I'd rather replace any burned out surface mount fuses than figure out how to repair a circuit traces. They are just a tweezer away from replacement. You want to protect those smaller than hair diameter traces that look like viral dna snaking into many layers of the circuit board.
Large fuses may seem like a good idea, but think about circuit board real estate, connection integrety, and inductance generated by large fuses. And many of these fuses are solid state, autoresetting. This would be the only valid reason to power cycle your computer to fix your errors.
...and as the LN2 boils off, the box will be filled with dry, inert nitrogen. As an added bonus, this will help suppress fires.
I'd be careful about something condensing into the liquid nitrogen as it boils off. Like oxygen. Liquid oxygen may start to get concentrated over time into the mix and create an interesting condition known as rapid oxidation. Some people might call it combusion. Others may describe it as an spectacular explosion.
If liquid oxygen can set a highway on fire (to bad that famous tanker scene in Terminator wasn't O2, not N2,) imagine what it can do to a computer in the privacy of your own home.
I work with electric forklifts that are freezer duty. The circuit boards see freeze/thaw cycles of 0F-100F on a regular basis and get drenched.
How do we protect them and the wires? Silicon grease. Without that grease, 36 volts can burn and smoke a wet circuit board. Considering it works with hundreds of $20,000 fork lifts, I'd try this on your N2 powered turbochared motherboard.
I never understood this fascination with flywheels. When they have to put sand on the tracks to get traction, why would they need more temporary torque? Why not just increase the boost pressure from the turbos?
I used to work with 2800hp V16 twin turbo engines like the ones on the trains, but for electrical generation only. The turbos were rated for 60,000 rpm and they could hammer the pistons hard and shake the ground with rpm's to spare.
Your experience may vary. I have been using nvidia's drivers for my g2 toshiba satellite for over a year now. My laptop is always on, rarely powered down, and has yet to crash an X session.
And the movie industry keeps pushing for copy protection on video cameras just in case of the remote chance someone should shoot the screen and steal a movie. But an insider got the original and leaked it. Imagine that.
I suppose launching cell phones from our potato cannons will become expensive as we start getting traffic violations in the mail. That would be the end of our cell phone warfootball games.
58 speeding voilations in one afternoon? 226mph? In a school zone?
If I remember right, Mr. Gates himself related the story of reverse engineering MSDOS by dumpster diving for source code. There was also the incident of disk compression technology that was lifted from another company. To say that common people can not raise the hood of their own car to see how it works or put in a new engine might be called hypocritical.
I'm waiting for it to have over 4000 packages tested and available.
If you don't mind tarballs, it looks like that 4000 number has been surpased. This is my gentoo distribution tarball directory last updated a month ago:
The flickering flourescent lights in our offices sent our accountant to the hospital one day. Since my paychecks come from that office, I changed the lighting and recommended many fine plants and a mood change with nicer furniture. Approved. The deed was reciprocated: everyone at the site didn't get just one raise that year, but two big increases!
If movie theaters go in the opposite direction and enforce an image disrupting technology on its patrons, those customers will find alternate sources of entertainment fast. Having people get nauseous, sick, or going into physical fits isn't cool when the media hears about it.
It would depend on how the shutter of the camera of the projector and camera work. If they both are digital and latch the picture immediately, then we would have the blank frames problem. If the camera scans the pixels rapidly after enabled by the frame clock, then this would indeed alter the distortion pattern 90 degrees. If the digital projector serially writes the pixels in a scan format, the rotated camera may pick up dark and blinding fading triangles during the blanking and flashing times.
The easiest way to find out *exactly* what they do would to bring in a high speed digital camera and take a few hundred frames during a second. We could easily see the abnormal events.
Is talking about how the entertainment industry is trying to intrigue the public with media manipulation a violation of the DMCA?
I thought about defeating this for a moment and realized this may be a bad move for the content producers. Why? There will be people with too much time on their hands modifying cameras learning a few tricks. One such trick is to synchronize the camera and screen frames. This is an easy trick that may be familiar with those doing rapid screen captures with webcams. Since the projection camera uses a "clocked" framerate, it is easy to sync on one bright frame and adjust the recording device to that clock rate. What this does is eliminate the information loss between mismatched recording frames. Blur is decreased, motion is much more crisp, and image quality slightly improves. Requiring people who sneak cameras into theaters to chip a syncing circuit on their recording will only create higher quality recordings. Nice.
And how difficult is this to do? Synchronized ripping to a computer is a no brainer. Modifying a VCR tape to change frame rates variably would be interesting. Perhaps an infinite number of high school kids with an infinite amount of time on their hands can crack this problem. They do frequent movie theaters and have an affinity towards camcorders, so I'm sure its only a matter of time...
Frame misalignment, their protection scheme if I understand correctly, is easily defeated. Simply adjust the "shutter" speed of the recording device to a longer duration. This will eliminate blank captures they intend to project.
I'd imagine their copy protection scheme will be *hell* on people with epilepsy. I have done work in offices that had lighting offensive to sensitive people and can just imagine what these theaters will do for an entire audience. The people investing their money in this have no idea what they are in for...
A logic probe and pulser are handy if you want to find out if a piece of hardware has a heartbeat (clock signal) or if you want to assert the enable pin on a chip, ethernet, USB, hard drive cable... These pen sized instruments are much smaller than an oscilloscope, but can solve most hardware problems.
There's even a better method that has been discussed for years. Document everything. Mail it to yourself. The postmark is sufficient proof of the date.
It doesn't matter if you intend to make a product or wait until someone else uses your best kept secret. If you plan to ramp up a production line to pump out your products and are sued by someone who finally does (and will) get a patent on your idea, just show them the evidence. Rather than having their patent nullified due to prior art, they will give you cash to shut up. Same if someone else makes it and they happened to patent it. Threaten to sell your prior art to others. Hush money will come your way (or someone will come over to fit you with a pair of concrete shoes.)
You can be assured this will happen. The introduction of new technology makes new obvious things possible. Its a race with time. Better put the cards in your pocket and hide them until the dealer has a lot of cash on the table.
I'm sorry, everything that hasn't been invented yet has already been patented last decade. Never underestimate an infinite number of lawyers on an infinite number of typewriters submitting claims to the US Patent Office.
Or just go to your local welding supply or hardware store and buy a few pounds of TIG welding rods. Be sure to get the ones that aren't the tungsten/thorium alloy. They often add radioactive thorium to the tungsten to increase its longevity.
Pretty cool to see a radioactive warning on items at the hardware store...
That new handgun you purchased is a fine one; however, we are going to have to charge extra for the safety mechanism.
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Oh, that's not all! Cell phones disrupting the bogon force field is nothing compared to the other wastes humans are putting out. Consider the biohazard waste every man, woman, child, and diapered baby slings out every day. This toxic waste is being funneled into our sewer systems every day, yet no one notices. The EPA does not even regulate the dihydrogen monoxide wastes from private residences.
I'd rather take a few circuit boards with chips securely soldered to epoxy-fiberglass circuit boards in trash bags than the biohazard infectious waste pumped back into our water system every day.
I agree with what you are saying except for stating NiCads are safe (cadmium) which makes disposal a problem. Some people don't care about toxic metals such as cadmium and mercury, but its enough to be regulated:
Explanation Of Carcinogenicity: CONTAINS CADMIUM [7440-43-9] WHICH IS LISTED BY NTP AND IARC AND REGULATED BY OSHA AS A CARCINOGEN.
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Surface mount fuses seem stupid to me.
I'd rather replace any burned out surface mount fuses than figure out how to repair a circuit traces. They are just a tweezer away from replacement. You want to protect those smaller than hair diameter traces that look like viral dna snaking into many layers of the circuit board.
Large fuses may seem like a good idea, but think about circuit board real estate, connection integrety, and inductance generated by large fuses. And many of these fuses are solid state, autoresetting. This would be the only valid reason to power cycle your computer to fix your errors.
...and as the LN2 boils off, the box will be filled with dry, inert nitrogen. As an added bonus, this will help suppress fires.
I'd be careful about something condensing into the liquid nitrogen as it boils off. Like oxygen. Liquid oxygen may start to get concentrated over time into the mix and create an interesting condition known as rapid oxidation. Some people might call it combusion. Others may describe it as an spectacular explosion.
If liquid oxygen can set a highway on fire (to bad that famous tanker scene in Terminator wasn't O2, not N2,) imagine what it can do to a computer in the privacy of your own home.
I work with electric forklifts that are freezer duty. The circuit boards see freeze/thaw cycles of 0F-100F on a regular basis and get drenched.
How do we protect them and the wires? Silicon grease. Without that grease, 36 volts can burn and smoke a wet circuit board. Considering it works with hundreds of $20,000 fork lifts, I'd try this on your N2 powered turbochared motherboard.
My grocery store down the street has a huge cooler of it. What third world country do you live in?
or the guy with the bad cough getting up several times to take a smoke break.
I never understood this fascination with flywheels. When they have to put sand on the tracks to get traction, why would they need more temporary torque? Why not just increase the boost pressure from the turbos?
I used to work with 2800hp V16 twin turbo engines like the ones on the trains, but for electrical generation only. The turbos were rated for 60,000 rpm and they could hammer the pistons hard and shake the ground with rpm's to spare.
Your experience may vary. I have been using nvidia's drivers for my g2 toshiba satellite for over a year now. My laptop is always on, rarely powered down, and has yet to crash an X session.
And the movie industry keeps pushing for copy protection on video cameras just in case of the remote chance someone should shoot the screen and steal a movie. But an insider got the original and leaked it. Imagine that.
I suppose launching cell phones from our potato cannons will become expensive as we start getting traffic violations in the mail. That would be the end of our cell phone warfootball games.
58 speeding voilations in one afternoon? 226mph? In a school zone?
If I remember right, Mr. Gates himself related the story of reverse engineering MSDOS by dumpster diving for source code. There was also the incident of disk compression technology that was lifted from another company. To say that common people can not raise the hood of their own car to see how it works or put in a new engine might be called hypocritical.
I'm waiting for it to have over 4000 packages tested and available.
/usr/portage/distfiles/ | wc -l 4279
/usr/portage/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles
If you don't mind tarballs, it looks like that 4000 number has been surpased. This is my gentoo distribution tarball directory last updated a month ago:
dattaway@attaway $ ls
dattaway@attaway $ du
6881448
The flickering flourescent lights in our offices sent our accountant to the hospital one day. Since my paychecks come from that office, I changed the lighting and recommended many fine plants and a mood change with nicer furniture. Approved. The deed was reciprocated: everyone at the site didn't get just one raise that year, but two big increases!
If movie theaters go in the opposite direction and enforce an image disrupting technology on its patrons, those customers will find alternate sources of entertainment fast. Having people get nauseous, sick, or going into physical fits isn't cool when the media hears about it.
It would depend on how the shutter of the camera of the projector and camera work. If they both are digital and latch the picture immediately, then we would have the blank frames problem. If the camera scans the pixels rapidly after enabled by the frame clock, then this would indeed alter the distortion pattern 90 degrees. If the digital projector serially writes the pixels in a scan format, the rotated camera may pick up dark and blinding fading triangles during the blanking and flashing times.
The easiest way to find out *exactly* what they do would to bring in a high speed digital camera and take a few hundred frames during a second. We could easily see the abnormal events.
Is talking about how the entertainment industry is trying to intrigue the public with media manipulation a violation of the DMCA?
I thought about defeating this for a moment and realized this may be a bad move for the content producers. Why? There will be people with too much time on their hands modifying cameras learning a few tricks. One such trick is to synchronize the camera and screen frames. This is an easy trick that may be familiar with those doing rapid screen captures with webcams. Since the projection camera uses a "clocked" framerate, it is easy to sync on one bright frame and adjust the recording device to that clock rate. What this does is eliminate the information loss between mismatched recording frames. Blur is decreased, motion is much more crisp, and image quality slightly improves. Requiring people who sneak cameras into theaters to chip a syncing circuit on their recording will only create higher quality recordings. Nice.
And how difficult is this to do? Synchronized ripping to a computer is a no brainer. Modifying a VCR tape to change frame rates variably would be interesting. Perhaps an infinite number of high school kids with an infinite amount of time on their hands can crack this problem. They do frequent movie theaters and have an affinity towards camcorders, so I'm sure its only a matter of time...
Frame misalignment, their protection scheme if I understand correctly, is easily defeated. Simply adjust the "shutter" speed of the recording device to a longer duration. This will eliminate blank captures they intend to project.
I'd imagine their copy protection scheme will be *hell* on people with epilepsy. I have done work in offices that had lighting offensive to sensitive people and can just imagine what these theaters will do for an entire audience. The people investing their money in this have no idea what they are in for...
A logic probe and pulser are handy if you want to find out if a piece of hardware has a heartbeat (clock signal) or if you want to assert the enable pin on a chip, ethernet, USB, hard drive cable... These pen sized instruments are much smaller than an oscilloscope, but can solve most hardware problems.
There's even a better method that has been discussed for years. Document everything. Mail it to yourself. The postmark is sufficient proof of the date.
It doesn't matter if you intend to make a product or wait until someone else uses your best kept secret. If you plan to ramp up a production line to pump out your products and are sued by someone who finally does (and will) get a patent on your idea, just show them the evidence. Rather than having their patent nullified due to prior art, they will give you cash to shut up. Same if someone else makes it and they happened to patent it. Threaten to sell your prior art to others. Hush money will come your way (or someone will come over to fit you with a pair of concrete shoes.)
You can be assured this will happen. The introduction of new technology makes new obvious things possible. Its a race with time. Better put the cards in your pocket and hide them until the dealer has a lot of cash on the table.
I'm sorry, everything that hasn't been invented yet has already been patented last decade. Never underestimate an infinite number of lawyers on an infinite number of typewriters submitting claims to the US Patent Office.
All this time I thought it was a conspiracy by telemarketers to sell me privacy devices.
Or just go to your local welding supply or hardware store and buy a few pounds of TIG welding rods. Be sure to get the ones that aren't the tungsten/thorium alloy. They often add radioactive thorium to the tungsten to increase its longevity.
Pretty cool to see a radioactive warning on items at the hardware store...
That new handgun you purchased is a fine one; however, we are going to have to charge extra for the safety mechanism.
Oh, that's not all! Cell phones disrupting the bogon force field is nothing compared to the other wastes humans are putting out. Consider the biohazard waste every man, woman, child, and diapered baby slings out every day. This toxic waste is being funneled into our sewer systems every day, yet no one notices. The EPA does not even regulate the dihydrogen monoxide wastes from private residences.
I'd rather take a few circuit boards with chips securely soldered to epoxy-fiberglass circuit boards in trash bags than the biohazard infectious waste pumped back into our water system every day.
They throw in a few eye catching facts, such as this:
The Windows technicians, however, only managed an average of 10 machines each, while Linux or Solaris admins can generally handle several times that.
Good enough for you?
I agree with what you are saying except for stating NiCads are safe (cadmium) which makes disposal a problem. Some people don't care about toxic metals such as cadmium and mercury, but its enough to be regulated:
Explanation Of Carcinogenicity: CONTAINS CADMIUM [7440-43-9] WHICH IS LISTED BY NTP AND IARC AND REGULATED BY OSHA AS A CARCINOGEN.
Why wind up a radio when a much more reliable radio can easily be made out of junk parts that uses NO power source and the minimum of parts?