Water has a higher specific heat capacity than ethylene glycol, and therefore is better for transferring heat. The antifreeze in your car's radiator system is there to 1) stop the water from freezing, expanding, and breaking your engine/hoses/radiator and 2) to keep the aluminum parts from corroding.
Don't believe me? Drain your car's radiator, then fill it up with pure antifreeze. Your car will now run much hotter than it did before, I promise.
Alcohol, on the other hand, would be fine, I guess - as long as you keep it away from fire and stuff.
I think it's just easier to make a realistic looking toy than a realistic person, as it doesn't have to look just like your uncle ernie. The toy/monster paradigm makes cool effects more belivable, as well. Could a person stick a handful of eyes on their face or turn invisible belivably? Besides, how do you know that monster eyes *don't* actully look like that?;)
When I last went, I walked around carrying not one, but *2* knives. One on my keyring and one on my leatherman. Oh, the days when my leatherman only had one blade... Would my wave tool be considered 2 blades now (3/4 counting the scissors), I wonder? Anyway, I'm sure I'd go to jail for bringing a fully automatic stabbing assult device to a public place now (not that it's ever stabbed anyone but me, mind you).
Kinda dissapointing that no one will be giving away multi-tools. Just think of the havoc that could have been caused with the screwdrivers given away by the networking company whose name I forget! "Look out, he's got a tool!"
Do people actually go to a movie JUST to see the "coming attractions"? That'd be extremely pathetic...
I've heard that it happens... *I* wanted to go see Monsters, Inc because of the truly amazing rendering. That big fluffy one with the hair looks like a real puppet in a lot of the shots. The individually rendered hairs on him and really amazing texturing most everywhere else are freaking incredible. The lifelike movement is generally very good as well. The story is decent (but then, I like cartoons anyway), but I went to see some first-class computer animation. It was just a little bonus that there was supposed to be a cool trailer before the movie (though, the trailer wasn't nearly as cool as those seen for the phantom menace). Anyway, if you go, pay attention to the fabrics in motion (like curtains and some clothing) and to the hairs on hairy monsters - especially how they bend around his muscles when he moves and in the scenes where he's moving very quickly. The physics are very well done in that movie.
I saw it at the front of that movie too. I was glad that there was a movie after the trailer, and that I hadn't gone just to see the trailer. The trailer doesn't make me want to see ATOTC, as it's more of a slideshow than a real trailer. Not that Lucas really needs to show anything other than a lightsaber to get the fans to go see it...:)
Cool, I wonder if I can keep pulling my salary here but work remotely from spain, since cars are obviously way cheaper there than here. Is that one of those right-hand-drive contries?
Though, I do agree that $2K is in no way a "budget" computer... I built an otherwise superior 1.1GHz athalon system *with* a new flat screen monitor and 768MB RAM (don't get me started on win98's problems with more than 512MB RAM, grrr) for about $1.2K a few months ago.
Until I have a 3-D *display* and an intuitive way to navigate 3 dimensions, 3D "environments" are just another waste of time (IMHO). I can already have windows in front of, behind, below, above, left, and right of other frames, so my present "2D" setup is a fine way to not waste otherwise useful resources.
That said, more OS's with more OS developers that are free to collaborate with other OS people is generally a good thing for everyone, so I hope this goes somewhere. It'd sure be nice if the article was somewhere I could read it, though, as the page linked to just comes up with a worthless entry page...:)
the chip manufacturer has no way to know what obstructions exist around the processor, so it's best to leave it to the end user to come up with a heasink/airflow solution that's best suited to the chip's application. Designing a heatsink that woul work in *most* of the cases would either limit the market for those chips, or would force the chip manufacturer to spend more money producing 2 differnet chip packages for those who can't use their "ok" heatsink.
And there's aht whole modularity thing. Using some arctic silver thermal compund with a good heatsink is wholly adequate for pretty much any overclocker's situation - usually something else becomes a limit before the joint between the die and heatsink becomes the limiter.
All of them, once you build a kernel with support and add in the tools you need.
VMWare is pretty cheap and plex86 is free (as is Bochs) if you need to run stability-compromising software as root (create a second account otherwise). Now you can have stability *and* a modern filesystem.:)
the anonymous poster below you got it right - it's the people who think they know more than they do that cause problems and need to be locked out.
Besides, shouldn't *development* be done on a consistent environment that's seperate from the buisiness-access mahcines? If people are writing code that needs to mess with teh registry, they should have a mahcine that can do that, but that machine should not really even be on the main network - it should be on a *development* network, and the developer's primary machine should be a locked-down corporate workstation, perhaps even a thin client or whatever. Either way, the corporate workstation should be locked down to protect the users from themselves, regardless of how much those users think that they should be the admin.:)
I was trying to be amusing as well, though not managing to do terribly well. I didn't even think about the interperatation that I was applying the commutative property or some such...:)
Really, who's deciding what's "offensive"? *I* didn't complain that this word processor enabled me or someone else to type "bad things", why should I have to suffer for it?
While this only applies in the theoretical world where I use Word and don't have an adequate vocabulary, I do have to suport MS Office for our coporate dullards who don't understand that other programs are actually *easier* to use and produce more portable docs. I'd like them to have the ability to select alternative ways of stating that "our sys admin is an arsehole", but without a complete thesaurus, how will they be able to do that? They'll have to go on and on calling me "arsehole", and the lack of variety will make me a Sad Panda(TM).
Actully, there was a short-lived drive a few years back to introduce new SI units "kibi", "mebi", "gibi" and so forth for the 1024 multipliers, to avoid the confusion thar results from what used to be an understood approximation with programmers (1024 is "about" 1K) and the literal meaning of kilo/mega/etc. As we all know, that never caught on. A quick search on google turns up some links that go into more detail (or less detail, in some cases). As it is, the marketing types get to claim more capacity then they would if they were honest, and even then, it's impossible to compensate for the differnet filesystems' overhead. I guess we'll all have to learn to deal with marketroids who stretch the truth. What a change that'll be.
There's a link to an "MS Exclusive concert", wherin Sting kicks off the WindowsXP launch. Maybe that's what they're trying to hide? Not that I give a damn about the Ex-Police guy who's sold his soul (the sale of which will have to be confirmed with the devil's auditing department within one month of said sale toprevent unauthorized copying of said soul by "hackers" and re-confirmed once a year for the subsequent duration of said sale)...
I'm just "rsync / backup@remote:/backup/$HOSTNAME"ing every night to a box offsite that rotates the drive mounted on/backup every day when a backup's not running. It runs overnight when the network's not real busy, and works fairly well. I backup the really important/dynamic stuff on site on a daily basis with a 7-disk DVD-RAM rotation. It's the right balance of price/simplicity v/s date safety for my organization, and is pretty idiot-proof.
The drives in the remote backup server (which could easily be co-located at your nearest ISP) aren't "removable", but they're certainly not premanent either.:)
Actually, you can do some really cool compression/filtering things with the processing power of a somewhat modern PC and routing software like iptables or the ipfw thing those "other" guys use. A pc-based router can be better than a "real" router in several situations. The mp3 player thing makes sense if you want customizability, as the Apex has a pretty crappy interface. The Apex can't also be a router and mp3 ripper/encoder, either.;)
After watching that for just a short while, you begin to be amazed that windows runs at all, and then realize part of the reason it's *way* slower than it really needs to be on fast hardware...
It's a single file, but it's a binary db. The wine emulation thing used tabs to look like a tree in a real plain, flat text file - no db about it. Literally like the expanded tree view you get in regedit. Windows uses something more like a dbm file with keys and values - thoug with the seek times you'd think it was just flat text at times...:) Check out regmon someday when just starting a program and see how often the registry is really hit (regmon's a free download from one of those sites whose name I forget right now but google will certainly remember).
You're wrong.:) Many (most?) need some sembelance of a registry, and some work better with dlls from a windows install, but you can get by with most to all of the apps that work on wine without a FAT or NTFS (which partition format did you mean?) filesystem or a win 3.x/9x/me/nt/xp/2K (which windows did you mean?) install. The dlls don't know what OS they're living under, and the "registry" was emulated by a flat text file the last time I tried wine out - which was admittedly a while back.
If you genuinely want to support slashdot in the long term then buy something. Sure, you're under no obligation to buy, but without any interest to buy you shouldn't be clicking those links. You're just lowering the clickthrough/buy ratio - and believe me when I say that advertisers watch that kind of data to see where they should advertise in the future
I forgot - this is slashdot, where everything has to be spelled out. If I click on a banner here, it's because the banner was interesting and I want to find more out about it. Therefore, the advertising is doing its job. The banners are usually thinkgeek banners, and I buy all kinds of stuff from thinkgeek - since I'm endlessly entertained by useless (or useful) toys and geeky clothing. Unfortunately, thinkgeek's shipping costs are about 5000 times higher than several other online merchants, so I don't buy as much from them as I would otherwise.
Then again, why am I explaining my slashdot habits to someone who's too lazy to even create an account?
Either they fix 'em as they go bad (and with piss poor ventalation and kiddies manhandling 'em they're going to go bad quicker than normal) and eat a lot of $$$, or they don't fix 'em and piss off a lot of customers.
Hmm, will MS take the cash hit, or piss off consumers with low quality service. If only they had set an earlier precedent so we could infer how they'd behave now...
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Water has a higher specific heat capacity than ethylene glycol, and therefore is better for transferring heat. The antifreeze in your car's radiator system is there to 1) stop the water from freezing, expanding, and breaking your engine/hoses/radiator and 2) to keep the aluminum parts from corroding.
Don't believe me? Drain your car's radiator, then fill it up with pure antifreeze. Your car will now run much hotter than it did before, I promise.
Alcohol, on the other hand, would be fine, I guess - as long as you keep it away from fire and stuff.
18 petabytes *is* enormous, as was more enormous back then. Linux is not the first, but rather the current overwhelming champion. I hate grammar.
I think it's just easier to make a realistic looking toy than a realistic person, as it doesn't have to look just like your uncle ernie. The toy/monster paradigm makes cool effects more belivable, as well. Could a person stick a handful of eyes on their face or turn invisible belivably? Besides, how do you know that monster eyes *don't* actully look like that? ;)
When I last went, I walked around carrying not one, but *2* knives. One on my keyring and one on my leatherman. Oh, the days when my leatherman only had one blade... Would my wave tool be considered 2 blades now (3/4 counting the scissors), I wonder? Anyway, I'm sure I'd go to jail for bringing a fully automatic stabbing assult device to a public place now (not that it's ever stabbed anyone but me, mind you).
Kinda dissapointing that no one will be giving away multi-tools. Just think of the havoc that could have been caused with the screwdrivers given away by the networking company whose name I forget! "Look out, he's got a tool!"
Do people actually go to a movie JUST to see the "coming attractions"? That'd be extremely pathetic...
I've heard that it happens... *I* wanted to go see Monsters, Inc because of the truly amazing rendering. That big fluffy one with the hair looks like a real puppet in a lot of the shots. The individually rendered hairs on him and really amazing texturing most everywhere else are freaking incredible. The lifelike movement is generally very good as well. The story is decent (but then, I like cartoons anyway), but I went to see some first-class computer animation. It was just a little bonus that there was supposed to be a cool trailer before the movie (though, the trailer wasn't nearly as cool as those seen for the phantom menace). Anyway, if you go, pay attention to the fabrics in motion (like curtains and some clothing) and to the hairs on hairy monsters - especially how they bend around his muscles when he moves and in the scenes where he's moving very quickly. The physics are very well done in that movie.
I saw it at the front of that movie too. I was glad that there was a movie after the trailer, and that I hadn't gone just to see the trailer. The trailer doesn't make me want to see ATOTC, as it's more of a slideshow than a real trailer. Not that Lucas really needs to show anything other than a lightsaber to get the fans to go see it... :)
Umm, I'm pretty sure that was a joke or a troll (or both)... What a bunch o' dullards.
Cool, I wonder if I can keep pulling my salary here but work remotely from spain, since cars are obviously way cheaper there than here. Is that one of those right-hand-drive contries?
Though, I do agree that $2K is in no way a "budget" computer... I built an otherwise superior 1.1GHz athalon system *with* a new flat screen monitor and 768MB RAM (don't get me started on win98's problems with more than 512MB RAM, grrr) for about $1.2K a few months ago.
Until I have a 3-D *display* and an intuitive way to navigate 3 dimensions, 3D "environments" are just another waste of time (IMHO). I can already have windows in front of, behind, below, above, left, and right of other frames, so my present "2D" setup is a fine way to not waste otherwise useful resources.
:)
That said, more OS's with more OS developers that are free to collaborate with other OS people is generally a good thing for everyone, so I hope this goes somewhere. It'd sure be nice if the article was somewhere I could read it, though, as the page linked to just comes up with a worthless entry page...
the chip manufacturer has no way to know what obstructions exist around the processor, so it's best to leave it to the end user to come up with a heasink/airflow solution that's best suited to the chip's application. Designing a heatsink that woul work in *most* of the cases would either limit the market for those chips, or would force the chip manufacturer to spend more money producing 2 differnet chip packages for those who can't use their "ok" heatsink.
And there's aht whole modularity thing. Using some arctic silver thermal compund with a good heatsink is wholly adequate for pretty much any overclocker's situation - usually something else becomes a limit before the joint between the die and heatsink becomes the limiter.
All of them, once you build a kernel with support and add in the tools you need.
:)
VMWare is pretty cheap and plex86 is free (as is Bochs) if you need to run stability-compromising software as root (create a second account otherwise). Now you can have stability *and* a modern filesystem.
the anonymous poster below you got it right - it's the people who think they know more than they do that cause problems and need to be locked out.
:)
Besides, shouldn't *development* be done on a consistent environment that's seperate from the buisiness-access mahcines? If people are writing code that needs to mess with teh registry, they should have a mahcine that can do that, but that machine should not really even be on the main network - it should be on a *development* network, and the developer's primary machine should be a locked-down corporate workstation, perhaps even a thin client or whatever. Either way, the corporate workstation should be locked down to protect the users from themselves, regardless of how much those users think that they should be the admin.
I was trying to be amusing as well, though not managing to do terribly well. I didn't even think about the interperatation that I was applying the commutative property or some such... :)
Really, who's deciding what's "offensive"? *I* didn't complain that this word processor enabled me or someone else to type "bad things", why should I have to suffer for it?
While this only applies in the theoretical world where I use Word and don't have an adequate vocabulary, I do have to suport MS Office for our coporate dullards who don't understand that other programs are actually *easier* to use and produce more portable docs. I'd like them to have the ability to select alternative ways of stating that "our sys admin is an arsehole", but without a complete thesaurus, how will they be able to do that? They'll have to go on and on calling me "arsehole", and the lack of variety will make me a Sad Panda(TM).
wouldnt that be infinitely recursive?
Given that "GNU" is itself infinitely recursive, it makes sense to make gnu/linux also infinitely recursive.
Actully, there was a short-lived drive a few years back to introduce new SI units "kibi", "mebi", "gibi" and so forth for the 1024 multipliers, to avoid the confusion thar results from what used to be an understood approximation with programmers (1024 is "about" 1K) and the literal meaning of kilo/mega/etc. As we all know, that never caught on. A quick search on google turns up some links that go into more detail (or less detail, in some cases). As it is, the marketing types get to claim more capacity then they would if they were honest, and even then, it's impossible to compensate for the differnet filesystems' overhead. I guess we'll all have to learn to deal with marketroids who stretch the truth. What a change that'll be.
There's a link to an "MS Exclusive concert", wherin Sting kicks off the WindowsXP launch. Maybe that's what they're trying to hide? Not that I give a damn about the Ex-Police guy who's sold his soul (the sale of which will have to be confirmed with the devil's auditing department within one month of said sale toprevent unauthorized copying of said soul by "hackers" and re-confirmed once a year for the subsequent duration of said sale)...
I'm just "rsync / backup@remote:/backup/$HOSTNAME"ing every night to a box offsite that rotates the drive mounted on /backup every day when a backup's not running. It runs overnight when the network's not real busy, and works fairly well. I backup the really important/dynamic stuff on site on a daily basis with a 7-disk DVD-RAM rotation. It's the right balance of price/simplicity v/s date safety for my organization, and is pretty idiot-proof.
:)
The drives in the remote backup server (which could easily be co-located at your nearest ISP) aren't "removable", but they're certainly not premanent either.
I recognise that was a troll, but:
;)
Actually, you can do some really cool compression/filtering things with the processing power of a somewhat modern PC and routing software like iptables or the ipfw thing those "other" guys use. A pc-based router can be better than a "real" router in several situations. The mp3 player thing makes sense if you want customizability, as the Apex has a pretty crappy interface. The Apex can't also be a router and mp3 ripper/encoder, either.
After watching that for just a short while, you begin to be amazed that windows runs at all, and then realize part of the reason it's *way* slower than it really needs to be on fast hardware...
Linux-hacker mailstation board: http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/Ult raBoard.pl?Action=ShowBoard&Board=mswhatever There's a bunch of other devices hacked and described on that site too...
It's a single file, but it's a binary db. The wine emulation thing used tabs to look like a tree in a real plain, flat text file - no db about it. Literally like the expanded tree view you get in regedit. Windows uses something more like a dbm file with keys and values - thoug with the seek times you'd think it was just flat text at times... :) Check out regmon someday when just starting a program and see how often the registry is really hit (regmon's a free download from one of those sites whose name I forget right now but google will certainly remember).
You're wrong. :) Many (most?) need some sembelance of a registry, and some work better with dlls from a windows install, but you can get by with most to all of the apps that work on wine without a FAT or NTFS (which partition format did you mean?) filesystem or a win 3.x/9x/me/nt/xp/2K (which windows did you mean?) install. The dlls don't know what OS they're living under, and the "registry" was emulated by a flat text file the last time I tried wine out - which was admittedly a while back.
If you genuinely want to support slashdot in the long term then buy something. Sure, you're under no obligation to buy, but without any interest to buy you shouldn't be clicking those links. You're just lowering the clickthrough/buy ratio - and believe me when I say that advertisers watch that kind of data to see where they should advertise in the future
I forgot - this is slashdot, where everything has to be spelled out. If I click on a banner here, it's because the banner was interesting and I want to find more out about it. Therefore, the advertising is doing its job. The banners are usually thinkgeek banners, and I buy all kinds of stuff from thinkgeek - since I'm endlessly entertained by useless (or useful) toys and geeky clothing. Unfortunately, thinkgeek's shipping costs are about 5000 times higher than several other online merchants, so I don't buy as much from them as I would otherwise.
Then again, why am I explaining my slashdot habits to someone who's too lazy to even create an account?
Either they fix 'em as they go bad (and with piss poor ventalation and kiddies manhandling 'em they're going to go bad quicker than normal) and eat a lot of $$$, or they don't fix 'em and piss off a lot of customers.
Hmm, will MS take the cash hit, or piss off consumers with low quality service. If only they had set an earlier precedent so we could infer how they'd behave now...