anvilmark writes "ABCNews has an article about a new carbon based thermal conducting foam. Very pricey to produce but has 4-5 times the efficiency of copper at 1/5th the weight of aluminum. ORNL technical documentation available here and here. Sounds like the perfect heat sink shim to me."
Research and development
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reflexreaction
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Klett admits that it is highly unlikely the foam will break out of the lab and into widely available commercial applications anytime soon.
Stories like this have always annoyed me. You always hear about the possible development of an item that is four or five (or however many years) away from being put into commercial application but after that you never hear about it. Or if it is used commerically you never hear about where it has been put into use. I work in the scientific field and I almost never hear about an exciting development after it's initial announcement.
The one exception to this is pixie dust that has allowed for the phenomeonal growth of hard drives. Oh well.
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We had to destroy the sig to save the sig.
Re:Research and development
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darkonc
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· Score: 3, Insightful
In many cases, the great scientific breakthrough will point people into a general direction that produces something better than the original breakthrough...
(think of basic research as a bunch of blind men trying to hit a bullseye... The breakthrough is hitting the board. Once people know where the board is, someone else is likely to actually hit the bullseye -- so you hear about the person who first hits the board, and the person who hits the bullseye, but it's rare that the connection between the two events make it through the "15 seconds of fame" filter of media editing.
-- Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
Re:I am utterly amazed....
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AnalogBoy
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The collective IQ has dropped significantly. About now, the 2nd generation of slashdotters are making their exodus to other news sites - or - worse - the real world. By leaving the collective and making the ratio of clue decreases, leaving the bottom-rung stallmanite slashdrones to pick up the slack, so to speak. in addition the average age is now lower.
Perhaps we should charter a report on slashdot groupthink. if i were in college i'd do it.
Alternately, i accept the idea that it is indeed brainded friday.
[Disclaimer - Due to the extraction of a wisdom tooth today and the subsequent mind-numbing hydrocodone, i do not claim responsibility for the content or readability of my above post. It makes sense as i type it. thats all that matters. =) ]
Re:I am utterly amazed....
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hyrdra
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My god! The TRAVESTY! We all must be utterly retarded if we don't know the difference between a heat pump and a heat conductor!
Jeez, what a jerk. There are always common misconceptions, even among geeks. We're all here to learn and gain more knowledge via interesting and thought provoking conversation on Slashdot.
So don't come off like an ass hole. I'm sure someone has set you straight in something embarrassingly stupid that you should've known.
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"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
Re:I am utterly amazed....
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digitalunity
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No, I'm serious. And I really am an elitist snob, a perfectionist, an intravert, as well American(good guess; I didn't presume that about you though).
My biggest problem with the average American is complacency and apathy. In this day and age(I'm only 20, btw) people are fucking ecstatic about spending their last dime on status symbols they can't afford. It's consumerism at it's worst. That is why I am such a snob. I'm 20; I own 2 cars outright. I work very hard, but I'm not a workaholic. I have a good job, and I'm surrounded by low income white trash(excuse the expression) who can't get a better job because they don't care enough to excersize their minds as much as their wallets.
Research studies have shown that it is never too late to increase your brains capacity for knowledge or learn new skills. They would all drown in their own self created pity-pools if they weren't so apathetic about their lives.
As far as Mensa goes, I took the online pretest and got 29 out of 30 in 16 minutes. After reading about Mensa, they came off even more elitist than I yet had less to back it up. That, and they seemed a little droll. The last time I took my IQ test, I scored in the top.68%:)
-- You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
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Klett admits that it is highly unlikely the foam will break out of the lab and into widely available commercial applications anytime soon.
Stories like this have always annoyed me. You always hear about the possible development of an item that is four or five (or however many years) away from being put into commercial application but after that you never hear about it. Or if it is used commerically you never hear about where it has been put into use. I work in the scientific field and I almost never hear about an exciting development after it's initial announcement.
The one exception to this is pixie dust that has allowed for the phenomeonal growth of hard drives. Oh well.
We had to destroy the sig to save the sig.
The collective IQ has dropped significantly. About now, the 2nd generation of slashdotters are making their exodus to other news sites - or - worse - the real world. By leaving the collective and making the ratio of clue decreases, leaving the bottom-rung stallmanite slashdrones to pick up the slack, so to speak. in addition the average age is now lower.
Perhaps we should charter a report on slashdot groupthink. if i were in college i'd do it.
Alternately, i accept the idea that it is indeed brainded friday.
[Disclaimer - Due to the extraction of a wisdom tooth today and the subsequent mind-numbing hydrocodone, i do not claim responsibility for the content or readability of my above post. It makes sense as i type it. thats all that matters. =) ]
My god! The TRAVESTY! We all must be utterly retarded if we don't know the difference between a heat pump and a heat conductor!
Jeez, what a jerk. There are always common misconceptions, even among geeks. We're all here to learn and gain more knowledge via interesting and thought provoking conversation on Slashdot.
So don't come off like an ass hole. I'm sure someone has set you straight in something embarrassingly stupid that you should've known.
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
No, I'm serious. And I really am an elitist snob, a perfectionist, an intravert, as well American(good guess; I didn't presume that about you though).
.68% :)
My biggest problem with the average American is complacency and apathy. In this day and age(I'm only 20, btw) people are fucking ecstatic about spending their last dime on status symbols they can't afford. It's consumerism at it's worst. That is why I am such a snob. I'm 20; I own 2 cars outright. I work very hard, but I'm not a workaholic. I have a good job, and I'm surrounded by low income white trash(excuse the expression) who can't get a better job because they don't care enough to excersize their minds as much as their wallets.
Research studies have shown that it is never too late to increase your brains capacity for knowledge or learn new skills. They would all drown in their own self created pity-pools if they weren't so apathetic about their lives.
As far as Mensa goes, I took the online pretest and got 29 out of 30 in 16 minutes. After reading about Mensa, they came off even more elitist than I yet had less to back it up. That, and they seemed a little droll. The last time I took my IQ test, I scored in the top
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.