You're thinking gamma rays or neutrons here. Alpha and beta rays (respectively helium ions and free electrons or positrons) are mostly stopped by a few mm of the stuff.
Mostly:) That's why you use ten inches. Half-thickness. So although a few mm would stop most, it wouldn't stop everything.
The more transistors you cram into a chip and the faster you ask electrons to go, the more power you need, and the CPU gets hot. You can compensate for that only by using a finer design and that's why later generations of the same chip are cooler.
Ah, that's what they tell you. It's a conspiracy. They're just saying that to get more money.
I bet the Intel board of directors have shares in liquid helium companies.
That's why I said non-radioactive lead:) Just purify it and get rid of all the isotopes that do decay and you're left with something pretty hard to get anything through.
Yeah, but the most probable thing always happens, doesn't it? At the atomic level anyway. So whilst the atoms could be (and are) everywhere at the same time, there's one place they're most likely to be, so that's where they will be.
I didn't think one atom was possible, at least for conventional stuff. I thought semiconductors worked because of a group of atoms (usually silicon or that ge thing I can't spell) with covalent bonding, where a gap appears for electrons to get through. So unless you put them in groups I'd have thought two atoms would be the minimum...
Well sticking a case on the processor would help. At least, as much as anything would. You could just imagine, tiny processors with a ten inch lead (as in the purified non-radioactive stuff) case round them.
Come to think of it, I bet that's what the real reason for cooling fans is. They could easily make processors not get hot, but they make people buy huge cooling fans instead to make more money.
IIRC, there have been 8GHz transistors (or mosfets) available for a few years now. Nowhere near that small, but they exist. I think this is more a publicity stunt from Intel, trying to claw back some custom from AMD.
Slashdot isn't profit making. They're a news site, not a company, and the banner ads aren't for revenue. As for freshmeat, they provide an internet service don't they? I see what you mean though.
Come to think of it, aren't all the other freshmeat.* sites pr0n?
Well it would be easy enough to change Konqueror, since the source is available... You probably wouldn't even need to do it through a plugin, just edit the URI resolving code to recognise the new tlds and get whatever it would have to from there.
As for minority browsers, well, I thought we were supposed to ignore them. Seriously, there would have to be some way for them to get at the new names -- some portalish thing maybe?
ICANN are bad because they're corrupt. Don't know the full details, don't want to. I'd rather not know.
BTW, you know there's a.us tld? Oh, and.net is supposed to be for service provides IIRC, so banning commercial activity there would be OTT. On the other hand, kicking commercial stuff from.org would be good.
We'd have to be careful that this doesn't start another browser war. You could just imagine: sorry, this tld is only reachable by IE users. Netscape users can get stuffed.
So who would regulate them then? I'd guess there would be a.aol fairly quickly, and if this continues what's to stop every company from getting into bed with one of the big two and creating their own tlds?
Because Average User person wants it to open up in a new window. It isn't slashdot or some other site aimed at people who know what javascript it, it's a news site aimed at everyone. The majority of people just want to see the movie in a nice little window on their screen without knowing what is going on behind the scenes.
It's a nuisance, especially to people with scripting turned off / not available, but sites like CNN target the general public, not nerds like ourselves.
Don't mean to start a flame war here, but IMHO it's a lot harder to write stuff, especially games, for MacOS than either Win32 or any of the various Linux display models. The worst thing is the memory management (I know this is changing in MacOS X, but for now...). Having to effectively specify how much memory your app will use at design-time is bad, and very few users know how to allocate extra memory to a program if they actually have it.
It's coding ease as much as anything which gets releases -- there's still a fair number of Amiga releases, yet it has a (comparitively) small user base.
Just my experience in programming anyway. Please don't flame me about [whatever OS] being better or anything...
They aren't doing a port, they used that word because it's more (l)user friendly... It appears they're using a common codebase with all OS-specific stuff in separate libraries, so they just compile with a directive or whatever...
Doing it this way, they don't really need to even convince the publishers. If they give the publishers a finished Win32 version and say "oh, by the way, here's a Linux version as well" they'd be stupid not to take it. Sure, they'd probably have a smaller initial distribution, but when they see it selling they'll print (don't know the real word, burn seems wrong) a load more...
Yeah, you only need karma 1 to metamod. Once you go to the page it automatically sticks the link up for you, but until you've used it once you never see it, regardless of karma.
You obviously haven't seen how the company I work for is run... Those with experience relevant to the company stay at the bottom, the managers are all clueless (and don't have business experience either).
I was hoping to get away with it... What happened with 3d is that people used software only. Then came the 3d cards and people rewrote software to go with them. That was when 3d was new. Thing is, all the sound APIs are defined already, and neither A3D nor EAX has a decent true-3d implementation. The technology is already there to do true 3d in Dolby 5.1, which many new cards support directly or through emulation, but no-one is using them.
That's like saying "NASA spacecraft are only adequate". After all, they don't fly at 0.5c and they don't go to other galaxies. What software (except DVD players) is designed for full 3d sound anyway?
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Mostly :) That's why you use ten inches. Half-thickness. So although a few mm would stop most, it wouldn't stop everything.
Ah, that's what they tell you. It's a conspiracy. They're just saying that to get more money.
I bet the Intel board of directors have shares in liquid helium companies.
That's why I said non-radioactive lead :) Just purify it and get rid of all the isotopes that do decay and you're left with something pretty hard to get anything through.
Yeah, but the most probable thing always happens, doesn't it? At the atomic level anyway. So whilst the atoms could be (and are) everywhere at the same time, there's one place they're most likely to be, so that's where they will be.
I didn't think one atom was possible, at least for conventional stuff. I thought semiconductors worked because of a group of atoms (usually silicon or that ge thing I can't spell) with covalent bonding, where a gap appears for electrons to get through. So unless you put them in groups I'd have thought two atoms would be the minimum...
Well sticking a case on the processor would help. At least, as much as anything would. You could just imagine, tiny processors with a ten inch lead (as in the purified non-radioactive stuff) case round them.
Come to think of it, I bet that's what the real reason for cooling fans is. They could easily make processors not get hot, but they make people buy huge cooling fans instead to make more money.
Just remember, you read it here first.
IIRC, there have been 8GHz transistors (or mosfets) available for a few years now. Nowhere near that small, but they exist. I think this is more a publicity stunt from Intel, trying to claw back some custom from AMD.
Erm, when did they start stripping pre??? Should say:
127.0.0.1 localhost
1.2.3.4 whatever
c:\windows\hosts.sam -- edit it in a text editor. If you don't have one, create one. It's plain text, entries are one per line. Format is as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost 1.2.3.4 whateverSlashdot isn't profit making. They're a news site, not a company, and the banner ads aren't for revenue. As for freshmeat, they provide an internet service don't they? I see what you mean though.
Come to think of it, aren't all the other freshmeat.* sites pr0n?
Well it would be easy enough to change Konqueror, since the source is available... You probably wouldn't even need to do it through a plugin, just edit the URI resolving code to recognise the new tlds and get whatever it would have to from there.
As for minority browsers, well, I thought we were supposed to ignore them. Seriously, there would have to be some way for them to get at the new names -- some portalish thing maybe?
ICANN are bad because they're corrupt. Don't know the full details, don't want to. I'd rather not know.
BTW, you know there's a .us tld? Oh, and .net is supposed to be for service provides IIRC, so banning commercial activity there would be OTT. On the other hand, kicking commercial stuff from .org would be good.
We'd have to be careful that this doesn't start another browser war. You could just imagine: sorry, this tld is only reachable by IE users. Netscape users can get stuffed.
So who would regulate them then? I'd guess there would be a .aol fairly quickly, and if this continues what's to stop every company from getting into bed with one of the big two and creating their own tlds?
Maybe a USENET-style regulation thing?
I thought spacecraft were white for a reason -- doesn't it help them not burn up?
Besides, if anyone is going to sponsor them it should be Red Bull.
Dead easy. They sell Pluto rock toi gulliable people. Or they could just pretend to go to Pluto and sell normal rock at a huge price...
Would you rather a billion dollar satellite blew up?
Because Average User person wants it to open up in a new window. It isn't slashdot or some other site aimed at people who know what javascript it, it's a news site aimed at everyone. The majority of people just want to see the movie in a nice little window on their screen without knowing what is going on behind the scenes.
It's a nuisance, especially to people with scripting turned off / not available, but sites like CNN target the general public, not nerds like ourselves.
Don't mean to start a flame war here, but IMHO it's a lot harder to write stuff, especially games, for MacOS than either Win32 or any of the various Linux display models. The worst thing is the memory management (I know this is changing in MacOS X, but for now...). Having to effectively specify how much memory your app will use at design-time is bad, and very few users know how to allocate extra memory to a program if they actually have it.
It's coding ease as much as anything which gets releases -- there's still a fair number of Amiga releases, yet it has a (comparitively) small user base.
Just my experience in programming anyway. Please don't flame me about [whatever OS] being better or anything...
They aren't doing a port, they used that word because it's more (l)user friendly... It appears they're using a common codebase with all OS-specific stuff in separate libraries, so they just compile with a directive or whatever...
Doing it this way, they don't really need to even convince the publishers. If they give the publishers a finished Win32 version and say "oh, by the way, here's a Linux version as well" they'd be stupid not to take it. Sure, they'd probably have a smaller initial distribution, but when they see it selling they'll print (don't know the real word, burn seems wrong) a load more...
Yeah, you only need karma 1 to metamod. Once you go to the page it automatically sticks the link up for you, but until you've used it once you never see it, regardless of karma.
I meant posting at 2, not having a +2 bonus... Maybe I should drink more coffee, then people would understand me.
As for the +50 cap, it should be lower. Otherwise you just get to +50, then that's maybe a dozen comments you can post at 2 and get modded down for.
Erm, I think the Karma for +2 is quite a bit above +20... I seem to remember it being something like +23 or +27 (one of those two...).
You obviously haven't seen how the company I work for is run... Those with experience relevant to the company stay at the bottom, the managers are all clueless (and don't have business experience either).
We're not quite like Dilbert, but fairly close...
You'd get higher quality with two high up in front of you, two low down behind you and two floor speakers...
And I won't rise to the bait of your other point... Someone else probably will though :)
I was hoping to get away with it... What happened with 3d is that people used software only. Then came the 3d cards and people rewrote software to go with them. That was when 3d was new. Thing is, all the sound APIs are defined already, and neither A3D nor EAX has a decent true-3d implementation. The technology is already there to do true 3d in Dolby 5.1, which many new cards support directly or through emulation, but no-one is using them.
That's like saying "NASA spacecraft are only adequate". After all, they don't fly at 0.5c and they don't go to other galaxies. What software (except DVD players) is designed for full 3d sound anyway?