The joke over here is that only the British like warm beer.
A more appropriate american beer joke would be more like this...
The resevoir is to be filled with yellow water. Americans can't wait for their beer-cooled computer.
Get it? Water = american beer? Har-Har.
BTW I am american and I have sampled some international beers. A good microbrew compares favorably to an international one. The alcohol content is much lower though (at least here in Florida).
Too bad that the Forbes article did not link back to this Slashdot article. Then executives all over the country could finally understand the recursive GNU "joke".
Not only was the McDonalds coffee too hot, but at the particular franchise, it was also hotter than McDonald's corporate dictated temperature setting. Inspections by the regional office had turned this up and they were noted in the inspection report. Nothing was done to correct the problem.
The original temperature setting was arrived at by a research team which basically told McDonalds not to make it hotter than X (152F IIRC) or there could be permamant tissue damage.
Because the corporate office knew it was too hot, knew the possible consequenses of it being too hot, and did nothing to correct the problem, they were found liable for damages. Which is the way it should be.
From the artist's perspective, how is this different from the current situation?
They already give away their music to the labels.
The labels give them airplay.
Airplay creates demand for live performances
Live performances are the only real way for the artists to make money.
All you are proposing is cutting out the middleman, which is only of benefit to the listeners.
As bad as the music industry is, they still force feed music to people and create a demand for their artists. True, they take money wherever they can, but they also provide access to an incredible promotions machine which is a moneymaker if the artists play it correctly. If the artists are smart, they can make the labels work for them. The problem is, many artists are not thinking straight when they sign their first deal and the labels take advantage of them.
Most motherboards only take in DC. Your power supply would need to provide the signal, not the motherboard.
And what about...
A laptop on battery power?
A remote machine on Solar Power?
A computer in a foriegn land with 50Hz power?
A computer on a boat with 40Hz (IIRC) power?
Just put a realtime clock chip on the thing and use that. Much simpler. Besides, most OS's are going to need one to do basic scheduleing (sp?) and context switches.
How would the shuttle being geosynchronous be any safer? If you are thinking that you will fall straight down onto the spot you are orbiting over, you are wrong.
Newton's laws state that there must be a conservation of momentum. The linear velocity (which is tangent to the orbit) at GSO is 6-7000kph (IIRC). You would need to cancel this first, before you start falling straight down.
And if you managed to do that, the acceleration from gravity would get you up to a nice velocity (don't feel like doing a diff eq right now). When you hit the Earth's atmosphere, you also would do it at a less than optimal angle which would cause the air friction to build up faster than the astronaut (or any vehicle) could tolerate. The result is rapidly increasing heat and pressure resulting in the vaporization of the object (much like most meteors).
Most of these computers are marketed as "Desktop Replacements". I have one so that I can do some programming anywhere I happen to be and not have to squint at the screen. This also makes LAN parties and going to see customers much nicer. I do not mind the weight because it is a hell of a lot lighter than toting my desktop around. Besides it all fits into my briefcase (which is my only size requirement).
These larger machines also come with more built in interfaces so you get a more complete notebook. Mine has firewire, USB, ehternet, and a modem in addtition to the standard equipment. If I had an ultraportable I would likely have to buy additional cards for the above interfaces.
Well, computers are all about processing information. The electromagnetic waves you mentioned can carry information. The trick is to develop a gate which can process the information. But just because the signal is not carried by electrons does not mean that it cannot be processed. (I know, this is bad grammar; double negative and all. I'm too lazy to reword it).
A critical system should have redundant components so that if one goes down, another will assume its role. The fact that this is routine maintenance indicates that the designers knew that the system would be out of service. They should have provided a redundancy mechanism to cover this period of time.
A former boss would motivate me to think by saying, "Imagine you are in the hospital on a respirator which is connected to our product".
I doubt these system designers would want their system controlling their respirator. They said they do system maintenance at night because there is less traffic. Would they want their respirator to go down while they are sleeping because there is less breathing?
USB is a crap interface, with all of the transactions going through programmed IO. The reason it is popular is because it is cheap.
Firewire and SerialATA are much smarter and can read/write blocks/to from memory without having to go through the CPU. Thus they are much faster, but a little more expensive to implement.
I just use my toaster oven to reheat refrigerated pizza. Slide it in, load the "Toast" spring and wait. It is faster than the Microwave and the crust is nice and crispy.
Don't forget the drip pan, tho. Cleaning toaster ovens is not as easy as the microwave.
They won't develop security, just publish data on how secure various products are relative to some standards.
Kinda like rating car crashworthiness. They don't develop the airbags and bumpers. They just run a car into a brick wall, see how it affects the passengers, and publish the results.
This is needed for cruise missiles, which can have 500kg warheads which may not be damaged by the incoming bullets. Moving a 500kg+ object travelling at 800kph requires some pretty brute force.
The article mentioned that the files were watermarked and that that watermark is used to keep track of who bought the song.
So you could download, convert to MP3, and give to your friends. Then one of your friends posts it to Kazaa. Well the company is monitoring the file sharing networks and comes across your song. They trace it back to you using the watermark, send in the lawyers, and cut off your service.
I'd tell my friends to get their own damn account. I don't need the hassle and it's only a buck for crying out loud.
Use mineral oil. You can get good transformer fluids that will do nicely. You still need to keep it clean, so a closed system is best. It does not have the heat capacity of water, but it still moves heat a hell of a lot better than air.
I thought they got the bomb from an Israeli jet that had crashed in the 1967 war. It originally had a nuke attached, but the ground crew forgot to detach it when they were rearming the plane with conventional bombs. The plane crashed and the bomb landed in a field in Lebanon or Syria. Some farmer eventually ploughed it up and reported it to his local Hezbolla chief.
If I recall. It has been a while since I read the book.
Shouldn't the sig be "You shouldn't verb nouns". Words can be verbs and so "verbing" a word can be perfectly acceptable, if the word happens to be a verb.
1) Incredible parties 2) Young women/men eager to explore 3) Doing drugs and being able to blame it on "youth" later on in life. 4) Rubbing elbows with some smart, talented people it your chosen field.
Go to college. With all the money that is floating around in scholoarships and grants, the financial obligation is minimum. There are grants, whose qualifications are that you have natural red hair! No shit, man. When people say they can't afford college, they are saying they don't want to search for free money.
Don't jump into a career. You have the rest of your life to work on that. Have some fun and get a nifty piece of paper that HR types can use to judge your worth. You wont be able to experience it later in life because it is just not the same.
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Talk to environmentalists who complain about agricultural runoff.
The joke over here is that only the British like warm beer.
A more appropriate american beer joke would be more like this...
The resevoir is to be filled with yellow water. Americans can't wait for their beer-cooled computer.
Get it? Water = american beer? Har-Har.
BTW I am american and I have sampled some international beers. A good microbrew compares favorably to an international one. The alcohol content is much lower though (at least here in Florida).
Too bad that the Forbes article did not link back to this Slashdot article. Then executives all over the country could finally understand the recursive GNU "joke".
Not only was the McDonalds coffee too hot, but at the particular franchise, it was also hotter than McDonald's corporate dictated temperature setting. Inspections by the regional office had turned this up and they were noted in the inspection report. Nothing was done to correct the problem.
The original temperature setting was arrived at by a research team which basically told McDonalds not to make it hotter than X (152F IIRC) or there could be permamant tissue damage.
Because the corporate office knew it was too hot, knew the possible consequenses of it being too hot, and did nothing to correct the problem, they were found liable for damages. Which is the way it should be.
They already give away their music to the labels.
The labels give them airplay.
Airplay creates demand for live performances
Live performances are the only real way for the artists to make money.
All you are proposing is cutting out the middleman, which is only of benefit to the listeners.
As bad as the music industry is, they still force feed music to people and create a demand for their artists. True, they take money wherever they can, but they also provide access to an incredible promotions machine which is a moneymaker if the artists play it correctly. If the artists are smart, they can make the labels work for them. The problem is, many artists are not thinking straight when they sign their first deal and the labels take advantage of them.
I saw that too and am waiting for the "MS is going to transmit all of your personal information over the radio" rants to begin.
I have a feeling that it is a simple AM/FM radio, but what do I know.
And what about...
A laptop on battery power?
A remote machine on Solar Power?
A computer in a foriegn land with 50Hz power?
A computer on a boat with 40Hz (IIRC) power?
Just put a realtime clock chip on the thing and use that. Much simpler. Besides, most OS's are going to need one to do basic scheduleing (sp?) and context switches.
How would the shuttle being geosynchronous be any safer? If you are thinking that you will fall straight down onto the spot you are orbiting over, you are wrong.
Newton's laws state that there must be a conservation of momentum. The linear velocity (which is tangent to the orbit) at GSO is 6-7000kph (IIRC). You would need to cancel this first, before you start falling straight down.
And if you managed to do that, the acceleration from gravity would get you up to a nice velocity (don't feel like doing a diff eq right now). When you hit the Earth's atmosphere, you also would do it at a less than optimal angle which would cause the air friction to build up faster than the astronaut (or any vehicle) could tolerate. The result is rapidly increasing heat and pressure resulting in the vaporization of the object (much like most meteors).
This doesn't sound like "no problem" to me.
Most of these computers are marketed as "Desktop Replacements". I have one so that I can do some programming anywhere I happen to be and not have to squint at the screen. This also makes LAN parties and going to see customers much nicer. I do not mind the weight because it is a hell of a lot lighter than toting my desktop around. Besides it all fits into my briefcase (which is my only size requirement).
These larger machines also come with more built in interfaces so you get a more complete notebook. Mine has firewire, USB, ehternet, and a modem in addtition to the standard equipment. If I had an ultraportable I would likely have to buy additional cards for the above interfaces.
Well, computers are all about processing information. The electromagnetic waves you mentioned can carry information. The trick is to develop a gate which can process the information. But just because the signal is not carried by electrons does not mean that it cannot be processed. (I know, this is bad grammar; double negative and all. I'm too lazy to reword it).
This is human error, plain and simple.
A critical system should have redundant components so that if one goes down, another will assume its role. The fact that this is routine maintenance indicates that the designers knew that the system would be out of service. They should have provided a redundancy mechanism to cover this period of time.
A former boss would motivate me to think by saying, "Imagine you are in the hospital on a respirator which is connected to our product".
I doubt these system designers would want their system controlling their respirator. They said they do system maintenance at night because there is less traffic. Would they want their respirator to go down while they are sleeping because there is less breathing?
USB is a crap interface, with all of the transactions going through programmed IO. The reason it is popular is because it is cheap.
Firewire and SerialATA are much smarter and can read/write blocks/to from memory without having to go through the CPU. Thus they are much faster, but a little more expensive to implement.
It has often been said that satellite security is swiss-like (as in cheese)...
Much like their air-traffic control systems.
I just use my toaster oven to reheat refrigerated pizza. Slide it in, load the "Toast" spring and wait. It is faster than the Microwave and the crust is nice and crispy.
Don't forget the drip pan, tho. Cleaning toaster ovens is not as easy as the microwave.
Oops!
s/passengers/crash test dummies/
They won't develop security, just publish data on how secure various products are relative to some standards.
Kinda like rating car crashworthiness. They don't develop the airbags and bumpers. They just run a car into a brick wall, see how it affects the passengers, and publish the results.
I doubt kamikaze had much to do with that.
This is needed for cruise missiles, which can have 500kg warheads which may not be damaged by the incoming bullets. Moving a 500kg+ object travelling at 800kph requires some pretty brute force.
I can't mod this up, but I can relpy to it.
The article mentioned that the files were watermarked and that that watermark is used to keep track of who bought the song.
So you could download, convert to MP3, and give to your friends. Then one of your friends posts it to Kazaa. Well the company is monitoring the file sharing networks and comes across your song. They trace it back to you using the watermark, send in the lawyers, and cut off your service.
I'd tell my friends to get their own damn account. I don't need the hassle and it's only a buck for crying out loud.
Read the tech article. Steel cables are used. From what I understand, they lightened the roadway using some novel designwork.
Use mineral oil. You can get good transformer fluids that will do nicely. You still need to keep it clean, so a closed system is best. It does not have the heat capacity of water, but it still moves heat a hell of a lot better than air.
I thought they got the bomb from an Israeli jet that had crashed in the 1967 war. It originally had a nuke attached, but the ground crew forgot to detach it when they were rearming the plane with conventional bombs. The plane crashed and the bomb landed in a field in Lebanon or Syria. Some farmer eventually ploughed it up and reported it to his local Hezbolla chief.
If I recall. It has been a while since I read the book.
You shouldn't verb words.
Shouldn't the sig be "You shouldn't verb nouns". Words can be verbs and so "verbing" a word can be perfectly acceptable, if the word happens to be a verb.
If you don't you'll miss out on...
1) Incredible parties
2) Young women/men eager to explore
3) Doing drugs and being able to blame it on "youth" later on in life.
4) Rubbing elbows with some smart, talented people it your chosen field.
Go to college. With all the money that is floating around in scholoarships and grants, the financial obligation is minimum. There are grants, whose qualifications are that you have natural red hair! No shit, man. When people say they can't afford college, they are saying they don't want to search for free money.
Don't jump into a career. You have the rest of your life to work on that. Have some fun and get a nifty piece of paper that HR types can use to judge your worth. You wont be able to experience it later in life because it is just not the same.