Nope. There's a massive amount of energy in the atmosphere that's just dying to get to ground (earth). Just look at how lightning works.
Like when lightning is striking, and people say, "I wish we could capture all that power." Well stick a giant conductive tether up through the clouds, and you'd better be able to capture it (or at least dissipate it safely).
Actually, that is incorrect. AMD calculates their TDP as a worst-case thermal output. From the linked article:
Thermal Design Power (TDP) is measured under the conditions of TCASE Max, IDD Max, and VDD=VID_VDD, and include all power dissipated on-die from VDD, VDDIO, VLDT, VTT, and VDDA.
And this is another potential pitfall we're landing in.
Creationist =/ Christian
For instance, check out the Episcopal Church's views on creation and evolution here. Try and tell me that doesn't fit science and religion in their respective places.
"the Bible does not contain all necessary truths about everything else. The Bible, including Genesis, is not a divinely dictated scientific textbook. We discover scientific knowledge about Gods universe in nature not Scripture."
Rational-minded people need to avoid stereotyping religious people as fundamentalists. In fact, I would say if you head down that road, you're becoming just as irrational and committed to your own "religion" as any fundamentalist.
When I was an undergrad, I did this exact thing. I wanted to try making some 3D models, and my school had this HUGE, beautiful chapel with a second story walkway around the outside of the clerestory and everything. So I used the software I had (original Unreal Tournament level editor) and built a model of the chapel.
It was damn nice, if I don't say so myself. Although I wish the floorplans had been up on the website like they are now. I had to go in at night when no one was using it and pace out distances and estimate proportions. Check out what a kick-ass map that would've been.
In any case, I got it shaped out and textured and added a spawn point so I could run around it, but I never added weapons or anything. I thought about doing the whole quad, but my computer was very slow (no 3d accelerator), and the hard drive crashed and I failed to backup my UT directory, so the map was lost forever.
But that level editor gave me my first experience with 3d computer modeling and was frankly worth the purchase price of the game on its own.
But apparently, now I would be kicked out of school for doing somthing like that (so much for doing the cool multi-level atrium in my new building here).
Sam
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They basically cross American chestnut with Chinese repeatedly, then backcross these with wild trees... then the seedlings are innoculated with the fungus and the 2 or 3 out of hundreds that survive are homozygous for the resistant genes.
The 1 of 64 innoculations were successful, and a few blight resistant trees went out. Cool stuff.
Maybe not, but it reads just like a scene from Catch-22.
"Yes I suppose it is. Didn't you whisper to Yossarian that we couldn't punish you?"
"Oh, no, sir. I whispered to him that you couldn't find me guilty-"
"I may be stupid," interrupted the colonel, "but the distinction escapes me. I guess I'm pretty stupid, because the distinction escapes me."
"W-"
"You're a windy son of bitch, aren't you? Nobody asked you for clarification and you're giving me clarification. I was making a statement, not asking for clarification. You're a windy son of a bitch, aren't you?"
"No, sir."
"No, sir? Are you calling me a goddam liar?"
"Oh, no, sir."
"Then you're a windy son of a bitch aren't you?"
"No, sir."
"Are you trying to pick a fight with me?"
"No, sir."
"Are you a windy son of a bitch?"
"No, sir."
"Goddamit, you are trying to pick a fight with me. For two stinking cents I'd jump over this big fat table and rip your stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb."
Hmmm... this has some interesting implications for multicore licensing.
For instance, I work at a university and one of the labs uses a specialized number crunching program that scales almost perfectly with the number of cores (extremely parallelizable).
However, they run it on a dual, dual-core Opteron machine. The program's license only lets it run on "two processors" where a processor is defined as a core. With tech like this reverse hyperthreading, even if it weren't quite as efficient, we could run it on all four cores without paying an extra $4000/core because each dual core would appear as a single processor.
In my experience, practically every new PCI modem you find is a winmodem. And finding out which chipset before buying is a real task.
There is an easy (and cheap) way to get a real hardmodem though. Just buy an external modem with a serial interface. If it's got a serial interface, it's got to be a hardmodem.
Plug it in, set your modem to/dev/ttyS0 and you're off.
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Nope. There's a massive amount of energy in the atmosphere that's just dying to get to ground (earth). Just look at how lightning works.
Like when lightning is striking, and people say, "I wish we could capture all that power." Well stick a giant conductive tether up through the clouds, and you'd better be able to capture it (or at least dissipate it safely).
Sam
I thought you were just making that website (and citation) up. So I typed it in to be sure and it sure as crap does exist.
Baraminology
It's like they just made up a whole crazy vocabulary to sound more technical? WTF?
Sam
Thermal Design Power (TDP) is measured under the conditions of TCASE Max, IDD Max, and VDD=VID_VDD, and include all power dissipated on-die from VDD, VDDIO, VLDT, VTT, and VDDA.
Sam
Maths... just LOOK AROUND YOU!
Sam
lamness filter sucks really bad which is the only reason this unpunctuated unspellchecked text is here
So did you!
Too bad statements on public record can be used against you no matter what country you were in when you made them.
Sam
Possibly because it connects to an Opera proxy server that mangles up the original content to fit a phone better?
Duh?
The parent comment is not safe for work, so don't click it if you're somewhere public/restricted.
Whales are mammals.
Take a look at this picture. You can very clearly see the neck, shoulder blades, and even most of the parts a human arm/hand has in it.
Sam
And this is another potential pitfall we're landing in.
Creationist =/ Christian
For instance, check out the Episcopal Church's views on creation and evolution here. Try and tell me that doesn't fit science and religion in their respective places.
"the Bible does not contain all necessary truths about everything else. The Bible, including Genesis, is not a divinely dictated scientific textbook. We discover scientific knowledge about Gods universe in nature not Scripture."
Rational-minded people need to avoid stereotyping religious people as fundamentalists. In fact, I would say if you head down that road, you're becoming just as irrational and committed to your own "religion" as any fundamentalist.
Sam
Now there is a book I'd like to read!
Sam
When I was an undergrad, I did this exact thing. I wanted to try making some 3D models, and my school had this HUGE, beautiful chapel with a second story walkway around the outside of the clerestory and everything. So I used the software I had (original Unreal Tournament level editor) and built a model of the chapel.
It was damn nice, if I don't say so myself. Although I wish the floorplans had been up on the website like they are now. I had to go in at night when no one was using it and pace out distances and estimate proportions. Check out what a kick-ass map that would've been.
In any case, I got it shaped out and textured and added a spawn point so I could run around it, but I never added weapons or anything. I thought about doing the whole quad, but my computer was very slow (no 3d accelerator), and the hard drive crashed and I failed to backup my UT directory, so the map was lost forever.
But that level editor gave me my first experience with 3d computer modeling and was frankly worth the purchase price of the game on its own.
But apparently, now I would be kicked out of school for doing somthing like that (so much for doing the cool multi-level atrium in my new building here).
Sam
Seven digits? 867-5309!
Vacuum!
At Penn State, we've basically got a blight-resistant line of trees ready, but production in quantity is limited.
TACF orchards in the Arboretum at Penn State
They basically cross American chestnut with Chinese repeatedly, then backcross these with wild trees... then the seedlings are innoculated with the fungus and the 2 or 3 out of hundreds that survive are homozygous for the resistant genes.
The 1 of 64 innoculations were successful, and a few blight resistant trees went out. Cool stuff.
Sam
He didn't steal it, he's just using it under the BSD license!
Maybe not, but it reads just like a scene from Catch-22.
"Yes I suppose it is. Didn't you whisper to Yossarian that we couldn't punish you?"
"Oh, no, sir. I whispered to him that you couldn't find me guilty-"
"I may be stupid," interrupted the colonel, "but the distinction escapes me. I guess I'm pretty stupid, because the distinction escapes me."
"W-"
"You're a windy son of bitch, aren't you? Nobody asked you for clarification and you're giving me clarification. I was making a statement, not asking for clarification. You're a windy son of a bitch, aren't you?"
"No, sir."
"No, sir? Are you calling me a goddam liar?"
"Oh, no, sir."
"Then you're a windy son of a bitch aren't you?"
"No, sir."
"Are you trying to pick a fight with me?"
"No, sir."
"Are you a windy son of a bitch?"
"No, sir."
"Goddamit, you are trying to pick a fight with me. For two stinking cents I'd jump over this big fat table and rip your stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb."
I think you meant "America! Fuck yeah!"
Hmmm... this has some interesting implications for multicore licensing.
For instance, I work at a university and one of the labs uses a specialized number crunching program that scales almost perfectly with the number of cores (extremely parallelizable).
However, they run it on a dual, dual-core Opteron machine. The program's license only lets it run on "two processors" where a processor is defined as a core. With tech like this reverse hyperthreading, even if it weren't quite as efficient, we could run it on all four cores without paying an extra $4000/core because each dual core would appear as a single processor.
Sam
Seriously, ThinkGeek. Make. The. Damn. Tie.
I'd buy one right now if I could. It's not like this tie is some kind of major stretch of technology or something.
Sam
Funny, I was watching this movie last night and the lead said:
"I have had it with these __ snakes on this __ plane!"
Seem like mild words when the plane is crawling with snakes.
In my experience, practically every new PCI modem you find is a winmodem. And finding out which chipset before buying is a real task.
/dev/ttyS0 and you're off.
There is an easy (and cheap) way to get a real hardmodem though. Just buy an external modem with a serial interface. If it's got a serial interface, it's got to be a hardmodem.
Plug it in, set your modem to
One at ComputerGeeks for $10.50.
You can download Vista Pro 3 here: http://fraktali.849pm.com/programs/dem.html
If you're using the nvidia driver (not nv), run nvidia-settings and disable the mouse shadow. If you aren't, install the nvidia driver.
Are you using KDE? If so, turn off that stupid busy cursor in kcontrol. I find that it leaves tracks of itself all over any "busy" window.