A one-ton tungsten sphere dropped from suborbital altitude will hit the ground with more energy than any chemical explosive, without the other nasty side effects of nukes.
Needless to say, the USAF already has vague plans to spend a few jillion dollars on this.
Well, I understand Germany is having troubles keeping its budget deficits within the Euro limits - if they fine SCO 10K Euros everytime Darl M. says something that'll clear right up!
Ah, joy another step towards the closed, pay-per-transaction, non-peer-to-peer Internet. IF you think this is fine, just imagine:
'Running an email network is expensive,' said Lisa Gurry, group product manager for MSN at Microsoft. 'We can't sustain multiple other people's businesses, particularly if they charge for certain versions of their software. We're introducing licensing processes for third parties like Eudora.'"
Heck, the whole point is that they're cheap and tiny. Just buy a few thousand, attach them to your keychain, and watch the readers go nuts trying to sort out the mess.
Or, for amusing guerrilla action, sprinkle them around.
A Sterling engine wouldn't help much unless you have very high efficiencies, and to do that you need a big temperature differential, which means
a) very hot CPU and b) big heatsink on outside
which is what you're trying to get away from. Also, I suspect the Sterling engine will act as thermal insulation, but don't remember quite enough thermodynamics to be sure. (My rule of thumb, when I can't remember my thermo, is to assume that nature hates engineers.)
I'm told that the semi-commercial WineX varient from Transgaming works. The standard Wine works for me single-player only, but I had to revert to an old version of wine - I even identified the change that broke it, but it's a nasty timing bug that only affects some machines and goes away with debugging on (!) and the developers never found it. Check the bugs database at winehq.com and see if it's any help.
The coffee growers' problem isn't eeevil capitalists exploiting them; it's that US and European farmers are so heavily subsidized that world markets are flooded with anything they can grow at artificially low prices.
If you're a 3rd world farmer, one good way to avoid getting crushed by these subsidies is to grow coffee, which won't grow in northern climates. Unfortunately, there isn't that big a coffee market, and once enough folks cut over to coffee the price collapsed. It's still more money than they'd make selling corn, though...
But you don't know he isn't doing something else while he's waiting; it doesn't much slow the spamming, it just means they need to launch a jillion threads to get the same throughput.
A few years back, there was a semi-satirical comic named "Quantum and Woody". It had a lot of really funny lines, including one where (IIRC) a blind man interrupted the a superhero on the street with the advice:
"Son, you gotta stop smoking that there crack cocaine. It's making you ignorant!"
Um, yeah, but if it's really that old, AT&T *already* lost this lawsuit to the BSD guys, so it might be cleared by that process. This isn't a no-brainer, even if you think that code is non-trivial, which it really isn't.
This was one of IBM's points in their countersuit; by failing to provide clear notification of the infringement, SCO has made it impossible to correct, and thus shares the blame for its ongoing use. This is a well-established principle in copyright law.
...and I'd like to take this opportunity to point at that, with my excellent slashdot karma, I'll be invaluble in rounding up geeks to work in their code mines.
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A one-ton tungsten sphere dropped from suborbital altitude will hit the ground with more energy than any chemical explosive, without the other nasty side effects of nukes.
Needless to say, the USAF already has vague plans to spend a few jillion dollars on this.
Well, I understand Germany is having troubles keeping its budget deficits within the Euro limits - if they fine SCO 10K Euros everytime Darl M. says something that'll clear right up!
Hm. If they could launch it again in a suitable time window, would this be eligable for the X-Prize?
Ah, joy another step towards the closed, pay-per-transaction, non-peer-to-peer Internet. IF you think this is fine, just imagine:
'Running an email network is expensive,' said Lisa Gurry, group product manager for MSN at Microsoft. 'We can't sustain multiple other people's businesses, particularly if they charge for certain versions of their software. We're introducing licensing processes for third parties like Eudora.'"
Heck, the whole point is that they're cheap and tiny. Just buy a few thousand, attach them to your keychain, and watch the readers go nuts trying to sort out the mess.
Or, for amusing guerrilla action, sprinkle them around.
Interesting. Could this be used to diamond-plate objects?
Well, sure, the actual formula is:
( Tin - Tout) / ( Tin - Tzero)
but everybody uses kelvin where Tzero=0 instead of -273 or whatever the heck absolute zero is in centigrade.
Oh, it's easy to get cooler chips, and we have the technology; all you have to do is underclock them.
If you run that 3 Ghz Celeron at 500Mhz, you'll cut the power and heat by over 90%.
Ok, just looked up and did the math. The theoretical maximum efficieny of an engine is
(Hot Temp - Cold Temp)/(Hot Temp)
with all temperatures in Kelvin.
So if you're at room temperature and your chip isn't melting, the maximum efficiency will be about 20%, unlikely to be enough to bother about.
A Sterling engine wouldn't help much unless you have very high efficiencies, and to do that you need a big temperature differential, which means
a) very hot CPU
and
b) big heatsink on outside
which is what you're trying to get away from. Also, I suspect the Sterling engine will act as thermal insulation, but don't remember quite enough thermodynamics to be sure. (My rule of thumb, when I can't remember my thermo, is to assume that nature hates engineers.)
Big Bird? Please, he's a lightweight. Give me Kermit the Frog for president any day.
Starcraft/Broodwar does indeed work under Wine.
I'm told that the semi-commercial WineX varient from Transgaming works. The standard Wine works for me single-player only, but I had to revert to an old version of wine - I even identified the change that broke it, but it's a nasty timing bug that only affects some machines and goes away with debugging on (!) and the developers never found it. Check the bugs database at winehq.com and see if it's any help.
The coffee growers' problem isn't eeevil capitalists exploiting them; it's that US and European farmers are so heavily subsidized that world markets are flooded with anything they can grow at artificially low prices.
If you're a 3rd world farmer, one good way to avoid getting crushed by these subsidies is to grow coffee, which won't grow in northern climates. Unfortunately, there isn't that big a coffee market, and once enough folks cut over to coffee the price collapsed. It's still more money than they'd make selling corn, though...
Just drop the lawsuits and try to relax, Darl.
But there's no conspiracy against SCO; it only looks that way because everyone hates them.
But you don't know he isn't doing something else while he's waiting; it doesn't much slow the spamming, it just means they need to launch a jillion threads to get the same throughput.
A busy processor, though, is a busy processor.
A few years back, there was a semi-satirical comic named "Quantum and Woody". It had a lot of really funny lines, including one where (IIRC) a blind man interrupted the a superhero on the street with the advice:
"Son, you gotta stop smoking that there crack cocaine. It's making you ignorant!"
They're silly but probably valid under our current system; e.g., one of them is a patent on tree-structure GUI widgets for system configuation.
And they have a million more. I'm infringing about twenty-three IBM patents just by posting this.
Oh, no! It's an insidious plot to kill Linux by implanting BSD code, because as well all know, BSD is dying, and has been for over a decade now.
Ok, but isn't one of the points of a metal case to block EM interference given off by all those high frequency electronics?
And if he wants to start a business, or be upper management, a (good, not diploma mill) MBA will be a big win.
Um, but the work is involved in litigation.
Um, yeah, but if it's really that old, AT&T *already* lost this lawsuit to the BSD guys, so it might be cleared by that process. This isn't a no-brainer, even if you think that code is non-trivial, which it really isn't.
This was one of IBM's points in their countersuit; by failing to provide clear notification of the infringement, SCO has made it impossible to correct, and thus shares the blame for its ongoing use. This is a well-established principle in copyright law.
...and I'd like to take this opportunity to point at that, with my excellent slashdot karma, I'll be invaluble in rounding up geeks to work in their code mines.