I know where you can get Liquid Nitrogen, it's incredibly easy to do. But a word of note to those who may want to keep their electronic systems working longer then the test time.
Unless you live in the sahara desert or another place that has incredibly low humidity. This is incredibly dangerous to the motherboard. Those whisps that you see coming from the Liquid Nitrogen is not Nitrogen vapor. It is water!! Nitrogen vapor is not visible. The fact of the matter is, that the air around us has a lot of water in it, and when you start to cool it suddenly to -160 and below, you create a lot of water vapor. Now doing this with a computer will likely leave a nice little pool of water on the motherboard when you are finished. So unless you are willing to take that risk. I do not recommend doing this.
There is even a pic there where it should the frozen water buildup on the outside of the containing device they built. Can you imagine what the motherboard would've looked like after a while of this?
Having working with Liquid Nitrogen, and knowing how dangerous it can be even without electronics. I don't recommend this as a friendly try with buddies experiment.
We need a cool funky page like the Nobel's Page for the Fields award. Currently we only have these text based ones because the people maintaining them are too busy working on math to create a cooler looking one.:-)
It would be really cool to have a nice looking math page online. Something that will get people's attention.
Does anyone know of a better looking and still accurate Field's page?
Heck, I even have a book signed by Wil Wheaton himself.i have the posters, I have a ton of Star Trek stuff.
But to be honest, I was also among the people who used to kid about killing Wesley off early in the series. I never liked the guy, but that didn't turn me off from the actor... until his infamous showing the the Weakest Link. Anyone who saw that will agree with me. I am hoping that's not really how he is, but man, its so hard to shake that image of him being a total jerk. I was just kidding about it before that point when we talked about Wesley.
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And, the other thing that has disappointed me about the Star Trek world is how everything got so good with section 31, and some of the really excellent concepts brought up in the last couple of seasons of DS9 and VOY. Yet, it's all gone. Hopefully this movie will bring back some of it.
Oh yeah, and a good idea for a series. Something about Section 31. That would be really cool.
Actually, since I am taking CS as a minor, I have had the opportunity to take a large number of CS courses as my CS marks are quite high, and I can get permission from the CS advisors.
I am not totally aware of what E&CE does, and I am not saying that you do not do theory. I am just saying that a CS major is exposed to more theory then an engineer would be. As the CS student is studying the science of computers and the engineer is studying how to engineer a computer.
They are inherently two different subjects.
Don't take me the wrong way though, I am not saying engineers have it easy. I have seen some of the courses that are taken at Waterloo for engineering and they definitely seem to be challenging. I am just saying that they will learn it from a different perspective then a CS student does.
Even though I am majoring in Pure Math, I am not (as you politely termed it) "speaking out of my ass." I have experience with a large number of CS courses, and I know very well what the curriculum is like. As well, I have many friends in Software Engineering and E&CE and CS, and they have definitely let me know about their joys and quandries with their courseloads.
I think perhaps his main complaint is not about the sheer number of human beings, but more the type of building they live in.
As he put it, they look like "beer bottles" lined up from a distance. And some of the districts of New York do have that unfortunate look to them, but are kept the same because of the fact that the buildings are "historic."
I think it would be great to have the high-density of New York, with some nice high-tech structures and better looking buildings. Wouldn't you prefer living with people in a neighbourhood full of modern, beautiful, gemstonelike, high tech style buildings, then living in a neighbourhood of generic 1930s "beer bottles". As well, there is one more benefit. Updating the technology and the buildings will make it so more people can live _comfortably_ in such a close area.
This is not to say all of New York has this problem. There are definitely some very nice neighbourhoods with some amazing buildings, nice neighbourhoods and interesting people.
Well, the CS department at Waterloo is definitely worthwhile. They emphasize the fact that languages are not what is needed to be learned, but rather the concepts of computer science. Hell, we've programmed our own compilers in second year (Nothing great, but working).
On the other hand, the Engineering dept. (which is the one that is being forced to take these courses) is more dependent on working knowledge. Which means knowing the languages intricately over just knowing the concepts behind programming languages.
E&CE IMHO is more an applied CS course then anything else. Thus, MS purchased the right dept. when they pulled this fast one. And at Waterloo, the engineering students would never do anything uncorporate so they'll probably just bend over and...
This is why I am glad I am a honours pure math major.:-)
when I can sit down at a desk with maybe just a keyboard, and plug in the sound screen and everything directly into my head.
Sound would be amazing if they could get the entire range (including that which is naturally lost after childhood) to work. Imagine hearing music absolutely perfectly clear. Wouldn't that be awesome.:-)
And screen would be even better. Considering I have contacts as is, so the screen isn't 100% clear, just good enough.
Imagine if they could have the screen show up with clarity beyond that of 20/20 or even 20/10 . Movies where everything is perfectly clear.:-)
If scientists were to actually work on ways to "jack" ourselves in. There are so many things we could do with it. Even just the sheer speed increase of data entry if we just had to think about it.
that card-counting isn't cheating. But rather, a legitimate strategy to a probabilistic game.
Unfortunately, casinos don't like losing money. Their sole business is the fact that people come in and give them money for no real reason whatsoever. As soon as someone comes in and discovers that by following their rules they can win that money back, then they are removed from the premises.
It really does not matter if you are winning at one table or another. If they begin to think that you will take their money instead of give it to them, you will be removed. Simple as that. Card Counting is not cheating, just as keeping a poker face during a poker game bluff is not cheating. It's just good strategy.
When I purchase jewelery for my g/fs (which unfortunately are all my ex-g/fs right now). I don't purchase it because it has a big rock on it, or because DeBeers tells me to buy diamonds.
I spend money on the jewels that show the workmanship of the jeweler, show the artistry. The stone is just an accessory of the final product. Nothing more. If I found a ring that looks beautiful that my wife would accept as an engagement ring and it didn't have any diamonds on it, I wouldn't mind.
The diamond is just an accessory to the final artistic piece that is the ring. Unfortunately, most people don't realize this, and just decide that the bigger the 'rock' is the better. When it's more a question of how much effort was placed in the creation of the piece of art that is jewelery.
The British Crown Jewels are all works of art, not because they have large 'rocks' in them. But rather because those rocks have been so well placed in a way that shows beauty and light.
this old NASA equipment (shuttles, crawler) isn't all it's cracked up to be...
umm... or maybe it is all cracked up to be.
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Ah,
Sun Tzu's art of war, eh? Know thy enemy more then you know thyself.:-)
That's understandable. So, then the question to ask is what is MS's motives for having the booth at the Linux expo? What do they have to gain?
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Anyone remember that scene from the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" where there was an Apple booth and the company MS worked with at the expo. Everyone ignored the other booth and went over to the Apple booth. When Bill tried to talk with any of the Apple reps, he was ignored.
wouldn't that be great if that happened here. The entire MS booth is barren while everyone is busy doing what they came to a _Linux_ expo for. To look at _Linux_ products, not Windows products.
just a thought.:-)
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"Tell us what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong"
Well.. this is going to take a while.
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Okay, I will try to rephrase my statement a bit.
Not the original paper that explains Space Elevators, but more correctly, the main paper that got NASA actually moving on the project.
1. Microsoft is pushing that having a computer with an OS other that installed on it is illegal (especially when they are donated to schools.)
2. More imporantly, Microsoft gets paid for every computer that sells with their OS. If you buy with theirs and remove it, you just gave MS your money for no reason.
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I know where you can get Liquid Nitrogen, it's incredibly easy to do. But a word of note to those who may want to keep their electronic systems working longer then the test time.
Unless you live in the sahara desert or another place that has incredibly low humidity. This is incredibly dangerous to the motherboard. Those whisps that you see coming from the Liquid Nitrogen is not Nitrogen vapor. It is water!! Nitrogen vapor is not visible. The fact of the matter is, that the air around us has a lot of water in it, and when you start to cool it suddenly to -160 and below, you create a lot of water vapor. Now doing this with a computer will likely leave a nice little pool of water on the motherboard when you are finished. So unless you are willing to take that risk. I do not recommend doing this.
There is even a pic there where it should the frozen water buildup on the outside of the containing device they built. Can you imagine what the motherboard would've looked like after a while of this?
Having working with Liquid Nitrogen, and knowing how dangerous it can be even without electronics. I don't recommend this as a friendly try with buddies experiment.
It's amazing how they are going to put
:-P
"broadband cable 1600 km over polar ice"
Or do you mean across polar ice...
I think cable 1600 km over polar ice would be far more impressive though.
We need a cool funky page like the Nobel's Page for the Fields award. Currently we only have these text based ones because the people maintaining them are too busy working on math to create a cooler looking one. :-)
It would be really cool to have a nice looking math page online. Something that will get people's attention.
Does anyone know of a better looking and still accurate Field's page?
Where can I purchase a copy? Is it multiplayer? :-) j/k.
Albeit, it would be really cool to try out.
Actually, the first and only time I watched it was when the Star Trek characters were on it.
Proof how much a trekkie I am.
Heck, I even have a book signed by Wil Wheaton himself.i have the posters, I have a ton of Star Trek stuff.
But to be honest, I was also among the people who used to kid about killing Wesley off early in the series. I never liked the guy, but that didn't turn me off from the actor... until his infamous showing the the Weakest Link. Anyone who saw that will agree with me. I am hoping that's not really how he is, but man, its so hard to shake that image of him being a total jerk. I was just kidding about it before that point when we talked about Wesley.
<Rant>
And, the other thing that has disappointed me about the Star Trek world is how everything got so good with section 31, and some of the really excellent concepts brought up in the last couple of seasons of DS9 and VOY. Yet, it's all gone. Hopefully this movie will bring back some of it.
Oh yeah, and a good idea for a series. Something about Section 31. That would be really cool.
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Yeah, I have used one in a building... It does not work very well at all.
Actually, since I am taking CS as a minor, I have had the opportunity to take a large number of CS courses as my CS marks are quite high, and I can get permission from the CS advisors.
I am not totally aware of what E&CE does, and I am not saying that you do not do theory. I am just saying that a CS major is exposed to more theory then an engineer would be. As the CS student is studying the science of computers and the engineer is studying how to engineer a computer.
They are inherently two different subjects.
Don't take me the wrong way though, I am not saying engineers have it easy. I have seen some of the courses that are taken at Waterloo for engineering and they definitely seem to be challenging. I am just saying that they will learn it from a different perspective then a CS student does.
Even though I am majoring in Pure Math, I am not (as you politely termed it) "speaking out of my ass." I have experience with a large number of CS courses, and I know very well what the curriculum is like. As well, I have many friends in Software Engineering and E&CE and CS, and they have definitely let me know about their joys and quandries with their courseloads.
I think perhaps his main complaint is not about the sheer number of human beings, but more the type of building they live in.
As he put it, they look like "beer bottles" lined up from a distance. And some of the districts of New York do have that unfortunate look to them, but are kept the same because of the fact that the buildings are "historic."
I think it would be great to have the high-density of New York, with some nice high-tech structures and better looking buildings. Wouldn't you prefer living with people in a neighbourhood full of modern, beautiful, gemstonelike, high tech style buildings, then living in a neighbourhood of generic 1930s "beer bottles". As well, there is one more benefit. Updating the technology and the buildings will make it so more people can live _comfortably_ in such a close area.
This is not to say all of New York has this problem. There are definitely some very nice neighbourhoods with some amazing buildings, nice neighbourhoods and interesting people.
Tracking your employee's children. :-)
I've already got something that can track my kids (if I had any) it's called a large network of friends in my city.
Well, the CS department at Waterloo is definitely worthwhile. They emphasize the fact that languages are not what is needed to be learned, but rather the concepts of computer science. Hell, we've programmed our own compilers in second year (Nothing great, but working).
:-)
On the other hand, the Engineering dept. (which is the one that is being forced to take these courses) is more dependent on working knowledge. Which means knowing the languages intricately over just knowing the concepts behind programming languages.
E&CE IMHO is more an applied CS course then anything else. Thus, MS purchased the right dept. when they pulled this fast one. And at Waterloo, the engineering students would never do anything uncorporate so they'll probably just bend over and...
This is why I am glad I am a honours pure math major.
Comp Sci at waterloo for the first couple of years uses Java as well for programming.
Then it shifts to C++ And C.
when I can sit down at a desk with maybe just a keyboard, and plug in the sound screen and everything directly into my head.
:-)
:-)
Sound would be amazing if they could get the entire range (including that which is naturally lost after childhood) to work. Imagine hearing music absolutely perfectly clear. Wouldn't that be awesome.
And screen would be even better. Considering I have contacts as is, so the screen isn't 100% clear, just good enough.
Imagine if they could have the screen show up with clarity beyond that of 20/20 or even 20/10 . Movies where everything is perfectly clear.
If scientists were to actually work on ways to "jack" ourselves in. There are so many things we could do with it. Even just the sheer speed increase of data entry if we just had to think about it.
The possiblities are endless...
or does this mod look like the chair from Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
:-)
I guess if you want that game show feel when you surf the internet.
If you are awaiting another person to land on the moon. Do a search on China and moon landing. Or go to www.spacedaily.com
China has plans in place to be the next nation to have a man land on the moon.
that card-counting isn't cheating. But rather, a legitimate strategy to a probabilistic game.
Unfortunately, casinos don't like losing money. Their sole business is the fact that people come in and give them money for no real reason whatsoever. As soon as someone comes in and discovers that by following their rules they can win that money back, then they are removed from the premises.
It really does not matter if you are winning at one table or another. If they begin to think that you will take their money instead of give it to them, you will be removed. Simple as that. Card Counting is not cheating, just as keeping a poker face during a poker game bluff is not cheating. It's just good strategy.
When I purchase jewelery for my g/fs (which unfortunately are all my ex-g/fs right now). I don't purchase it because it has a big rock on it, or because DeBeers tells me to buy diamonds.
I spend money on the jewels that show the workmanship of the jeweler, show the artistry. The stone is just an accessory of the final product. Nothing more. If I found a ring that looks beautiful that my wife would accept as an engagement ring and it didn't have any diamonds on it, I wouldn't mind.
The diamond is just an accessory to the final artistic piece that is the ring. Unfortunately, most people don't realize this, and just decide that the bigger the 'rock' is the better. When it's more a question of how much effort was placed in the creation of the piece of art that is jewelery.
The British Crown Jewels are all works of art, not because they have large 'rocks' in them. But rather because those rocks have been so well placed in a way that shows beauty and light.
Just MHO of course.
this old NASA equipment (shuttles, crawler) isn't all it's cracked up to be...
umm... or maybe it is all cracked up to be.
Ah,
:-)
Sun Tzu's art of war, eh? Know thy enemy more then you know thyself.
That's understandable. So, then the question to ask is what is MS's motives for having the booth at the Linux expo? What do they have to gain?
Anyone remember that scene from the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" where there was an Apple booth and the company MS worked with at the expo. Everyone ignored the other booth and went over to the Apple booth. When Bill tried to talk with any of the Apple reps, he was ignored.
:-)
wouldn't that be great if that happened here. The entire MS booth is barren while everyone is busy doing what they came to a _Linux_ expo for. To look at _Linux_ products, not Windows products.
just a thought.
"Tell us what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong"
Well.. this is going to take a while.
Okay, I will try to rephrase my statement a bit.
Not the original paper that explains Space Elevators, but more correctly, the main paper that got NASA actually moving on the project.
Does that sound better?
This idea originally came from NASA's institute for advanced concepts.
There are a lot of funky stuff going on there. But, here's the original space elevator paper. I personally thought it was an interesting read.
There are two problems with that:
1. Microsoft is pushing that having a computer with an OS other that installed on it is illegal (especially when they are donated to schools.)
2. More imporantly, Microsoft gets paid for every computer that sells with their OS. If you buy with theirs and remove it, you just gave MS your money for no reason.
I love Linux and all, but why ship a quality system with Linux when you can ship it with OS X.
OS X is an absolutely amazing OS, and it has almost all the features Linux has.
If you are going to ship comps with Linux, ship PCs with it pre-installed.