According to the.pdf linked on the press article, it spins at 5,000 RPM.
Spinning a heat sink that weighs several ounces take a much more powerful motor than a plastic fan. I'd expect it's a to harder on the bearings (i.e. less reliable), and requires a lot more power than a traditional heatsink/fan setup.
I totally hear what your saying but... My friends kids shoot BB guns, they eat hot dogs that fall on the floor, cook things over fire when they camping, they wrestle with the dog, etc. Just like we did. And we grew up in suburbia Southern California, probably one of the most child coddling parts of the country. I hope to have kids one day and I'm sure as hell not coddling them. Sure some people are protective parents. That doesn't mean we all have to be.
I see so many articles these days about bullying being so terrible. I got bullied HARD for a few years. It made me stronger and pushed me to do some of the things that I now look back on as highlights of my childhood.
He's actually the founder of an indie rock band and a college professor.
No. Just no. He may have started another indie band after making money off of Cracker in the 1990s, but Lowery is most certainly not a college professor. Until an associate professor (requires a PhD 99% of the time) is granted tenure, which can take OVER A DECADE , they are not called a professor. As stated in the article, he has been a LECTURER for 2 years at the University of Georgia. That means he is currently a guest of the department head. While the top dog of that music program has been able to bring this guy in, along with some other industry shills from the 1990s who are probably cheap and need the work, I seriously doubt Lowery will ever be a professor unless he gets his doctorate (4+ years of work, and tens of thousands of dollars). Even then it would likely take him 5-10 years of additional lecturing and researching to become a professor (which, again, requires tenure).
Perhaps you should read more than the first few paragraphs. You may not agree with me, but I know what I'm talking about.
I didn't get that at all. To me, the quote in the summary is a guy that works in the music industry complaining about music piracy. He is saying that the digital revolution does not excuse music fans from the old model of monetized distribution (i.e. paying for each copy of the song that is made). I'd argue that is retarded for a variety of reasons that I don't feel like explaining over and over in/. posts. The problem lies with a powerful, but dying, group of power mongers that clearly are not agile enough to adapt to the new model (hence the rampant piracy and tech companies like Apple/Pandora working with a bloated inefficient industry to give consumers what they demand).
I skimmed the comments on wordpress. Didn't see any disagreeing with the lengthy post. The comments on/. look quite a bit different from the 300+ shills on there...
I will say that I don't think music recordings should be monetized other than to cover production costs. Artists should be paid, and paid well, for live performances. But I don't see any reason that someone in a band playing gigs, that works maybe 10-20 hours a week, should make more than $100k a year. If a musician is playing to make tons of money, it usually shows in their work (like the band, Cracker). Most of the mainstream music I listen to these days is hiphop because at least those guys admit they are all about the money.
The content industries in this country are incredibly inefficient, with a select few/coughs artists/coughsagain, producers, and executives taking home enough money to feed entire countries. While much the world lives without running water, electricity, or food; millionaires are created in the USA based on who they know, not what they produce. The digital revolution has threatened some of these powerful people. And they have responded with aggressive legislation that infringes on the constitution, legal bullying by high priced lawyers, and fiery politicized posts like this.
I work for the man, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give him a hand job behind the building.
As I recall, Cracker was one of those 1990's Nirvana rip off bands that were snatched up by the dozens and thrown all over the airwaves by the music industry in it's hayday. Now he's a producer in that same industry, likely trying to do the same thing with 2010's MGMT rip off bands. This is like asking a fox whether or not he should be able to guard a hen house...
I'd argue that the quality of life for bank robber is FAR better than the average office drone. They only have to work a few hours a year for their pay check...
"Kahneman, who admits in “Thinking, Fast and Slow” that his decades of groundbreaking research have failed to significantly improve his own mental performance."
So this guy was unable to find a way to make himself more intelligent and is now trying to explain why. Douchenozzle.
Yeah... I think that if they walked around Google/Apple/Microsoft/etc and asked random engineers those questions 90% would get them right. Freshmen undergrads don't have as much experience answering stupid problems as corporate engineering drones.
I like how non-Americans, living in privileged western countries, tend to think that the majority of Americans voted for Bush in the first place, and quickly rush to lump all Americans into a "batshit crazy" category over it.
Bush got ~51% of the vote in 2000. That's out of a roughly 50% voter turn-out. Which equates to around 1 in 4 Americans actually voting for the guy.
But we are the ignorant ones who don't understand how the world really works. And by works, I mean living in a society so buffered from the reality in poor countries that many deny the existence of limited resources, and do so with an air of moral superiority.
Perhaps the Nobel Committee should reconsider who chooses the winner of the Nobel Peace prize (perhaps past winners, or a monkey with a gun? Anything is better than a committee appointed by left wing politicians), as it taints the organization for people like me that are too lazy to figure out how the different prizes are awarded...
Then work your way up and make contacts. Leave after 3-4 years using said contacts and get paid 2x more money. That's what I did with my History degree, and it is no longer an issue. Although I still regret not graduating with a CS degree, I now try to spin it as a good thing because it brings a different viewpoint to teams with all CS majors.
There have been dozens of studies over the last 5 years confirming this finding. This one jsut had more information on the exact level of caffeine in people's systems.
Caffeinated coffee appeared to be the main, if not exclusive, source of caffeine in the memory-protected MCI patients, because they had the same profile of blood immune markers as Alzheimer’s mice given caffeinated coffee. Alzheimer’s mice given caffeine alone or decaffeinated coffee had a very different immune marker profile.
It sounds like there is something unique to coffee in this case. I.e. chocolate or tea won't cut it.
That is debatable. It's a useful took to quickly lookup unreliable information. Not very useful in an academic setting (if it is, then there is something wrong with the academics).
The only reason he can live with us is because he has been getting a housing allowance form the Navy. This is basically the conversation he had with his brother (also poor) on the phone last night:
"Yeah dude come out and visit. We can pay Xbox and Wii and watch TV and shit since we're both broke. It'd just be good to see you."
I talked to him a little about his finances after that call. He has $5k in credit card debt (maxed out with a 15% APR) that he makes minimum payments on, owes $6k on his car that is worth less than $5k, has a $110/month bill for his smart phone, and another $200/month bill for car insurance and misc monthly bills (other than utilities, stupid shit like satellite radio and multiple xbox live accounts). Right now he pays out over $500/month for things that he shouldn't of ever have gotten in first place and he sits around playing xbox, watching movies, and talking about how he is going to get a $70k/year "engineer type" job when he gets out of the navy. It's a pretty pathetic situation.
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According to the .pdf linked on the press article, it spins at 5,000 RPM.
Spinning a heat sink that weighs several ounces take a much more powerful motor than a plastic fan. I'd expect it's a to harder on the bearings (i.e. less reliable), and requires a lot more power than a traditional heatsink/fan setup.
As a former thermal lab technician for a server manufacturer, I'm very skeptical...
I totally hear what your saying but... My friends kids shoot BB guns, they eat hot dogs that fall on the floor, cook things over fire when they camping, they wrestle with the dog, etc. Just like we did. And we grew up in suburbia Southern California, probably one of the most child coddling parts of the country. I hope to have kids one day and I'm sure as hell not coddling them. Sure some people are protective parents. That doesn't mean we all have to be.
I see so many articles these days about bullying being so terrible. I got bullied HARD for a few years. It made me stronger and pushed me to do some of the things that I now look back on as highlights of my childhood.
He's actually the founder of an indie rock band and a college professor.
No. Just no. He may have started another indie band after making money off of Cracker in the 1990s, but Lowery is most certainly not a college professor. Until an associate professor (requires a PhD 99% of the time) is granted tenure, which can take OVER A DECADE , they are not called a professor. As stated in the article, he has been a LECTURER for 2 years at the University of Georgia. That means he is currently a guest of the department head. While the top dog of that music program has been able to bring this guy in, along with some other industry shills from the 1990s who are probably cheap and need the work, I seriously doubt Lowery will ever be a professor unless he gets his doctorate (4+ years of work, and tens of thousands of dollars). Even then it would likely take him 5-10 years of additional lecturing and researching to become a professor (which, again, requires tenure).
Perhaps you should read more than the first few paragraphs. You may not agree with me, but I know what I'm talking about.
I didn't get that at all. To me, the quote in the summary is a guy that works in the music industry complaining about music piracy. He is saying that the digital revolution does not excuse music fans from the old model of monetized distribution (i.e. paying for each copy of the song that is made). I'd argue that is retarded for a variety of reasons that I don't feel like explaining over and over in /. posts. The problem lies with a powerful, but dying, group of power mongers that clearly are not agile enough to adapt to the new model (hence the rampant piracy and tech companies like Apple/Pandora working with a bloated inefficient industry to give consumers what they demand).
I skimmed the comments on wordpress. Didn't see any disagreeing with the lengthy post. The comments on /. look quite a bit different from the 300+ shills on there...
/coughs artists /coughsagain, producers, and executives taking home enough money to feed entire countries. While much the world lives without running water, electricity, or food; millionaires are created in the USA based on who they know, not what they produce. The digital revolution has threatened some of these powerful people. And they have responded with aggressive legislation that infringes on the constitution, legal bullying by high priced lawyers, and fiery politicized posts like this.
I will say that I don't think music recordings should be monetized other than to cover production costs. Artists should be paid, and paid well, for live performances. But I don't see any reason that someone in a band playing gigs, that works maybe 10-20 hours a week, should make more than $100k a year. If a musician is playing to make tons of money, it usually shows in their work (like the band, Cracker). Most of the mainstream music I listen to these days is hiphop because at least those guys admit they are all about the money.
The content industries in this country are incredibly inefficient, with a select few
I work for the man, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give him a hand job behind the building.
As I recall, Cracker was one of those 1990's Nirvana rip off bands that were snatched up by the dozens and thrown all over the airwaves by the music industry in it's hayday. Now he's a producer in that same industry, likely trying to do the same thing with 2010's MGMT rip off bands. This is like asking a fox whether or not he should be able to guard a hen house...
I'd argue that the quality of life for bank robber is FAR better than the average office drone. They only have to work a few hours a year for their pay check...
"Kahneman, who admits in “Thinking, Fast and Slow” that his decades of groundbreaking research have failed to significantly improve his own mental performance."
So this guy was unable to find a way to make himself more intelligent and is now trying to explain why. Douchenozzle.
Yeah... I think that if they walked around Google/Apple/Microsoft/etc and asked random engineers those questions 90% would get them right. Freshmen undergrads don't have as much experience answering stupid problems as corporate engineering drones.
I like how non-Americans, living in privileged western countries, tend to think that the majority of Americans voted for Bush in the first place, and quickly rush to lump all Americans into a "batshit crazy" category over it.
Bush got ~51% of the vote in 2000. That's out of a roughly 50% voter turn-out. Which equates to around 1 in 4 Americans actually voting for the guy.
But we are the ignorant ones who don't understand how the world really works. And by works, I mean living in a society so buffered from the reality in poor countries that many deny the existence of limited resources, and do so with an air of moral superiority.
Thanks for teaching. :)
Perhaps the Nobel Committee should reconsider who chooses the winner of the Nobel Peace prize (perhaps past winners, or a monkey with a gun? Anything is better than a committee appointed by left wing politicians), as it taints the organization for people like me that are too lazy to figure out how the different prizes are awarded...
Same committee right? If so, I don't trust any of them...
Obama got one for being elected President. Nobel hipsters can suck my balls.
Last time I checked "a season ticket" didn't mean more than one season ticket.
Then work your way up and make contacts. Leave after 3-4 years using said contacts and get paid 2x more money. That's what I did with my History degree, and it is no longer an issue. Although I still regret not graduating with a CS degree, I now try to spin it as a good thing because it brings a different viewpoint to teams with all CS majors.
Sure. But that doesn't make your sig any more accurate....
My Chargers season tix are $731...
I never really thought of G.I Joe as a wise man...
Second that. Some of my fellow nerdlings have talked up ATI's open source policy etc. Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's not a POS...
There have been dozens of studies over the last 5 years confirming this finding. This one jsut had more information on the exact level of caffeine in people's systems.
FTFA...
Caffeinated coffee appeared to be the main, if not exclusive, source of caffeine in the memory-protected MCI patients, because they had the same profile of blood immune markers as Alzheimer’s mice given caffeinated coffee. Alzheimer’s mice given caffeine alone or decaffeinated coffee had a very different immune marker profile.
It sounds like there is something unique to coffee in this case. I.e. chocolate or tea won't cut it.
Monkey balls. EOM
It's a useful educational resource.
That is debatable. It's a useful took to quickly lookup unreliable information. Not very useful in an academic setting (if it is, then there is something wrong with the academics).
The only reason he can live with us is because he has been getting a housing allowance form the Navy. This is basically the conversation he had with his brother (also poor) on the phone last night:
"Yeah dude come out and visit. We can pay Xbox and Wii and watch TV and shit since we're both broke. It'd just be good to see you."
I talked to him a little about his finances after that call. He has $5k in credit card debt (maxed out with a 15% APR) that he makes minimum payments on, owes $6k on his car that is worth less than $5k, has a $110/month bill for his smart phone, and another $200/month bill for car insurance and misc monthly bills (other than utilities, stupid shit like satellite radio and multiple xbox live accounts). Right now he pays out over $500/month for things that he shouldn't of ever have gotten in first place and he sits around playing xbox, watching movies, and talking about how he is going to get a $70k/year "engineer type" job when he gets out of the navy. It's a pretty pathetic situation.