space shuttle was an amazing sound. I have no clue what the sound of a saturn V would sound like. but i bet I would like it
It was not sound. You could not hear it unless you were really far away or it was through a recording that muted it.
Rather, it was a force of nature. A wave that impacted your whole body at once, and then kept going. And when it was over you were tired from the vibration. If you were at all close, it would make you sore for days...
3 days ago I would have agreed. Then I went to get a new set of tyres for my car and to have its wheel geometry checked/aligned. They handed me a printout with the alignment data, which was clearly made on a dot matrix printer...
Dot matrix and impact printers are still used where they need to make multiple copies at once. Some businesses are required to.
..., I discovered that if I whistled certain frequencies mirroring the connect sound, the modem would think I was another modem and spend a longer time trying to connect....
I had a "Ham" friend who could whistle into the transmit mike and make the Model 15 teletype on the receiver print out letters. His spelling was really bad, though. 8-)
I still use a CRT on one of my computers. My main one, actually. NEC Multisynch 97F, maybe one of the best CRT monitors ever made.
I got it when flat panels first came out and it was on sale. I could not have afforded it before that. Shortly after, they started reporting that the new flat panels had "dead" pixels and I knew I had a good thing.
Running 1280 x 1024 at 85 hz, flat surface, no noticable flicker and no noticable whine (at least for me). It is a bit large and heavy, though. And not wide.
When I was growing up in Southern New England I could tell how cold it was by the pitch of the squeak my walking on fresh snow caused. The colder the temp, the higher the "squeeee".
I grew up in South Carolina, where it snows one year out of four and it's wet and sloppy when it does. And shuts down the whole city.
When I got out of school I got a job in Vermont. (Where's Vermont?) That winter I went out one morning after the first snow, and when I stepped down it Sqeeked! I just froze and stood there, trying to figure out what it was. When I took another step it was obvious. But it was quite a shock! 8-)
Many programs, but not all, are able to use as much ram as is available. It depends on what they are doing, they should not use it unless they need it..
Of course 32 bit programs are generally limited to about 4 GB. But just like some old 16 bit programs could use "long" pointers to "extend" their reach, some 32 bit programs can do the same with 64 bit pointers.
I am running 16 GB on my desktop. It is not to difficult to check in the Task Manager, and other utilities, to see what is used.
What is it that you're doing on a laptop which requires so much RAM? Certainly there are some workloads like that, but none that I can think of which would justify shoving 16 GB into a mass-market netbook.
Um... X-Rebirth game by EgoSoft. 64-bit lots of threads, a whole universe running at once and, oh, video too.
It was actually a great success. The just didn't want to say that, because the politicians and salesmen would not understand. 8-)
Loosing the rocket at the end was like scratching the paint on your car door when you get out in the parking lot. Annoying, sure, but the parking was a success because you can still walk.
The sea is not stable. There is a tradeoff between riding over the waves (wide) and cutting into the waves (narrow). The most stable forms are two narrow hulls connected at a distance, so it can do both at once. But that fails in very large waves (it turns over and stays that way). A single hull can right it's self, unless it is topheavy. There is more to designing ship hulls that it would seem at first glance. It took us ten thousand years (or more) to figure this much out.
.. meet their 72 or whatever number of virgins they are promised....
That was an ancient translation error. The correct phrase was "72 Virginians". Meaning the passengers that were on that airliner that crashed in Virginia on 9/11 (instead of hitting the Whitehouse). Their spirits would like "a word" with any "martyr" that shows up after murdering people. And they bring the fire of the airliner with them...
It doesn't matter if a culture that considers it better to burn a teacher alive than to let her instruct girls in reading and writing is wanting things to be like they were centuries ago, or if they simply want illiterate girls for the sake of keeping them illiterate. It doesn't matter. What matters is that they're acting to make it so.
In the near-term, you are probably correct.
In the long-term, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
In other words: It is said that "repeating the same actions and expecting a different outcome, is the definition of insanity." That applies in the long-term also. Repeating what was done long before, and expecting a different outcome, is also insanity. Therefore, -not- studying history will result in insane policies and actions! Try it and see... again. It will only take about twenty years. Or, read about it in history. 8-)
There is another consideration that no-one seems to have mentioned.
If a scientific point of view is used by powerful political or corporate people as just a tool to gain power and money, then it may be necessary to oppose them even if it is true!
This applies to both sides. Or should I say, all sides? The power and money are corrupting the discussion, to the point that even the scientists are becoming less reliable.
I might believe it if they had any real Engineers in the group.
Scientists make theories, Engineers do engineering. The tasks are -very- different.
Scientists doing small experiments is good. Scientists trying to do large Engineering is very dangerous. What they are talking about, is like doing flammability testing on your house while you are sleeping in it...
I agree. However, never expect privacy on any communications device, wired or not, unless you really trust the encryption. And most phones don't even have encryption. Sometimes face to face is necessary...
... yet still capable of imagining a continent-wide Winter storm that begins with freezing rain, leaving a shell of crystalline ice, drifts of fluffy snow and a hard freeze condition lasting a week or more....
You have a point. But the same thing has been said repeatedly about the transmission of electricity over wires. Which the central Generation stations depend on. As with the existing systems, we just handle it. I have watched the repair teams out in the storm fixing the downed lines. I imagine there will be teams for the wind and solar generators. 8-)
What, if anything, would you do for the poor and hungry if this came to pass?...
Note that many of these schemes for reducing carbon and "saving the world" include a requirement to significantly reduce the world population. They don't usually say how, but I suspect the poor and hungry would find out...
I'm sorry, but you're highly unlikely to be able to see that deeply under a cpu or gpu, given that when they're soldered on they're usually 5 or 6 rows of solder points deep. Trying to see that far under the chip from the edge of the board would be a nightmare, especially since you'd need to see all sides of each and every joint.
Ha! I never said it wasn't a nightmare... You are right, if the connection is hidden it's not going to work. And you could not get to those to fix just one, anyway.
But you might not need to see all sides. A crack that broke the connection would have to be all the way through. In other words, on all sides of the connection. But even in the best of times they are hard to see. You have to get the light just right. But if it saves a board it might be worth it (maybe).
... Creativity however, is one of the things our military hates the most. Everything has a set procedure, and deviating from that procedure in the slightest will bring the brunt of the higher ups directly upon you. You are also not allowed to suggest changes to that procedure, no matter how stupid it is....
To "give the devil his due", The problem you saw was because they get thousands of suggestions that are just as stupid, and do not take into account that thousands of people have to use them if they change. So to get a change done it is necessary to "go though channels", which means having it checked against hundreds of other things that it can break. You can't just "do your own thing" or people could die.
It is possible to get things changed, I have done it. First, your idea has to really be better and not just for you. Second you have to document it so others can check it out. Third it has to be enough better to justify all the time to check it out.
And remember, sometimes it really is better to do things the hard way. Programming will teach you that, too. 8-)
... all I really need to do is turn the thing upside down, remove the bottom cover, loosen the heat sink covering the GPU and then turn the poor thing on and let it run for up to half an hour. Since the GPU runs hot enough to loosen its own solder, it also runs hot enough to put it back....
High heat can easily destroy chips. Using the chip as a heat source means the chip is much hotter than the solder joints. I would use a heat gun.
too much more than reflow temps and the board scorches, especially at high ramp rates of an oven
ive done it a few times now
It might be that the temperature stress is moving the cracked solder joint just enough to scrape away the corrosion. A crack by it's self does not stop current, unless there is an air gap. But microscopic corrosion in the crack can. Just like with connectors, moving the contact can wipe it clean and restore operation. But it is temporary (just as reported here). 8-)
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I like to think(assuming non-superconductive environments)
intelligence = amps
grit = volts
The real question is, what's intelligence?
grit = volts ... ??
progress = amps
stupidity = resistance
notoriety = watts
intelligence = phase
(fixed that for you)
space shuttle was an amazing sound. I have no clue what the sound of a saturn V would sound like. but i bet I would like it
It was not sound. You could not hear it unless you were really far away or it was through a recording that muted it.
Rather, it was a force of nature. A wave that impacted your whole body at once, and then kept going. And when it was over you were tired from the vibration. If you were at all close, it would make you sore for days...
3 days ago I would have agreed. Then I went to get a new set of tyres for my car and to have its wheel geometry checked/aligned. They handed me a printout with the alignment data, which was clearly made on a dot matrix printer...
Dot matrix and impact printers are still used where they need to make multiple copies at once. Some businesses are required to.
With everything coming through a cable box... the sound of static on a dead channel.
Yeah. If you would listen to the "snow" long enough it would give you hallucinations!
(Otherwise known as "noise aliasing".)
..., I discovered that if I whistled certain frequencies mirroring the connect sound, the modem would think I was another modem and spend a longer time trying to connect. ...
I had a "Ham" friend who could whistle into the transmit mike and make the Model 15 teletype on the receiver print out letters. His spelling was really bad, though. 8-)
I still use a CRT on one of my computers. My main one, actually. NEC Multisynch 97F, maybe one of the best CRT monitors ever made.
I got it when flat panels first came out and it was on sale. I could not have afforded it before that. Shortly after, they started reporting that the new flat panels had "dead" pixels and I knew I had a good thing.
Running 1280 x 1024 at 85 hz, flat surface, no noticable flicker and no noticable whine (at least for me). It is a bit large and heavy, though. And not wide.
When I was growing up in Southern New England I could tell how cold it was by the pitch of the squeak my walking on fresh snow caused. The colder the temp, the higher the "squeeee".
I grew up in South Carolina, where it snows one year out of four and it's wet and sloppy when it does. And shuts down the whole city.
When I got out of school I got a job in Vermont. (Where's Vermont?)
That winter I went out one morning after the first snow, and when I stepped down it Sqeeked! I just froze and stood there, trying to figure out what it was. When I took another step it was obvious. But it was quite a shock! 8-)
I wasn't actually talking about the Netbook...
Many programs, but not all, are able to use as much ram as is available. It depends on what they are doing, they should not use it unless they need it..
Of course 32 bit programs are generally limited to about 4 GB. But just like some old 16 bit programs could use "long" pointers to "extend" their reach, some 32 bit programs can do the same with 64 bit pointers.
I am running 16 GB on my desktop. It is not to difficult to check in the Task Manager, and other utilities, to see what is used.
What is it that you're doing on a laptop which requires so much RAM? Certainly there are some workloads like that, but none that I can think of which would justify shoving 16 GB into a mass-market netbook.
Um ... X-Rebirth game by EgoSoft. 64-bit lots of threads, a whole universe running at once and, oh, video too.
It was actually a great success. The just didn't want to say that, because the politicians and salesmen would not understand. 8-)
Loosing the rocket at the end was like scratching the paint on your car door when you get out in the parking lot. Annoying, sure, but the parking was a success because you can still walk.
The sea is not stable. There is a tradeoff between riding over the waves (wide) and cutting into the waves (narrow). The most stable forms are two narrow hulls connected at a distance, so it can do both at once. But that fails in very large waves (it turns over and stays that way). A single hull can right it's self, unless it is topheavy. There is more to designing ship hulls that it would seem at first glance. It took us ten thousand years (or more) to figure this much out.
.. meet their 72 or whatever number of virgins they are promised. ...
That was an ancient translation error. ...
The correct phrase was "72 Virginians". Meaning the passengers that were on that airliner that crashed in Virginia on 9/11 (instead of hitting the Whitehouse). Their spirits would like "a word" with any "martyr" that shows up after murdering people. And they bring the fire of the airliner with them
In the near-term, you are probably correct.
In the long-term, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
In other words: ... again. It will only take about twenty years. Or, read about it in history. 8-)
It is said that "repeating the same actions and expecting a different outcome, is the definition of insanity."
That applies in the long-term also. Repeating what was done long before, and expecting a different outcome, is also insanity.
Therefore, -not- studying history will result in insane policies and actions!
Try it and see
There is another consideration that no-one seems to have mentioned.
If a scientific point of view is used by powerful political or corporate people as just a tool to gain power and money, then it may be necessary to oppose them even if it is true!
This applies to both sides. Or should I say, all sides?
The power and money are corrupting the discussion, to the point that even the scientists are becoming less reliable.
I might believe it if they had any real Engineers in the group.
Scientists make theories, Engineers do engineering. The tasks are -very- different.
Scientists doing small experiments is good. Scientists trying to do large Engineering is very dangerous. What they are talking about, is like doing flammability testing on your house while you are sleeping in it...
I agree.
However, never expect privacy on any communications device, wired or not, unless you really trust the encryption. And most phones don't even have encryption.
Sometimes face to face is necessary...
Indeed. The equivalent argument to mine when applied to firearms would be to ban stupid firearms users. See what I did there?
Actually, both things are "Self Limiting Phenomina". The stupid tend to die.
Unfortunatly, there is a bit too much collateral damage, in both cases...
The most common cause of death in children from ages one to thirteen is traffic accidents. Let's ban stupid drivers.
Actually, the equivilent argument would be to ban all cars and trucks. And there are already people that advocate that. 8-P
The CIA is lying, that is their job. 8-)
... yet still capable of imagining a continent-wide Winter storm that begins with freezing rain, leaving a shell of crystalline ice, drifts of fluffy snow and a hard freeze condition lasting a week or more. ...
You have a point.
But the same thing has been said repeatedly about the transmission of electricity over wires. Which the central Generation stations depend on.
As with the existing systems, we just handle it. I have watched the repair teams out in the storm fixing the downed lines. I imagine there will be teams for the wind and solar generators. 8-)
What, if anything, would you do for the poor and hungry if this came to pass? ...
Note that many of these schemes for reducing carbon and "saving the world" include a requirement to significantly reduce the world population. They don't usually say how, but I suspect the poor and hungry would find out...
I'm sorry, but you're highly unlikely to be able to see that deeply under a cpu or gpu, given that when they're soldered on they're usually 5 or 6 rows of solder points deep. Trying to see that far under the chip from the edge of the board would be a nightmare, especially since you'd need to see all sides of each and every joint.
Ha! I never said it wasn't a nightmare...
You are right, if the connection is hidden it's not going to work. And you could not get to those to fix just one, anyway.
But you might not need to see all sides. A crack that broke the connection would have to be all the way through. In other words, on all sides of the connection.
But even in the best of times they are hard to see. You have to get the light just right. But if it saves a board it might be worth it (maybe).
... Creativity however, is one of the things our military hates the most. Everything has a set procedure, and deviating from that procedure in the slightest will bring the brunt of the higher ups directly upon you. You are also not allowed to suggest changes to that procedure, no matter how stupid it is. ...
To "give the devil his due", The problem you saw was because they get thousands of suggestions that are just as stupid, and do not take into account that thousands of people have to use them if they change. So to get a change done it is necessary to "go though channels", which means having it checked against hundreds of other things that it can break. You can't just "do your own thing" or people could die.
It is possible to get things changed, I have done it. First, your idea has to really be better and not just for you. Second you have to document it so others can check it out. Third it has to be enough better to justify all the time to check it out.
And remember, sometimes it really is better to do things the hard way. Programming will teach you that, too. 8-)
... all I really need to do is turn the thing upside down, remove the bottom cover, loosen the heat sink covering the GPU and then turn the poor thing on and let it run for up to half an hour. Since the GPU runs hot enough to loosen its own solder, it also runs hot enough to put it back. ...
High heat can easily destroy chips. Using the chip as a heat source means the chip is much hotter than the solder joints. I would use a heat gun.
too much more than reflow temps and the board scorches, especially at high ramp rates of an oven
ive done it a few times now
It might be that the temperature stress is moving the cracked solder joint just enough to scrape away the corrosion. A crack by it's self does not stop current, unless there is an air gap. But microscopic corrosion in the crack can. Just like with connectors, moving the contact can wipe it clean and restore operation. But it is temporary (just as reported here). 8-)