The cooler uses a NaK alloy. Check youtube and you'll see that this reacts violently with water and will ignite in air. The company claims that they wouldn't worry about leaks in the cooler but I wouldn't trust them or want that stuff near my expensive hardware. The craziness of using NaK alloy as a coolant for a computer is probably why the company closed it's doors.
Not to mention it is twice as much money as the zalman which outperforms this cooler in every way.
Gravity isn't a problem, that's not what the article is about. The article is talking about how NASA is finally researching LED-powered greenhouses to provide light for plants in a lunar environment, even though greenhouses on earth have already been doing it for at least a decade. There are also high-hundreds/low-thousands of marine aquarists out there that have been doing it for some time, using red-blue LED panels to grow turf algae in their sump tanks for nitrate export.
That may not be the point of the article, but it does flat out question how plants will grow in low gravity. It's even in TFS:
But, as he points out, who can say how productive plants are ultimately going to be on the moon, in gravity that is only one sixth that of earth?
If you can trust the global warming fanatic that runs weather underground. I thought the name was a joke till I saw a blog post by him that showed he is not wholly a scientist but a true believer.
weather channel hasn't yet got it's shit together after being run by a bunch of frightwing religious assholes. Yea the assholes are gone but not enough of what is left has been bled white enough to make their stockholders decapitate them and fix things. They are trying but fuck are they slow.
accuweather tried to get their bought stooge senate whore to block access to publicly funded weather data to all but 'authorized weather professionals'
A better source is NOAA you paid for it and they are very friendly to the foss community. They have a LOT of ways to access the data.
This just in: Extensive studies have been performed by climate scientists and they have proven conclusively that you are an asshole.
This explains why I can't seem to get one. I have been waiting for my pi for months, and I was on the waiting list for months before that. I just got an email the other day that said they couldn't produce enough of the devices and my order would be delayed *again*. I bet I won't see one until 2013.
This usually only happens if you are parked directly over their nest, so scout the area before parking. If you see a nest, pour a few gallons of boiling water down it. Then liberally sprinkle borax over the area.
When you park, place a small inflatable pool on the ground where the wheels will go. When the wheels are in the middle of the pool, inflate and fill with water.
These are completely natural methods to mitigate the ants, cheap, and very very effective.
We need the BBC because they cling onto a dying standard and force the maker of the closed software do play that standard to keep distributing it, even when they already have open, standards formats that they distribute for other platforms?
I'm wondering how you can see the BBC in anything but a negative light here.
It's really pretty simple. Most sites on the web use interactive flash content. Adobe decided to make the flash player unavailable. BBC convinced them to change their minds (in the UK). There's really no good reason not to have it, in my opinion. It's like an optical drive. I have one, don't use it very often... but when I need it, I'm glad I have one.
If you have such a problem with it, nobody is forcing you to install it; you can make that decision for yourself!
In my experience, there are relatively few things a good developer can't do. There may be lots of things he doesn't want to spend the time or money to do. If the Bethesda devs are really telling the project managers it can't be done, it's time to bring in some fresh talent.
Yes, lots of MBAs or MBA-lights don't understand what they're talking about, but some people are actually interested in the concepts that are brought to light during such courses and go read about them, rather than just relying on the buzz-words and five minute discussion before the next subject arises.
In my experience, that seems to be the majority of MBA's. I suppose it's a bit of a slanted view. Since my employer will pay for tuition up front there are a lot of engineers who went ahead and got an MBA from University of Phoenix or similar just because they could do it for free in their spare time without a ton of effort.
The "innovation" word has certainly been abused in business contexts. However, to assert that it is the most abused word is less clear. After all, competition for that accolade (in a manner of speaking) is fairly stiff. There are many words from the MBA lexicon with even greater claim, such as leverage, incentivize, and similar linguistic horrors.
An innovation can be as small as a neat new way of handling some user interaction which nobody has done before or a heuristic which solves a hard problem but at the same time people from buisness or management backgrounds or courses do set an insanely low bar for what they consider "innovation".
If you were to believe buisness grads then "innovation" includes their "ideas" along the lines of "a website like *only better*" or "that thing which everyone is already doing but which I think is my neat new idea"
Or a pda with rounded corners, even if physically identical devices were shown in movies 25 years prior to the device being invented?
The world doesn't work like that, and a measure that can help prevent disease with very few side effects can and should be used to help stop disease.
Wow, nice. So because people act foolishly, everyone (that doesn't approve of it) must suffer? Please. The people dealing with HIV are usually dealing with the consequences of their own actions, but if we remove all foreskins, we punish everyone for their actions. Furthermore, plenty of people without foreskins do have HIV. A small increase in the chance of getting HIV/penile cancer is not worth punishing everyone over.
I don't think I saw a mention of anyone being punished based on their circumcision. It sounded to me like a study was done and a recommendation was made that should result in insurance carriers paying for circumcisions if the parents want it done.
Yes, it has to do with the technical details behind compatibility rather than having an user base that is used to paying too much for too little vs having a user base that is used to paying nothing for quite a lot. In other news, monkeys are currently flying out of my butt.
The reason is simple, and it's the same reason that 99% of everything on this planet happens. Money.
I was surprised to see they are still making arrests. I had expected all those involved were already in federal "pound me in the ass" prisons. Obviously I overestimated our law enforcement.
"It's been over a month since spam-spewing Grum botnet has been shut down, but spam experts say there hasn't been a noticeable impact on global spam volume.
With almost 7 billion factories making the stuff, I'm not surprised blood is cheaper than ink. https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_totl&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=world+population
A hacker (or spammer) with access to the PC is probably only a minor inconvenience in the scheme of life, identify theft could be devastating for years to come!
As far as the computer goes, many have already answered that a format and reinstall of the OS is a good cure, and really isn't very hard to do.
The study showed that these same effects are absent when used by adults. To me, that says it should simply be something that is age restricted like cigarettes or alcohol.
Like it or not, harmonics and spurious emissions are a fact of life. So it is not inconceivable that a plane full of 200+ people with phones (which most commonly now have three or more transceivers each) could cause some interference. Some will have a phone and a laptop with one or more additional radios in the laptop. That comes out to quite a lot of rf noise. When the penalty for a problem could realistically be hundreds of people dying, why take the risk so someone can check their facebook in the air?
The FCC is handling this correctly. The people have an interest in using these devices so the FCC is studying what the impact will be and making decisions accordingly.
I'm against it. Internet access is not a necessity, it's a luxury (despite what some people are claiming). No need to pay even more taxes than we already do. Moreover, this is only an issue for "high speed" internet access. People in rural areas can use dialup, (most likely) DSL, or satellite. I have a friend who recently bought a house out in BFE Tennessee and he gets DSL. It's slow by my standards but that's what you have to deal with when you chose not to live with the rest of society.
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The cooler uses a NaK alloy. Check youtube and you'll see that this reacts violently with water and will ignite in air. The company claims that they wouldn't worry about leaks in the cooler but I wouldn't trust them or want that stuff near my expensive hardware. The craziness of using NaK alloy as a coolant for a computer is probably why the company closed it's doors.
Not to mention it is twice as much money as the zalman which outperforms this cooler in every way.
Are you suggesting someone waste beer on cooling a server? You should be in prison.
Gravity isn't a problem, that's not what the article is about. The article is talking about how NASA is finally researching LED-powered greenhouses to provide light for plants in a lunar environment, even though greenhouses on earth have already been doing it for at least a decade. There are also high-hundreds/low-thousands of marine aquarists out there that have been doing it for some time, using red-blue LED panels to grow turf algae in their sump tanks for nitrate export.
That may not be the point of the article, but it does flat out question how plants will grow in low gravity. It's even in TFS:
But, as he points out, who can say how productive plants are ultimately going to be on the moon, in gravity that is only one sixth that of earth?
If you can trust the global warming fanatic that runs weather underground. I thought the name was a joke till I saw a blog post by him that showed he is not wholly a scientist but a true believer.
weather channel hasn't yet got it's shit together after being run by a bunch of frightwing religious assholes. Yea the assholes are gone but not enough of what is left has been bled white enough to make their stockholders decapitate them and fix things. They are trying but fuck are they slow. accuweather tried to get their bought stooge senate whore to block access to publicly funded weather data to all but 'authorized weather professionals'
A better source is NOAA you paid for it and they are very friendly to the foss community. They have a LOT of ways to access the data.
This just in: Extensive studies have been performed by climate scientists and they have proven conclusively that you are an asshole.
This explains why I can't seem to get one. I have been waiting for my pi for months, and I was on the waiting list for months before that. I just got an email the other day that said they couldn't produce enough of the devices and my order would be delayed *again*. I bet I won't see one until 2013.
This usually only happens if you are parked directly over their nest, so scout the area before parking. If you see a nest, pour a few gallons of boiling water down it. Then liberally sprinkle borax over the area.
When you park, place a small inflatable pool on the ground where the wheels will go. When the wheels are in the middle of the pool, inflate and fill with water.
These are completely natural methods to mitigate the ants, cheap, and very very effective.
http://www.amdro.com/
We need the BBC because they cling onto a dying standard and force the maker of the closed software do play that standard to keep distributing it, even when they already have open, standards formats that they distribute for other platforms?
I'm wondering how you can see the BBC in anything but a negative light here.
It's really pretty simple. Most sites on the web use interactive flash content. Adobe decided to make the flash player unavailable. BBC convinced them to change their minds (in the UK). There's really no good reason not to have it, in my opinion. It's like an optical drive. I have one, don't use it very often... but when I need it, I'm glad I have one.
If you have such a problem with it, nobody is forcing you to install it; you can make that decision for yourself!
In my experience, there are relatively few things a good developer can't do. There may be lots of things he doesn't want to spend the time or money to do. If the Bethesda devs are really telling the project managers it can't be done, it's time to bring in some fresh talent.
Because if it's funny it's not a troll.
I thought humor was the whole point behind trolling?
Yes, lots of MBAs or MBA-lights don't understand what they're talking about, but some people are actually interested in the concepts that are brought to light during such courses and go read about them, rather than just relying on the buzz-words and five minute discussion before the next subject arises.
In my experience, that seems to be the majority of MBA's. I suppose it's a bit of a slanted view. Since my employer will pay for tuition up front there are a lot of engineers who went ahead and got an MBA from University of Phoenix or similar just because they could do it for free in their spare time without a ton of effort.
The "innovation" word has certainly been abused in business contexts. However, to assert that it is the most abused word is less clear. After all, competition for that accolade (in a manner of speaking) is fairly stiff. There are many words from the MBA lexicon with even greater claim, such as leverage, incentivize, and similar linguistic horrors.
I would have gone for the word issue.
An innovation can be as small as a neat new way of handling some user interaction which nobody has done before or a heuristic which solves a hard problem but at the same time people from buisness or management backgrounds or courses do set an insanely low bar for what they consider "innovation".
If you were to believe buisness grads then "innovation" includes their "ideas" along the lines of "a website like *only better*" or "that thing which everyone is already doing but which I think is my neat new idea"
Or a pda with rounded corners, even if physically identical devices were shown in movies 25 years prior to the device being invented?
The investigators analyzed a group of 345 people -193 women and 152 men.
Wow, they got that result even though they analyzed only negative women.
After controlling for various factors, ranging from age and education to income
In other words, after ignoring the 9000 other variables that lead to happiness or lack thereof...
Anyone have a link to the actual numbers so we can see if they are finding trends in data noise or not?
It actually makes me curious how education factors in here. Are women happier when more or less educated?
Now you can analyze your girlfriend's* DNA and see if she's only acting happy and would become miserable after marriage!
*Yeah this is Slashdot but the theory is sound
I think Slashdot users are more likely to hit the powerball than gain the ability to test this theory.
The world doesn't work like that, and a measure that can help prevent disease with very few side effects can and should be used to help stop disease.
Wow, nice. So because people act foolishly, everyone (that doesn't approve of it) must suffer? Please. The people dealing with HIV are usually dealing with the consequences of their own actions, but if we remove all foreskins, we punish everyone for their actions. Furthermore, plenty of people without foreskins do have HIV. A small increase in the chance of getting HIV/penile cancer is not worth punishing everyone over.
I don't think I saw a mention of anyone being punished based on their circumcision. It sounded to me like a study was done and a recommendation was made that should result in insurance carriers paying for circumcisions if the parents want it done.
I remember growing up during the Cold War, and being taught all the pro-U.S. propaganda: The Russian space program sucks.
It does, or it did anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program#Incidents.2C_Failures.2C_and_Setbacks
Yes, it has to do with the technical details behind compatibility rather than having an user base that is used to paying too much for too little vs having a user base that is used to paying nothing for quite a lot. In other news, monkeys are currently flying out of my butt.
The reason is simple, and it's the same reason that 99% of everything on this planet happens. Money.
I was surprised to see they are still making arrests. I had expected all those involved were already in federal "pound me in the ass" prisons. Obviously I overestimated our law enforcement.
"It's been over a month since spam-spewing Grum botnet has been shut down, but spam experts say there hasn't been a noticeable impact on global spam volume.
Fuck.
the ink is so expensive because that's where they're actually making money.
It's not just expensive, printer ink is more expensive than human blood.
With almost 7 billion factories making the stuff, I'm not surprised blood is cheaper than ink.
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_totl&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=world+population
Yep. Check this out, regular price $20 USD. http://www.amazon.com/Lexmark-Z615-printer-ink-jet-18K6281/dp/B0002445QO/ref=sr_1_42?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1346168662&sr=1-42 That's less than the cost of a set of cartridges, and it isn't even on sale. I've often seen printers like this on sale at local stores in the $10 range, and occasionally "free" as some sort of a promotion.
IMO the bigger problem is the social security number. He needs to setup fraud alerts with the credit reporting agencies. http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2005-03-28-ym_x.htm They have links to do it for each of them.
A hacker (or spammer) with access to the PC is probably only a minor inconvenience in the scheme of life, identify theft could be devastating for years to come!
As far as the computer goes, many have already answered that a format and reinstall of the OS is a good cure, and really isn't very hard to do.
The study showed that these same effects are absent when used by adults. To me, that says it should simply be something that is age restricted like cigarettes or alcohol.
Like it or not, harmonics and spurious emissions are a fact of life. So it is not inconceivable that a plane full of 200+ people with phones (which most commonly now have three or more transceivers each) could cause some interference. Some will have a phone and a laptop with one or more additional radios in the laptop. That comes out to quite a lot of rf noise. When the penalty for a problem could realistically be hundreds of people dying, why take the risk so someone can check their facebook in the air?
The FCC is handling this correctly. The people have an interest in using these devices so the FCC is studying what the impact will be and making decisions accordingly.
I'm against it. Internet access is not a necessity, it's a luxury (despite what some people are claiming). No need to pay even more taxes than we already do. Moreover, this is only an issue for "high speed" internet access. People in rural areas can use dialup, (most likely) DSL, or satellite.
I have a friend who recently bought a house out in BFE Tennessee and he gets DSL. It's slow by my standards but that's what you have to deal with when you chose not to live with the rest of society.