You could get the maintenance manual for Sony Vaio laptops. So far, I've replaced the screen, the keyboard, the folding screen LCD-switch-latch circuit board, the hard disk drive (upgrades), memory (upgrade), CPU cooling fan assembly.
Just about every computer repair shop wouldn't go as far as trying to replace a screen.
If you have a housing crisis severe enough to require constructing earthscrapers, you could probably use all that rock for the building materials as well as land reclamation on coastal areas.
Alternatively, just look for disused quarries - they will have solved the problem for you. You can then build the earthscraper right there.
That's how the Victorians built many British cities. They chose a location that had a number of hills, then excavated away the topsoil and kept it for use later in landscaped gardens. They then used dynamite to flatten hill-tops and use the debris as building material to build in and over the valleys, thus creating instant basements.
It doesn't matter what wavelength the photons are on. What matters is whether they are in enough numbers to cause physical damage. Sitting next to a hot electric fire for long enough is going to cause burning as much as touching a heating element.
I have Linux on my current PC for the last 10 years. The only time it shuts down is due to a 2D flashplayer game roasting the CPU to 95C. Not even running bzflag or GPU/shader programming has the same effect. I can only conclude it is something to do with CPU caching.
BYTE magazine (the 1980/90's issues) used to have adverts by IBM on how people made it to CEO by starting in the mail-room and working up through the company. Those days, the internal mail system was the network, so it was the equivalent of being an IT technician.
These days you would either have to set up your own company or hop from company to company to achieve the same goal.
I saw this advert some time ago for a junk mail delivery person:
"Canvassers wanted for marketing campaign. Requires energetic and athletic person to post leaflets through letterboxes in selected neighborhoods. Must have previous experience as canvasser. Interested applications should download and fill in the application form, entering personal details as well as a personal statement indicating their motivation and what they hope to gain from this position".
Can't say I trust a default installation of Windows especially with all the different freebies that come along.
For a laptop, I prefer to pop out the original hard disk drive, keep the default OS as a spare, buy a pair of new larger disk drives and use one as a clone of the other.
UK and France have high-speed trains that go between major cities (If you consider InterCity 125mph high speed, France has SNCF). The only downside I'll say about the UK trains is that they are overcrowded through demand. Train companies keep raising fares to deter passengers, rather than invest in new rolling stock. France don't have that problem.
California does have Caltrain that goes between San Jose and San Franscisco. You could walk down to the train station in one city, travel for 15 minutes, and be anywhere 10-15 miles away. Cyclists had their own half-carriage at one end, and school trips could reserve the carriage at the other end. The only downside was that either end of each city was 3 miles away from the train station, so it's either a 1 hour walk or a 20 minute bus journey, with a one hourly bus service, thus the need for bicycles. You could get around by public transport, but it was like planning a space launch - you had to know all the rendezvous points and hop times to make the connections.
Because other countries (in the West) have political and religious zealots that would like to drag out any academics and put them on trial for contradicting their version of events and beliefs.
Creationism vs. Evolution, Global warming, 9/11, etc...
That would be advertising, marketing and media studies in the UK. Similar courses include theatrical puppet-making.
Not saying there isn't skill required to do all of those, but do people really need to spend three years at a desk learning theory when they could be doing internships and getting real world experience to start with? Film industry seems to employ "runners" who do odd jobs before they get to specialize.
Politicians like to take a dig at courses in golf course management, but usually those students have parents in the golf course management business, so it's more of a family business training course.
UK had situations like that in the past - whenever there was some serious crime like a bombing, the pressure was on the government to catch those invididuals. They passed that pressure onto the police, who promptly attempted to fit up the first suspects they could find.
You don't even need an EMP hit - just a regular snow-blizzard can cut the power lines to the city and nearest transmitter. Happened to us back in the 1980's.
Very eerie to be in an city apartment block at night with no power, no reception on battery operated radios, no street lighting outside, with the only outside light being the occasional car driving through 6 inches of snow, and to see the snow still falling.
Wow! That sounds amazing. The closest I'd ever to go that was listening to FM radio back in 1989 when there was a solar storm flare reaching Earth. We actually started hearing local FM radio stations from Nordic countries. I don't know if anyone there started to receive UK stations.
Other fun thing we did was to get a world radio (FM/AM/LW/MW/SW), an astronomy guide, and go outside on a Summer evening. We could just make out the reflection of sunlight from the satellites as well as hear them "chirruping" overhead.
They could prove one way or another using a Van-De-Graaff generator (static), air ionizer (ionized particles), industrial X-ray (x-rays), ultrasound scanner (vibrations), checkout conveyor belt (rubber belt), shop security gates (magnetic fields). Tesla coil might be pushing it though.
Some guy patented the truncated tetrahedron as a way of creating lockable paved driveways. The shape will prevent the bricks from moving out of place.
Though there is prior art in the form of Inca/Aztec hill cities, who built walls using stones with trapezoidal edges. Same principle, but used to stop earthquakes from demolishing structures.
Just wait until the first lawsuit when someone is driving down the freeway, is distracted by their phone going off with a reminder, and gets into a crash.
Thanks for that info. Maybe different supercomputer centers have different purchasing requirements, especially those that can't expand space or have be really cost-effective.
Guess things are just remaining as they are. That's why they had/have custom buildings - they would house the custom cooling system, custom interconnects as well as power supplies as well as offices for the engineers.
Looking at some photograph,I see your point - something plain or just black with some blinkenlighten like the Connection Machine would have been enough.
Though, when you buy a system like that, the cost isn't the hardware, it's the field and support engineers available 24/7, customer support, projects and power consumption that are the big costs. There used to be a joke, "Buy a super-computer from us, and we'll throw the building in for free".
Modern day supercomputer systems use a standardized rack frame system and intercommunication fabric so that the oldest and slowest nodes can be pulled out, while the newest and fastest ones can be slotted in straight away. That removes the overhead of having to construct a new building, power supply system, air conditioning and network infrastructure just to do a simple upgrade.
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You could get the maintenance manual for Sony Vaio laptops. So far, I've replaced the screen, the keyboard, the folding screen LCD-switch-latch circuit board, the hard disk drive (upgrades), memory (upgrade), CPU cooling fan assembly.
Just about every computer repair shop wouldn't go as far as trying to replace a screen.
Shiver me brinicles! Who needs plutonium when you have the icy finger of death ?
If you have a housing crisis severe enough to require constructing earthscrapers, you could probably use all that rock for the building materials as well as land reclamation on coastal areas.
Alternatively, just look for disused quarries - they will have solved the problem for you. You can then build the earthscraper right there.
That's how the Victorians built many British cities. They chose a location that had a number of hills, then excavated away the topsoil and kept it for use later in landscaped gardens. They then used dynamite to flatten hill-tops and use the debris as building material to build in and over the valleys, thus creating instant basements.
Nereus went to a depth of 10,000m. I'd say it was possible.
MythBusters did an experiment with MeatMan to see what would happen to a diver in an old-fashion diving suit with airhose. It wasn't pretty.
It doesn't matter what wavelength the photons are on. What matters is whether they are in enough numbers to cause physical damage. Sitting next to a hot electric fire for long enough is going to cause burning as much as touching a heating element.
I have Linux on my current PC for the last 10 years. The only time it shuts down is due to a 2D flashplayer game roasting the CPU to 95C. Not even running bzflag or GPU/shader programming has the same effect. I can only conclude it is something to do with CPU caching.
BYTE magazine (the 1980/90's issues) used to have adverts by IBM on how people made it to CEO by starting in the mail-room and working up through the company. Those days, the internal mail system was the network, so it was the equivalent of being an IT technician.
These days you would either have to set up your own company or hop from company to company to achieve the same goal.
I saw this advert some time ago for a junk mail delivery person:
"Canvassers wanted for marketing campaign. Requires energetic and athletic person to post leaflets through letterboxes in selected neighborhoods. Must have previous experience as canvasser. Interested applications should download and fill in the application form, entering personal details as well as a personal statement indicating their motivation and what they hope to gain from this position".
Can't say I trust a default installation of Windows especially with all the different freebies that come along.
For a laptop, I prefer to pop out the original hard disk drive, keep the default OS as a spare, buy a pair of new larger disk drives and use one as a clone of the other.
UK and France have high-speed trains that go between major cities (If you consider InterCity 125mph high speed, France has SNCF).
The only downside I'll say about the UK trains is that they are overcrowded through demand. Train companies keep raising fares to deter passengers, rather than invest in new rolling stock. France don't have that problem.
California does have Caltrain that goes between San Jose and San Franscisco. You could walk down to the train station in one city, travel for 15 minutes, and be anywhere 10-15 miles away. Cyclists had their own half-carriage at one end, and school trips could reserve the carriage at the other end. The only downside was that either end of each city was 3 miles away from the train station, so it's either a 1 hour walk or a 20 minute bus journey, with a one hourly bus service, thus the need for bicycles.
You could get around by public transport, but it was like planning a space launch - you had to know all the rendezvous points and hop times to make the connections.
Because other countries (in the West) have political and religious zealots that would like to drag out any academics and put them on trial for contradicting their version of events and beliefs.
Creationism vs. Evolution, Global warming, 9/11, etc...
That would be advertising, marketing and media studies in the UK. Similar courses include theatrical puppet-making.
Not saying there isn't skill required to do all of those, but do people really need to spend three years at a desk learning theory when they could be doing internships and getting real world experience to start with? Film industry seems to employ "runners" who do odd jobs before they get to specialize.
Politicians like to take a dig at courses in golf course management, but usually those students have parents in the golf course management business, so it's more of a family business training course.
UK had situations like that in the past - whenever there was some serious crime like a bombing, the pressure was on the government to catch those invididuals. They passed that pressure onto the police, who promptly attempted to fit up the first suspects they could find.
Wow! I found this story today
The Griggs Hall haunting
FOIA = Freedom Of Information Act
I'd have thought they would have moved to fingerprint, face or iris recognition since these devices all have cameras.
You don't even need an EMP hit - just a regular snow-blizzard can cut the power lines to the city and nearest transmitter. Happened to us back in the 1980's.
Very eerie to be in an city apartment block at night with no power, no reception on battery operated radios, no street lighting outside, with the only outside light being the occasional car driving through 6 inches of snow, and to see the snow still falling.
Wow! That sounds amazing. The closest I'd ever to go that was listening to FM radio back in 1989 when there was a solar storm flare reaching Earth. We actually started hearing local FM radio stations from Nordic countries. I don't know if anyone there started to receive UK stations.
Other fun thing we did was to get a world radio (FM/AM/LW/MW/SW), an astronomy guide, and go outside on a Summer evening. We could just make out the reflection of sunlight from the satellites as well as hear them "chirruping" overhead.
Did the college teach hardware theory, engineering, compiler theory (assembly language, tokenisers, parsers, code optimization, operating systems)?
If so, then that gave him background knowledge.
They could prove one way or another using a Van-De-Graaff generator (static), air ionizer (ionized particles), industrial X-ray (x-rays), ultrasound scanner (vibrations), checkout conveyor belt (rubber belt), shop security gates (magnetic fields). Tesla coil might be pushing it though.
Some guy patented the truncated tetrahedron as a way of creating lockable paved driveways. The shape will prevent the bricks from moving out of place.
Though there is prior art in the form of Inca/Aztec hill cities, who built walls using stones with trapezoidal edges. Same principle, but used to stop earthquakes from demolishing structures.
Just wait until the first lawsuit when someone is driving down the freeway, is distracted by their phone going off with a reminder, and gets into a crash.
Thanks for that info. Maybe different supercomputer centers have different purchasing requirements, especially those that can't expand space or have be really cost-effective.
Guess things are just remaining as they are. That's why they had/have custom buildings - they would house the custom cooling system, custom interconnects as well as power supplies as well as offices for the engineers.
NASA proved that having a simple bipole magnetic field at the same strength as Earth was enough to shield a craft from cosmic rays.
DesigningTrans-atlantic cruise-liners and submarines have given us some understanding of building habitats for humans.
That puts the problem back to finding a way of shielding the Higgs boson from interacting with atoms in order to negate gravity.
Looking at some photograph ,I see your point - something plain or just black with some blinkenlighten like the Connection Machine would have been enough.
Though, when you buy a system like that, the cost isn't the hardware, it's the field and support engineers available 24/7, customer support, projects and power consumption that are the big costs. There used to be a joke, "Buy a super-computer from us, and we'll throw the building in for free".
Modern day supercomputer systems use a standardized rack frame system and intercommunication fabric so that the oldest and slowest nodes can be pulled out, while the newest and fastest ones can be slotted in straight away. That removes the overhead of having to construct a new building, power supply system, air conditioning and network infrastructure just to do a simple upgrade.