Great post. But what do you do when that damn switch breaks! The whole effing thing is usless until you get it fixed, and who fixes NESs nowdays? On a wholly unrelated topic, Did you ever buy the Advantage joysticks? Now those suckas were built tough! Metal bases that weigh 2 tons, quarter inch ABS cases, and damn near indestructible buttons. Even the stick had this ball that screwed on with brass threads ! They really don't make stuff like that anymore. It was practically arcade quality.
And who can forget the Cyclops. It was this really lame attempt at a "full 360 degree contoller". It was almost completely useles. The only game it actually worked better on was Ice Hockey.
I loved that game. I remember playing it in the arcade, and then bieng so excited when it came out on the NES. Remember when the guy says "Bad Dudes" or something at the end of the level and it sounded like someone ripped out his larynx, put it through a blender, then put it back in. I am pretty sure it was an attempt at actual digitized speach, but the NES kinda choked on it.
I was under the impression that Internet2 will be opened eventually, and the Universities will move on to Internet3, and so on. Or is it the Next Generation Internet, which is a different thing from Internet2, that is going to be opened?
This is NOT hibernation. These animals are friggin chunks of ice! You could store them in liquid nitrogen indefinetly like sperm and eggs are. The cricket freezes solid every night when the sun goes down, and thaws in the morning. That is not hibernation. They had a really cool fast-time version of the cricket freezing. It had a shitload of iceicles hanging of of it, and then it just walked away after it had thawed out.
Nature has already invented a solution to this problem. I know of at least one species each of frog and cricket that can be frozen solid and be thawed out repeatedly with no apparent harm. In fact the cricket, witch lives at high mountain elavation, freezes every night during the cold season and thaws in the morning sun. With some advanced genetic engineering, you could produce humans with this mechanism and suspended animation would be as simple as hopping in a freezer.
Funny thought, but could these animals be marketed to the public. You would buy them already frozen, and thaw them out when you get home. Then just pop them in the freezer when you get bored with them.
A few years ago a US Navy ship shot down an arab passenger plane, mostly because the software of the Aeiges (sp?)radar system misidentified the target. Should the programmers of the system all be executed for mass murder, fired for their incompetence, or just scolded?
Hell, all I had to do was move my head up and down really fast and it looked like the numbers stayed put will the clock moved, but it had to be dark in the room, and it only worked with red LEDs. I bet it has something to do with the fact that the cycle-time of your red-sensitive cones (rods? who can remember!) in your retina is the longest, meaning that red persists longer than any other color. Normally you don't notice it because of all the other stimulus, but in a dark room you can actually see the pure red last longer than the image of the clock.
Then again, I could be wrong. Any optomologists read slashdot?
I remember one day long ago wathcing a thing on TV about filming a golf club hitting a golf ball.
If I remember corectly, they were filming at 10,000 fps. Do they make film cameras that go that fast, or did it have to be digital?
Feminists who oppose porn are hypocrits. The women in porn CHOOSE to do what they do for a living, and are VERY well compensated for it (they make much more than the men, by the way).
Why does having sex reduce a women to a piece of meat? Perhaps your the one reducing her.
Thats basically what the story in popmech said.
The three researchers incolved are Ning Li, Jonathon Campbell, and Larry Smalley.
They must be pretty confident about this tech, because they started their own company.
If this works, it will be NEAT. Flying cars might actually become practical, although they wouldn't fly, they would float. Not to mention it would make it redicuously cheap to get into space.
This is a popmech story about the device. Also in their latest issue is a larger story about a machine that can cancle the gravity vector completely all the way to space. Now, I am as skeptacle as next guy, but if this is true, it will REVOLUTIONIZE the space program. You could get into space with a cylinder of compressed gas!
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Cobalt servers are neat. Because they are so damn small, I got the idea of RAIS Redundent Array of Inexpensive Servers.Simply apply the same reasoning behind RAID, that a bunch of cleverly configured cheap hard drives are better than one Super Drive, then a bunch of cheap servers is better than one or two Super Servers. An array of 100, or 1000, of these puppies would be pretty awsome to see, and if you could put all the hard drives in RAID 5 mode, and have it configured so that the whole mess is load balanced and failure tolerant, you would have an awsome server. But could it compete with Sun or IBMs really big iron like the RS/6000 or that $10 million Sun server I read a review about. At $3000 per server * 1000 servers, your still ahead.
How many hits/sec can one cobalt handle, anyway?
Heat pipes are really nifty things were a metal tube is evacuated, then a small amount of water is placed inside. Now some of the water immediatley vaporizes until the system reaches equilibrium. When one end of the pipe is heated, this equilibrium is upset and some more water vaporizes. This induces a pressure change that travels down the pipe at the speed of sound, until the vapour cools enough to condense back into water. The water is then pumped back to the other end by cappilary action of the porous surface on the inside of the pipe. The point of all this is that heat pipes can have enourmously steep thermal gradiens. These things are used in laptops to pump the heat from the processor to the frame. I think this is a much better idea than putting a huge heat sink right on the proccesor. Just attach an adequately sized heat pipe to the proccessor and an adequately sized heat sink on the other end of the pipe. The pipe itself can be many feet long without seriously lowering the thermal gradient. Put a dense pin sink the size of the side of your computer case inplace of the side of your computer. Some manufacturer even put a heat "pipe" chamber on the bottom of a heat sink to get around the problem of the highly concentrated heat source that tiny modern procs provide. The entire heat sink is very nearly uniform in temp.
Why aren't heat pipes used more. They make much more sense than water cooling a computer and are virtually unbreakable.
C.A.T. compresses, encrypts data, video
Lafe Technologies' C.A.T. (cellular automata transforms) technology enhances data compression and encryption. Sold as QuikCAT software, it is compatible with Unix workstations or DOS/Windows-based PCs.
Just found this while looking for porn
Looks very interesting. And can you get any geekier than CA's?
p.s. their website is www.lafetech.com
uses flash "exstensively", though.
Heat pipes are really nifty things were a metal tube is evacuated, then a small amount of water is placed inside. Now some of the water immediatley vaporizes until the system reaches equilibrium. When one end of the pipe is heated, this equilibrium is upset and some more water vaporizes. This induces a pressure change that travels down the pipe at the speed of sound, until the vapour cools enough to condense back into water. The water is then pumped back to the other end by cappilary action of the porous surface on the inside of the pipe.
The point of all this is that heat pipes can have enourmously steep thermal gradiens.
These things are used in laptops to pump the heat from the processor to the frame. I think this is a much better idea than putting a huge heat sink right on the proccesor. Just attach an adequately sized heat pipe to the proccessor and an adequately sized heat sink on the other end of the pipe. The pipe itself can be many feet long without seriously lowering the thermal gradient.
Put a dense pin sink the size of the side of your computer case inplace of the side of your computer. Some manufacturer even put a heat "pipe"
chamber on the bottom of a heat sink to get around the problem of the highly concentrated heat source that tiny modern procs provide. The entire heat sink is very nearly uniform in temp.
Why aren't heat pipes used more. They make much more sense than water cooling a computer and are virtually unbreakable.
I have noticed among the geek culture that personal encryption is a VERY important thing. A person has a right to use encryption to ensure that her message is only read by the intended recipient. Now what is wrong with musicians and record companies using encryption to ensure that thier music is heard by only the intended recipient, namely those who PAYED for it.
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Great post. But what do you do when that damn switch breaks! The whole effing thing is usless until you get it fixed, and who fixes NESs nowdays? On a wholly unrelated topic, Did you ever buy the Advantage joysticks? Now those suckas were built tough! Metal bases that weigh 2 tons, quarter inch ABS cases, and damn near indestructible buttons. Even the stick had this ball that screwed on with brass threads ! They really don't make stuff like that anymore. It was practically arcade quality. And who can forget the Cyclops. It was this really lame attempt at a "full 360 degree contoller". It was almost completely useles. The only game it actually worked better on was Ice Hockey.
I loved that game. I remember playing it in the arcade, and then bieng so excited when it came out on the NES. Remember when the guy says "Bad Dudes" or something at the end of the level and it sounded like someone ripped out his larynx, put it through a blender, then put it back in. I am pretty sure it was an attempt at actual digitized speach, but the NES kinda choked on it.
I was under the impression that Internet2 will be opened eventually, and the Universities will move on to Internet3, and so on. Or is it the Next Generation Internet, which is a different thing from Internet2, that is going to be opened?
This is NOT hibernation. These animals are friggin chunks of ice! You could store them in liquid nitrogen indefinetly like sperm and eggs are. The cricket freezes solid every night when the sun goes down, and thaws in the morning. That is not hibernation. They had a really cool fast-time version of the cricket freezing. It had a shitload of iceicles hanging of of it, and then it just walked away after it had thawed out.
Nature has already invented a solution to this problem. I know of at least one species each of frog and cricket that can be frozen solid and be thawed out repeatedly with no apparent harm. In fact the cricket, witch lives at high mountain elavation, freezes every night during the cold season and thaws in the morning sun. With some advanced genetic engineering, you could produce humans with this mechanism and suspended animation would be as simple as hopping in a freezer. Funny thought, but could these animals be marketed to the public. You would buy them already frozen, and thaw them out when you get home. Then just pop them in the freezer when you get bored with them.
You forgot all the self-abusive hedonistic promiscuity
Was the captain ever disciplined?
A few years ago a US Navy ship shot down an arab passenger plane, mostly because the software of the Aeiges (sp?)radar system misidentified the target. Should the programmers of the system all be executed for mass murder, fired for their incompetence, or just scolded?
Actually, one of the moon-formation theories is that an asteroid the size of Mars hit the Earth a few billion years ago, and ejected the moon.
If they want a real conservative, they should hire Cal Thomas. This guy actually called the public schools PAGAN!
Hell, all I had to do was move my head up and down really fast and it looked like the numbers stayed put will the clock moved, but it had to be dark in the room, and it only worked with red LEDs. I bet it has something to do with the fact that the cycle-time of your red-sensitive cones (rods? who can remember!) in your retina is the longest, meaning that red persists longer than any other color. Normally you don't notice it because of all the other stimulus, but in a dark room you can actually see the pure red last longer than the image of the clock. Then again, I could be wrong. Any optomologists read slashdot?
Thanks for the lucid explanation.
I remember one day long ago wathcing a thing on TV about filming a golf club hitting a golf ball. If I remember corectly, they were filming at 10,000 fps. Do they make film cameras that go that fast, or did it have to be digital?
Feminists who oppose porn are hypocrits. The women in porn CHOOSE to do what they do for a living, and are VERY well compensated for it (they make much more than the men, by the way). Why does having sex reduce a women to a piece of meat? Perhaps your the one reducing her.
I remembered the old article.
WOW That is an utterly frightening amount of thought put to such utterly pointless conversation. You ser are a true geek. I am not worthy.
Thats basically what the story in popmech said. The three researchers incolved are Ning Li, Jonathon Campbell, and Larry Smalley. They must be pretty confident about this tech, because they started their own company. If this works, it will be NEAT. Flying cars might actually become practical, although they wouldn't fly, they would float. Not to mention it would make it redicuously cheap to get into space.
I got the one with four dials. Whats the ONLY reason to buy a watch made of Titanium? So you can tell people it is made out of titanium!
This is a popmech story about the device. Also in their latest issue is a larger story about a machine that can cancle the gravity vector completely all the way to space. Now, I am as skeptacle as next guy, but if this is true, it will REVOLUTIONIZE the space program. You could get into space with a cylinder of compressed gas!
Cobalt servers are neat. Because they are so damn small, I got the idea of RAIS Redundent Array of Inexpensive Servers.Simply apply the same reasoning behind RAID, that a bunch of cleverly configured cheap hard drives are better than one Super Drive, then a bunch of cheap servers is better than one or two Super Servers. An array of 100, or 1000, of these puppies would be pretty awsome to see, and if you could put all the hard drives in RAID 5 mode, and have it configured so that the whole mess is load balanced and failure tolerant, you would have an awsome server. But could it compete with Sun or IBMs really big iron like the RS/6000 or that $10 million Sun server I read a review about. At $3000 per server * 1000 servers, your still ahead.
How many hits/sec can one cobalt handle, anyway?
Why aren't heat pipes used more. They make much more sense than water cooling a computer and are virtually unbreakable.
C.A.T. compresses, encrypts data, video Lafe Technologies' C.A.T. (cellular automata transforms) technology enhances data compression and encryption. Sold as QuikCAT software, it is compatible with Unix workstations or DOS/Windows-based PCs. Just found this while looking for porn Looks very interesting. And can you get any geekier than CA's? p.s. their website is www.lafetech.com uses flash "exstensively", though.
Heat pipes are really nifty things were a metal tube is evacuated, then a small amount of water is placed inside. Now some of the water immediatley vaporizes until the system reaches equilibrium. When one end of the pipe is heated, this equilibrium is upset and some more water vaporizes. This induces a pressure change that travels down the pipe at the speed of sound, until the vapour cools enough to condense back into water. The water is then pumped back to the other end by cappilary action of the porous surface on the inside of the pipe. The point of all this is that heat pipes can have enourmously steep thermal gradiens. These things are used in laptops to pump the heat from the processor to the frame. I think this is a much better idea than putting a huge heat sink right on the proccesor. Just attach an adequately sized heat pipe to the proccessor and an adequately sized heat sink on the other end of the pipe. The pipe itself can be many feet long without seriously lowering the thermal gradient. Put a dense pin sink the size of the side of your computer case inplace of the side of your computer. Some manufacturer even put a heat "pipe" chamber on the bottom of a heat sink to get around the problem of the highly concentrated heat source that tiny modern procs provide. The entire heat sink is very nearly uniform in temp.
Why aren't heat pipes used more. They make much more sense than water cooling a computer and are virtually unbreakable.I have noticed among the geek culture that personal encryption is a VERY important thing. A person has a right to use encryption to ensure that her message is only read by the intended recipient. Now what is wrong with musicians and record companies using encryption to ensure that thier music is heard by only the intended recipient, namely those who PAYED for it.
Yeh, and maybe we could have it emit an excruciating high-pitched tone when the scientists come to look at it. That would be perfect!