It seems to me that 1 large fan could have a catastrophic failure - while thousands of small fans in the same space would greatly limit that possibility.
Furethermore I believe multiple small fans would be more efficient. Now, IANAAE (I am not an aeronautical engineer) but the total airflow through a large fan's housing is much greater than the amount of airflow that actually pushes the fan (obvious). Many small fans could fill that area more completely and harvest more of the total airflow.
Any thoughts?
Re:And here comes Carnivore...
on
More WTC News
·
· Score: 1, Redundant
If we lose our civil liberties, then the terrorists have won.
If we die, then the terrorists have won too. Don't forget that.
I'm using Opera to read this very article, and there is no way his numbers are correct. I'm on a slower DSL line, on a Celeron 333 RedHat box. The article loaded in about 3 seconds, measured from the time I clicked the link to the time it was fully rendered on screen. It's way faster than Mozilla or Netscape when loading the same pages
Ok, well unless the page you are loading is the same 360k page the author tested on, and you divide the load time the author saw (127 seconds) by 2 (you're about twice his CPU speed in MHz, so all architecural differences aside, we should be able to call it about 50%) your comment is not applicable.
Remember, the author used a complicated HTML page with multiple nested tables.
I say, let the businesses have their internet, and watch it crash and burn. If they haven't learned yet, maybe this will teach them.
Quick responses and callow attitude like this will kill the "free Internet" if we are not careful.
The fact that this response was moderated up is disturbing in itself. It reminds me of the sinking island in 'Erik the Viking' where all the inhabitants are convinced the island itself is not sinking - and they all drown.
The entire Internet is in danger at the moment - look around you (Sklyarov, School Website Protection,.NET). People have lost a lot of money, and they're pissed. And they're ready to change things so they can make money again.
And freedom does not make money.
So what's happening at the moment? AOL and Microsoft and AT&T and god knows what other corporate behemoths want to privatize the net. AND THEY CAN. And that's the problem.
A few billion dollars can go a long way, especially when everyone is upset about a poor economy and the 'failed promise' of the net.
Don't think that because you don't want it to happen, it won't. It IS happening.
Who are we kidding? As long as oil companies have the power and money that they do, alternative power sources will never come into their own.
I'm sick of you damn crazy hippies complaining all the damn time.
If you hate the oil companies, stop using their products.
It *is* possible to live without them. I believe about 60% of the planet does.
And if you don't want to live in the stone age, do your best to avoid the most obvious oil company products: plastics and gasoline. Use an electric car. Don't use a straw or a plastic lid when you eat fast food. Don't buy polyester clothes (yeah, you're not a pimp anyway). Heat your house with solar panels (which a good friend of mine has been doing since 1989 or so). Stop using certain paints and other coatings on your car/house/toenails. Power your house with energy from a company that uses hydroelectric or nuclear (deregulation can be ok if you're outside California), etc.
If the linux revolution has shown us *anything* it should be that we CAN AVOID THE CORPORATE BEHEMOTHS!
Why does he deserve to be punished? Unless he signed something saying he woouldn't use school computers for personal net use, he didn't do anything wrong!
Do I need to sign something saying that I'm not going to steal your car in order to make stealing it a crime?
The computer was not his. He used it in an unauthorized manner.
If I took your car without your permission, and returned it unharmed - maybe even cleaned and filled with gas, it's still theft. You can choose to prosecute me or not.
This guy took resources that were not his and used them. It doesn't matter that it was minor - that does not change the fact that he was not authorized to do so.
It's not like we're talking rocket science here. You break the law and you get fined.
As far as the excessive nature of the fine, I think it's silly, and if there were a donation method, I'd drop $10. Anyone wanna set one up? A good lawyer is expensive.
Are there DOC file readers for Linux, or is the format too much of a moving target?
wvAbw converts word to AbiWord almost flawlessly - and the wv suite can convert word to pdf, etc.
Pardon this post if it's irrelevant (I didn't look up the patent and read it), but if I remember correctly, Quake (circa 1995?) had 360 degree "fish eye" view.
I seem to remember at college (Carnegie Mellon - we're big geeks) playing Quake CTF, and one team-mate used to guard our flag in 360deg mode.
Made it pretty hard to sneak up on him.
anyone feel like researching this and telling bountyquest?
Yeah, check out this at the Apple Store. It's the pricing breakdown of the powerbook G4.
The "Faster" model:
500MHz PowerPC G4
1MB L2 cache
256MB SDRAM memory
20GB Ultra ATA drive
DVD-ROM w/DVD-Video
ATI Rage Mobility 128
10/100BASE-T Ethernet
56K internal modem
Two USB ports
One FireWire port
The "Fastet" model:
500MHz PowerPC G4
1MB L2 cache
256MB SDRAM memory
30GB Ultra ATA drive
DVD-ROM w/DVD-Video
ATI Rage Mobility 128
10/100BASE-T Ethernet
56K internal modem
Two USB ports
One FireWire port
Extra AC adapter
Extra battery
So here's my question: Why is the "Fastest" G4 any faster than the "Faster" G4?
Because the hard drive is 10 gigs Larger?! (they're all 4200RPM).
Or is is the extra ac adaptor that somehow makes it "fastest"?
who will be the first to join the "100 miles high" club?
So, how 'bout this:
NASA Mission STS 51-A - if I remember correctly, Anna Fisher and Frederick Hauck were on the mission, and were (still are I believe) husband and wife.
The article says: With over 22 million people online in China and the Chinese language quickly approaching a majority on
the Internet, Legend makes a powerful partner for AOL. Legend is the top distributor of new PCs in the
Asia Pacific region, paving the way for wide adoption of joint services via inclusion of AOL software.
FM365.com also provides significant reach for AOL, peaking at 25 million daily page views.
Is this true? A Majority? Like more than 50%? Cause that's just not true (is it?).
Anyone have stats and a link to follow about it?
What about Crocodile Dundee 3???
on
Review: The Dish
·
· Score: 1
It's typical too, that The Dish the highest grossing Australian film in the history of
Australian cinema -- is struggling to get wide distribution in American movie
theaters.
What about the astronomical numbers that "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles" is bound to pull in.
It'll probably triple the GNP "Down Undah":)
40% of the chinese population live along the banks of the Chang Jiang river. This river also is responsible for 40% of grain production and 70% of rice production in the country.
Natural floods of this river are devestating to the population, and happen frequently - floods still occurs almost yearly. Major flood events have occurred in 1931, 1954, 1991, 1993, 1996 and 1998, with increasing frequency and severity during the 1990s. The 1931 flood killed some 400,000 people and affected more than 50 million people.
Now, here's the kicker:
The "Three Gorges Dam" project is an attempt to build a MONSTROUS (read: biggest human project ever attempted) dam far upriver.
So... anyone who goes to war with China and needs to wipe out 40% of their population, 40% of their grain, 70% of their rice, and who knows how much of their industry (? anyone know?) just needs to blow the dam.
I know that's no easy task, but modern weapons can knock out mountains (read the articles on NORAD and how the inside of a mountain no longer provides adequate protection).
Slashdot Mirror
Furethermore I believe multiple small fans would be more efficient. Now, IANAAE (I am not an aeronautical engineer) but the total airflow through a large fan's housing is much greater than the amount of airflow that actually pushes the fan (obvious). Many small fans could fill that area more completely and harvest more of the total airflow.
Any thoughts?
If we die, then the terrorists have won too. Don't forget that.
Oddly enough, I believe this is how Microsoft develops their software...
ba-da-ba
Occam's Razor is not a law of physics, and as a philosophical principle, it does not even apply well to complex situations - as it can oversimplify.
In fact, I believe Einstein put it quite eloquently: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
don't forget shipping from all those cocks who advertise superlow prices on pricewatch and hit you with $20 shipping per item:
20*12=$240 shipping
So the total is a little over 1$k
I'm using Opera to read this very article, and there is no way his numbers are correct. I'm on a slower DSL line, on a Celeron 333 RedHat box. The article loaded in about 3 seconds, measured from the time I clicked the link to the time it was fully rendered on screen. It's way faster than Mozilla or Netscape when loading the same pages
Ok, well unless the page you are loading is the same 360k page the author tested on, and you divide the load time the author saw (127 seconds) by 2 (you're about twice his CPU speed in MHz, so all architecural differences aside, we should be able to call it about 50%) your comment is not applicable.
Remember, the author used a complicated HTML page with multiple nested tables.
Do Something About This!
yeah Boobies!
(mature content filter OFF, and proud of it)
Cheese, a linux worm did this.
Read This
Quick responses and callow attitude like this will kill the "free Internet" if we are not careful.
The fact that this response was moderated up is disturbing in itself. It reminds me of the sinking island in 'Erik the Viking' where all the inhabitants are convinced the island itself is not sinking - and they all drown.
The entire Internet is in danger at the moment - look around you (Sklyarov, School Website Protection, .NET). People have lost a lot of money, and they're pissed. And they're ready to change things so they can make money again.
And freedom does not make money.
So what's happening at the moment? AOL and Microsoft and AT&T and god knows what other corporate behemoths want to privatize the net. AND THEY CAN. And that's the problem.
A few billion dollars can go a long way, especially when everyone is upset about a poor economy and the 'failed promise' of the net.
Don't think that because you don't want it to happen, it won't. It IS happening.
So the real question is, what can we do?
I'm sick of you damn crazy hippies complaining all the damn time.
If you hate the oil companies, stop using their products.
It *is* possible to live without them. I believe about 60% of the planet does.
And if you don't want to live in the stone age, do your best to avoid the most obvious oil company products: plastics and gasoline. Use an electric car. Don't use a straw or a plastic lid when you eat fast food. Don't buy polyester clothes (yeah, you're not a pimp anyway). Heat your house with solar panels (which a good friend of mine has been doing since 1989 or so). Stop using certain paints and other coatings on your car/house/toenails. Power your house with energy from a company that uses hydroelectric or nuclear (deregulation can be ok if you're outside California), etc.
If the linux revolution has shown us *anything* it should be that we CAN AVOID THE CORPORATE BEHEMOTHS!
No, Canadians and Americans are good friends - we just like to tease each other.
:)
Oh, and Canada will be the 51st state in a few years when we Americans run out of natural resources.
Why does he deserve to be punished? Unless he signed something saying he woouldn't use school computers for personal net use, he didn't do anything wrong!
Do I need to sign something saying that I'm not going to steal your car in order to make stealing it a crime?
The computer was not his. He used it in an unauthorized manner.
If I took your car without your permission, and returned it unharmed - maybe even cleaned and filled with gas, it's still theft. You can choose to prosecute me or not.
This guy took resources that were not his and used them. It doesn't matter that it was minor - that does not change the fact that he was not authorized to do so.
It's not like we're talking rocket science here. You break the law and you get fined.
As far as the excessive nature of the fine, I think it's silly, and if there were a donation method, I'd drop $10. Anyone wanna set one up? A good lawyer is expensive.
Are there DOC file readers for Linux, or is the format too much of a moving target?
wvAbw converts word to AbiWord almost flawlessly - and the wv suite can convert word to pdf, etc.
Ummm.... what's the site, and the username/password? ... y'know ... just to "be sure".
:)
I'll check on *my* copy of Konq
but Canadian beer sucks.
The Mormons do not advertise for the Baptists.
It's common practice to not shoot yourself in the foot.
Yes this leads to biased journalism, but the media has been this way since the old Newspaper Barons.
This is hardly newsworthy.
Pardon this post if it's irrelevant (I didn't look up the patent and read it), but if I remember correctly, Quake (circa 1995?) had 360 degree "fish eye" view.
I seem to remember at college (Carnegie Mellon - we're big geeks) playing Quake CTF, and one team-mate used to guard our flag in 360deg mode.
Made it pretty hard to sneak up on him.
anyone feel like researching this and telling bountyquest?
Yeah, check out this at the Apple Store. It's the pricing breakdown of the powerbook G4.
The "Faster" model:
500MHz PowerPC G4
1MB L2 cache
256MB SDRAM memory
20GB Ultra ATA drive
DVD-ROM w/DVD-Video
ATI Rage Mobility 128
10/100BASE-T Ethernet
56K internal modem
Two USB ports
One FireWire port
The "Fastet" model:
500MHz PowerPC G4
1MB L2 cache
256MB SDRAM memory
30GB Ultra ATA drive
DVD-ROM w/DVD-Video
ATI Rage Mobility 128
10/100BASE-T Ethernet
56K internal modem
Two USB ports
One FireWire port
Extra AC adapter
Extra battery
So here's my question: Why is the "Fastest" G4 any faster than the "Faster" G4?
Because the hard drive is 10 gigs Larger?! (they're all 4200RPM).
Or is is the extra ac adaptor that somehow makes it "fastest"?
Friggin Apple. Buncha liars.
Your sig reads: It's GUYana, not GHana. Ahem. You can't wish an entire country out of existence.
Perhaps, on the odd chance that this person CAN indeed wish an entire country out of existence, you shouldn't be correcting him.
Kinda like Kids In The Hall and the "Little God Spot".
who will be the first to join the "100 miles high" club?
So, how 'bout this:
NASA Mission STS 51-A - if I remember correctly, Anna Fisher and Frederick Hauck were on the mission, and were (still are I believe) husband and wife.
Odds are good they're the first.
The article says:
With over 22 million people online in China and the Chinese language quickly approaching a majority on the Internet, Legend makes a powerful partner for AOL. Legend is the top distributor of new PCs in the Asia Pacific region, paving the way for wide adoption of joint services via inclusion of AOL software. FM365.com also provides significant reach for AOL, peaking at 25 million daily page views.
Is this true? A Majority? Like more than 50%? Cause that's just not true (is it?).
Anyone have stats and a link to follow about it?
It's typical too, that The Dish the highest grossing Australian film in the history of Australian cinema -- is struggling to get wide distribution in American movie theaters.
:)
What about the astronomical numbers that "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles" is bound to pull in.
It'll probably triple the GNP "Down Undah"
40% of the chinese population live along the banks of the Chang Jiang river. This river also is responsible for 40% of grain production and 70% of rice production in the country.
Natural floods of this river are devestating to the population, and happen frequently - floods still occurs almost yearly. Major flood events have occurred in 1931, 1954, 1991, 1993, 1996 and 1998, with increasing frequency and severity during the 1990s. The 1931 flood killed some 400,000 people and affected more than 50 million people.
Now, here's the kicker:
The "Three Gorges Dam" project is an attempt to build a MONSTROUS (read: biggest human project ever attempted) dam far upriver.
So... anyone who goes to war with China and needs to wipe out 40% of their population, 40% of their grain, 70% of their rice, and who knows how much of their industry (? anyone know?) just needs to blow the dam.
I know that's no easy task, but modern weapons can knock out mountains (read the articles on NORAD and how the inside of a mountain no longer provides adequate protection).
Yeah
Unfortunately, most of the time companies do better than they forcast.
Yeah, but it's not often that a company beats the street estimates.