At the end of T2 they didn't destroy all of the terminator bits. Arnie got half his arm ripped off in some gears when he was fighting the new terminator. That was never destroyed with the terminators when they went into the liquid metal, thereby leaving enough material around for the skynet to be built from (and a hook for T3).
If you can locate a reliable 3rd party supplier that deals with quality components and offers assembly and a good warranty then its worth it. That was the hardest part for us. We went through a cheap shop initially, but found that the savings on the components was offset by the amount of time we had to spend pulling faulty bits out of machines and chasing up the replacement items.
Buy good components and generic product lines, that way the variance in the hardware over time is minimised. eg we always buy TNT2 video cards and intel eepro NICS. We've got a few different specs, depending on the intended purpose of the machine, and its pretty easy when comes to ordering more - "give us 5 more machines as per quote XXX". Of course we upgrade the CPU and RAM as $$ allow. One of the problems the main brands caused us was varying the revision of the embedded motherboard components between orders. Even though the model of the machine was the same, the drivers required altered, and finding them can be a nightmare sometimes. If you go for discrete components you always know what you're getting.
We've even had one of the main suppliers assure us that their embedded NIC was compatible with linux - it was, but only drivers for the 2.0.13 kernel were availible - fat lot of good that was 8)
As for faults, I prefer to diagnose the problem myself, and our supplier sends forward replacements - the machine is down for a minimum of time and the faulty item is returned to the supplier in their packaging.
A proper static free workstation is also important, even if you are not assembling the machines yourself. When it comes to pulling faulty bits out and replacing them you know you are not going to make things worse. In fact, a reputable supplier would probably insist you had such a facility in order to be replacing warranty components.
The intensity of a magnetic field is proportional to the permeability (or permissivity - I never rememeber which is which) of the medium it exists in. This value is a property of the medium and probably got something to do with its electrical properties.
A plasma is basically a ionized gas with heaps of free electrons, and electrons that travel in loops generate magnetic fields. So I suspect its this kind of thing that intensifies the magnetic field. Its kinda like an iron cores in transformers, these constrain the fields and increase its strength (any remember sticking iron cores into solenoids in 1st year physics labs?)
Yeah - thats the thing, these devices would send you on a one way trip. Thats not such a big deal for a probe, but I dunno how happy astronauts would be about that.
Although I guess that the Lorentz force (is that the one? charged particles in a magentic field) could provide some radial acceleration, but would the magnitude of this be sufficient to aid in a return trip?
Interesting idea anyway, but I still reckon all we need is a couple of stargates 8)
M$ cant force us to use IE, its not availible on linux, is it? The real problem is not with the standards issue, its the platform issue - they won't port their browser to competing OS'es. So by adding non-standard functionality to their browser, and not releasing the specs to it, it looks like they are trying to further extend the windoze monopoly.
Yep, berts right. Its not till someone else makes noises about going there that something will get done. But dont worry - the Chinese will probably be able to compete in the Space race in ten years or so and then it'll all be back on.....
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At the end of T2 they didn't destroy all of the terminator bits. Arnie got half his arm ripped off in some gears when he was fighting the new terminator. That was never destroyed with the terminators when they went into the liquid metal, thereby leaving enough material around for the skynet to be built from (and a hook for T3).
If you can locate a reliable 3rd party supplier that deals with quality components and offers assembly and a good warranty then its worth it. That was the hardest part for us. We went through a cheap shop initially, but found that the savings on the components was offset by the amount of time we had to spend pulling faulty bits out of machines and chasing up the replacement items.
Buy good components and generic product lines, that way the variance in the hardware over time is minimised. eg we always buy TNT2 video cards and intel eepro NICS. We've got a few different specs, depending on the intended purpose of the machine, and its pretty easy when comes to ordering more - "give us 5 more machines as per quote XXX". Of course we upgrade the CPU and RAM as $$ allow. One of the problems the main brands caused us was varying the revision of the embedded motherboard components between orders. Even though the model of the machine was the same, the drivers required altered, and finding them can be a nightmare sometimes. If you go for discrete components you always know what you're getting.
We've even had one of the main suppliers assure us that their embedded NIC was compatible with linux - it was, but only drivers for the 2.0.13 kernel were availible - fat lot of good that was 8)
As for faults, I prefer to diagnose the problem myself, and our supplier sends forward replacements - the machine is down for a minimum of time and the faulty item is returned to the supplier in their packaging.
A proper static free workstation is also important, even if you are not assembling the machines yourself. When it comes to pulling faulty bits out and replacing them you know you are not going to make things worse. In fact, a reputable supplier would probably insist you had such a facility in order to be replacing warranty components.
...ditched off the east coast of Australia - $#&%!! thats NZ! Bugger - run for the hills, no wait, run for the caves........
I just hope them Russians maps are up to date......
The intensity of a magnetic field is proportional to the permeability (or permissivity - I never rememeber which is which) of the medium it exists in. This value is a property of the medium and probably got something to do with its electrical properties.
A plasma is basically a ionized gas with heaps of free electrons, and electrons that travel in loops generate magnetic fields. So I suspect its this kind of thing that intensifies the magnetic field. Its kinda like an iron cores in transformers, these constrain the fields and increase its strength (any remember sticking iron cores into solenoids in 1st year physics labs?)
Yeah - thats the thing, these devices would send you on a one way trip. Thats not such a big deal for a probe, but I dunno how happy astronauts would be about that.
Although I guess that the Lorentz force (is that the one? charged particles in a magentic field) could provide some radial acceleration, but would the magnitude of this be sufficient to aid in a return trip? Interesting idea anyway, but I still reckon all we need is a couple of stargates 8)
All I can see a ridiculus patent like this doing is driving US businesses offshore, and that kind of thing is real bad for the American economy.
Hell, here in NZ we're trying to keep business in the country, not trying to push them out with dumb patents (dumb economic policies maybe)!!
When will the US patent office grow a brain?
Maybe we should just all CC copies of our emails to them, could be a useful form of protest - imagine what _that_ would do to their mailers.
M$ cant force us to use IE, its not availible on linux, is it? The real problem is not with the standards issue, its the platform issue - they won't port their browser to competing OS'es. So by adding non-standard functionality to their browser, and not releasing the specs to it, it looks like they are trying to further extend the windoze monopoly.
Yep, berts right. Its not till someone else makes noises about going there that something will get done. But dont worry - the Chinese will probably be able to compete in the Space race in ten years or so and then it'll all be back on.....