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Frying eggs with a CPU is old hat.

I thought AMD beats Intel at this.

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

"Place Coffee Here to Keep Warm"

This guy cooked an egg on an AMD CPU.

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

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.

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

No. Here is photographic proof of water on mars.

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.

I guess some people have money to spare tho.

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.ht ml

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...

Cooked an egg? people have.

How to fry an egg on an 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.

C'mon, we've done fried eggs on a CPU, but that's not enough. I wanna cook a T-bone on that sucker!

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).

Use your hot CPU to cut breakfast :)

http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.ht ml/

How to fry an egg on an XP

Why turn it over? Just make a heatsink cooker like this guy did.

Something similar has been done before.
How to fry an egg on an Athlon XP

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.

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...

I thought AMD was king of egg frying.

Would that be an isotope of Administratium?

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.ht 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.

• 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.ht 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.