Ok, but the word 'ion' to me, esp. in this crappy-font website sounds like marketing speak. I'm cynical. I guess if it looks like fluff, sounds like fluff, it is fluff...
Is that the most unreadable butt-ugly font ever or what?!?
I can't even read the damn article. WTF?
Specifically the water-cooling module consists of a water-cooling jacket, named "Microchannel Heatsink," featuring efficient heat exchange and a pump, named "EK Pump," to generate higher exit pressure by applying higher voltage to ions in cooling fluid. Their first-generation product is designed for achieving a cooling capacity of a total of 200W and coping with a hot spot with a heat density of 500w/cm2.
Ions in the cooling fluid? Ahh... am I missing something?
Valid points... but we're talking lesser of two evils here. I would much rather see a single user of a computer have problems (due to firewall, updates) than their unpatched machine causing problems for more than one user.
We can't have it both ways... right now windows is set for ease of use over security... and having auto-updates and a firewall will move them towards the security side of things and away from ease of use... but isn't that what we've been bitching about for years?
...say that it is time to consider making software updates automatic for home users of the Windows operating system.
And...
The company is "looking very seriously" at requiring future versions of Windows to accept automatic software fixes unless the user specifically refuses to receive them...
So... only for home users and users can shut it off!
So don't freak out too much... maybe this will actually help... think if this had been in effect for slammer... we keep bitching that the 'patch was available, why didn't people use it!'... well, this would fix that problem.
One other thing from the article:
Microsoft also will begin shipping new versions of Windows XP with the built-in firewall activated by default, said Steve Lipner, director of the company's security engineering strategy.
Scientists say that the station is now almost ready to be built - all they have to do is to find a way to protect staff and environment from radiation.
Consider that radiation on Mars is very intense this should be a simple problem to solve. NOT!
I shouldn't say that. Human engineering has overcome much worse. I'm torn, though... a country that can produce very reliable Soyuz but at the same time consider shooting up one of the back street boys up there for the money.
Maybe they can do it. I am not holding my breath. This is a press release, not a reviewed plan.
SCO claims that IBM took SCO's confidential information about Unix and the AIX operating system and improperly contributed it to Linux. The Linux operating system, they assert, was infected with SCO's confidential information and, because Linux is open source, that confidential information has been disclosed to the world. Now that Linux is replacing Unix in the operating system marketplace, SCO has lost business. It claims over $1 billion in damages.
So this is the thing: what does this have to do with SCO declaring the GPL invalid? What the HELL does it have to do with their lawsuit against IBM. I do not understand.
The fiber is just part of the story. Telecoms are a screwed up bunch... service is crap, they are given near monopoly status by the govt., they take in LOADS of money, and they still go bankrupt. I'm just not impressed.
I think the biggest thing for me is the two column format... it goes against every other menu known to man (or at least me).
As for network browser or 'My Computer', I add those to the primary part of the start menu a long time ago... along with a 'minimize, show desktop' icon'... oh, and a hot-key combo for all...
If i can help it, I don't want to take my hands off the keyboard.
Oh, by the way... I am an atheist. I hope that if you're right and I'm wrong that I get to shake your hand in hell you piece of shit asshole believer. Go read your book and figure out the right way to treat people rather than attacking them for simple mistakes on an online forum. Bigot.
I don't think so... think of the standard propane tank, or even better, the standard scuba tank... many many PSI of pressure, and they sure as hell don't kill people on a very regular basis. They technology exist, we just need to bring it all together... as far as I am concerned, the weak link is the fuel cell... the tech to store and transport the required fuel is quite reliable. We've been doing it for years.
Ok, that's great... now, you have an idea, and good one at that: engineer it, write a busines plan, market it, and the sell it...
If I could walk into bestbuy or go online and purchase a complete system that does what you said for $150 bucks, I would own it.
Now that I've heard about it, being the geek I am, I could probably make one work... but it would take time and effort, and it doesn't take much of my time to come to a value of $150.
Maybe I should steal your idea =)... or perhaps you want to go into business together???
An open source project could handle the software end of this, but the end user will always have to buy the hardware... perhaps this is something that could be used like Linux... the software is open source, but someone sells the software, hardware, and support as a package and makes money.
Do you really think you could get away with it for $150?
A 120gig drive is about 100 bucks... or get a 80 gig for 60... software, free (assume OS)... what sort of external connection would you use? Or make it internal, and the software just treats the second drive as a backup device and the user never sees it?
1. Be really small and run on almost no power. (Screw 70 Watt processors, gimme something i can implant!)
The processors you will ultimately implant in your body won't have to be the large general processors we have today. They will be very specific, with only the logic they absolutely need built into them.
Oh yeah, add a decent protable long lasting, easily rechargable power source to my list... something like a fuel-cell that can be recharged with butane or gas... whatever, as long as it is light, long lasting, and easily refilled... and prefereably doesn't explode or kill people at will.
I guess hardware is better. Wait is gone for the most part. That is good.
Software that works. Office is a good example of bad things. Why the hell do features that worked in an earlier version of office get broken in later editions. I would think software would evolve in such a way that stuff gets better, not stuff added on and and the old stuff worse.
Better GUI... obviously. I've used KDE, Knome, Win2000 (like Win98), and WinXP... XP still messes me up everytime. Why did they change the start menu. I know, go and change the scheme.
Connectivity. 'tis getting better. Google is good. P2P is good. Email is ok. IM is good. Video phone anyone?
Related to tech: telecommunications. fucking joke. With lots dark fiber out there, phone services should be a dirt cheap commindity. land lines are a joke. Everyone, please get broadband, if you can, and dump your landline. The baby bells need to suffer.
Music and Video on demand. There is no good technical reason that I shouldn't be able to purchase and instantly listen to any audio or video thing ever created. Big media blows, I hope they bankrupt with the telecoms.
Input devices. The mouse is good. The scroll wheel is better. Gestures are good. What's next... we need help!
Monitors/other output devices. 300dpi? We're waiting. Transparent paper like screens? We're waiting!
Backups. Consumer level PC need a VERY GOOD inexpensive method of backing up stuff... I'm talking the whole hard drive in a manner of minutes. Cheap. Often.
So I have a question... when I hear XML and graphics, and I instantly think SVG... does this format have anything to do with XML? Is it compatiable? Is there an XSL transformation you can do to turn it into SVG?
Hey Eric... again. You're URL for your homepage at USD is wrong wrong wrong. This is Jason from CSC250... are you planning on running for political office again?
Your post would be much, much better if it used proper formatting. Allow me to try:
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There, isn't that better? Highly readable and somewhat humourous. Maybe you can start a new trend. I've made you a 'friend' so I can watch your progress. I do have one request. Please make the version.2 now... maybe even give me credit. Here's the html code in case you're lazy:
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Ok, and god damn. A bit of research turns of very interesting things. It is amazing to me how things like this can sit out there a fester... all the info is out on the net. This Wired article should not be a surprise.
Every night I sit at my computer with a fat pipe connection and try to think of good things to type into google. This one passed me and apparently most of us by;
From the Wired article, this is (as far as I can tell) Joshua Davis sitting in Antwerp, handing three diamonds made via chemical vapor deposition.
Van Royen reluctantly hands the diamonds back. "You have something that nobody else in Antwerp has." he says. "You should be careful - somebody might jump out of the shadows with a mask on." He leans in conspiratorially: "If you want to know how important these diamonds are, talk to Jim Butler with your Navy. He is the man."
Another name. Only mentioned once in the aricle. One of many names. I wanted to know more. A series of google searches. the best one.
Carbon in the form of diamond, DLC (Diamond Like Carbon), carbon nanotubes and conjugated polymers is attracting increasing interest as an electronic material. This is because carbon possesses some interesting and unique properties. In its diamond form it has good thermal conductivity, high elastic modulus and good wear resistance. It is also possible through doping to turn diamond into a semiconductor leading to the possibility of devices that can operate at temperatures of several hundred degrees. Carbon can also form nanotubes, long tube like structures a few nanometers in diameter that can be conducting or semiconducting. Single walled carbon nanotubes are incredibly strong and posses the thermal conductivity of diamond. Carbon nanotubes are being investigated as interconnects in ICs because they are immune from electromigration. The small diameter of nanotubes is being exploited as thin film emission cathodes: a brush of parallel carbon nanotubes orientated normal to a phosphor display. Carbon nanotube technology is being used to create a supercapacitor - a KilloFarad capacitor the size of a drinks can! Carbon also forms long molecules, these polymers are being investigated as fast switching TFT (Thin Film Transistors) and organic light emitting diodes. Flexible polymer displays are already in production. It is hoped this research will lead to the lowest cost per area display technology.
For god sacks, that is a long quote, please go read the whole thing.
If I thought it couldn't get better, the www proved me wrong.
Our research is focused on understanding and manipulating interface chemistry to control, with atomic precision,
interfaces between types of organic and inorganic materials. We refer to this area as "interfacial architecture" because, like an architect designing a building, we are interesting in understanding the physical properties of molecular building-blocks and using this information to design, build, and understand more complex structures with precisely-tailored functional properties. We are especially interested in interfaces that link organic/biological molecules with inorganic materials that are used in microelectronics, such as silicon and diamond.
emphasis mine. He states Jim Butler as a reference. Uh. Not only do we have the future of microprocessor technology, we have a people researching as a method to connect it to living flesh.
Screw that... screw having a motherboard laced with diamond... try a CPU that can handle multiples of the current 200 degree limit:
But the greatest potential for CVD diamond lies in computing. If diamond is ever to be a practical material for semiconducting, it will need to be affordably grown in large wafers. (The silicon wafers Intel uses, for example, are 1 foot in diameter.) CVD growth is limited only by the size of the seed placed in the Apollo machine. Starting with a square, waferlike fragment, the Linares process will grow the diamond into a prismatic shape, with the top slightly wider than the base. For the past seven years - since Robert Linares first discovered the sweet spot - Apollo has been growing increasingly larger seeds by chopping off the top layer of growth and using that as the starting point for the next batch. At the moment, the company is producing 10-millimeter wafers but predicts it will reach an inch square by year's end and 4 inches in five years. The price per carat: about $5.
Five BUCKS per carat... let me repeat that. 5 dollars per carot. Damn.
You know all the effoft overclockers put into reducing heat? The complex cooling systems? The fans? The liqid nitrogen? Imagine a processor that will run at many times the current CPU upper temps and not blink. I don't give a damn if I ever where a diamond on my hand.
This is the break through that will allow Moore's law to continue to grow. Couple this with the recent things we've heard about the equivalent of Ohm's in the conservation of quantum sping, and we have the future of computing.
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Ok, but the word 'ion' to me, esp. in this crappy-font website sounds like marketing speak. I'm cynical. I guess if it looks like fluff, sounds like fluff, it is fluff...
Is that the most unreadable butt-ugly font ever or what?!?
I can't even read the damn article. WTF?
Ions in the cooling fluid? Ahh... am I missing something?
Valid points... but we're talking lesser of two evils here. I would much rather see a single user of a computer have problems (due to firewall, updates) than their unpatched machine causing problems for more than one user.
We can't have it both ways... right now windows is set for ease of use over security... and having auto-updates and a firewall will move them towards the security side of things and away from ease of use... but isn't that what we've been bitching about for years?
Two things from the article:
And...
So... only for home users and users can shut it off!
So don't freak out too much... maybe this will actually help... think if this had been in effect for slammer... we keep bitching that the 'patch was available, why didn't people use it!'... well, this would fix that problem.
One other thing from the article:
Now that makes sense!
From article
From nasa:
Consider that radiation on Mars is very intense this should be a simple problem to solve. NOT!
I shouldn't say that. Human engineering has overcome much worse. I'm torn, though... a country that can produce very reliable Soyuz but at the same time consider shooting up one of the back street boys up there for the money.
Maybe they can do it. I am not holding my breath. This is a press release, not a reviewed plan.
"C", that is the funniest damn thing I have read in a long time. The mimes make it. You are my 'friend'. Please continue to amuse me.
It's a good thing they didn't just take one year to come up with that name or else it might have sucked!
The thing I don't get is this...
So this is the thing: what does this have to do with SCO declaring the GPL invalid? What the HELL does it have to do with their lawsuit against IBM. I do not understand.
The fiber is just part of the story. Telecoms are a screwed up bunch... service is crap, they are given near monopoly status by the govt., they take in LOADS of money, and they still go bankrupt. I'm just not impressed.
Correct. I mean computer based menu, anyhow.
I think the biggest thing for me is the two column format... it goes against every other menu known to man (or at least me).
As for network browser or 'My Computer', I add those to the primary part of the start menu a long time ago... along with a 'minimize, show desktop' icon'... oh, and a hot-key combo for all...
If i can help it, I don't want to take my hands off the keyboard.
Read my journal. It was a on purpose attack... I'm not really like that.
Boredom.
Oh, by the way... I am an atheist. I hope that if you're right and I'm wrong that I get to shake your hand in hell you piece of shit asshole believer. Go read your book and figure out the right way to treat people rather than attacking them for simple mistakes on an online forum. Bigot.
I don't think so... think of the standard propane tank, or even better, the standard scuba tank... many many PSI of pressure, and they sure as hell don't kill people on a very regular basis. They technology exist, we just need to bring it all together... as far as I am concerned, the weak link is the fuel cell... the tech to store and transport the required fuel is quite reliable. We've been doing it for years.
Actually, that is typo due to typing far too fast. I appologive. Yes, should be Gnome. I am bad. I am sorry.
Ok, that's great... now, you have an idea, and good one at that: engineer it, write a busines plan, market it, and the sell it...
If I could walk into bestbuy or go online and purchase a complete system that does what you said for $150 bucks, I would own it.
Now that I've heard about it, being the geek I am, I could probably make one work... but it would take time and effort, and it doesn't take much of my time to come to a value of $150.
Maybe I should steal your idea =)... or perhaps you want to go into business together???
An open source project could handle the software end of this, but the end user will always have to buy the hardware... perhaps this is something that could be used like Linux... the software is open source, but someone sells the software, hardware, and support as a package and makes money.
Do you really think you could get away with it for $150?
A 120gig drive is about 100 bucks... or get a 80 gig for 60... software, free (assume OS)... what sort of external connection would you use? Or make it internal, and the software just treats the second drive as a backup device and the user never sees it?
Actually not a bad idea.
The processors you will ultimately implant in your body won't have to be the large general processors we have today. They will be very specific, with only the logic they absolutely need built into them.
From http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:MBXjj9AqWm4JYou can bet your ass that if they are planning on providing power to these devices via induction that they aren't going to use 70 watts.
Oh yeah, add a decent protable long lasting, easily rechargable power source to my list... something like a fuel-cell that can be recharged with butane or gas... whatever, as long as it is light, long lasting, and easily refilled... and prefereably doesn't explode or kill people at will.
Real expectations:
There, you asked.
I'm a dork: should read 'does this format have anything to do with SVG?' instead of 'does this format have anything to do with XML?'
So I have a question... when I hear XML and graphics, and I instantly think SVG... does this format have anything to do with XML? Is it compatiable? Is there an XSL transformation you can do to turn it into SVG?
Hey Eric... again. You're URL for your homepage at USD is wrong wrong wrong. This is Jason from CSC250... are you planning on running for political office again?
Your post would be much, much better if it used proper formatting. Allow me to try:
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There, isn't that better? Highly readable and somewhat humourous. Maybe you can start a new trend. I've made you a 'friend' so I can watch your progress. I do have one request. Please make the version .2 now... maybe even give me credit. Here's the html code in case you're lazy:
<p><strong>PoorPost Form v. 0.2</strong></p>
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<li>( ) You post simply used M$ instead of MS</li>
<li>( ) You went back to beating the Windows security dead horse </li>
<li>(*) You made a tired SCO joke </li>
<li>( ) You made a Jon Katz joke (who?)</li>
<li>( ) MS blowz, linux rules (or a variant)</li>
<li>( ) You made an unoriginal joke about Slashdotting (servers turning to powder, melting, etc.) </li>
<li>( ) Other (please comment here: ) </li></ul>
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<p>[ ] Your post is modded insightful, informative, or interesting. In fact it is neither of the three. This is because: <ul>
<li>( ) You stated the obvious </li>
<li>( ) You simply tossed out lots of five-dollar words </li>
<li>( ) It was in response to a poorly-written post or troll </li>
<li>( ) You copied text from a previous post that really might have been one of the three I's </li>
<li>( ) You simply criticized Microsoft without making it funny </li>
<li>( ) It is bloated with unnecessary techn
Ok, and god damn. A bit of research turns of very interesting things. It is amazing to me how things like this can sit out there a fester... all the info is out on the net. This Wired article should not be a surprise. Every night I sit at my computer with a fat pipe connection and try to think of good things to type into google. This one passed me and apparently most of us by;
From the Wired article, this is (as far as I can tell) Joshua Davis sitting in Antwerp, handing three diamonds made via chemical vapor deposition.
Another name. Only mentioned once in the aricle. One of many names. I wanted to know more. A series of google searches. the best one.
Success.
The first one that really catches my interest. a research paper. A quote:
For god sacks, that is a long quote, please go read the whole thing.
If I thought it couldn't get better, the www proved me wrong.
emphasis mine. He states Jim Butler as a reference. Uh. Not only do we have the future of microprocessor technology, we have a people researching as a method to connect it to living flesh.
Screw that... screw having a motherboard laced with diamond... try a CPU that can handle multiples of the current 200 degree limit:
Five BUCKS per carat... let me repeat that. 5 dollars per carot. Damn.
You know all the effoft overclockers put into reducing heat? The complex cooling systems? The fans? The liqid nitrogen? Imagine a processor that will run at many times the current CPU upper temps and not blink. I don't give a damn if I ever where a diamond on my hand.
This is the break through that will allow Moore's law to continue to grow. Couple this with the recent things we've heard about the equivalent of Ohm's in the conservation of quantum sping, and we have the future of computing.
We may even blow Moore's law out of the water.