"The maximum external dose recorded is 199 mSv (0.19 Sv), and the maximum internal dose that has been calculated is 590 mSv (0.59 Sv). The maximum total dose recorded to one worker was 670 mSv."
That's 19, 59, and 67 REM/HOUR. Not to mention these are actual readings from people who had geiger counters on.
http://www.hps.org/documents/ANSFukushimaReport.pdf Straight from a recent and official Fukushima report.
Its not even that you can't get 3G service sometimes... It can be that 3G service is overloaded.
One example is at outdoor concerts... Where suddenly tens of thousands of people show up. The 3G tower in place just can't handle it. No calls, no texts, no data... But full bars.
Switch to 2G because everyone is on 3G, and everything works. Sure data's not fast, but you can send texts and make calls.
1. Temperatures across the same model CPU can vary wildly even with the same cooler/paste. 2. It's not unusual to see different cores on CPU's having up to a 10C difference in temperature even. 3. Software hardware monitors are notoriously inaccurate. 4. Combine 1-3 and the thermal reading done in software from this article means exactly nothing at all. 5. 50C idle is flat out *horrible* for a desktop or server. 6. No information is given on the thermal paste used for the comparison. Maybe they used cheese in a can?
This is very simple water cooling. The principle is identical to what is found in high end overclocked systems.
Your coolant only needs to be cooler than the core itself to remove heat. It's been known for a long time that dumping the heat of an overclocked system into a room through a water loop will heat said room.
Even in the dead of winter when it's 0C outside, my *one* overclocked computer can keep my 300SQ ft room heated to above 70 degrees with no additional heat sources.
Just another example of a company resting on its laurels, while someone else moves ahead. Wouldn't be surprised if DirecTV is gone in a couple years due to a mass exodus of customers to wired technologies. The only market DirecTV will still be able to appeal to is that where there is no cable/fiber optic available.
If the *actual* problem is surges due to your house being struck with lightning, a full house surge suppression unit will do NOTHING for you. The way surge suppressors work, is when the current/voltage spikes very high on the input, it grounds the line to dump the excess.
To better visualize: Line in -> Breaker -> House -> Outlet -> Device
In a situation with a suppressor at the breaker, you would have this: Line in -> Suppressor -> Breaker -> House -> Outlet
Such a setup would NOT protect you from a lightning strike, which is: Lightning -> House -> Outlet -> Device
The only way to protect your devices from death due to lightning strike is to put a supressor between the outlet and the device: Lightning -> House -> Outlet -> Suppressor -> Device
I find a good low cost option is to stick a Line Conditioner on each outlet that's sized for the devices that will plug into it. So my computer has an 1800W Line Conditioner, while my receiver and TV only have a 600W Line Conditioner. It'll only run a few hundred bucks to protect all the appliances you are interested in saving from lightning.
As mentioned by everyone else, if it's not life ending, insure it and just replace.
Honeywell is notorious for running competitors out of business, or buying up competitors and then simply discontinuing all their products. Specifically to control the market.
A good example of this is the window fan market, which Honeywell has almost a complete monopoly.
Several years ago there was a company called Lakewood Engineering that made, by far, the most effective and silent 'economic' household window fan. Honeywell bought them, and discontinued the model irregardless of the fact that their entire fan line was significantly inferior.
Basically any new blu-ray, you can not use AC3 audio because the cinavia watermark is preserved. Older blu-rays without cinavia protection are unaffected.
Even if I had kept my PS3 and jailbroken/hacked it, I don't think it's better than the HTPC I replaced it with. I never have to worry about my device not playing something, or the manufacturer removing functionality.
After updating my PS3's firmware, I could no longer play my blu-ray backups that I had ripped with AC3 audio. I didn't hesitate. I sold my PS3 and bought parts to build an HTPC - and never looked back.
I don't regret the decision at all. Neither will you.
With drive capacities soaring, I wonder if you'll really need 10 drives. You might want to try something like a fractal design array. It's a small htpc case for a microatx board. It has mounts for six 3.5" drives, and these days a microatx board will have everything you need, including integrated video for all your playback needs.
Naturally, we'll just make a boot sector with virus protection code that loads before anything else.
Yo Dog, I heard you like bootsectors. So I put a bootsector in your bootsector, so you can boot, while you reboot!
Genius, but a bad man and certainly no visionary.
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Jobs achieved a lot in his life time. Looking at what he did though... It was just stuff that big corporations have been doing since corporations existed. Control your market. Stand for things that will make you money. Screw everything else.
If Jobs hadn't been in computers, the last 10 years would have progressed the industry significantly more. We wouldn't have appletards that don't know how to actually _operate_ a computer. It would have become a necessary skill for success. Instead we had a general dumbing down of the computing populace.
People would understand their digital rights. People would know how to interact with a filesystem, and not just iTunes. And everyone would have higher quality music.
It was the first controller on the market. It's got two ports each rated for 6Gbit/sec and it's connected via a single PCI-E x1 lane that's theoretical maximum is 5Gbit/sec.
Nobody should have been surprised by this at all. The information was readily available.
Basically, it's suitable for a single device that's sata6, and won't outperform the sata3 controller in some areas.
The device was only meant as a stop gap for bleeding edge users to get the capability.
I know a schematic has to be out there, and I don't want to make one myself. Where do I go? Now I'll check Circuit Bee before wasting time searching for one on google or making one myself.
Not mentioned is that Facebook's implementation of MySQL uses a custom engine and can perform about 500,000 transactions a second with only 1.2Gb/sec worth of bandwidth. A far cry from 'regular' MySQL and performs better than many enterprise products like Postgre.
That's one of the primary beauties of MySQL, the engine can be changed to suit your needs.
All the mobile companies do it, unfortunately. Why is voice data less expensive than any other data? Or, for that matter, why is data I view on my smartphone any different than data I pull down with my smartphone and then display on another device?
Foxconn will still make money, they'll still treat their workers poorly, and we'll still keep buying their products.
Foxconn has their hands in EVERYTHING. From sockets to full products under contract with other companies. They do it all when it comes to semiconductors.
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My faith in the WSJ has just fallen significntly.
"The maximum external dose recorded is 199 mSv (0.19 Sv), and the maximum internal dose that has been calculated is 590 mSv (0.59 Sv). The maximum total dose recorded to one worker was 670 mSv."
That's 19, 59, and 67 REM/HOUR. Not to mention these are actual readings from people who had geiger counters on.
http://www.hps.org/documents/ANSFukushimaReport.pdf
Straight from a recent and official Fukushima report.
Its not even that you can't get 3G service sometimes... It can be that 3G service is overloaded.
One example is at outdoor concerts... Where suddenly tens of thousands of people show up. The 3G tower in place just can't handle it. No calls, no texts, no data... But full bars.
Switch to 2G because everyone is on 3G, and everything works. Sure data's not fast, but you can send texts and make calls.
1. Temperatures across the same model CPU can vary wildly even with the same cooler/paste.
2. It's not unusual to see different cores on CPU's having up to a 10C difference in temperature even.
3. Software hardware monitors are notoriously inaccurate.
4. Combine 1-3 and the thermal reading done in software from this article means exactly nothing at all.
5. 50C idle is flat out *horrible* for a desktop or server.
6. No information is given on the thermal paste used for the comparison. Maybe they used cheese in a can?
This is very simple water cooling. The principle is identical to what is found in high end overclocked systems.
Your coolant only needs to be cooler than the core itself to remove heat. It's been known for a long time that dumping the heat of an overclocked system into a room through a water loop will heat said room.
Even in the dead of winter when it's 0C outside, my *one* overclocked computer can keep my 300SQ ft room heated to above 70 degrees with no additional heat sources.
News? I guess. Definitely a stale idea though.
Just another example of a company resting on its laurels, while someone else moves ahead.
Wouldn't be surprised if DirecTV is gone in a couple years due to a mass exodus of customers to wired technologies. The only market DirecTV will still be able to appeal to is that where there is no cable/fiber optic available.
If the *actual* problem is surges due to your house being struck with lightning, a full house surge suppression unit will do NOTHING for you. The way surge suppressors work, is when the current/voltage spikes very high on the input, it grounds the line to dump the excess.
To better visualize:
Line in -> Breaker -> House -> Outlet -> Device
In a situation with a suppressor at the breaker, you would have this:
Line in -> Suppressor -> Breaker -> House -> Outlet
Such a setup would NOT protect you from a lightning strike, which is:
Lightning -> House -> Outlet -> Device
The only way to protect your devices from death due to lightning strike is to put a supressor between the outlet and the device:
Lightning -> House -> Outlet -> Suppressor -> Device
I find a good low cost option is to stick a Line Conditioner on each outlet that's sized for the devices that will plug into it. So my computer has an 1800W Line Conditioner, while my receiver and TV only have a 600W Line Conditioner. It'll only run a few hundred bucks to protect all the appliances you are interested in saving from lightning.
As mentioned by everyone else, if it's not life ending, insure it and just replace.
Honeywell is notorious for running competitors out of business, or buying up competitors and then simply discontinuing all their products. Specifically to control the market.
A good example of this is the window fan market, which Honeywell has almost a complete monopoly.
Several years ago there was a company called Lakewood Engineering that made, by far, the most effective and silent 'economic' household window fan. Honeywell bought them, and discontinued the model irregardless of the fact that their entire fan line was significantly inferior.
Basically any new blu-ray, you can not use AC3 audio because the cinavia watermark is preserved. Older blu-rays without cinavia protection are unaffected.
Even if I had kept my PS3 and jailbroken/hacked it, I don't think it's better than the HTPC I replaced it with. I never have to worry about my device not playing something, or the manufacturer removing functionality.
After updating my PS3's firmware, I could no longer play my blu-ray backups that I had ripped with AC3 audio.
I didn't hesitate. I sold my PS3 and bought parts to build an HTPC - and never looked back.
I don't regret the decision at all. Neither will you.
*facepalm*
Someone's going to go well beyond 5.6ghz using the 125MHz BCLK strap.
And they won't even need 57x multiplier.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I'd like to propose a new Internet meme: "Dave with a V".
Dave is clearly spelled with an N.
First space balls, now this?!
With drive capacities soaring, I wonder if you'll really need 10 drives.
You might want to try something like a fractal design array. It's a small htpc case for a microatx board. It has mounts for six 3.5" drives, and these days a microatx board will have everything you need, including integrated video for all your playback needs.
Seems a little less than professional there, NASA.
There used to be a post worth modding 5 points here.
I've got nobody telling me how awesome Apple is any more!
Naturally, we'll just make a boot sector with virus protection code that loads before anything else.
Yo Dog, I heard you like bootsectors. So I put a bootsector in your bootsector, so you can boot, while you reboot!
Jobs achieved a lot in his life time. Looking at what he did though... It was just stuff that big corporations have been doing since corporations existed. Control your market. Stand for things that will make you money. Screw everything else.
If Jobs hadn't been in computers, the last 10 years would have progressed the industry significantly more. We wouldn't have appletards that don't know how to actually _operate_ a computer. It would have become a necessary skill for success. Instead we had a general dumbing down of the computing populace.
People would understand their digital rights. People would know how to interact with a filesystem, and not just iTunes. And everyone would have higher quality music.
It was the first controller on the market. It's got two ports each rated for 6Gbit/sec and it's connected via a single PCI-E x1 lane that's theoretical maximum is 5Gbit/sec.
Nobody should have been surprised by this at all. The information was readily available.
Basically, it's suitable for a single device that's sata6, and won't outperform the sata3 controller in some areas.
The device was only meant as a stop gap for bleeding edge users to get the capability.
I know a schematic has to be out there, and I don't want to make one myself. Where do I go? Now I'll check Circuit Bee before wasting time searching for one on google or making one myself.
Not mentioned is that Facebook's implementation of MySQL uses a custom engine and can perform about 500,000 transactions a second with only 1.2Gb/sec worth of bandwidth. A far cry from 'regular' MySQL and performs better than many enterprise products like Postgre.
That's one of the primary beauties of MySQL, the engine can be changed to suit your needs.
You go this way, I go that way. We'll find out which works better.
Unfortunately that's what it's going to come down to, and someone's going to suffer. That's America. Go capitalism! My quick buck at your expense.
All the mobile companies do it, unfortunately.
Why is voice data less expensive than any other data? Or, for that matter, why is data I view on my smartphone any different than data I pull down with my smartphone and then display on another device?
Foxconn will still make money, they'll still treat their workers poorly, and we'll still keep buying their products.
Foxconn has their hands in EVERYTHING. From sockets to full products under contract with other companies. They do it all when it comes to semiconductors.