Who the hell is St. Pancreas, and why did you need to visit him? Is he the patron saint of Endocrine/Digestive Duality? I suppose he could absolve you of alcoholic overindulgence, but St. Liver might be your better bet.
Wow. I'd say you're lucky to be alive. I didn't know if you'd suffered torn arteries or other circulatory injuries that would've required heart surgery. A 3/4 ton truck to the forehead would explain it!
Seriously, best of luck to you - I hope you've recovered as best you can and are enjoying life.
Because a cell phone is not a Part 15 device. Read Title 47, Part 15 some time - interesting stuff. Cell phones fall under at least parts 22 and 24, and possibly others.
The evidence indicates overuse of stents may be leading to thousands of heart attacks and deaths each year, whether stents are being used in relatively mild cases where drugs should be prescribed instead, or because patients are receiving drug-coated versions where simpler, cheaper bare-metal devices might work just as well.
Perhaps you can help me, if you would. I've been looking for either a real thoroughbred FPGA-based CPU implementation or a very fast, low power SOC for a pet combinatorial project of mine. It needs to be wicked fast for integer ops; no need for floating point. It only needs a few K of RAM, and very little I/O to the real world. Do you have any pointers to examples of FPGA CPU's or SOC's that fit the bill?
I say screw you and the horse you rode in on to anyone who tells me my car is worse for the environment than theirs. For the record I drive a 1970s 'pickup truck' (we call it a ute) with a 5 litre V8 engine, carburettor...
There's the rub. A 1970's vintage vehicle, at least in the US, was likely to not have a catalytic converter (they were mandated in the US in 1976). If your ute doesn't have one, it puts out much higher levels of CO, unburnt hydrocarbons, and lots of Nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Since it has a carb, it also emits large amounts of evaporated fuel - when you shut the engine off, its heat soaks into the carburetor and intake evaporating any unburnt fuel.
Carbs are typically less efficient than fuel injection, so you mileage is not as high as it could be, everything else being equal.
I don't remember whose ad it was, but one car company claimed that their car polluted less running than another brand's car did turned off. Most of that was due to fuel evaporation from the carb, IIRC.
As are bananas, and especially potassium chloride salt substitute. Lots of K-40 in both of those items. A link to a great resource - especially the part about areas of the world that have 400x the 'normal' background radiation level.
The students, using their own Dell, Lenovo ThinkPad and Gateway laptops, are now in the process of developing a genetically modified strain of yeast that will ferment beer and produce resveratrol at the same time.
What's with the blatant advertisement for those specific brands of laptops? The rest of the article seems ok, but the sentence that specifically mentions the brands of the students' laptops seems forced. I'm surprised they didn't mention a few brand names of wine and beer while they were at it.
...this wasn't an anonymous whistleblower article! Here's a URL in the document: file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Rich Miller/My Documents/New Folder/data/20081021212457/index.html
Autoimmune rejection, plain and simple. The proteins on a fetal stem cell may be rejected by the patient, whereas stem cells derived from their own fat are already histologically compatible.
Problem 1: Fire codes. To date, nobody has come up with a non-flammable insulating oil to replace PCBs (carcinogenic, nasty stuff). Oil is flammable and, in combination with electrical equipment, a very bad idea. Generally, it is not allowed within occupied ares outside of fireproof vaults.
Mineral oil is not classified as 'flammable', but 'combustible'. It must be heated to 275F (its flash point) before its vapor will support combustion.
Canola oil's flash point is extremely high - 620F, with no autoignition temperature. One of the Novec fluids has no flash point, but autoignites at 375C/707F. I'd say they're essentially the same from a fire hazard standpoint. If anything gets close to 620-700F, my computer coolant is the last thing I'll be worrying about.
Check out the ZigBee standard - one of its main uses is interconnecting A/V equipment and lighting so that you can do things like that. Imagine being able to stick light switches on the wall where you need them, not where the electrician put them. Imagine having a 'panic button' by your bed that turns on your outside lights. The uses are endless!
...using more effective means to extract the waste heat from the processors they already have. Lower thermal resistance equals lower operating temperatures. As many boxes as they have maybe they should invest in large-scale refrigerant-based cooling system with tiny heat exchangers for each CPU. I envision overhead refrigerant lines with taps coming down into each cabinet to serve the procs in it. Each server could have quick-disconnect lines on the back for easy removal. No need to cool all that air, and you'd get very good thermal resistance figures.
I agree with most of what you said, but I think there is a _slight_ difference between Google having the higher-temp-rated chips and your average Joe user having them. Google's chips will be running full throttle/full temp 24/7; Joe user might run them full blast (and therefore full temp) 2% of the time. I bet the energy savings are not insignificant when usage patterns are taken into consideration.
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Microsoft pushes Windows in Africa...
Microsoft should be pushing mosquito netting in Africa - Windows will just let the Malarial mosquitoes in.
Who the hell is St. Pancreas, and why did you need to visit him? Is he the patron saint of Endocrine/Digestive Duality? I suppose he could absolve you of alcoholic overindulgence, but St. Liver might be your better bet.
Wow. I'd say you're lucky to be alive. I didn't know if you'd suffered torn arteries or other circulatory injuries that would've required heart surgery. A 3/4 ton truck to the forehead would explain it!
Seriously, best of luck to you - I hope you've recovered as best you can and are enjoying life.
If you were on cardiac bypass or were cooled and then rewarmed too quickly, you might be suffering from Pump Head.
Because a cell phone is not a Part 15 device. Read Title 47, Part 15 some time - interesting stuff. Cell phones fall under at least parts 22 and 24, and possibly others.
At what point does Brownian motion become a serious consideration?
I don't know about you, but after a few footlong chilidogs I take any Brownian motion very seriously.
Perhaps you can help me, if you would. I've been looking for either a real thoroughbred FPGA-based CPU implementation or a very fast, low power SOC for a pet combinatorial project of mine. It needs to be wicked fast for integer ops; no need for floating point. It only needs a few K of RAM, and very little I/O to the real world. Do you have any pointers to examples of FPGA CPU's or SOC's that fit the bill?
Thanks!
I say screw you and the horse you rode in on to anyone who tells me my car is worse for the environment than theirs. For the record I drive a 1970s 'pickup truck' (we call it a ute) with a 5 litre V8 engine, carburettor ...
There's the rub. A 1970's vintage vehicle, at least in the US, was likely to not have a catalytic converter (they were mandated in the US in 1976). If your ute doesn't have one, it puts out much higher levels of CO, unburnt hydrocarbons, and lots of Nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Since it has a carb, it also emits large amounts of evaporated fuel - when you shut the engine off, its heat soaks into the carburetor and intake evaporating any unburnt fuel.
Carbs are typically less efficient than fuel injection, so you mileage is not as high as it could be, everything else being equal.
I don't remember whose ad it was, but one car company claimed that their car polluted less running than another brand's car did turned off. Most of that was due to fuel evaporation from the carb, IIRC.
As are bananas, and especially potassium chloride salt substitute. Lots of K-40 in both of those items. A link to a great resource - especially the part about areas of the world that have 400x the 'normal' background radiation level.
The students, using their own Dell, Lenovo ThinkPad and Gateway laptops, are now in the process of developing a genetically modified strain of yeast that will ferment beer and produce resveratrol at the same time.
What's with the blatant advertisement for those specific brands of laptops? The rest of the article seems ok, but the sentence that specifically mentions the brands of the students' laptops seems forced. I'm surprised they didn't mention a few brand names of wine and beer while they were at it.
...this wasn't an anonymous whistleblower article! Here's a URL in the document: file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Rich Miller/My Documents/New Folder/data/20081021212457/index.html
Autoimmune rejection, plain and simple. The proteins on a fetal stem cell may be rejected by the patient, whereas stem cells derived from their own fat are already histologically compatible.
Problem 1: Fire codes. To date, nobody has come up with a non-flammable insulating oil to replace PCBs (carcinogenic, nasty stuff). Oil is flammable and, in combination with electrical equipment, a very bad idea. Generally, it is not allowed within occupied ares outside of fireproof vaults.
Mineral oil is not classified as 'flammable', but 'combustible'. It must be heated to 275F (its flash point) before its vapor will support combustion.
Canola oil's flash point is extremely high - 620F, with no autoignition temperature. One of the Novec fluids has no flash point, but autoignites at 375C/707F. I'd say they're essentially the same from a fire hazard standpoint. If anything gets close to 620-700F, my computer coolant is the last thing I'll be worrying about.
Cray was doing this in the early 80's with Fluorinert. Unisys has two patents that seem duplicates.
Check out the ZigBee standard - one of its main uses is interconnecting A/V equipment and lighting so that you can do things like that. Imagine being able to stick light switches on the wall where you need them, not where the electrician put them. Imagine having a 'panic button' by your bed that turns on your outside lights. The uses are endless!
...using more effective means to extract the waste heat from the processors they already have. Lower thermal resistance equals lower operating temperatures. As many boxes as they have maybe they should invest in large-scale refrigerant-based cooling system with tiny heat exchangers for each CPU. I envision overhead refrigerant lines with taps coming down into each cabinet to serve the procs in it. Each server could have quick-disconnect lines on the back for easy removal. No need to cool all that air, and you'd get very good thermal resistance figures.
I agree with most of what you said, but I think there is a _slight_ difference between Google having the higher-temp-rated chips and your average Joe user having them. Google's chips will be running full throttle/full temp 24/7; Joe user might run them full blast (and therefore full temp) 2% of the time. I bet the energy savings are not insignificant when usage patterns are taken into consideration.
That's no pentagram, that's a Starfleet insignia.
cycle 24 is late. What does it mean?
The sun's pregnant, that's what it means.
Troll??? Come on, secret government satellites, a hint of a coverup? That's at least good enough for 'Insightful'!
I'm sure photos were captured, but your and my unclassified eyes will never see them!
Wouldn't that be "Pics or it [ did & didn't ] happen."?
Tasha Yar wants to know "How fully functional?"
Call Scotty - he's got the bloody formula for transparent plywood on his Mac Classic.