Amen. iTunes would be great for shows like Firefly: a "hard sell" through the regular channels, but with an incredibly devoted following and very good word-of-mouth potential (I've made a number of converts after having bought the show DVDs).
Well, strictly speaking the point of a corporation is that it's *not* owned by anyone. And even so, the interest of a corporation is profit. This is all healthy for competition and overall welfare through capitalism and such (which I do believe strongly in), but corporations have no disincentive to rigging the system to allow them to make profits outside of normal competition in the market. This means controlling the government, bending the law to their ends etc. And often it runs absolutely counter to the public interest.
If an individual attempts to subvert this tendency within a corporation, they won't last long when someone less scruplulous could take their place.
The reason she'll be able to get up to mach 1.5 is that breaking the sound barrier at or around sea level causes a much more intense shockwave than it does at extreme altitude where the density of air is much lower. In fact if they're being correct about their calculation, mach 1.5 up there is a lower real airspeed than it is be down here.
So no, won't hear a deafening boom as she pierces the atmosphere, cool as that would be.
matt
I think the problem is that many software products still ship with fairly hefty manuals which require the larger packaging, while companies that have moved to electronic packaging are loathe to have their product look less substantial than others on the shelf.
I personally would like to see all software products with electronic documentation with optional dead-tree format sold separately. (that alone should pull $50 off the price of photoshop)
All we need here is a nuclear generator built atop an island constructed of landfill. In fact we better build two just in case a tornado destroys one of them... Then build a bunch of parks. matt
It appears that the "water cooling" they're talking about is just a heat pipe -- something that has definitely been used in laptops before when fans are unusable.
The idea behind them is that a small conductive pipe contains a concentric "wick" as well as water vapor. Heat is conducted from the processor to the end of the pipe which then heats the internal vapor and causes it to circulate down the pipe around the wick. The heat is usually sucked out of the pipe at the other end by something big and metal (at least some laptops use metal plates behind the screen.. it sounds like Toshiba just spread the heat out to more places to dissipate it in a small form-factor machine). The water then circulates back to the heat source by capillary action in the wick and starts the cycle over.
They're pretty neat. I burned my fingers with one when I stupidly stuck it in a cup of coffee once:)
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Amen. iTunes would be great for shows like Firefly: a "hard sell" through the regular channels, but with an incredibly devoted following and very good word-of-mouth potential (I've made a number of converts after having bought the show DVDs).
... but as an anosmic, I'm wondering if they can use spinal cells to cure nose injuries.
Well, strictly speaking the point of a corporation is that it's *not* owned by anyone. And even so, the interest of a corporation is profit. This is all healthy for competition and overall welfare through capitalism and such (which I do believe strongly in), but corporations have no disincentive to rigging the system to allow them to make profits outside of normal competition in the market. This means controlling the government, bending the law to their ends etc. And often it runs absolutely counter to the public interest.
If an individual attempts to subvert this tendency within a corporation, they won't last long when someone less scruplulous could take their place.
The reason she'll be able to get up to mach 1.5 is that breaking the sound barrier at or around sea level causes a much more intense shockwave than it does at extreme altitude where the density of air is much lower. In fact if they're being correct about their calculation, mach 1.5 up there is a lower real airspeed than it is be down here. So no, won't hear a deafening boom as she pierces the atmosphere, cool as that would be. matt
I think the problem is that many software products still ship with fairly hefty manuals which require the larger packaging, while companies that have moved to electronic packaging are loathe to have their product look less substantial than others on the shelf.
I personally would like to see all software products with electronic documentation with optional dead-tree format sold separately. (that alone should pull $50 off the price of photoshop)
matt
All we need here is a nuclear generator built atop an island constructed of landfill. In fact we better build two just in case a tornado destroys one of them... Then build a bunch of parks. matt
It appears that the "water cooling" they're talking about is just a heat pipe -- something that has definitely been used in laptops before when fans are unusable.
.. it sounds like Toshiba just spread the heat out to more places to dissipate it in a small form-factor machine). The water then circulates back to the heat source by capillary action in the wick and starts the cycle over.
:)
The idea behind them is that a small conductive pipe contains a concentric "wick" as well as water vapor. Heat is conducted from the processor to the end of the pipe which then heats the internal vapor and causes it to circulate down the pipe around the wick. The heat is usually sucked out of the pipe at the other end by something big and metal (at least some laptops use metal plates behind the screen
They're pretty neat. I burned my fingers with one when I stupidly stuck it in a cup of coffee once
(first post, btw. woo!)