diamond have probabbly the best thermal conductivity known to man
What gave you that idea?
I dunno what gave him that idea, but I thought it was a well-known fact.
According to the first link, the thermal conductivity of copper (in W/cm-K) is 3.937. Room-temperature diamond: 6.299. And an isotopically pure room-temperature diamond: 50. The last link claims a conductivity of 2000 W/cm-K for CVD diamond and talks about using it to cool stuff.
So I guess the more interesting question is where you got the idea that diamonds wouldn't work well for cooling.
Man, who modded this AC troll to 2? [BTW, if you're gonna troll, use an account for it... you're much more believable that way. Although I admit you did a good job getting 2 positive mods]
As a note to anyone who believes him, he says, "The 1394 drivers somehow interferred with my current DVDROM so that it wouldn't even be seen from DOS or the system BIOS." DOS or the BIOS aren't going to know about what drivers you have installed in Windows; it isn't possible for a Windows driver to cause the BIOS to not see your DVD-ROM drive.
I got tired of junk faxes wasting my paper, so I switched to using a fax modem and Hylafax. I still get a lot of junk faxes, but at least I can rm them.
Anyways, it'd be kinda fun if it was possible to somehow detect a junk fax (maybe an empty TSID is good enough? All the legit faxes I get have a TSID) and then deliberately try to keep the faxer on the line as long as possible, running up their phone bill. Force the modem to 300 baud or something like that:) Maybe request retransmissions too (I don't know if faxes even support that). So is this possible?
According to their website, the broadcasted time is from atomic clocks at Fort Collins, which are compared to the reference clock in Boulder. So while I guess the master time comes from Boulder, they do have multiple atomic clocks at the radio station.
Oh, like we should all believe some Anonymous Coward... it's well-known that Theo has a grudge against the other BSDs, especially NetBSD... I remember when he was threatening to crapflood the NetBSD and FreeBSD mailing lists through an anonymous remailer.
Dunno about that... mosquitos are attracted to warm, moist CO2 (such as the exhaled breath of animals), but there seems to be some doubt about whether they're attracted to dry ice.
The wery wery important node says something about after you download and RUN the program, you might get a POP-UP with some kind of ERROR message in it. But after you dismiss that, if you get something that looks like a radar in your Taskbar, the program is working without any problems.
The used cars I've bought and sold have all come with original documentation (all the manuals and stuff are in the glove compartment). I still don't see how it points the consumer back to Apple--the consumer bought from Zettabyte and I'm sure they knew what they were getting.
Anyways, it's weird that their web site is completely gone... it'd be nice to have some facts about what happened instead of all of our speculation:)
From what I've seen, they're being sold as new, so what about your Apple warranty?
That's not the impression I got... from what I remember, Zettabyte was going to provide the warranty and service on their modified machines. I just tried going to their website to see what they say, but their home page seems to have been replaced by a 9 megabyte MPEG!? (FWIW, I have no idea what the MPEG is of, but it looks interesting:)
Anyways, some guy in the previous discussion did say that Zettabyte was providing their own warranty.
The "right of first sale" the subject refers to says that once you buy something, you can do whatever you want to it, and you can resell it to someone else. Whether consumers will think that the modified eMac is from Apple seems irrelevant to me; I'm more interested in the legal aspects--what legal right does Apple have to stop Zettabyte from selling modified computers?
People buy computers, make upgrades, and resell them all the time and nobody complains. Usually they resell it months or years after they buy it, whereas I assume Zettabyte tries to sell their computers as quickly as possible, but I don't see what the difference is legally.
The same situation happens with cars, and I haven't heard any complaints there either... you can buy a Honda Civic, put in a fancy CD player and hang fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror, then put an ad in the paper saying that you're selling a Honda Civic, and I doubt Honda is gonna complain that you can't call it a Civic anymore because it has a Blaupunkt stereo in it. (And I also doubt other people are gonna go to a Honda dealership and ask why none of the Civics there have fuzzy dice:)
it would be perfectly ok to tell people its a modified emac with a super drive (that is what it is) it just should nto be marketed as an apple emac, which it was
It was marketed as a Apple eMac modified to include a SuperDrive... I still don't see any problem.
Oh no! I'm now one of Wee's foes, alongside "FP lusers who automatically get -4," just because I dared to express an opinion about his post. I'm all sad now... won't someone please be my friend and cheer me up some?
It is an eMac, originally purchased from Apple... what's wrong with calling it one? If they were calling their white box PC clone an eMac, I could see the problem, but there's nothing wrong with calling an eMac and eMac.
The legislation... was introduced by Villanueva through Peru's ruling party, Peru Posible.
Is CmdrTaco moonlighting as a name consultant for Peru now? "Possible" has two "s"s! I guess that's what happens when foreigners try to speak English... dunno what Taco's excuse is though:)
Great. Too bad the answer they gave is wrong. Its actually 24.
Heh, really... there's no way there are 100 factorial trailing 0s in 100 factorial:) And there aren't 100 trailing 0s either. You get a trailing 0 for each time you have a 2 times a 5. If you take the prime factorization of each number between 1 and 100, there are gonna be more 2s than 5s, so we'll just count the 5s. There are 20 multiples of 5 between 1 and 100. However, multiples of 25 contribute two 5s, so add in 4 more for the multiples of 25. Answer = 24.
BTW, 100 factorial is: 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381 62146859296389521759999322991560894146397615651828 62536979208272237582511852109168640000000000000000 00000000
Heck, Pentium Pro was designed to be ONLY for servers, period. And it only was.
Not sure what you mean by "And it only was"... if you meant that PPros were only found in servers, that's not the case... while the PPro may have been designed for servers, Dell, Compaq, and probably everyone else made desktop/workstation systems with them (Dell Dimension XPS Pro, for example). And of course, everyone complained that it was slow running 16-bit Win3.x software...
Have you tried emailing this guy? According to his resume, he worked at SilentRadio from 1980-1997, eventually ending up as vice president. And if he doesn't know the answer, maybe he can get you in touch with Mike Levin, the guy who started the company.
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What gave you that idea?
I dunno what gave him that idea, but I thought it was a well-known fact.
According to the first link, the thermal conductivity of copper (in W/cm-K) is 3.937. Room-temperature diamond: 6.299. And an isotopically pure room-temperature diamond: 50. The last link claims a conductivity of 2000 W/cm-K for CVD diamond and talks about using it to cool stuff.
So I guess the more interesting question is where you got the idea that diamonds wouldn't work well for cooling.
Hey, don't be dissing the PhysicsGenius... I bet he's got more PhDs than you do!
It comes with a USB cable. Look in the box, troll.
As a note to anyone who believes him, he says, "The 1394 drivers somehow interferred with my current DVDROM so that it wouldn't even be seen from DOS or the system BIOS." DOS or the BIOS aren't going to know about what drivers you have installed in Windows; it isn't possible for a Windows driver to cause the BIOS to not see your DVD-ROM drive.
Anyways, it'd be kinda fun if it was possible to somehow detect a junk fax (maybe an empty TSID is good enough? All the legit faxes I get have a TSID) and then deliberately try to keep the faxer on the line as long as possible, running up their phone bill. Force the modem to 300 baud or something like that :) Maybe request retransmissions too (I don't know if faxes even support that). So is this possible?
FYI, MS's TCP stack isn't BSD-derived. Where do they use zlib, btw?
Oh come on... you don't need to nitpick typos :P
He obviously meant SIDA.
According to their website, the broadcasted time is from atomic clocks at Fort Collins, which are compared to the reference clock in Boulder. So while I guess the master time comes from Boulder, they do have multiple atomic clocks at the radio station.
Oh, like we should all believe some Anonymous Coward... it's well-known that Theo has a grudge against the other BSDs, especially NetBSD... I remember when he was threatening to crapflood the NetBSD and FreeBSD mailing lists through an anonymous remailer.
Dunno about that... mosquitos are attracted to warm, moist CO2 (such as the exhaled breath of animals), but there seems to be some doubt about whether they're attracted to dry ice.
Sounds pretty cheesy to me :)
Anyways, it's weird that their web site is completely gone... it'd be nice to have some facts about what happened instead of all of our speculation :)
That's not the impression I got... from what I remember, Zettabyte was going to provide the warranty and service on their modified machines. I just tried going to their website to see what they say, but their home page seems to have been replaced by a 9 megabyte MPEG!? (FWIW, I have no idea what the MPEG is of, but it looks interesting :)
Anyways, some guy in the previous discussion did say that Zettabyte was providing their own warranty.
Deal! :)
People buy computers, make upgrades, and resell them all the time and nobody complains. Usually they resell it months or years after they buy it, whereas I assume Zettabyte tries to sell their computers as quickly as possible, but I don't see what the difference is legally.
The same situation happens with cars, and I haven't heard any complaints there either... you can buy a Honda Civic, put in a fancy CD player and hang fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror, then put an ad in the paper saying that you're selling a Honda Civic, and I doubt Honda is gonna complain that you can't call it a Civic anymore because it has a Blaupunkt stereo in it. (And I also doubt other people are gonna go to a Honda dealership and ask why none of the Civics there have fuzzy dice :)
it would be perfectly ok to tell people its a modified emac with a super drive (that is what it is) it just should nto be marketed as an apple emac, which it was
It was marketed as a Apple eMac modified to include a SuperDrive... I still don't see any problem.
Oh no! I'm now one of Wee's foes, alongside "FP lusers who automatically get -4," just because I dared to express an opinion about his post. I'm all sad now... won't someone please be my friend and cheer me up some?
It is an eMac, originally purchased from Apple... what's wrong with calling it one? If they were calling their white box PC clone an eMac, I could see the problem, but there's nothing wrong with calling an eMac and eMac.
The parent is offtopic and uninteresting. Thanks.
Heh, really... there's no way there are 100 factorial trailing 0s in 100 factorial :) And there aren't 100 trailing 0s either. You get a trailing 0 for each time you have a 2 times a 5. If you take the prime factorization of each number between 1 and 100, there are gonna be more 2s than 5s, so we'll just count the 5s. There are 20 multiples of 5 between 1 and 100. However, multiples of 25 contribute two 5s, so add in 4 more for the multiples of 25. Answer = 24.
BTW, 100 factorial is:1 62146859296389521759999322991560894146397615651828 62536979208272237582511852109168640000000000000000 00000000
9332621544394415268169923885626670049071596826438
Not sure what you mean by "And it only was"... if you meant that PPros were only found in servers, that's not the case... while the PPro may have been designed for servers, Dell, Compaq, and probably everyone else made desktop/workstation systems with them (Dell Dimension XPS Pro, for example). And of course, everyone complained that it was slow running 16-bit Win3.x software...
That's swiped from True Porn Clerk Stories. (Recently featured on Memepool).
Have you tried emailing this guy? According to his resume, he worked at SilentRadio from 1980-1997, eventually ending up as vice president. And if he doesn't know the answer, maybe he can get you in touch with Mike Levin, the guy who started the company.
This line:
Rob Malda chugs penis in fan fiction slashes
doesn't scan well though--it has 12 syllables instead of 11. Perhaps change it to:
Taco chugs penis in fan fiction slashes
?
That ain't nothin man, this guy's got a Type-R American Standard!