PSU is cheap enough that it's worth it to me to spend a little bit extra to get a PSU which is quiet. This means it has a large diameter fan, and has plenty of power. Along those same lines, I like to get humongous CPU coolers with as much copper as possible so I can run without a CPU fan.
I like the way incadescent light looks; I like the light output I can get from them (try getting 500W equivalent from CFLs!); and with all the energy other people are saving I can sleep in peace with all my lights on:)
I appreciate your comment. But YU was indeed pretty dynamic for a while; at first Serbia and Montenegro refused to let go the dream and so declared themselves a somewhat smaller YU. Then they renamed themselves to Serbia and Montenegro. And now Montenegro split. I found the whole ordeal kind of funny:)
How many more countries are going to sprout out in that area? I already went broke replacing all my atlases when the USSR broke up, Yugoslavia broke up and reorged a couple of times, then Kosovo went independent... sheesh! I wish there was an atlas with a bunch of scrapbook-style cutouts for the most likely countries to secede next:)
Net positive energy return is probably a tall order, but they might be onto some other pretty interesting things. For example, what about the effect of palladium electrodes with huge surface area on hydrogen atoms? It's hard to imagine that there *isn't* any fusing happening simply because of statistics, and maybe there is a clever way to amplify that effect. Even if they just end up with a neutron source it's cool research.
Neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit are intuitive to me.
373.15 - Water boils at 1 atmosphere 310 - Very hot 300 - Hot 290 - Nice 280 - Chilly 273.15 - Water freezes at 1 atmosphere 0 - absolute zero! how easy is that.
The only place that "clever" code might still make a difference nowadays is in embedded systems, kernel code or tight, highly optimized inner loops. In other applications, most likely it is much more important to have a good system architecture than get bogged down in tweaking code.
In the same way that one might say, "converting heat to electricity via thermocouple got to be more efficient than heat->steam->kinetic->electricity," the original post said converting to magnetic spin should be more efficient. Of course, that does not follow.
Just nitpicking, the concept sounds cool and if it actually worked Bob's our uncle.
That's a fine point, but as a later post below this one said, the technology and infrastructure will be terribly important once the fossil fuels run out. We might have 300-500 years of coal left in the US alone, so it's not perhaps a short-term concern, but think about the consequences of not having this solved by that time. The world would probably plunge back into the dark ages, with no possibility of another industrial revolution due to exhausted fossil fuels.
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PSU is cheap enough that it's worth it to me to spend a little bit extra to get a PSU which is quiet. This means it has a large diameter fan, and has plenty of power. Along those same lines, I like to get humongous CPU coolers with as much copper as possible so I can run without a CPU fan.
I like the way incadescent light looks; I like the light output I can get from them (try getting 500W equivalent from CFLs!); and with all the energy other people are saving I can sleep in peace with all my lights on :)
I appreciate your comment. But YU was indeed pretty dynamic for a while; at first Serbia and Montenegro refused to let go the dream and so declared themselves a somewhat smaller YU. Then they renamed themselves to Serbia and Montenegro. And now Montenegro split. I found the whole ordeal kind of funny :)
How many more countries are going to sprout out in that area? I already went broke replacing all my atlases when the USSR broke up, Yugoslavia broke up and reorged a couple of times, then Kosovo went independent... sheesh! I wish there was an atlas with a bunch of scrapbook-style cutouts for the most likely countries to secede next :)
Whippersnappers. I haven't rebooted my Multics machine since the 60s!
Um, guys, *whoosh*?
That's a great idea! I'm glad that I invested into the Nikon D1*V* which takes vector photos.
Build a robotic bully which will go back to our high school and beat up all those mean kids who took our lunch money!
"Richaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard!"
The short Facebook URLs waste bandwidth too ;)
The web server tried to fsync() on the logs and keeps waiting for 2+ minutes. Good luck.
Net positive energy return is probably a tall order, but they might be onto some other pretty interesting things. For example, what about the effect of palladium electrodes with huge surface area on hydrogen atoms? It's hard to imagine that there *isn't* any fusing happening simply because of statistics, and maybe there is a clever way to amplify that effect. Even if they just end up with a neutron source it's cool research.
Heh this did happen to me a few times, very cool virus. From then on I pulled my BIOSes and cut the write-enable pin off the chips, no problems then.
I considered Pittsburgh but it has two major problems: 1) weather sucks, 2) no ocean within a couple hours drive.
He could have been moderated offtopic by mistake.
Neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit are intuitive to me.
373.15 - Water boils at 1 atmosphere
310 - Very hot
300 - Hot
290 - Nice
280 - Chilly
273.15 - Water freezes at 1 atmosphere
0 - absolute zero! how easy is that.
Kelvin ftw chumps!
The only place that "clever" code might still make a difference nowadays is in embedded systems, kernel code or tight, highly optimized inner loops. In other applications, most likely it is much more important to have a good system architecture than get bogged down in tweaking code.
In the same way that one might say, "converting heat to electricity via thermocouple got to be more efficient than heat->steam->kinetic->electricity," the original post said converting to magnetic spin should be more efficient. Of course, that does not follow.
Just nitpicking, the concept sounds cool and if it actually worked Bob's our uncle.
I'm out of any more bright ideas.
Just use a laser
That's a fine point, but as a later post below this one said, the technology and infrastructure will be terribly important once the fossil fuels run out. We might have 300-500 years of coal left in the US alone, so it's not perhaps a short-term concern, but think about the consequences of not having this solved by that time. The world would probably plunge back into the dark ages, with no possibility of another industrial revolution due to exhausted fossil fuels.
How so? RTGs do something along that line, yet they are terribly inefficient.
I promised this 10 years ago, and where is my press? Pfft.
I think there is a high probability this thread will collapse into a series of bad puns.
english subtitles?