This could actually work to its advantage, as long as any "frequently edited" text provides an easy way to get to the history. That way, contentious (and thus frequently edited) assertions would be obvious, allowing the user to review the list of edits and for an opinion about the changes which had been made - presumably revealing an interesting set of changes for and against creationism in the example cited above.
Rip out all those noisy fans, wrangle some sheets of copper into funky shapes and pipe it all together with PVC tubing. Then add water.
The design process was actually a little more involved than that, but making the choice to increase the surface area of the heat exchanger (I have plenty of space under my desk) means I can get away with totally passive convection cooling (apart from one tiny little aquarium pump, which is silent).
I like that last idea. Plasma shields are a suitably sci-fi idea, but the thought that they could actually be useful is intriguing.
One question, though (as you're obviously well versed in these things) - if you're using plasma as your radiation shield, why bother making the surface optically flat? If the surface of the plasma is non-flat, surely the only down-side is that incoming radiation is absorbed rather than reflected - resulting in a slight increase in the termperature of your plasma. Which is probably not a problem.
Bah, I'm sure my PC is at least as quiet as theirs. Again, the PSU fan is the only fan turning in the system. The rest of it is water-cooled through an extremely bodge-tastic radiator, like this.
As I'm using a decent pump, this is completely silent. And it looks scary.
Almost usefully, you could get your Linux enabled PIC to log on to your nearest weather site, check the weather for tomorrow, and adjust your heating paramters accordingly. Keeps your bills down, and your temperature just right. Works even better with storage heaters.
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This could actually work to its advantage, as long as any "frequently edited" text provides an easy way to get to the history. That way, contentious (and thus frequently edited) assertions would be obvious, allowing the user to review the list of edits and for an opinion about the changes which had been made - presumably revealing an interesting set of changes for and against creationism in the example cited above.
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Rip out all those noisy fans, wrangle some sheets of copper into funky shapes and pipe it all together with PVC tubing. Then add water.
The design process was actually a little more involved than that, but making the choice to increase the surface area of the heat exchanger (I have plenty of space under my desk) means I can get away with totally passive convection cooling (apart from one tiny little aquarium pump, which is silent).
I like that last idea. Plasma shields are a suitably sci-fi idea, but the thought that they could actually be useful is intriguing.
One question, though (as you're obviously well versed in these things) - if you're using plasma as your radiation shield, why bother making the surface optically flat? If the surface of the plasma is non-flat, surely the only down-side is that incoming radiation is absorbed rather than reflected - resulting in a slight increase in the termperature of your plasma. Which is probably not a problem.
Just curious!
Bah, I'm sure my PC is at least as quiet as theirs. Again, the PSU fan is the only fan turning in the system. The rest of it is water-cooled through an extremely bodge-tastic radiator, like this.
As I'm using a decent pump, this is completely silent. And it looks scary.
Almost usefully, you could get your Linux enabled PIC to log on to your nearest weather site, check the weather for tomorrow, and adjust your heating paramters accordingly. Keeps your bills down, and your temperature just right. Works even better with storage heaters.