you always hear the age old phrase" the great wll of china is the only visible man made structure visible from space"....i can't seem to find it. anyone want to help?
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the case might as well be made of glass. anything you do to a glass-cased drive that would crack or otherwise injure the case would probably kill a signifigant portion of your drive
don't follow their instructions word for word....
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good lord! i might try this with an old bargin bin used 40 meg hard drive first. a quote from the page:
"Cover the platter part with plastic wrap and put it in a safe spot"
plastic wrap??? if i recall correctly, what keeps the plastic wrap stuck to the hard drive is STATIC ELECTRICITY. exactly the wrong thing to be dealing with when using an open hard drive.
as a (soon to be) college student, and a healthy sum of cash, i decided to go ahead and get a powerbook g4 550 w/combo drive.... when it's not at a lan party, it's at home running OS X @ about 4% cpu usage, blank screen screensaver, aim, and occasionally a download manager running in the background. the laptop runs cool enough at this level of usage, the hard drive comes on only when you move the mouse/trackpad enough to "wake" the screen, but goes back to sleep in about 5 min. it's been running flawlessly for about a month now (since i got it)....i have it sitting upon 2 cd jewl cases to aide air flow, but that's about it. runs great,
just to throw out a question here, not trying to knock you or anything, but i just bought a mac, and have yet to buy Q3 or the likes, but the macsoft version of Q2 is out, and while that's nifty and all, you can't play counterstrike on a mac. that might have to do with the heavily modified HL engine...
second question - so according to your post, i should be able to install any mod for PC Q3 on to my mac and play it?
his name would be anakin, a powerful jedi coder, and would fight in the fps clone wars, before going over to the dark side, and commanding the evil empire microsoft as it's CEO....
i loved that game....they made a sequel, for the SNES, i believe. truly a fun game, despite the simplicty of it. i've looked on and off for ports of it, or mods of it, but never found anything.
wow. that IS a pretty impressive feat, and a brag well worth the words typed, if you did manage that. can you provide any more details? i actually still have a copy of QBASIC sitting on a HD in a 386...
it's that it's the x86's poster boy for the "iMac" killer....or that's as near as I can tell. It's got most of the cool factor (not one, but TWO LCD displays) of the iMac, but falls short as it's not a mac.
the other thing is that this is an integrated soultion, somthing you don't see in today's do-it-yourselfer beige boxxing.
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maybe you're just not very bright. no offense, but only 2 people currently online have numbers in their screen name, one is there, as he has a BlazerZR27 (that's his sn).
having to use your imagination to come up with decent screen names acutally helps on some level, letting you know the mentality of the person on the other end you're talking to. "FoxyFlirt382" is probably not going to be as interesting to talk to as say, Bongonov, or mongolzone.
this technology's been around for some time
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i saw this technology being demo'd in it's infancy on PBS on a brain documentary of some sort about 5 years ago. the corner of the screen was outlined in the shape of an L, ranging from 50% up the screen, to 50% across. the lady was hooked up to i guess 15 electrodes, and had to "think" a certian way. depending on what she did, the "cursor" would accelerate rapidly twords the L, or far away from it. Eventually she got up to about a 35% accuracy rate, but that's early 90's technology for you.
i'm sure hotels already keep such a substance on hand in quantity already. it's an active ingredient in paint thinner. infact, if you stayed in a less-than-buisness class hotel, you'd more than likely find it, as smaller hotels often in-house most of their repairs (such as painting, for example).
what i'm hoping is that you can buy an external generator/fuel cell about the size of a brick/fire wire hard drive, and plug it into your laptop's extrenal power input; most laptops today use a standard power adapter. sure would beat buying spare proprietary (expensive!) batteries for your laptop. my powerbook g4 batteries are 129$ USD a piece.
they say (in short) that it uses silicon insulating to help prevent "silicon drift" even more, so less power is used. what was immediatly brought to my attention was that this new fabrication uses only 10 watts, 15 watts @ peak power consumption. I have a lava lamp w/a 40 watt light bulb....i'm curious, does a 15 watt processor (using 100% of it's computing power, all the time), produce as much heat as a 15 watt light bulb?
i just thought of a neat idea for translucent "concrete".... a big long line of white (superbright, maybe?) LED's, spaced about 18" apart, much like lane dividers of old. add in some refraction properties (the aggrigate substance), and you have an illuminated lane marker....oh wait, you could do that with clear epoxy resin. isn' t that just what "transparent concrete" is going to be? maybe apple should hire his marketing rep.
[brag]i don't know if i'll get modded into oblivion for this, but i've been on slashdot for i think 4 years now, and that's my first story i've submitted to make it on the main page (!!!).[/brag]
in other news, i have moderator points (still)....now i understand that someone with mod points is obviously doing a pretty decent job of posting/visiting/., and they're not likely to abuse the system, but shouldn't you not be able to mod in your own submitted story? i mean, you can't post in a story you already moderated....i would assume this falls along the same lines. any thoughts?
although right now it sounds more like Plexi glass or a liquid epoxy of some sort. kudos to the marketing rep who associated it with concrete.
on the other hand, at my old middle school, the school had outgrown it's original gym, and elected to build a second gym away from the main building, made entirely from concrete. I never understood how that thing stood; it was full-sized, housed a cafeteria in one end, and above that was the wrestling mat. to get to the point, it was abysmally dark in there. they had xeon HID lamps or the likes in there, and things were still pretty dim. emergency lights would no doubt have poorly lit it also. making the east and west walls semi-translucent would have significgantly improved lighting conditions.
i wonder if you could put an element in this "concrete" that would block IR light, otherwise I can't see this being implimented in the south or very far north, as it would cause massive heat-loss/absorbsion.
the DMV would never make such a monstrosity legal in the us...the only reason the smart car is legal (i assume) is b/c it's ideal for european city life. kit cars are exempt from alot of saftey concerns for the driver/passenger. looks a bit like a motorcycle conversion...maybe motorcycle rear end + home-made front contraption. There's plenty of crazy cars made by do-it yourselfers out there, not to mention kit cars. This guy made his own 3wheeled car out of WOOD. and it's street legal. It's a inline 2 engine, and only weighs ~900 lbs, so it gets anywhere from 55-75 mpg. the picture is pretty neat.
i think most modern portable macs (~'93 on) all use the SO DIMM standard. i know the 240 duo series did, and my powerbook g4 does. of course, the older powerbooks can;'t accomidate the 1 gig my PB can;)
speaking from a mac's POV, i'm running mandrake 8.1 under emulation on Virtual PC 5...install under emulation takes a while, so i split it up into 3 days. You can save the entire PC's state, copy it, and run it on another computer and boot back up under that same instance. Possibly you could run a "virtual linux server" that people have been talking about in recent mainframe posts....not 100 or the likes, just one, which i would guess wouldn't be too difficult. once that works, you might be able to save the "virtual server"'s state. shrug
which brings another thought: could you distribute an ISO of linux that was in a saved state, you just put in the CD, turn on the computer, and go. you could limit it to accessing 128 megs of ram, using a NE2000 compat. network card w/dhcp, and a standard vesa2.0 video driver. just boot up and go, no install or partitioning. write to ram as a ramdisk, but you'd lose everything when you shutdown; not bad as a dumb terminal.
it would fall somewhat along the same principles of making a PC a game console, just stick in the disk, turn it on, and go-all the basic hardware works. sound might be an issue, I don't know of any sound standards other than soundblaster 16 support.
only the 667 models. the 550's have it as an add-on, unless you want to buy a 3rd party card that goes in the pc card slot, but then you lose the use of the antenna built in to the laptop (though i'm not sure which would provide a better antenna)
i just recently dumped the whole x86 archetechture and went with a powerbook g4 for college next year (parents pay half as a graduation present). the powerbook supports my 17" NEC multisync monitor flawlessly. what's better is that it treats it as a dual monitor display, rather than replicating the primary display, and at resolutions up to 1600x1200 on the secondary monitor (1152x768 for the main lcd)....very nice indeed. my adivce is to skip the ibook and get a powerbook, it's a fully fledged desktop when you hook up a second monitor, and has pretty much everything your desktop has built in, cd-rw/dvd, 10/100/1000 base t eithernet, usb and firewire, plus Svideo out. the only thing you might consider is a usb video capture and usb mouse. you might say it lacks expandability, but you need to look and see that this laptop has everything required for day to day operation for the next 2 years already built in. the only thing you might ask for is counterstrike and a dvd-r.
i agree. nice pieces of equipment. i keep picking them up at garage sales and stuff. a little slow (4ppm), but i once dropped the one i'm using now onto concrete from about 4 feet up... landed on a corner. still works flawlessly. it's a used one we picked up at boeing surplus in about '92 or so. amazing machines. my mom has a newer model, '99 or 2000, and i'm always afraid i'm gonna break it. sure wish i could get a eithernet adapter for the laserjet ii....otherwise i might have to take the later of the two to college next year.
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you always hear the age old phrase" the great wll of china is the only visible man made structure visible from space"....i can't seem to find it. anyone want to help?
the case might as well be made of glass. anything you do to a glass-cased drive that would crack or otherwise injure the case would probably kill a signifigant portion of your drive
good lord! i might try this with an old bargin bin used 40 meg hard drive first. a quote from the page:
"Cover the platter part with plastic wrap and put it in a safe spot"
plastic wrap??? if i recall correctly, what keeps the plastic wrap stuck to the hard drive is STATIC ELECTRICITY. exactly the wrong thing to be dealing with when using an open hard drive.
as a (soon to be) college student, and a healthy sum of cash, i decided to go ahead and get a powerbook g4 550 w/combo drive.... when it's not at a lan party, it's at home running OS X @ about 4% cpu usage, blank screen screensaver, aim, and occasionally a download manager running in the background. the laptop runs cool enough at this level of usage, the hard drive comes on only when you move the mouse/trackpad enough to "wake" the screen, but goes back to sleep in about 5 min. it's been running flawlessly for about a month now (since i got it)....i have it sitting upon 2 cd jewl cases to aide air flow, but that's about it. runs great,
just to throw out a question here, not trying to knock you or anything, but i just bought a mac, and have yet to buy Q3 or the likes, but the macsoft version of Q2 is out, and while that's nifty and all, you can't play counterstrike on a mac. that might have to do with the heavily modified HL engine...
second question - so according to your post, i should be able to install any mod for PC Q3 on to my mac and play it?
his name would be anakin, a powerful jedi coder, and would fight in the fps clone wars, before going over to the dark side, and commanding the evil empire microsoft as it's CEO....
i loved that game....they made a sequel, for the SNES, i believe. truly a fun game, despite the simplicty of it. i've looked on and off for ports of it, or mods of it, but never found anything.
wow. that IS a pretty impressive feat, and a brag well worth the words typed, if you did manage that. can you provide any more details? i actually still have a copy of QBASIC sitting on a HD in a 386...
gatwick -> DFW (london to dallas): 8 hours.
dallas -> madrid (spain): 15 hours.
the reason london -> dfw is shorter is due to the rotation of the earth. depends on how you go. gatwick to NYC would take ~ 6-7 hrs.
it's that it's the x86's poster boy for the "iMac" killer....or that's as near as I can tell. It's got most of the cool factor (not one, but TWO LCD displays) of the iMac, but falls short as it's not a mac.
the other thing is that this is an integrated soultion, somthing you don't see in today's do-it-yourselfer beige boxxing.
maybe you're just not very bright. no offense, but only 2 people currently online have numbers in their screen name, one is there, as he has a BlazerZR27 (that's his sn).
having to use your imagination to come up with decent screen names acutally helps on some level, letting you know the mentality of the person on the other end you're talking to. "FoxyFlirt382" is probably not going to be as interesting to talk to as say, Bongonov, or mongolzone.
i saw this technology being demo'd in it's infancy on PBS on a brain documentary of some sort about 5 years ago. the corner of the screen was outlined in the shape of an L, ranging from 50% up the screen, to 50% across. the lady was hooked up to i guess 15 electrodes, and had to "think" a certian way. depending on what she did, the "cursor" would accelerate rapidly twords the L, or far away from it. Eventually she got up to about a 35% accuracy rate, but that's early 90's technology for you.
i'm sure hotels already keep such a substance on hand in quantity already. it's an active ingredient in paint thinner. infact, if you stayed in a less-than-buisness class hotel, you'd more than likely find it, as smaller hotels often in-house most of their repairs (such as painting, for example).
what i'm hoping is that you can buy an external generator/fuel cell about the size of a brick/fire wire hard drive, and plug it into your laptop's extrenal power input; most laptops today use a standard power adapter. sure would beat buying spare proprietary (expensive!) batteries for your laptop. my powerbook g4 batteries are 129$ USD a piece.
the new fab'd processors use server-chip technology, as described in this cnet article:
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-824621.html
they say (in short) that it uses silicon insulating to help prevent "silicon drift" even more, so less power is used. what was immediatly brought to my attention was that this new fabrication uses only 10 watts, 15 watts @ peak power consumption. I have a lava lamp w/a 40 watt light bulb....i'm curious, does a 15 watt processor (using 100% of it's computing power, all the time), produce as much heat as a 15 watt light bulb?
i just thought of a neat idea for translucent "concrete".... a big long line of white (superbright, maybe?) LED's, spaced about 18" apart, much like lane dividers of old. add in some refraction properties (the aggrigate substance), and you have an illuminated lane marker....oh wait, you could do that with clear epoxy resin. isn' t that just what "transparent concrete" is going to be? maybe apple should hire his marketing rep.
interesting fact: raytheon's ICBM (inter'natl balistic missiles) or some such, use G3 PPC's for their onboard systems.
[brag]i don't know if i'll get modded into oblivion for this, but i've been on slashdot for i think 4 years now, and that's my first story i've submitted to make it on the main page (!!!).[/brag]
/., and they're not likely to abuse the system, but shouldn't you not be able to mod in your own submitted story? i mean, you can't post in a story you already moderated....i would assume this falls along the same lines. any thoughts?
in other news, i have moderator points (still)....now i understand that someone with mod points is obviously doing a pretty decent job of posting/visiting
although right now it sounds more like Plexi glass or a liquid epoxy of some sort. kudos to the marketing rep who associated it with concrete.
on the other hand, at my old middle school, the school had outgrown it's original gym, and elected to build a second gym away from the main building, made entirely from concrete. I never understood how that thing stood; it was full-sized, housed a cafeteria in one end, and above that was the wrestling mat. to get to the point, it was abysmally dark in there. they had xeon HID lamps or the likes in there, and things were still pretty dim. emergency lights would no doubt have poorly lit it also. making the east and west walls semi-translucent would have significgantly improved lighting conditions.
i wonder if you could put an element in this "concrete" that would block IR light, otherwise I can't see this being implimented in the south or very far north, as it would cause massive heat-loss/absorbsion.
the DMV would never make such a monstrosity legal in the us...the only reason the smart car is legal (i assume) is b/c it's ideal for european city life. kit cars are exempt from alot of saftey concerns for the driver/passenger. looks a bit like a motorcycle conversion...maybe motorcycle rear end + home-made front contraption. There's plenty of crazy cars made by do-it yourselfers out there, not to mention kit cars. This guy made his own 3wheeled car out of WOOD. and it's street legal. It's a inline 2 engine, and only weighs ~900 lbs, so it gets anywhere from 55-75 mpg. the picture is pretty neat.
yeah, BUT, a thinner disk has less mass, which means less inertia.
i think most modern portable macs (~'93 on) all use the SO DIMM standard. i know the 240 duo series did, and my powerbook g4 does. of course, the older powerbooks can;'t accomidate the 1 gig my PB can ;)
speaking from a mac's POV, i'm running mandrake 8.1 under emulation on Virtual PC 5...install under emulation takes a while, so i split it up into 3 days. You can save the entire PC's state, copy it, and run it on another computer and boot back up under that same instance. Possibly you could run a "virtual linux server" that people have been talking about in recent mainframe posts....not 100 or the likes, just one, which i would guess wouldn't be too difficult. once that works, you might be able to save the "virtual server"'s state. shrug
which brings another thought: could you distribute an ISO of linux that was in a saved state, you just put in the CD, turn on the computer, and go. you could limit it to accessing 128 megs of ram, using a NE2000 compat. network card w/dhcp, and a standard vesa2.0 video driver. just boot up and go, no install or partitioning. write to ram as a ramdisk, but you'd lose everything when you shutdown; not bad as a dumb terminal.
it would fall somewhat along the same principles of making a PC a game console, just stick in the disk, turn it on, and go-all the basic hardware works. sound might be an issue, I don't know of any sound standards other than soundblaster 16 support.
only the 667 models. the 550's have it as an add-on, unless you want to buy a 3rd party card that goes in the pc card slot, but then you lose the use of the antenna built in to the laptop (though i'm not sure which would provide a better antenna)
i just recently dumped the whole x86 archetechture and went with a powerbook g4 for college next year (parents pay half as a graduation present). the powerbook supports my 17" NEC multisync monitor flawlessly. what's better is that it treats it as a dual monitor display, rather than replicating the primary display, and at resolutions up to 1600x1200 on the secondary monitor (1152x768 for the main lcd)....very nice indeed. my adivce is to skip the ibook and get a powerbook, it's a fully fledged desktop when you hook up a second monitor, and has pretty much everything your desktop has built in, cd-rw/dvd, 10/100/1000 base t eithernet, usb and firewire, plus Svideo out. the only thing you might consider is a usb video capture and usb mouse. you might say it lacks expandability, but you need to look and see that this laptop has everything required for day to day operation for the next 2 years already built in. the only thing you might ask for is counterstrike and a dvd-r.
i agree. nice pieces of equipment. i keep picking them up at garage sales and stuff. a little slow (4ppm), but i once dropped the one i'm using now onto concrete from about 4 feet up... landed on a corner. still works flawlessly. it's a used one we picked up at boeing surplus in about '92 or so. amazing machines. my mom has a newer model, '99 or 2000, and i'm always afraid i'm gonna break it. sure wish i could get a eithernet adapter for the laserjet ii....otherwise i might have to take the later of the two to college next year.