Free speech is an inconvenience to the Bush administration. They mechanize the rejection of emails to the White House; the Forest Service says don't even bother emailing us; and the TTB (formerly ATF) begs for comments and then renegs on a commitment to maintain privacy because, somehow, a giant government agency can't hire someone to write a sed script to remove the words before and after the @-sign.
Of course, the ideas of anyone under $10 million net worth don't go anywhere with these guys, anyway.
The economic system of America exists to profit the people. All of the people. When it ceases to do so, and instead becomes a feudalist system, it's time to remind the people who own the businesses that business has no rights.
Carly Fiorina betrayed the founders of HP and now she'd betraying the country that gave her not only the opportunity but the encouragement to become an uncontrolled greedhead.
She'll be the first one hanged when the revolution comes.
It couldn't be that the/. community plurality is incorrect in their assumption of the negative finding of fact on SCO's primacy in the ownership of the intellectual property at dispute. Could it?
I would never have used Eric Raymond as a redactor for a text on intellectual integrity. Though maybe this is really about purposely avoiding intellectual integrity. In which case he'd be the perfect guy to show it to.
Any chance it will take less than 11 hours and 20 minutes to install Linux to a usable configuration? No? Then I wouldn't worry about entropy elsewhere.
pcmall.com is selling Klipsch Promedia 4.1 speaker kits for $108 plus about $30 shipping (the subbie is heavy). They're factory refurbs, but maybe that means they won't blow (like mine did a week before xmas). $108 is about 40% of MSRP, btw. This deal is screaming.
Trust me, the Klipsch speaker lines are by far the best audio units you can get that are designed specifically for computer use. Orders of magnitude better than anything else.
Get some cheap 36-inch stands to put the rears behind your ears, and marvel at what real dynamic range and flat, wide frequency response sounds like.
If I can, I'm taking my old ones downstairs and putting them on my livingroom media setup. No sense wasting the best speakers in the house just because the amp went tits-up.
Right now, on a 2.2GHz/400MHzFSB/1GB266MHzDDR Wintel machine, I'm ripping CDs in CDex, playing MP3s with Winamp, and videos with WMP, while browsing the net (yes, all at once; doesn't happen often, but then neither does this thread).
No glitches.
Oh yeah. And UD is running in the background (the only app lower than Normal priority) curing cancer or finding anthrax vaccines or some background-worthy shit like that.
Load? 100%, naturally. Cost? $1300 (18 months ago) plus sweat equity to install it all (pushbutton Windoze installer; 20 minutes tops for these apps).
This is what I was looking for. Hack one of these things to let LN2 right onto the chip face to get it down into the -198C range and you'll have a reason to use up this much slashdot disk space.
Tom's Hardware are a bunch of candyassed screw-pullers.
If they were merely boiling the LN2, they didn't need the tube at all, which was my original point.
And ice wouldn't be a problem any more than insulation would.
As for that boiling, it will occur faster at lower pressures, so you still want a shorter column of LN2.
I wonder if they couldn't have gotten the maximum cooling by removing the heatsink and the chip lid and dripping the LN2 directly on the silicon. It'd take a fairly sealed system to prevent contamination. Might be interesting to see how the mechanical properties of the chip hold up to that as well. It's been a long time since I was poking around in open, operating ICs, and I never tried to freeze one while it was running naked like that...
The heatsink they used in the base of the copper tube provides a whole lot of flat, (relatively) warm surface area. I'm not sure how easily the LN2 can get down into the base of the heatsink, but it seems to have done O.K. This makes me think they should somehow 'inject' LN2 into the sides of the heatsink. A taller tube placed on the side would provide a pretty good pressure head...
The inside of the heatsink is flat, but there isn't much heatsink beyond the tube. And they insulated the tube, so all of its heat has to get to the top of the column of nitrogen before it's exchanged with the evaporation. They're using the pipe as a thermal conductor, and the nitrogen inside is effectively a liquid-air insulator (don't quiz me on the thermal conductance of bulk LN2; I expect it's less than H20, and liquid coolers usually use recirculation (convection) rather than conduction).
If they'd left the heatsink as-is, and injected or sprayed the LN2 onto its fins, that would have been the most efficient cooler they could have built from those parts.
The condensation problem could have been handled by leaving the case on the unit; the evaporating nitrogen would displace all the other gases and create a positive pressure at the louvers.
But they're too geeky not to want to "see" the electrical parts "working", yet not geeky enough to see that putting thermal insulation on a heatsink is a pretty big clue you've done something really dumb.
little drops are going to evaporate before they hit the board.
No they aren't. Evaporation isn't instantaneous.
But if you like, put the mouth of the drip pipe a millimeter above the chip.
The Germans didn't lose any war from lack of engineering skills.
Actually, being unable to gauge force and supply levels so your fairly small, slowly resupplied army has to fight large armies on three major fronts, including Russia in Winter, is pretty bad engineering. Add to that the fact that many of their engineers were deliberately sandbagging projects, and yes, a lack of engineering skill was partly responsible for losing wars for Germany.
Start planning a wake for your old DVD player, because the lack of a pause at layer change is way more than enough reason to early-adopt a blu-wav player.
The inevitable shrinking of feature-film DVDs to 3-inch discs will attract the proles.
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Free speech is an inconvenience to the Bush administration. They mechanize the rejection of emails to the White House; the Forest Service says don't even bother emailing us; and the TTB (formerly ATF) begs for comments and then renegs on a commitment to maintain privacy because, somehow, a giant government agency can't hire someone to write a sed script to remove the words before and after the @-sign.
Of course, the ideas of anyone under $10 million net worth don't go anywhere with these guys, anyway.
Corporations are considered "citizens".
Not according to the Supreme Court. There's a line in a ruling about the rights of corporations, but the rest of the ruling repudiates those rights.
When they start developing a robotic chimp, we'll know Bush is secretly planning for his succession.
Business has no rights. Check the constitution.
The economic system of America exists to profit the people. All of the people. When it ceases to do so, and instead becomes a feudalist system, it's time to remind the people who own the businesses that business has no rights.
Carly Fiorina betrayed the founders of HP and now she'd betraying the country that gave her not only the opportunity but the encouragement to become an uncontrolled greedhead.
She'll be the first one hanged when the revolution comes.
Hey. Just so long as it doesn't get into the swap file when I run the Deep Thought simulation of Earth. Again.
(Got any cheese?)
findstr? STR? How the fvckstr did that get in there?
I pasted that biatch from the xterm.
Blame Cygwin. It usually fits.
It couldn't be that the /. community plurality is incorrect in their assumption of the negative finding of fact on SCO's primacy in the ownership of the intellectual property at dispute. Could it?
Not only am I a Windows Power User, but I can pull up Cygwin whenever I need a fix of stuff like
This article reminds me of an old joke I just made up:
Why did they call it Windows?
Because it's easily broken.
I would never have used Eric Raymond as a redactor for a text on intellectual integrity. Though maybe this is really about purposely avoiding intellectual integrity. In which case he'd be the perfect guy to show it to.
Didn't Popular Science publish 3-D photos taken by the Viking mission to Marsin the 1970s?
Oh, by the way, here's the link I found that page at. Just leave the Karma on the dresser.
Any chance it will take less than 11 hours and 20 minutes to install Linux to a usable configuration? No? Then I wouldn't worry about entropy elsewhere.
A plug for a good deal, not a spam:
pcmall.com is selling Klipsch Promedia 4.1 speaker kits for $108 plus about $30 shipping (the subbie is heavy). They're factory refurbs, but maybe that means they won't blow (like mine did a week before xmas). $108 is about 40% of MSRP, btw. This deal is screaming.
Trust me, the Klipsch speaker lines are by far the best audio units you can get that are designed specifically for computer use. Orders of magnitude better than anything else.
Get some cheap 36-inch stands to put the rears behind your ears, and marvel at what real dynamic range and flat, wide frequency response sounds like.
If I can, I'm taking my old ones downstairs and putting them on my livingroom media setup. No sense wasting the best speakers in the house just because the amp went tits-up.
Right now, on a 2.2GHz/400MHzFSB/1GB266MHzDDR Wintel machine, I'm ripping CDs in CDex, playing MP3s with Winamp, and videos with WMP, while browsing the net (yes, all at once; doesn't happen often, but then neither does this thread).
No glitches.
Oh yeah. And UD is running in the background (the only app lower than Normal priority) curing cancer or finding anthrax vaccines or some background-worthy shit like that.
Load? 100%, naturally. Cost? $1300 (18 months ago) plus sweat equity to install it all (pushbutton Windoze installer; 20 minutes tops for these apps).
Still no glitches.
He's a bit psycho, as far as I can tell.
The SCO case is to wannabes what the Condit case was to trailer trash.
This is what I was looking for. Hack one of these things to let LN2 right onto the chip face to get it down into the -198C range and you'll have a reason to use up this much slashdot disk space.
Tom's Hardware are a bunch of candyassed screw-pullers.
Is a re-reply.
Yeah. It's the new-year.
Nothing new to reply.
If they were merely boiling the LN2, they didn't need the tube at all, which was my original point.
And ice wouldn't be a problem any more than insulation would.
As for that boiling, it will occur faster at lower pressures, so you still want a shorter column of LN2.
I wonder if they couldn't have gotten the maximum cooling by removing the heatsink and the chip lid and dripping the LN2 directly on the silicon. It'd take a fairly sealed system to prevent contamination. Might be interesting to see how the mechanical properties of the chip hold up to that as well. It's been a long time since I was poking around in open, operating ICs, and I never tried to freeze one while it was running naked like that...
The heatsink they used in the base of the copper tube provides a whole lot of flat, (relatively) warm surface area. I'm not sure how easily the LN2 can get down into the base of the heatsink, but it seems to have done O.K. This makes me think they should somehow 'inject' LN2 into the sides of the heatsink. A taller tube placed on the side would provide a pretty good pressure head...
The inside of the heatsink is flat, but there isn't much heatsink beyond the tube. And they insulated the tube, so all of its heat has to get to the top of the column of nitrogen before it's exchanged with the evaporation. They're using the pipe as a thermal conductor, and the nitrogen inside is effectively a liquid-air insulator (don't quiz me on the thermal conductance of bulk LN2; I expect it's less than H20, and liquid coolers usually use recirculation (convection) rather than conduction).
If they'd left the heatsink as-is, and injected or sprayed the LN2 onto its fins, that would have been the most efficient cooler they could have built from those parts.
The condensation problem could have been handled by leaving the case on the unit; the evaporating nitrogen would displace all the other gases and create a positive pressure at the louvers.
But they're too geeky not to want to "see" the electrical parts "working", yet not geeky enough to see that putting thermal insulation on a heatsink is a pretty big clue you've done something really dumb.
little drops are going to evaporate before they hit the board.
No they aren't. Evaporation isn't instantaneous.
But if you like, put the mouth of the drip pipe a millimeter above the chip.
The Germans didn't lose any war from lack of engineering skills.
Actually, being unable to gauge force and supply levels so your fairly small, slowly resupplied army has to fight large armies on three major fronts, including Russia in Winter, is pretty bad engineering. Add to that the fact that many of their engineers were deliberately sandbagging projects, and yes, a lack of engineering skill was partly responsible for losing wars for Germany.
There is one format that will win.
Blu-wav.
Start planning a wake for your old DVD player, because the lack of a pause at layer change is way more than enough reason to early-adopt a blu-wav player.
The inevitable shrinking of feature-film DVDs to 3-inch discs will attract the proles.
Well I'll be. That infotainment super-highball is worth at least one plated medallion.
Good on ya, ya limey suisse.
Liquid Nitrogen is cold when it's evaporating. You want it to be cold? Give it a flat surface to evaporate on, and keep pouring on the Nitrogen.
Basically, if you lay a piece of Saran Wrap on your motherboard, then let the LN2 drip on the CPU constantly, you can cool that bastard to -195.798C.
Making a big, tall tower just looks like a stupid Freudian mistake.
Sorry Germans. No wonder they've lost every war they ever started.