I love seeing this kind of precident set, but I hate the fact that there are undoubtedly a couple of lawyers somewhere with more cash in their pockets because of this.
At my job recently, a trademarked name of ours was grabbed by a cybersquatter. This domain was registered shortly after we filed the trademark... Yeah, I know, we should have registered the domain name before they did, but REGARDLESS, they are asking $400 less than the WIPO arbitration fee for the domain in question.
This, I feel, is the very DEFINITION of cybersquatting, but since they have a monopoly on it, WIPO has seen fit to charge whatever they like (in this case $1500) to even LOOK at the case.
If only there were a way to put these cybersquatting businesses out of business. What the hell kind of business model is it to do something that is not legally justifiable and won't stand up in court...
Bastards. Like those that file nuisance lawsuits for a living... How is it possible to have a business based on what amounts to legally unjustifiable extortion that doesn't stand up in cout?
and why the copper pipe? If all you are really concerned with is putting LN2 on the cpu, just use a plastic pipe and seal it well at the bottom. It seems counterproductive to have good thermal conductivity through the thickness of the pipe...
Unless maybe their pipe has a bottom to it, but that seems wrong as well. Seems to me that the heat would cause N2 cavitation at the bottom of the bath and reduce the efficiency of the cooling. I am not a refrigeration engineer, but this seems like it is hillbilly engineering to me.
Well, not exactly the same thing, but here's what happened:
Same scenario, I applied for a credit card at one of those folding table operations where they have some crappy t-shirt or something that they'll give you for filling out applications. Anyhow, I needed a card, so I filled out an application for one of the three cards that this table was offering. They pushed me and asked that I apply for all 3 but I declined, saying that I only wanted one card, and didn't need three.
I went on my way and a couple of weeks later, I get all 3 of the cards in the mail. This pissed me off more than a little, as I am sure that there must be more than one law against falsifying financial documents.
I placed calls to the customer service numbers at the two cards that I had not applied for and told them my story. In both cases I was fed a line about the applications being un-trackable.
Now, this may or may not have been true, but the real information that I took away from the experience is that the companies didn't care about this kind of behavior. Disappointing, but you have to look at the angle - how will caring about this make them any money?
The people that run these tables are paid per application. If they are not made accountable for this kind of thing, why wouldn't they do it?
So good luck, but personally I'd just get a good spam filter and be glad that it was just false submission of your data and not identity theft or something like that.
I was in Japan and got addicted to "Vcorn" - it's a cheap pen that really writes better than any other I've used.
It's like a Vball, only waterbroof, and oh so cheap. I could get them at DaiMaru for 60 yen. And I bought a few to take back home. But I ran out and missed them - American Vballs aren't waterproof and aren't as cheap.
But luckily I ended up with a Tokyo resident as a high bidder in an e-bay auction. We traded a pair of vintage speakers for enough Vcorn pens to last me to this day.
What I was trying to say is that a year ago you might get this result as #1, but now there are a lot of people who have figured out how to get ranked higher by engineering the ranking system.
Google's system of ranking by numbers of pages linked on to a page was great until people were aware of this fact. Otherwise there would be no reason to make pages of nothing but links to your site.
You will ask "Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?" and you get 100 sites, all linked to each other, that have this phrase crammed into a mass of links and search-engine-bait, all trying to sell you cable de-scramblers and viagra.
Ever notice the 'rot' that is occuring on google lately? For example, a search on "mercedes 300D transmission" used to bring up the article on mbz.org about adjusting the vacuum shift in this car. Now this link, the most useful one, is all the way on the third or fourth page, buried in OEM parts retaillers that you know damn well are ranked high thanks to "ranking services".
I hope they can figure out how to weed this kind of stuff out...
So if it costs $0.20 per watt over 20 years, then we're talking $0.20 for every 20 Watt-Years, which would be one cent per Watt-Year.
If there are approximately 8760 hours in a year, then we're talking $0.00000114 per Watt-Hour, or $0.00114 per KWh. That's preeetty cheap! Or is my math wrong?
Well, for starters there's not anywhere that I know of that has 100% full intensity illumination 24 hours a day, all year. Unless you are talking about putting it into orbit in some orbit that never sees the earth's shadow... But then you have the problem of cheap transmission of a lot of power from orbit.
You need to take into account incident radiation angle (how far up in latitude you are), length of day, cloudy days, etc...
Look at the original comment again; The poster is an american, as he is pointing out 3 things for which there are cheaper, equally reliable solutions that are not more successful.
He was trying to point out 'vanity' products: Microsoft (not cheaper or more reliable that some other server solutions) bottled water (often tap water from somewhere, but it's IN A BOTTLE == fancy) and 93 octane (marketing exists, as I mention, that touts it a more powerful).
93 octane gasoline isn't out there because it is 'cool'. It is out there because some engines are built with high compression and require a higher anti-knock index (the amount that you can compress the vapor before it spontaneously ignites).
The idea that a lot of people have, that the 93 is 'more powerful' or in some other way better, is a myth that is perpetuated by oil companies. Indeed many have been sued over advertisements that implies that 93 will boost your engine in some way, when in reality 93 in an engine tuned for 89 is a waste of money. But for an engine with a higher compression ratio, you will have problems if you don't use high octane gasoline.
For more on octane rating, read up at how stuff works. For more on the lawsuit over false claims, try this description which indicates that the difference is only one of anti-knock rating.
... I am waiting for the shipworm [pdf] standard to be formalized. Right now I can only get an ipv6 address for my firewall machine, or if I want to do port forwarding with freebsd I could have one internal machine attached to ipv6, but since I only have one ipv4 address I am out of luck until shipworm becomes a reality.
This, in addition to the fact that I would have to tunnel to get ipv6, the fact that there is nothing I NEED that is available only over ipv6... But I'd still do it just for the experience if it were possible.
Next time an epson bubble jet dies on you, crack it open.
My girlfriend had a 740i and it went the way that epsons seem to go - colors progressively becoming weaker and eventually stopping completely so that repeated "cleaning cycles" did not fix the problem any longer. I took it apart and found what I expected to find - a mixture of dust and dried ink covering the print head cover area.
What was amazing, however, was the huge piece of blotter that filled the entire bottom of the printer, probably 4" x 14" and 1" thick, which was half saturated with ink! I have taken apart printers before, and have never seen anything like this. It was taking those $32 ink cartridges and pumping them into a piece of blotter!
Now, my brother has an old epson 24 pin dot matrix, and he has about the dustiest room I've ever seen and that thing still works beautifully. I am half tempted to buy one off of ebay just since I know that it has worked since 1992 and he's probably only bought about 2 ribbons for it as well!
I just got a year of Ameritech DSL for $29.99 a month. It was enough to get me to switch from $45.00 cable modem after I moved. There are a couple of hastles, somehow IPMasq chokes when forwarding to a PPPoE connection, after a couple of days of fiddling with it (yes, I tried CLAMP_MSS stuff) I just got a NAT router from Netgear
And this is a great deal, but is nowhere near as cheap as dial-up, which is as low as $9 a month here. I think people just don't feel the need to get a fast connection in a single family living situation. I've lived with 2~5 techie roommates for the last few years and what with drilling holes into other apartments to share their connections, we've never paid more than $5 or so each.
Maybe I'm crazy but one of the most apepaling cheap fat pipe ideas I've seen is apartments where it comes as a standard utility, like water. I know they're still few and far between, but this seems like a good way to do things. If you can get people to play friendly by having a surcharge over a certain bandwidth, this could work...
I think that this article is an attempt to rebutt the "glass is a liquid because it flows over long periods of time" line that was fed to you and everyone by their 6th grade science teachers. This has long been a beef of a glass science friend of mine... He is of the mind that amorphous solids should be classified as a different state of matter...
The whole "glass is a liquid" thing is a classic example of one of thos things that people say without really understanding understanding what they mean. This article, which is well written, addresses the two main points that you need to prove that glass isn't a "liquid".
that what you mean by "is a liquid" is "flows over time"
That there is no crystallization, and hence you have to define a threshhold viscosity beneath which you consider something not to flow EVER, even on geologic timescales, below which you allow something to be called "solid".
It then refutes the common and to my knowledge ONLY evidence for glass "flowing" on human timescales, the thickness difference in the top and bottom of old windowglass. Windows that are OPPOSITE what one would expect to find and the fact that hanging the windows with the thick edge down was common practice neatly debunks this evidence.
So, READ the whole article before you quote without understanding context...
that's about $156 according to xe.com
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1,288.00 CNY = 156.744 USD 1 China Yuan Renminbi = 0.121695 USD 1 United States Dollars = 8.21724 CNY
also: 1,288.00 CNY = 159.042 EUR
Since I don't have that currency conversion in my head.
herb alpert + public enemy
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search on a p2p for evolution control committee. They put herb alpert and public enemy a few years ago with great results. The "rebel without a pause" still cracks me up.
nah, the "mu" in question is the classic negation Kanjji. Mu meaning "no" or "non". Mu as in "muteki" (invincible) or "Muryo" (no fee) or even the classic zen fable about a dog's buddha-nature.
This sounds like just another case of loose translation fed through the PR department.
But people who can speak Japanese should be used to this.
When friends want to share a cable modem I usually go over to the local computer surplus sale and get 2 PCs that have NICs in them and a HDD and intall freesco.
It is based on an old kernel, and doesn't have socks so not everything will work, but it's easy to set up and even an idiot can use the web-based panel.
For a super low hassle setup I'd recommend it. It goes right onto an ex DOS PC, no re-formatting or anything.
Yes, we used those back in my "Gateway Engineering" year at OSU. This is now called "Honors Engineering" One of the elements of this year long integratedengineering first year is a robot design project in which you have to build a robot with an erector set and a handy-board.
There is information and some pictures of erector set based robots
here
Mine was the first year to use erector sets, which were chosen since they were cheaper than lego. I think that my group was the one that fried a handy-board on the robot's frame, then came up with the mandatory cardboard shielding for the boards (non-conductvity would be an advantage of Lego)
Honestly, have you seen what my prior favorite, metacrawler (now goto.net) has become? One of these horribly busy, what's what, 10-minutes-to-load, feature glut, sensory overload type pages.
It's noce that success hasn't put a bunch of crap on google's front page like it did for ICQ, Netscape, or Yahoo.
It's also good to know that the #1 result spot was not there because it was purchased. They're good about making that clear.
Add to this the fact that it GETS RESULTS and RUNS LINUX... you've got a perfect engine. Of course, I'd like to know what they're doing with those cookies and click-through data, but that's just the privacy freak in me talking.
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I love seeing this kind of precident set, but I hate the fact that there are undoubtedly a couple of lawyers somewhere with more cash in their pockets because of this.
At my job recently, a trademarked name of ours was grabbed by a cybersquatter. This domain was registered shortly after we filed the trademark... Yeah, I know, we should have registered the domain name before they did, but REGARDLESS, they are asking $400 less than the WIPO arbitration fee for the domain in question.
This, I feel, is the very DEFINITION of cybersquatting, but since they have a monopoly on it, WIPO has seen fit to charge whatever they like (in this case $1500) to even LOOK at the case.
If only there were a way to put these cybersquatting businesses out of business. What the hell kind of business model is it to do something that is not legally justifiable and won't stand up in court...
Bastards. Like those that file nuisance lawsuits for a living... How is it possible to have a business based on what amounts to legally unjustifiable extortion that doesn't stand up in cout?
and why the copper pipe? If all you are really concerned with is putting LN2 on the cpu, just use a plastic pipe and seal it well at the bottom. It seems counterproductive to have good thermal conductivity through the thickness of the pipe...
Unless maybe their pipe has a bottom to it, but that seems wrong as well. Seems to me that the heat would cause N2 cavitation at the bottom of the bath and reduce the efficiency of the cooling. I am not a refrigeration engineer, but this seems like it is hillbilly engineering to me.
...and I can't spell Gutenberg, even when I link to it.
The Geutenberg Project has the text of the story "Steam Man of the Prairies" here.
For those who are interested in this work.
Well, not exactly the same thing, but here's what happened:
Same scenario, I applied for a credit card at one of those folding table operations where they have some crappy t-shirt or something that they'll give you for filling out applications. Anyhow, I needed a card, so I filled out an application for one of the three cards that this table was offering. They pushed me and asked that I apply for all 3 but I declined, saying that I only wanted one card, and didn't need three.
I went on my way and a couple of weeks later, I get all 3 of the cards in the mail. This pissed me off more than a little, as I am sure that there must be more than one law against falsifying financial documents.
I placed calls to the customer service numbers at the two cards that I had not applied for and told them my story. In both cases I was fed a line about the applications being un-trackable.
Now, this may or may not have been true, but the real information that I took away from the experience is that the companies didn't care about this kind of behavior. Disappointing, but you have to look at the angle - how will caring about this make them any money?
The people that run these tables are paid per application. If they are not made accountable for this kind of thing, why wouldn't they do it?
So good luck, but personally I'd just get a good spam filter and be glad that it was just false submission of your data and not identity theft or something like that.
OK, I admit, I'm a nerd.
I was in Japan and got addicted to "Vcorn" - it's a cheap pen that really writes better than any other I've used.
It's like a Vball, only waterbroof, and oh so cheap. I could get them at DaiMaru for 60 yen. And I bought a few to take back home. But I ran out and missed them - American Vballs aren't waterproof and aren't as cheap.
But luckily I ended up with a Tokyo resident as a high bidder in an e-bay auction. We traded a pair of vintage speakers for enough Vcorn pens to last me to this day.
What I was trying to say is that a year ago you might get this result as #1, but now there are a lot of people who have figured out how to get ranked higher by engineering the ranking system.
Google's system of ranking by numbers of pages linked on to a page was great until people were aware of this fact. Otherwise there would be no reason to make pages of nothing but links to your site.
You will ask "Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?" and you get 100 sites, all linked to each other, that have this phrase crammed into a mass of links and search-engine-bait, all trying to sell you cable de-scramblers and viagra.
Ever notice the 'rot' that is occuring on google lately? For example, a search on "mercedes 300D transmission" used to bring up the article on mbz.org about adjusting the vacuum shift in this car. Now this link, the most useful one, is all the way on the third or fourth page, buried in OEM parts retaillers that you know damn well are ranked high thanks to "ranking services".
I hope they can figure out how to weed this kind of stuff out...
Well, for starters there's not anywhere that I know of that has 100% full intensity illumination 24 hours a day, all year. Unless you are talking about putting it into orbit in some orbit that never sees the earth's shadow... But then you have the problem of cheap transmission of a lot of power from orbit.
You need to take into account incident radiation angle (how far up in latitude you are), length of day, cloudy days, etc...
Still, it is cheap, if it ever happens.
Look at the original comment again; The poster is an american, as he is pointing out 3 things for which there are cheaper, equally reliable solutions that are not more successful.
He was trying to point out 'vanity' products: Microsoft (not cheaper or more reliable that some other server solutions) bottled water (often tap water from somewhere, but it's IN A BOTTLE == fancy) and 93 octane (marketing exists, as I mention, that touts it a more powerful).
93 octane gasoline isn't out there because it is 'cool'. It is out there because some engines are built with high compression and require a higher anti-knock index (the amount that you can compress the vapor before it spontaneously ignites).
The idea that a lot of people have, that the 93 is 'more powerful' or in some other way better, is a myth that is perpetuated by oil companies. Indeed many have been sued over advertisements that implies that 93 will boost your engine in some way, when in reality 93 in an engine tuned for 89 is a waste of money. But for an engine with a higher compression ratio, you will have problems if you don't use high octane gasoline.
For more on octane rating, read up at how stuff works. For more on the lawsuit over false claims, try this description which indicates that the difference is only one of anti-knock rating.
... I am waiting for the shipworm [pdf] standard to be formalized. Right now I can only get an ipv6 address for my firewall machine, or if I want to do port forwarding with freebsd I could have one internal machine attached to ipv6, but since I only have one ipv4 address I am out of luck until shipworm becomes a reality.
This, in addition to the fact that I would have to tunnel to get ipv6, the fact that there is nothing I NEED that is available only over ipv6... But I'd still do it just for the experience if it were possible.
Next time an epson bubble jet dies on you, crack it open.
My girlfriend had a 740i and it went the way that epsons seem to go - colors progressively becoming weaker and eventually stopping completely so that repeated "cleaning cycles" did not fix the problem any longer. I took it apart and found what I expected to find - a mixture of dust and dried ink covering the print head cover area.
What was amazing, however, was the huge piece of blotter that filled the entire bottom of the printer, probably 4" x 14" and 1" thick, which was half saturated with ink! I have taken apart printers before, and have never seen anything like this. It was taking those $32 ink cartridges and pumping them into a piece of blotter!
Now, my brother has an old epson 24 pin dot matrix, and he has about the dustiest room I've ever seen and that thing still works beautifully. I am half tempted to buy one off of ebay just since I know that it has worked since 1992 and he's probably only bought about 2 ribbons for it as well!
This is just a shortened version of The physics Crackpot Index.
It's written for physics but seems to apply pretty well to any science...
I just got a year of Ameritech DSL for $29.99 a month. It was enough to get me to switch from $45.00 cable modem after I moved. There are a couple of hastles, somehow IPMasq chokes when forwarding to a PPPoE connection, after a couple of days of fiddling with it (yes, I tried CLAMP_MSS stuff) I just got a NAT router from Netgear
And this is a great deal, but is nowhere near as cheap as dial-up, which is as low as $9 a month here. I think people just don't feel the need to get a fast connection in a single family living situation. I've lived with 2~5 techie roommates for the last few years and what with drilling holes into other apartments to share their connections, we've never paid more than $5 or so each.
Maybe I'm crazy but one of the most apepaling cheap fat pipe ideas I've seen is apartments where it comes as a standard utility, like water. I know they're still few and far between, but this seems like a good way to do things. If you can get people to play friendly by having a surcharge over a certain bandwidth, this could work...
The whole "glass is a liquid" thing is a classic example of one of thos things that people say without really understanding understanding what they mean. This article, which is well written, addresses the two main points that you need to prove that glass isn't a "liquid".
It then refutes the common and to my knowledge ONLY evidence for glass "flowing" on human timescales, the thickness difference in the top and bottom of old windowglass. Windows that are OPPOSITE what one would expect to find and the fact that hanging the windows with the thick edge down was common practice neatly debunks this evidence.
So, READ the whole article before you quote without understanding context...
1,288.00 CNY = 156.744 USD
1 China Yuan Renminbi = 0.121695 USD
1 United States Dollars = 8.21724 CNY
also:
1,288.00 CNY = 159.042 EUR
Since I don't have that currency conversion in my head.
World oil consumption is around 27 BILLION barrels of oil a year.
try that math again
search on a p2p for evolution control committee. They put herb alpert and public enemy a few years ago with great results. The "rebel without a pause" still cracks me up.
nah, the "mu" in question is the classic negation Kanjji. Mu meaning "no" or "non". Mu as in "muteki" (invincible) or "Muryo" (no fee) or even the classic zen fable about a dog's buddha-nature.
This sounds like just another case of loose translation fed through the PR department.
But people who can speak Japanese should be used to this.
Anyone who reads a.r.k will see this as pepsico finally admitting that they have Animal 57
This is freaking creepy. Maybe less creepy than Quorn, which is made from slime mold (mycoprotien) but it's far too creepy for me.
PCs at surplus - $5
1 nic/machine
probably 1 machine has no RAM or a bad PS
2 machines makes for 1 good one with 2 nics.
When friends want to share a cable modem I usually go over to the local computer surplus sale and get 2 PCs that have NICs in them and a HDD and intall freesco.
It is based on an old kernel, and doesn't have socks so not everything will work, but it's easy to set up and even an idiot can use the web-based panel.
For a super low hassle setup I'd recommend it. It goes right onto an ex DOS PC, no re-formatting or anything.
Yes, we used those back in my "Gateway Engineering" year at OSU. This is now called "Honors Engineering" One of the elements of this year long integratedengineering first year is a robot design project in which you have to build a robot with an erector set and a handy-board.
There is information and some pictures of erector set based robots
here
Mine was the first year to use erector sets, which were chosen since they were cheaper than lego. I think that my group was the one that fried a handy-board on the robot's frame, then came up with the mandatory cardboard shielding for the boards (non-conductvity would be an advantage of Lego)
Honestly, have you seen what my prior favorite, metacrawler (now goto.net) has become? One of these horribly busy, what's what, 10-minutes-to-load, feature glut, sensory overload type pages.
It's noce that success hasn't put a bunch of crap on google's front page like it did for ICQ, Netscape, or Yahoo.
It's also good to know that the #1 result spot was not there because it was purchased. They're good about making that clear.
Add to this the fact that it GETS RESULTS and RUNS LINUX... you've got a perfect engine. Of course, I'd like to know what they're doing with those cookies and click-through data, but that's just the privacy freak in me talking.