c.)concrete curing is an exothermic reaction and it takes your typical slab at least a year to completely cure.
Take this into account when running a cooling loop through a big slab of concrete.
In larger applications embedded cooling pipes can be used to help this curing process. If I recall rightly this was used in the hoover dam to prevent it getting too hot internally.
This reeks of Compiz. If compiz is in use, the GPU may be stepping up to it's max 3D mode clock speed, especially if it is under load. CPU scaling may also be tipping over a threshold.
I'd put some money on this.
The dude also says he is playing a DVD, I would hazard a guess that the DVD software he is chewing more CPU or interfering with power states differently on linux.
From experience desktop effects will chew your battery even if your doing low CPU usage tasks like reading web sites. Your just moving app windows around but this is enough to push your hardware over scaling thresholds and use more power.
A smaller effect my difference in some power saving behaviour. Windows XP more agressively caches data to memory for reducing hard disk access, more likely resulting in HDD spin down more often depending on the timeout. Linux is always very frugal with making use of memory, even if you have a metric assload of ram.
Part of the lack of good apps is the lack of solid documentation and examples. I spent weeks learning the API, but anytime I wanted to do something more meaningful that display stuff on the screen, I would get bogged down trying to figure out how to do it.
I'm not a newbie, I started programming computers back in the eighties (Z80 and 6502 assembler) so I know my way around, but the documentation is horrible, sometimes you think you got it all figured out and it turns out is an earlier / later version of the API, which doesn't quite work that way anyway.
I've come to the conclusion that smart phones suck. Or at least there's a good fraction of people who are quietly thinking this heresy in the back of their minds.This is not exactly my point I'm going to make but bare with me.
I almost bought a iPhone 3Gs when the day before my girlfriend came home after a shopping spree, having bought a netbook, a cellphone (which happend to have a mp3 player and sdcard slot) and 3g, and a dedicated 8gb mp3/video player all for less than the cost of buying an iPhone 3GS outright. A smartphone is rather deficient and at all these things, except, oh, perhaps matching the laptop in battery life.
Breaking it down, when you roll too many features into such a tiny package you end up with a compromised device that is difficult to call 'good enough' at any particular task, and easy just to plain say it 'sucks'.
So you buy a iphone 2g/3g/3gs or a HTC G1/G2/Hero. Your new smartphone will be:
Not a very good media player. iPhone does this best, but has it's own drawbacks (iTunes).
Not a very good computing platform (currently generation are barely able to multitask).
Full web browsing is a diminished experience on such a small device. Mobile versions of sites don't smooth this over either. (No flash/or flash like on the HTC hero barely works).
Finally the worst feature of a iPhone/Droidphone: Entering anything of length on a on-screen qwerty keyboard is excruciating. It requires far more precision and concentration than a real qwerty or keypad+predicitive where you can get some speed up. Try doing it while walking, while on a bus or a train that is jiggling you, or while your drinking. Infact being able to actually use your phone at all while rolling drunk is a oddly good metric of usability.
Some or all this is apparent to some people, perhaps makes the case in many people minds that they don't *need* a smartphone to improve their lives since would replicate alot of what they can already do with their existing gadgets. Unless there is a huge run of much cheaper Android phones out there, I don't see any room left for Android to gain market share. Basicly, it's just glutted at the high end.
That said... there are a metric assload of android phones due to be released over the 18 months..... will choice win out?
Tighten your tinfoil hats, here goes: Along with the three strikes laws sneaking up on countries with vulnerable legislative frameworks, this is another dubious tactic. GFF is a legit company. However it's patently obvious the rights holders are going to start cleaning out TPB of content and shortly after TNTPB (The New TPB) will fall on it's face.
If GFF is just collateral damage, and if GFF moves to sue their asses, the rights holders will settle quietly for a few million in costs and it will still be fantastic value for money (in their minds - it's not actually going to work against piracy therefore is not value fo rmoney by any reasonable definition).
Lets face it, the whole things a set up to kill TPB. Who really thinks the rights holders would even allow it to keep the name and domain The Pirate Bay? Nothing in the past decade of action against rampant file sharing supports this as being a honest approach and a genuine change of heart.
I'm not a consipiracy theorist by nature, but this is one time that the conspiracy is plausible, likely, and in some ways obvious considering the circumstances. I just hope I'm wrong, because it's not only a step backwards it'll an embarassing failure that will tarnish digital content distribution.
Oh but that would be convenient too wouldn't it? Big Content then could use TNTPB as an example that the business model doesn't work.
Nevermind that TPB is only one of many torrent sites, some of which have bigger catalogs. You can even download TPB itself as a 20GB torrent and start it over.
The rights holders have missed the boat by a decade. If they had moved fast to snap up Napster into a genuine pay service and turn it into the Apple iTunes store ahead of it's time, then piracy as it has happend since then would not have happend.
Many/Some of us seriously believed Napster would only last more than a few months before anyone saw the incredible potential of the new business model and snapped it up and made it a pay service. It was clearly a demonstration that the internet was ready to go in supporting media distribution. In reality it was years before Big Content responded, and all they could do was some law suits. Its plausible that they could be turning over a new leaf, but it's reasonable to say it's very unlikely.
So TPB will slip quietly into oblivion, with leeches migrating to one of the other, oh gee i don't, hundred(s) of torrent search and tracking sites online?
One of the actresses in that, I believe Kristen Cloke is the name, looked pretty much exactly like an ex-girlfriend of mine. Twin sister/clone level of similarity... made watching it interesting and painful
I had opposite experience: My high school school crush looked like Caprica Six (Tricia Helfer).... *drools*
1) Offer 'LAN' licences allowing perhaps 4-8 seats. You only need one copy of the game, but several other PCs can have a altered client copy that shares the licence temporarily as long as the PCs are on the same lan.
2) The big guys need to open up their game engines along with easy toolkits and scripting engines to allow smaller indie developers to make games with big title tech, but with much less labour hours for a given level of product complexity and time to release.
3a) Open Source! Make easy flexible moddable open source game engines, then draw from the strength of the modding community to crowdsource content. (worked for operating systems, how are games different?)
3b) Stay proprietary, but make games very cheap, like the iPhone App Store. Have something like Steam, but bring the price right down. This must be done, because iPhone/Android games sell like crazy compared to out of a box variety. It's a the new business model.
In the 80s and in the 90s even some big titles were coded by not more bunch of guys in a garage. Games now take 2-3-400 programmers and artists, years to complete. So whats the problem? Quite simply, alot of duplicated effort, and existing programming tools have not scaled terribly well. Per developers labour hour, not much more end product complexity can be achieved. Thus you need 100x the number of programmers for a 'big title' today with about the same length of single player play as something from 1993.
I do recall reading that even earths most high powered transmitter beaming a message across interstellar space, would not be picked up by the equivalent of mankind most sensitive radio telescope across a distance of I don't recall what, a few light years? It is a obvious question never asked in this kind of journalism, would we be heard? It turns out we neither have the transmitting power nor the necessary reception were the equivalent strength message to be sent back. We're talking about signals crossing light years, even reasonably directional signals fade out at a distance measured in AU not LY because the signal falls below the galactic noise floor. Communicating with our most distant probes goes right to the limits of our best technology.
If they were looking in the right direction, at the right time, at the right frequency with technology beyond our own, yeah you could communicate across light years sure but still unlikely.
In a way, it's kind of fortunate there is almost no likelihood of the aliens receiving LOL HEY U CM 2 C US K? WUD B MLOLZ! K C U SOON XX! or whatever passes for communication between sentient apes these days.
Intels Atom is all the way down to 1w, but might be paired up with a 20W chipset with most of that consumption being memory controller. So if AMDs new chipset is 3w, and obviously the memory controller is on-die, I'm starting to wonder if it is the DDR(2/3) memory controller that is the problem getting an x86 platform down to lower power consumption?
I have a hunch Chrome OS is more about taking on Apples tablet, which introduce a more or less full fledged OSX install which, and mark my words here, will be locked down just like the iPhone and it's App store. Spiffy interface and a killer App store will mask the gilded cage your in and the total utter control Apple will have over your computing experience. Popsci has a excellent write up on how the Apple Tablet could ruin computing. http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-08/how-apple-tablet-could-ruin-computing
Could they go further, possibly introduce an App Store for their desktop OSX platform, oh but to use it you have to accept EULA that gives them a kill switch for your applications?
Apple is close to the unique position of being arbitrarily make something illegal on their newest computing platform. That is if, of course, they suceeed in making Jailbreaking outright illegal. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal Yes it's ok to be disturbed.
This no doubt worries Google. Google really does not like any barrier to getting their applications and projects to the market (have you noticed too?). Apple could shut them out of a platform on a whim. They don't like that risk. Oh wait, it has happend, with Google Voice.
As established by intellegent/.ters here Chrome will not be killing Windows, barely chewing away some market share around the fringes.
In the PC world Apple has a small market share, but they own 70% of the smartphone market. Google's response to this was Android and Android Market which has done wonders to free up the smartphone market, Microsoft certainly wasn't up to the task this time around.
Apple Tablet would no doubt sell like hotcakes and you can bet Apple netbooks will follow soon after. Chrome is an attempt to get their first, stop a repeat of the iPhone market domination.
I'm waiting to see if I'm wrong.
I've suspected Google really has something up their sleeve with Chrome OS. You get the impression they've only just started on this, but it's also obvious it has been in development in secret for a long time, the announcement timed only to take a little thunder of Microsoft. I would go so far as to say the two were developed in paralle, perhaps even had working code perhaps a year before Chrome went BETA.
Cats may indeed have leet scripting skill, so far they've been undetected in their pwnership of the internets. with the exception of the webcam shots they send each other with lolspeak captions. All your base will belong to kitty.
they can enter random commands and data, damage your files
Er not on windows. If you have a shell open you plausibly could end up with rm -rf [wildcard] or [anycommand] >/dev/sda (ouch!)
Coren believes centuries of selective breeding and living alongside humans has helped to hone the intelligence of dogs.
Yet it is also well established that both cats and dogs have smaller brains relative to body size than their wild counterparts. This being a result of selective breeding which may select for more juvenille traits. I'm quite sure a wild big cat or wolf raised carefully in captivity would do just as well as their domesticated cousins, and there is reason to believe they may do better.
If Apple doesn't want you to have a particular application on your iPhone, you can't have it without breaking the law. In effect Apple can arbitrarily make something illegal.
Could they be working up to this kind of control on their other products?
To reach 36 Petaflops....
In 1988, how about all the worlds computing power?
In 1997, you'd need 36,000 of the worlds fastest super computer at 1 terraflop. ($billions?)
In 2008, you'd have needed 36,000 ATI Radeon R770 GPUs ($7.2 million) [55nm silicon]
In 2019, you'd need 40 high-powered desktop workstations. ($80,000) [graphene or nanotube processors]
In 2029, you'd need to overclock your smartphone a little. ($100) [single molecule transistors? quantum computing?]
In 2039, you'd be having a conversation with the RFID tag on the back of your cereal box. ($0.10) [advance nanotech+biotech]
Sounds absurd doesn't it. Helped by my crude calculations. But at any point in the last 40 years, extrapolating moore's law 10 or 20 years ahead gives you silly numbers. Extrapolating today gives you silly numbers. No difference.
Is AMD cleverly trying to undermine Intel's Larrabee threat? If this code can run abstracted enough that it doesn't matter what CPU/GPU is under the hood, this knocks out the main point of selling point larrabee: x86 code.
(Ars makes a similar point:)
the fact that Larrabee runs x86 will be irrelevant; so Intel had better be able to scale up Larrabee's performance
If AMD is working on a abstraction layer that lets OpenCL run on x86, could the reverse be in the works, having x86 code ported to run on CPU+GPGPU as one combined processing resource? AMD may be trying to make it's GPUs more like what Intel is trying to achieve with larrabee - a bridge between CPU and GPU -- yet Intel is originally trying to undermine the GPU as a unique processing platform.
Back when I built PCs we used dabs of hot glue to identify when a component had been removed. It was just as simple to booby trap the chassis so we could tell it was opened. We had a warranty clause that damage due to corrosion from humidity was not covered, that needed nothing special to identifiy. In laptops we experimented with the kind of disposiable schock detectors used in shipping packages.
Our difference to Apple was we'd often repair things anyway that were damaged or just outside warranty. This company never charged for extended warranties either. It's also long out of business.
*mind boggles* This is game changing. 19C reduction is bigger than the difference between a stock intel crappy cooler and a $100 aftermarket tower cooler!
A lapped heatsink base, match-lapped to the heatspreader took me from 60C to 55C under load. I thought that was a epic reduction for 40 minutes work.
I wonder how this would work with carefully lapped heatspreader, even bigger reductions?
All games are educational. Why we find things 'fun' is fundamentaly linked to how the human mind learns and all the positive reinforcement it gives itself when it is accomplishing something and enhancing itself.
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16 Kelvin would be cool. 7ghz four-core OC anyone?
c.)concrete curing is an exothermic reaction and it takes your typical slab at least a year to completely cure.
Take this into account when running a cooling loop through a big slab of concrete.
In larger applications embedded cooling pipes can be used to help this curing process. If I recall rightly this was used in the hoover dam to prevent it getting too hot internally.
I knew it was good idea to get a Android phone...
... crap, it seems this happens in the Android market too...
*checks*
If they are really naughty they would have those interns give competing apps a low rating, this is not something they would admit.
This reeks of Compiz. If compiz is in use, the GPU may be stepping up to it's max 3D mode clock speed, especially if it is under load. CPU scaling may also be tipping over a threshold.
I'd put some money on this.
The dude also says he is playing a DVD, I would hazard a guess that the DVD software he is chewing more CPU or interfering with power states differently on linux.
From experience desktop effects will chew your battery even if your doing low CPU usage tasks like reading web sites. Your just moving app windows around but this is enough to push your hardware over scaling thresholds and use more power.
A smaller effect my difference in some power saving behaviour. Windows XP more agressively caches data to memory for reducing hard disk access, more likely resulting in HDD spin down more often depending on the timeout. Linux is always very frugal with making use of memory, even if you have a metric assload of ram.
Part of the lack of good apps is the lack of solid documentation and examples. I spent weeks learning the API, but anytime I wanted to do something more meaningful that display stuff on the screen, I would get bogged down trying to figure out how to do it.
I'm not a newbie, I started programming computers back in the eighties (Z80 and 6502 assembler) so I know my way around, but the documentation is horrible, sometimes you think you got it all figured out and it turns out is an earlier / later version of the API, which doesn't quite work that way anyway.
Well what did you expect, Android is open source.
I've come to the conclusion that smart phones suck. Or at least there's a good fraction of people who are quietly thinking this heresy in the back of their minds.This is not exactly my point I'm going to make but bare with me.
I almost bought a iPhone 3Gs when the day before my girlfriend came home after a shopping spree, having bought a netbook, a cellphone (which happend to have a mp3 player and sdcard slot) and 3g, and a dedicated 8gb mp3/video player all for less than the cost of buying an iPhone 3GS outright. A smartphone is rather deficient and at all these things, except, oh, perhaps matching the laptop in battery life.
Breaking it down, when you roll too many features into such a tiny package you end up with a compromised device that is difficult to call 'good enough' at any particular task, and easy just to plain say it 'sucks'.
So you buy a iphone 2g/3g/3gs or a HTC G1/G2/Hero. Your new smartphone will be:
Not a very good media player. iPhone does this best, but has it's own drawbacks (iTunes).
Not a very good computing platform (currently generation are barely able to multitask).
Full web browsing is a diminished experience on such a small device. Mobile versions of sites don't smooth this over either. (No flash/or flash like on the HTC hero barely works).
Finally the worst feature of a iPhone/Droidphone: Entering anything of length on a on-screen qwerty keyboard is excruciating. It requires far more precision and concentration than a real qwerty or keypad+predicitive where you can get some speed up. Try doing it while walking, while on a bus or a train that is jiggling you, or while your drinking. Infact being able to actually use your phone at all while rolling drunk is a oddly good metric of usability.
Some or all this is apparent to some people, perhaps makes the case in many people minds that they don't *need* a smartphone to improve their lives since would replicate alot of what they can already do with their existing gadgets. Unless there is a huge run of much cheaper Android phones out there, I don't see any room left for Android to gain market share. Basicly, it's just glutted at the high end.
That said... there are a metric assload of android phones due to be released over the 18 months..... will choice win out?
Unobtainium also requires the perfect solvent, which you can't keep in anything.
Correction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) is correct link. No edit feature :(
This is the Orion spacecraft they *SHOULD* be building:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion
It's not only cool because it was quite a developed idea, and feasible, but because it was delightfully absurd.
Tighten your tinfoil hats, here goes: Along with the three strikes laws sneaking up on countries with vulnerable legislative frameworks, this is another dubious tactic. GFF is a legit company. However it's patently obvious the rights holders are going to start cleaning out TPB of content and shortly after TNTPB (The New TPB) will fall on it's face.
If GFF is just collateral damage, and if GFF moves to sue their asses, the rights holders will settle quietly for a few million in costs and it will still be fantastic value for money (in their minds - it's not actually going to work against piracy therefore is not value fo rmoney by any reasonable definition).
Lets face it, the whole things a set up to kill TPB. Who really thinks the rights holders would even allow it to keep the name and domain The Pirate Bay? Nothing in the past decade of action against rampant file sharing supports this as being a honest approach and a genuine change of heart.
I'm not a consipiracy theorist by nature, but this is one time that the conspiracy is plausible, likely, and in some ways obvious considering the circumstances. I just hope I'm wrong, because it's not only a step backwards it'll an embarassing failure that will tarnish digital content distribution.
Oh but that would be convenient too wouldn't it? Big Content then could use TNTPB as an example that the business model doesn't work.
Nevermind that TPB is only one of many torrent sites, some of which have bigger catalogs. You can even download TPB itself as a 20GB torrent and start it over.
The rights holders have missed the boat by a decade. If they had moved fast to snap up Napster into a genuine pay service and turn it into the Apple iTunes store ahead of it's time, then piracy as it has happend since then would not have happend.
Many/Some of us seriously believed Napster would only last more than a few months before anyone saw the incredible potential of the new business model and snapped it up and made it a pay service. It was clearly a demonstration that the internet was ready to go in supporting media distribution. In reality it was years before Big Content responded, and all they could do was some law suits. Its plausible that they could be turning over a new leaf, but it's reasonable to say it's very unlikely.
So TPB will slip quietly into oblivion, with leeches migrating to one of the other, oh gee i don't, hundred(s) of torrent search and tracking sites online?
Someone please show me how I'm wrong.
One of the actresses in that, I believe Kristen Cloke is the name, looked pretty much exactly like an ex-girlfriend of mine. Twin sister/clone level of similarity... made watching it interesting and painful
I had opposite experience: My high school school crush looked like Caprica Six (Tricia Helfer) .... *drools*
1) Offer 'LAN' licences allowing perhaps 4-8 seats. You only need one copy of the game, but several other PCs can have a altered client copy that shares the licence temporarily as long as the PCs are on the same lan.
2) The big guys need to open up their game engines along with easy toolkits and scripting engines to allow smaller indie developers to make games with big title tech, but with much less labour hours for a given level of product complexity and time to release. 3a) Open Source! Make easy flexible moddable open source game engines, then draw from the strength of the modding community to crowdsource content. (worked for operating systems, how are games different?)
3b) Stay proprietary, but make games very cheap, like the iPhone App Store. Have something like Steam, but bring the price right down. This must be done, because iPhone/Android games sell like crazy compared to out of a box variety. It's a the new business model.
In the 80s and in the 90s even some big titles were coded by not more bunch of guys in a garage. Games now take 2-3-400 programmers and artists, years to complete. So whats the problem? Quite simply, alot of duplicated effort, and existing programming tools have not scaled terribly well. Per developers labour hour, not much more end product complexity can be achieved. Thus you need 100x the number of programmers for a 'big title' today with about the same length of single player play as something from 1993.
I do recall reading that even earths most high powered transmitter beaming a message across interstellar space, would not be picked up by the equivalent of mankind most sensitive radio telescope across a distance of I don't recall what, a few light years? It is a obvious question never asked in this kind of journalism, would we be heard? It turns out we neither have the transmitting power nor the necessary reception were the equivalent strength message to be sent back. We're talking about signals crossing light years, even reasonably directional signals fade out at a distance measured in AU not LY because the signal falls below the galactic noise floor. Communicating with our most distant probes goes right to the limits of our best technology.
If they were looking in the right direction, at the right time, at the right frequency with technology beyond our own, yeah you could communicate across light years sure but still unlikely.
In a way, it's kind of fortunate there is almost no likelihood of the aliens receiving LOL HEY U CM 2 C US K? WUD B MLOLZ! K C U SOON XX! or whatever passes for communication between sentient apes these days.
Intels Atom is all the way down to 1w, but might be paired up with a 20W chipset with most of that consumption being memory controller. So if AMDs new chipset is 3w, and obviously the memory controller is on-die, I'm starting to wonder if it is the DDR(2/3) memory controller that is the problem getting an x86 platform down to lower power consumption?
I have a hunch Chrome OS is more about taking on Apples tablet, which introduce a more or less full fledged OSX install which, and mark my words here, will be locked down just like the iPhone and it's App store. Spiffy interface and a killer App store will mask the gilded cage your in and the total utter control Apple will have over your computing experience. Popsci has a excellent write up on how the Apple Tablet could ruin computing. http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-08/how-apple-tablet-could-ruin-computing
/.ters here Chrome will not be killing Windows, barely chewing away some market share around the fringes.
Could they go further, possibly introduce an App Store for their desktop OSX platform, oh but to use it you have to accept EULA that gives them a kill switch for your applications?
Apple is close to the unique position of being arbitrarily make something illegal on their newest computing platform. That is if, of course, they suceeed in making Jailbreaking outright illegal. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal Yes it's ok to be disturbed.
This no doubt worries Google. Google really does not like any barrier to getting their applications and projects to the market (have you noticed too?). Apple could shut them out of a platform on a whim. They don't like that risk.
Oh wait, it has happend, with Google Voice.
As established by intellegent
In the PC world Apple has a small market share, but they own 70% of the smartphone market. Google's response to this was Android and Android Market which has done wonders to free up the smartphone market, Microsoft certainly wasn't up to the task this time around.
Apple Tablet would no doubt sell like hotcakes and you can bet Apple netbooks will follow soon after. Chrome is an attempt to get their first, stop a repeat of the iPhone market domination.
I'm waiting to see if I'm wrong.
I've suspected Google really has something up their sleeve with Chrome OS. You get the impression they've only just started on this, but it's also obvious it has been in development in secret for a long time, the announcement timed only to take a little thunder of Microsoft. I would go so far as to say the two were developed in paralle, perhaps even had working code perhaps a year before Chrome went BETA.
they can enter random commands and data, damage your files
Er not on windows. If you have a shell open you plausibly could end up with rm -rf [wildcard] or [anycommand] > /dev/sda (ouch!)
Coren believes centuries of selective breeding and living alongside humans has helped to hone the intelligence of dogs.
Yet it is also well established that both cats and dogs have smaller brains relative to body size than their wild counterparts. This being a result of selective breeding which may select for more juvenille traits. I'm quite sure a wild big cat or wolf raised carefully in captivity would do just as well as their domesticated cousins, and there is reason to believe they may do better.
If Apple doesn't want you to have a particular application on your iPhone, you can't have it without breaking the law. In effect Apple can arbitrarily make something illegal.
Could they be working up to this kind of control on their other products?
The main tenet of the scientific process is that to be proven, something must be shown not to be false.
Of interest.
To reach 36 Petaflops.... In 1988, how about all the worlds computing power?
In 1997, you'd need 36,000 of the worlds fastest super computer at 1 terraflop. ($billions?)
In 2008, you'd have needed 36,000 ATI Radeon R770 GPUs ($7.2 million) [55nm silicon]
In 2019, you'd need 40 high-powered desktop workstations. ($80,000) [graphene or nanotube processors]
In 2029, you'd need to overclock your smartphone a little. ($100) [single molecule transistors? quantum computing?]
In 2039, you'd be having a conversation with the RFID tag on the back of your cereal box. ($0.10) [advance nanotech+biotech]
Sounds absurd doesn't it. Helped by my crude calculations. But at any point in the last 40 years, extrapolating moore's law 10 or 20 years ahead gives you silly numbers. Extrapolating today gives you silly numbers. No difference.
(Ars makes a similar point:)
the fact that Larrabee runs x86 will be irrelevant; so Intel had better be able to scale up Larrabee's performance
If AMD is working on a abstraction layer that lets OpenCL run on x86, could the reverse be in the works, having x86 code ported to run on CPU+GPGPU as one combined processing resource? AMD may be trying to make it's GPUs more like what Intel is trying to achieve with larrabee - a bridge between CPU and GPU -- yet Intel is originally trying to undermine the GPU as a unique processing platform.
Back when I built PCs we used dabs of hot glue to identify when a component had been removed. It was just as simple to booby trap the chassis so we could tell it was opened. We had a warranty clause that damage due to corrosion from humidity was not covered, that needed nothing special to identifiy. In laptops we experimented with the kind of disposiable schock detectors used in shipping packages.
Our difference to Apple was we'd often repair things anyway that were damaged or just outside warranty. This company never charged for extended warranties either. It's also long out of business.
A experiment to detect intellegent life couldn't be tested before sending into space.
*mind boggles* This is game changing. 19C reduction is bigger than the difference between a stock intel crappy cooler and a $100 aftermarket tower cooler!
A lapped heatsink base, match-lapped to the heatspreader took me from 60C to 55C under load. I thought that was a epic reduction for 40 minutes work.
I wonder how this would work with carefully lapped heatspreader, even bigger reductions?
All games are educational. Why we find things 'fun' is fundamentaly linked to how the human mind learns and all the positive reinforcement it gives itself when it is accomplishing something and enhancing itself.