Amazing. It is possible to grow up without ever understanding that the concept of wind chill is only a subjective perception by a human being, and that the temperature of an inanimate object exposed to even hurricane-strength airflow will never go below the temperature of above mentioned air...
I suggest you to read the link that you so helpfully provided.
Well if you're willing to take anecdotal evidence, DVD+R is 100% compatible with my DVD player, and DVD-R is 0% compatible with it. That's significant to me, and the reason why I only use +R even though I have a dual burner.
Actually the prices for blanks have been pretty much the same in the past month or two. I can get either -R or +R disks for $.80/pc in 50-packs, and I'm talking about quality blanks (Ritek). I've bought a dual burner because I wasn't sure which would suit me, plus -R was still slightly cheaper when I got it. However it turns out that -R disks don't play on my standalone DVD player, whereas +R do. If I were to buy a new burner today, I'd get a +R only.
Okay, in that case nickel batteries are even worse - they can also explode, and contain KOH, which is a stronger base than LiOH due to the ionic radius of potassium...:)
Lithium is toxic, but only in huge amounts and, more importantly, only after a long exposure (weeks). It is used in the treatment of certain psychiatric disorders, and it isn't unusual for a patient to receive several grams of lithium daily. A short-term toxic dose of lithium is probably contained in about 20 or so batteries, and only assuming you inhale ALL of the fumes resulting from their explosion. Not likely to happen.
Of course they won't leak acid everywhere, for the simple fact that unless you're talking about lead-based car batteries, they don't contain any acid.:)
If you *need* it now, then by all means get it. I frankly don't see much of a future in socket 754 anyway (it was created as a transition thingie, like slot A for instance) and since I made the jump to socked 462 in the past six months only, I have no reason to change platforms now. I'll wait and see. So far I've always skipped one generation of CPUs and bought the next one, and it's worked pretty well so far. I can wait for mass socket 939.
The cache is allocated in blocks. There are 2 512k blocks, and if there are bad cells in just one of them, it is disabled and the chip is sold with only 1 512k block enabled. If there are bad cells in both, they throw it away.
...eventually manage to run the whole image on "stock" hardware.
This shouldn't be a concern for them. TiVo is not in the hardware business, they don't sell the boxes to make a profit on them (actually for a long while they subsidized the building of the boxes, so they were losing money with every box sold; these days, they just break even).
TiVo is a services company, their revenue derives for the most part from the cost of subscriptions. If you manage to make their software run on 3rd party hardware, more power to you, TiVo shouldn't care because as I said they're not in the hardware business. But that's very unlikely because the code runs on very specialized embedded hardware (PowerPC 403 platform for the Series 1, MIPS for the Series 2). Not on Intel hardware.
A few years ago I wrote a little molecular biology helper program to use in my graduate studies. Slapped the GPL on it and made it available for download on my site. This was before the age of sourceforge.net and all the other modern facilities. It stayed up for about 2 years, and was downloaded about 20 times in all. Then I changed ISPs several and the original page didn't make it to the new one.
I may still have the source code somewhere - maybe I'll put it up again if I can find it, or maybe set a sourceforge project or something.
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Actually the current state of molecular and cell biology almost makes it possible to grow muscle cells in an organized fashion in a cell culture dish - in other words, growing steaks in the lab. It will definitely be possible to do it for real in a matter of years. Would it be economically viable? Certainly not for a while on Earth, where cheaper alternatives are plentiful - but it could be a solution to avoiding a 100% vegetarian diet on long space missions.
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Amazing. It is possible to grow up without ever understanding that the concept of wind chill is only a subjective perception by a human being, and that the temperature of an inanimate object exposed to even hurricane-strength airflow will never go below the temperature of above mentioned air...
I suggest you to read the link that you so helpfully provided.
15C on air? You must live at the North Pole, since no amount of air cooling will lower the temperature of the CPU below the room temperature.
Or else maybe you're trying to save on your heating bill.
I mean of course "Zalman 7000", not 700.
Clamp?!? The Zalman 700 doesn't use clamps. It screws into the holes in the motherboard.
Hogwash. My country has machine-readable passports, yet it's not on the exempt list. There goes your theory.
I agree it's CDE. On other pictures from the command center you can see they all have Sun keyboards and displays, too.
Well if you're willing to take anecdotal evidence, DVD+R is 100% compatible with my DVD player, and DVD-R is 0% compatible with it. That's significant to me, and the reason why I only use +R even though I have a dual burner.
Actually the prices for blanks have been pretty much the same in the past month or two. I can get either -R or +R disks for $.80/pc in 50-packs, and I'm talking about quality blanks (Ritek). I've bought a dual burner because I wasn't sure which would suit me, plus -R was still slightly cheaper when I got it. However it turns out that -R disks don't play on my standalone DVD player, whereas +R do. If I were to buy a new burner today, I'd get a +R only.
Okay, in that case nickel batteries are even worse - they can also explode, and contain KOH, which is a stronger base than LiOH due to the ionic radius of potassium... :)
Okay, I should have written "any acid in the liquid form"
Lithium is toxic, but only in huge amounts and, more importantly, only after a long exposure (weeks). It is used in the treatment of certain psychiatric disorders, and it isn't unusual for a patient to receive several grams of lithium daily. A short-term toxic dose of lithium is probably contained in about 20 or so batteries, and only assuming you inhale ALL of the fumes resulting from their explosion. Not likely to happen.
Of course they won't leak acid everywhere, for the simple fact that unless you're talking about lead-based car batteries, they don't contain any acid. :)
If you *need* it now, then by all means get it. I frankly don't see much of a future in socket 754 anyway (it was created as a transition thingie, like slot A for instance) and since I made the jump to socked 462 in the past six months only, I have no reason to change platforms now. I'll wait and see. So far I've always skipped one generation of CPUs and bought the next one, and it's worked pretty well so far. I can wait for mass socket 939.
It's not about getting better results, it's about AMD's pricing scheme. Go read the article.
The cache is allocated in blocks. There are 2 512k blocks, and if there are bad cells in just one of them, it is disabled and the chip is sold with only 1 512k block enabled. If there are bad cells in both, they throw it away.
Link for the above.
Overclockers.com did a mini-feature on the Newcastles last week, including why you shouldn't buy one too soon.
Orange Alert or not, I personally am on Banana Alert.
Maybe not exactly linear, but each card could run different code, for a different task, out of its own memory - which would make it pretty close.
If I did, I'd say "multiply by n" - it's nVidia. :)
Not to mention that you can put several PCI video cards in the same cheap PC. Multiply power by N.
My cell phone (Ericsson T28W) uses Li-Ion batteries. A replacement battery costs anywhere between $7 and $10.
...eventually manage to run the whole image on "stock" hardware.
This shouldn't be a concern for them. TiVo is not in the hardware business, they don't sell the boxes to make a profit on them (actually for a long while they subsidized the building of the boxes, so they were losing money with every box sold; these days, they just break even).
TiVo is a services company, their revenue derives for the most part from the cost of subscriptions. If you manage to make their software run on 3rd party hardware, more power to you, TiVo shouldn't care because as I said they're not in the hardware business. But that's very unlikely because the code runs on very specialized embedded hardware (PowerPC 403 platform for the Series 1, MIPS for the Series 2). Not on Intel hardware.
A few years ago I wrote a little molecular biology helper program to use in my graduate studies. Slapped the GPL on it and made it available for download on my site. This was before the age of sourceforge.net and all the other modern facilities. It stayed up for about 2 years, and was downloaded about 20 times in all. Then I changed ISPs several and the original page didn't make it to the new one.
I may still have the source code somewhere - maybe I'll put it up again if I can find it, or maybe set a sourceforge project or something.
Actually the current state of molecular and cell biology almost makes it possible to grow muscle cells in an organized fashion in a cell culture dish - in other words, growing steaks in the lab. It will definitely be possible to do it for real in a matter of years. Would it be economically viable? Certainly not for a while on Earth, where cheaper alternatives are plentiful - but it could be a solution to avoiding a 100% vegetarian diet on long space missions.