Simple physics dictates that moving heat to a far away place works, while moving it to a nearby place doesn't.
Very small scale heat dissipation has to deal with the very simple fact that the place it's moving heat away to is right next to the place it's trying to move it away from.
Comparing this technology to existing technologies for regular-scale use is in fact retarded. I don't care how much you improve on the technology, it's physically crippled compared to regular methods for regular-scale use.
You can not get around the basic physical laws of heat transfer.
Using this shit to cool a CPU is like building a bridge out of dry spaghetti. Sure, your SCALE MODEL works great, but shit does not scale linearly in this little 3D Universe we've got.
How would you get your precisely tuned current to a densely packed array of these rods?
How would you deal with the fact that they will be constantly contracting and expanding?
How will you deal with the terrible heat transfer at the millions of interfaces between them?
A simple copper heatsink with shitty compusa branded thermal goop would perform far better than any usage of these things. These things are meant for micro-scale heat control. They are not for your CPU.
A solid (as in, contiguous) block of material is the best heat sink there is. Want to suck out more heat? Make it bigger. Want to move the heat away from the main block? Use a non-solid material that conducts heat well and pass it over the solid material.
How about successful games that damaged or killed their companies?
Tetris was so insanely successful that the rights were blatantly stolen and restolen endlessly.
The creator didn't get squat.
The self-appointed Tetris Company is a piece of shit that is ruining Tetris. Infinite spin? Holding pieces? WTF is this shit and why is it required to be in all Tetris games?
If you think that anything could be prior art based solely on the title of an application, then you probably just disqualified yourself from discussing patents.
Who's basing anything on the title? If you think that everything on slashdot can be discussed without RTFAing, then you just qualified yourself for slashdot!
The new Star Trek movie was a terrible fucking mess script-wise, and Kirk and Spock Prime (Nimoy) were like finding a turd on the inside of your Tootsie Pop / Milk Dud.
Everything else was awesome though.
I'd pay good money for audio books read by the new Chekov and Scottie. Fuck, throw in Alan Alda as a narrator and have them read tweets, fucking TWEETS, and I'd pay for it.
I hope the next movie has NO Nimoy, a better script (supposedly it will), and less of a focus on his doucheness Captain Jerk The Kirk.
Techies know that SP2 is the new SP1. Microsoft has started rushing SP1 out the door ever since a certain *cough* Gartner Group *cough* suit-zine told management to never upgrade to a new Microsoft OS until it gets past SP1.
Only morons trust any version number as an indicator of stability.
So we're in agreement! I feel like Ronald fucking Reagan over here.
The "run from SD" thing does NOT reduce the available storage space. The Wii has 512 MB of internal flash storage. The option does NOT reserve space for itself. This is WHY you can run into situations like the one in your link. You have 512 MB of internal storage. You had 512 MB of internal storage before the SD option was put in, and you have 512 MB of internal storage after the SD option was put in.
It simply means you have to have enough space free if you want to "run from SD" (background swap).
The Wii Netflix channel could EASILY fit in the Wii's regular memory, leaving plenty of room for saves, WiiShop games, Virtual Console games, and other channels. It would only be a few megs (out of 512).
People who buy a ton of games had to "clean the fridge" and delete stuff in order to be able to download new stuff they bought (or old stuff they previously deleted and wanted to play again).
The "run from SD" option ONLY exists to allow people to move stuff to SD instead of having to delete and redownload. Yes, you need free space available temporarily. But if you're USING this option, then you're keeping everything except your few most-used channels on the SD card anyway.
I've got a ton of crap on my SD card, and a few in the Wii's internal memory. If I want to run something from the SD card, I do it. It works well. There's a delay when loading it into the internal storage, sure, but it's better than deleting, redownloading, and keeping track.
Flash writes are NOT an issue here, dude. The internal memory of the Wii will last until you're too arthritic to grip a Wiimote anyway.
And yet it still beat the pants off the DVD-and-Netflix-ready XBox360 and the Blu-Ray-and-Netflix-capable PS3, sales-wise. Does this tell you anything about the market for game consoles?
Uh... game consoles should focus on games and not launch at five hundred ninety-nine U.S. dollars?
I'm willing to bet the Netflix app is simply too big to fit inside the flash reliably.
Seems to me Netflix on my PC didn't require a hefty download. You could easily get a Netflix-only app on the Wii.
Nintendo already has a "Nintendo channel" where they showcase new games (including streaming video). They already have a TV-type channel in Japan where they show and discuss soap operas or something.
The Wii is pretty weak, sure, but it sure as fuck can stream video and access the net.
And FEDs are basically many tiny CRTs in one box. One per pixel, basically.
SEDs are FEDs but one per column/row.
The advantage of these displays comes from removing the need to steer the gun. We can use fancy dancy computer stuff to drive many small ones individually now.
The core reason they make good displays is the same reason a CRT makes a good display. Electrons on phosphors on glass are fucking delicious.
Even at 240Hz, I did still notice some streaking, though (watching a football game).
No you didn't. You wanted to see it so you saw it.
Any streaking you did notice would have been a result of the source and not the display. Dollars to doughnuts (or is it doughnuts to dollars in this economy?) says pa-in-law is running 1080i.
Good luck FINDING a good LCD though - they don't advertise what kind of panel they use, and the tv that got rave reviews from that nerdy videophile site will actually ship to stores with a smattering of different panels and you'll be playing "check the serial number and service code bingo".
A proper command center display has knobs instead of buttons, is 3 feet deep and 6 inches square on the face and back, and is amber on black, or green on slightly darker green.
On the other hand, I just filed patents for a new method of laser eye surgery.
Simply sit there, watching American Idol unblinkingly like the fat slob you are.
The integrated web cam will composite an image of your retina from millions taken over a period of weeks. Then, the lasers will flash short, invisible, corrective pulses as you stare at Ryan fucking Seacrest.
Eyedol on Idol - the ONLY way to improve your vision as you watch tv. Exclusively on FOX.
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Has anyone checked the iphone source code for back-doors?
Has anyone checked your "cousin"'s backdoor?
I bet yes!
Simple physics dictates that moving heat to a far away place works, while moving it to a nearby place doesn't.
Very small scale heat dissipation has to deal with the very simple fact that the place it's moving heat away to is right next to the place it's trying to move it away from.
Comparing this technology to existing technologies for regular-scale use is in fact retarded. I don't care how much you improve on the technology, it's physically crippled compared to regular methods for regular-scale use.
You can not get around the basic physical laws of heat transfer.
Using this shit to cool a CPU is like building a bridge out of dry spaghetti. Sure, your SCALE MODEL works great, but shit does not scale linearly in this little 3D Universe we've got.
PHYSICS.
You forgot the MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE of writing: Doodling when you're bored!
Because the other hand is on the mouse, right?
Squeak squeak squeak squeak
cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese
How would you get your precisely tuned current to a densely packed array of these rods?
How would you deal with the fact that they will be constantly contracting and expanding?
How will you deal with the terrible heat transfer at the millions of interfaces between them?
A simple copper heatsink with shitty compusa branded thermal goop would perform far better than any usage of these things. These things are meant for micro-scale heat control. They are not for your CPU.
A solid (as in, contiguous) block of material is the best heat sink there is. Want to suck out more heat? Make it bigger. Want to move the heat away from the main block? Use a non-solid material that conducts heat well and pass it over the solid material.
Just submerge your computer in mineral oil.
There *is* a need for heat reduction at very small scales
This new technology does not reduce heat.
This new technology simply moves heat.
This new technology actually adds net heat.
Earth and Beyond was a failure, sure.
But it was because of EA eating Westwood.
Which was due to the success of Command & Conquer.
Command & Conquer, a very successful series, killed its company.
How about successful games that damaged or killed their companies?
Tetris was so insanely successful that the rights were blatantly stolen and restolen endlessly.
The creator didn't get squat.
The self-appointed Tetris Company is a piece of shit that is ruining Tetris. Infinite spin? Holding pieces? WTF is this shit and why is it required to be in all Tetris games?
RTFA MORON
If you think that anything could be prior art based solely on the title of an application, then you probably just disqualified yourself from discussing patents.
Who's basing anything on the title?
If you think that everything on slashdot can be discussed without RTFAing, then you just qualified yourself for slashdot!
Behavioral Deviations by Measuring Eye Movements
Prior art - see Voight-Kampff.
The new Star Trek movie was a terrible fucking mess script-wise, and Kirk and Spock Prime (Nimoy) were like finding a turd on the inside of your Tootsie Pop / Milk Dud.
Everything else was awesome though.
I'd pay good money for audio books read by the new Chekov and Scottie. Fuck, throw in Alan Alda as a narrator and have them read tweets, fucking TWEETS, and I'd pay for it.
I hope the next movie has NO Nimoy, a better script (supposedly it will), and less of a focus on his doucheness Captain Jerk The Kirk.
Then you haven't learned the lesson.
MS and Sony have bled tons of money.
Nintendo has been printing money non stop.
I like devices to do many things, sure.
I love my PS3.
But if a company wants to profit they've got to fit the device to the market, and not the other way around.
Techies know that SP2 is the new SP1. Microsoft has started rushing SP1 out the door ever since a certain *cough* Gartner Group *cough* suit-zine told management to never upgrade to a new Microsoft OS until it gets past SP1.
Only morons trust any version number as an indicator of stability.
So we're in agreement!
I feel like Ronald fucking Reagan over here.
The "run from SD" thing does NOT reduce the available storage space. The Wii has 512 MB of internal flash storage. The option does NOT reserve space for itself. This is WHY you can run into situations like the one in your link. You have 512 MB of internal storage. You had 512 MB of internal storage before the SD option was put in, and you have 512 MB of internal storage after the SD option was put in.
It simply means you have to have enough space free if you want to "run from SD" (background swap).
The Wii Netflix channel could EASILY fit in the Wii's regular memory, leaving plenty of room for saves, WiiShop games, Virtual Console games, and other channels. It would only be a few megs (out of 512).
People who buy a ton of games had to "clean the fridge" and delete stuff in order to be able to download new stuff they bought (or old stuff they previously deleted and wanted to play again).
The "run from SD" option ONLY exists to allow people to move stuff to SD instead of having to delete and redownload. Yes, you need free space available temporarily. But if you're USING this option, then you're keeping everything except your few most-used channels on the SD card anyway.
I've got a ton of crap on my SD card, and a few in the Wii's internal memory. If I want to run something from the SD card, I do it. It works well. There's a delay when loading it into the internal storage, sure, but it's better than deleting, redownloading, and keeping track.
Flash writes are NOT an issue here, dude. The internal memory of the Wii will last until you're too arthritic to grip a Wiimote anyway.
And yet it still beat the pants off the DVD-and-Netflix-ready XBox360 and the Blu-Ray-and-Netflix-capable PS3, sales-wise. Does this tell you anything about the market for game consoles?
Uh... game consoles should focus on games and not launch at five hundred ninety-nine U.S. dollars?
I'm willing to bet the Netflix app is simply too big to fit inside the flash reliably.
Seems to me Netflix on my PC didn't require a hefty download. You could easily get a Netflix-only app on the Wii.
Nintendo already has a "Nintendo channel" where they showcase new games (including streaming video). They already have a TV-type channel in Japan where they show and discuss soap operas or something.
The Wii is pretty weak, sure, but it sure as fuck can stream video and access the net.
Insert LAPD joke.
And FEDs are basically many tiny CRTs in one box.
One per pixel, basically.
SEDs are FEDs but one per column/row.
The advantage of these displays comes from removing the need to steer the gun. We can use fancy dancy computer stuff to drive many small ones individually now.
The core reason they make good displays is the same reason a CRT makes a good display. Electrons on phosphors on glass are fucking delicious.
It doesn't matter.
Longevity is impossible now that we're forced to use lead-free solder.
Even at 240Hz, I did still notice some streaking, though (watching a football game).
No you didn't. You wanted to see it so you saw it.
Any streaking you did notice would have been a result of the source and not the display. Dollars to doughnuts (or is it doughnuts to dollars in this economy?) says pa-in-law is running 1080i.
Nobody has been able to dethrone the Pioneer Kuros for it's picture quality.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cathode%20ray%20tube
As far as LCD vs plasma, a good LCD is better.
Good luck FINDING a good LCD though - they don't advertise what kind of panel they use, and the tv that got rave reviews from that nerdy videophile site will actually ship to stores with a smattering of different panels and you'll be playing "check the serial number and service code bingo".
A proper command center display has knobs instead of buttons, is 3 feet deep and 6 inches square on the face and back, and is amber on black, or green on slightly darker green.
Looks cool on screen but just like Gorilla arms from Minority Report, I think it wouldn't really be practical unless you...
Unless you... have a thetan level that's OVER 9000!!! ?
On the other hand, I just filed patents for a new method of laser eye surgery.
Simply sit there, watching American Idol unblinkingly like the fat slob you are.
The integrated web cam will composite an image of your retina from millions taken over a period of weeks. Then, the lasers will flash short, invisible, corrective pulses as you stare at Ryan fucking Seacrest.
Eyedol on Idol - the ONLY way to improve your vision as you watch tv. Exclusively on FOX.
The real reason I think is that Microsoft got an "exclusive" on putting Netflix "on" a game console.
This is 100% correct.
Netflix has even stated so.
There will be a downloadable application (no disc needed) for the PS3 sometime this year.