrot, although the top one could be columniform.
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but not the right kind....
Yes, they are nice images, but oddly enough I found the same images in the same directory without the annoying lettering. The lettering tipped me off to the fact that the images were the front cover of an issue of Geophysical Research Letters from last year (a pdf copy can be found in the same directory). The images are of a type of sprite known as a carrot, although the top one could be columniform.
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Found a good image here
Found their site (please be nice) and dug around enough to find a decent image of what this kind of lightning looks like.
Check for yourself here.
I gotta say, I'd think it was the end of the world if I saw something like this on a regular basis. -
Re:mod_gzip ?
Yes, it's a very welcome and needed addition to a "bloated" protocol. But just be aware of some possible drawbacks when using it.
It dosn't work with SSL easily. See this thread if curious. I ran into this when I wanted to force Open Webmail to use https only and found the pages were not getting compressed.
And take note of possible problems with caching proxies serving pages to browsers that can't handle it.
It has a few other quirks, but overall I for one am quite satisfied with it.
Curious about the savings it brings? Use this.
Machines are always broken till the repairman comes. -
Re:Mirrors?I haven't checked how many of these carry the entire back catalogue (which is _well_ worth it), but the first two certainly do:
- http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/ apod/astropix.html, UK,(London)
- http://www.phy.mtu.edu/apod/astropix.html , US (Midwest)
- http://mirrors.inside.net/apod/, Switzerland
- http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/: Russia
- http://phyhp.phy. ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod/astropix.html Taiwan (Chinese)
- http://phyhp.ph y.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/astropix.h
t ml: Taiwan (English) - http://apod.aguianet.com.br/: Brazil
- http://www.astro.cz/apod/
These all point to the picture of the day (which is of Earth, though it doesn't look like it!), of course: you'll have to head to the archives to find the eclipse picture. They've been carrying loads of eclipse pictures recently, and they're beautiful.
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Re:Mirrors?I haven't checked how many of these carry the entire back catalogue (which is _well_ worth it), but the first two certainly do:
- http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/ apod/astropix.html, UK,(London)
- http://www.phy.mtu.edu/apod/astropix.html , US (Midwest)
- http://mirrors.inside.net/apod/, Switzerland
- http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/: Russia
- http://phyhp.phy. ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod/astropix.html Taiwan (Chinese)
- http://phyhp.ph y.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/astropix.h
t ml: Taiwan (English) - http://apod.aguianet.com.br/: Brazil
- http://www.astro.cz/apod/
These all point to the picture of the day (which is of Earth, though it doesn't look like it!), of course: you'll have to head to the archives to find the eclipse picture. They've been carrying loads of eclipse pictures recently, and they're beautiful.