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  1. Re:Ghibli releases on The Future of Ghibli US Releases · · Score: 1

    True that.

    I like to turn off the sound, turn on the subtitles, put in a Destination Goa CD and smoke about a pound of... well you know. There is nothing like dark psy-trace and Anime.

    Which takes US to the greatest ideas of a friend of mine had before he turned into a IV meth junkie. (btw any drug TIMOTHY LEARY says is bad is REALLY FUCKING BAD even if every Anime was made using it.) Add multiple techno sound tracks to Anime DVD's. Blood, Naussca, Akira, and et al. all need to have a Goa, Techno, Jungle, Break beat, & ambient sound track. Fuck Asian sub-pop and etc. give me some banging shit.

  2. Re:Has Studio Ghibli ditched Disney yet? on The Future of Ghibli US Releases · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They became EVIL when they undermined the US Constitution with the Sunny Bono Copyright Extension act. The creation of intellectual oligarchy is by far their worst crime.

  3. Volvo is owned by Ford. on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1

    So Ford want to weld the hood shut.

  4. Re:Floating point performance on Mini-ITX Clustering · · Score: 1

    He had a beefy external DC to DC Power supply.

  5. Re:Floating point performance on Mini-ITX Clustering · · Score: 1

    HEAT.

  6. Test Text. on Mini-ITX Clustering · · Score: 4, Informative

    I built a Mini-ITX based massively parallel cluster named PROTEUS. I have 12 nodes using VIA EPIA V8000, 800 MHz motherboards. The little machine is running FreeBSD 4.8, and MPICH 1.2.5.2. Troubles installing and configuring Free BSD and MPICH were few. In fact, there were no major issues with either FreeBSD or MPICH.

    The construction is simple and inexpensive. The motherboards were stacked using threaded aluminum standoffs and then mounted on aluminum plates. Two stacks of three motherboards were assembled into each rack. Diagonal stiffeners were fabricated from aluminum angle stock to reduce flexing of the rack assembly.

    The controlling node has a 160 GB ATA-133 HDD, and the computational nodes use 340 MB IBM microdrives in compact flash to IDE adapters. For file I/O, the computational nodes mount a partition on the controlling node's hard drive by means of a network file system mount point.

    Each motherboard is powered by a Morex DC-DC converter, and the entire cluster is powered by a rather large 12V DC switching power supply.

    With the exception of the metalwork, power wiring, and power/reset switching, everything is off the shelf.

    At present, the idle power consumption is about 140 Watts (for 12 nodes) with peaks estimated at around 200 Watts. The machine runs cool and quiet. The controlling node has 256 MB RAM , and an 160 GB ATA 133 IDE hard disk drive. The computational nodes have 256 MB RAM, each and boot from 340 MB IBM microdrives by means of compact flash to IDE adapters. The computational nodes mount /usr on the controlling node via NFS, for storage and to allow for a very simple configuration. No official benchmarks have been run, but for simple computational tasks the mini cluster appears to be faster than four 2.4 GHz pentium 4 mcahines used in parallel, at a fraction of the cost and power use.

    Power and Cooling

    Mini-ITX boards have very low power dissipation as compared to most motherboard/cpu combination in popular use today. This means that a Mini-ITX cluster with as many as 16 nodes won't need special air conditioning. Low power dissipation also means low power use, so you can use a single inexpensive UPS to provide clean AC power for the nodes.

    In contrast, a 12-16 node cluster built with Intel or AMD processors will generate enough heat that you will likely need heavy duty air conditioning. Additionally, you will need adequate electrical power to deliver the 2-3 kilowatts peak load that your 12 node PC cluster will require. Plan on having higher than average utility bills if you use PC's...

    Hardware Construction

    The cluster is built in two nearly identical racks. Each rack has two stacks of three motherboards and dc-dc converters mounted on aluminum standoffs.

    The compact flash adapters used to mount the microdrives are also in stacks of three. Each stack of boards is mounted on a 7 inch by 10 inch 0.0625 thick 6061-T6 aluminum plate as are the microdrive stacks. There are seven metal plates in all, in each rack.

    The top cover plate has the mounting bracket for the 6 on/off/reset switches.

    The plate below it is home to the power distribution terminal block. The power delivery cable for each rack is heavy duty 14 gauge stranded wire with pvc insulation. The power cabling from the terminal strip to each of the dc-dc converters is 18 gauge stranded pvc insulated hookup wire. The wiring for the power/reset switches is 24 gauge stranded, pvc insulated wire.

    The top rack houses nodes one through six (node one is the controlling node). The bottom plate of the top rack also houses the 160 GB ATA-133 hard disk drive used by the controlling node. All other nodes make use of the IBM microdrives. Node number three has a spare compact flash adapter which can be used to duplicate microdrives for easy node maintenance.

    The disk drive and power cabling to the motherboards was dressed as was sanely possible on the back panel. The liberal use of nylon cable ties helps reduce the ten

  7. Was this an educational experience? on Copyrights, Videogames, and LAN Parties? · · Score: 1

    Do you think this might have been as well thoguht out as to have been an attempt to make you learn the process? Or was it just BS? Either way the fact that most games let you use the same CD key for LAN parties indicates they have abdicated their copy right on a samll scale for marketing and market penetration. The old junkie way, give em a teast then charge!

  8. Re:MVIS will make these things work. on Handtop PC Announced Using Transmeta Processor · · Score: 1

    Or Virtual Light, magnetic induction in the optic nerve!

    Plus if someone is looking into my eyes close enough to see the light reflected off the back of my retina, I better be getting some kinesthetic feedback off the front of her cervix, and I doubt that's going to happen at my current job. Shudder.

  9. Re:Debug on Broadband Over Power Lines: Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    Three Phase burns like napalm on the Johnson.

  10. Re:Tom's Hardware - pro AMD? on Linus on Intel's 64 bit Extensions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would you post as an AC unless you knew this was total bullshit. The Rambus thing was based on business practices and evil patents.

    I do credit Rambus with telling me to the minute the day the Internet bubble burst. As soon as I read that Intel had entered into a binding agreement with a punk like Rambus I knew the shit was already through the fan and beginning to paint the wall. So despite the fact that I hate them, I love them for saving me a LOT of bacon.

    Either way Rambus wasn't better it was higher bandwidth higher latency. It might have been better for some application and worse for others. Either way the way they tried to strong arm everybody is what killed Rambus. No body likes a bully.

  11. Now new and improved vaporware from Enron! on Broadband Over Power Lines: Coming Soon? · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's right now for only 19.95 a month we will use your capital to finance offshore tax havens for our executives. But wait there's more if your order today we can influence energy policy through cronyism! No guarantees, send money now!

  12. MVIS will make these things work. on Handtop PC Announced Using Transmeta Processor · · Score: 3, Funny

    People ask, "why so I need this?" I say you don't.

    Not until Microvision MVIS retina scanning displays are cheep and full color. When your screen is the back of your eye the ultra portable doesn't need a screen and becomes your only computer.

    Basically a video iPod that you can watch porn at work with a shit eating grin on your face and have no one know what your doing.

    Good buy economy hello hedonism.

  13. Re:a group with a history of mucking in politics on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    During the Iran Iraq war the Iraqis used chemical weapons against the shite insurgents fighting for Iran. The CIA supplied telemetry on the targeting of said weapons.

    "Let me tell you what else I'm worried about: I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place."
    George W. Bush Chattanooga, Tenn. Nov. 6, 2000

  14. Re:a group with a history of mucking in politics on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    You are correct sir.

    Unfortunately... THIS WASN'T REGAN'S PLAN, you fucking AC dumbass.

  15. Re:a group with a history of mucking in politics on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    Does it matter that we gave them to him?

    Does it matter that we supplied telemtry for the chemical weapons attacks on the Shites?

    Does it matter that Bush swore that he was not interested in Naion building.

    A better analogy might be this. Say your a dirty cop, you hand a bag of coke and a gun to a bully and say, I want you to go and shoot this other criminal and plant the coke on him. Then later you see you buddy run into a dark ally, you pursue him, shoot him and take the coke.

  16. Re:Science is the religion of the 21st century. on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    Drinking cow's milk is only bad if you stop and start again. You loose the enzyme you need to digest the protiens properly.

    You might be confusing 'need' with a resource issue. Why spend resources on a uneeded defense? Also think about black body radiation (its not a pun) if you are black you loose heat faster through radiation. Granted in sun you can absorb it quicker but in a cold wet hovel the sun isn't really an issue.

  17. Re:Your dealing with a administration... on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    Bush may not be stupid but he picks his nose on national TV, can't speak clearly, is too illiterate to read the newspaper, and lets Karl Rove make political policy decisions for him, invites attacks on US troops while they are in combat, goes AWOL, can't get on a Seaway without breaking it, asked the president of Brazil if "they have black people in your country?", lied in his acceptance speech about the Army's readiness, called off an investigation into Bin Laden before 9/11, and best of all thinks we won't notice it when he sticks a cucumber in his flight suit.

  18. Re:Your dealing with a administration... on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    Are they really an atheist? Why does believing in god have ANYTHING to do with the Bible. Esp. when the Bible as we know it was a political creation of a Roman emperor?

    Bible != God

  19. Re:...but are you a SCIENTIST?? on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    Um... wtf are you taking about? The president of the group (at the very least) is a Physician. You can join as a supporter for $50 but that does not make you a Physician.

    Anyway why waste a good M.D. by making them an office monkey? You make no sense.

  20. Re:Who to believe? on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    ...activated. ...scanning for mathmatical formulas in language.

    Target aquired. Powering Lasers. Kill, Kill, Kill.

  21. Re:"Majority..." on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also remeber that the job of government in a democracy is to protect the minority from the will of the majority.

  22. Re:Because.. on Apple Now Debt Free, Says Internal Memo · · Score: 1

    e.g. America's Army for AMD's 64 bit chips?

  23. Re:TCO analisys worldwide on Energy Company Refutes Windows TCO Claims · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am sure it takes more qualified man hours to run and support linux but I look at it this way, pay rent to M$ or put equity into a mortgage with Linux. They cost about the same, but when you're done you have the ability to knock out a few walls and paint the place any color you like.

  24. Re:Or perhaps... on Wolfram's New Kind of Science Now Online · · Score: 1

    That's not the point. The point is given only introspection they were able to arrive at a theoretical model that supports an atomic model and uncertainty. Why would they care what the electron charge is? They didn't use electricty, or particle colliders they used their brains ala mentats. Anyway it's kind of the point Wolfram was making anyway, no matter how deep you look its always going to be just as complicated. That's why Taoism and its later offshoot Zen deal with you have to be able to escape the trap of trying to attain perfection.

    Do you really think you stand of chance of living to 130 in good health? Taoist masters have lived that long. Are you really happy in your life, esp. knowing the charge on an electron? Hardly, the fact that you posted as an AC would indicate to me that you don't even have the courage to use even an assumed name, and that's pathetic.

  25. BGE Blind Spot & Glare Elimination Setting on Radar For Safer Driving · · Score: 1

    Or you could just use BGE or Blind Spot & Glare Elimination Setting.

    Put your head on the glass of the driver's side window and adjust the side mirror so you can see the side of your car. Then lean so your head is in the right hand side of the car and adjust your side mirror so you can see the side of the car.

    Strange at first but in Highway driving this setting has no blind spots and no late night glare from the side mirrors. If you do it correctly cars will move up through the rearview mirror and then has they move out they will appear on the side mirrors, as they leave the side mirrors they will appear in your peripheral vision. With this setting you do not look over your shoulder for a lane change. (looking over your shoulder is a BAD idea because it takes a hell of a long time and takes your eyes off the road. Using BGE you are always facing forward and all rear view activities are in your foveae or peripheral vision at all times.)

    And for high tech wouldn't celldar have a better resolution at these distances?