We need to remove heat from objects such as GPUs, CPUs and RAM chips that both produce large quantities of and are sensitive to heat. Since us humans haven't yet worked out a way to destroy heat, we need to move it somewhere else. Traditionally we've used large heatsinks to create a bit of thermal inertia and radiant area, and fans to transfer heat to the surrounding air. Problem is, air doesn't have a great deal of heat capacity and radiant heat transfer is too slow. Conduction to other solids (or liquids) are extremely good ways of spreading thermal energy - it's spread across the entire surface of the circuit and, usually to a much greater extent, the conductive medium.
So while heat is being transferred from that powerhouse GeForce8800GTX++ and spread evenly across all your precious components, the temperature of your 5V voltage regulator probably isn't going to go up. You may even find the thermal gradient goes the other way.
I'm not sure "good enough" is the right term. The point is that the mirror produces results utterly indistinguishable from a mathematically perfect surface.
Nothing to do with settling for "good enough" which usually implies a compromise has been made somewhere.
You could say it was practically perfect in every way. I'll go stand outside now.
True, that would seem a good idea. But I would be worried that we've suddenly multiplied the chances of any one component in our capsule failing by several dozen (CPU, MB, copper traces, capacitors, hard disk, firmware(s), etc)
Uhh, no. "Firewire" is the Apple trademark of their implementation of the IEEE 1394 interface. A name dreamed up presumably to help them sell more Macs.
No, what the hell are you talking about? I don't have the time or inclination to preserve or distribute such relics. But if you're available, care to give it a go? Kudos to this guy for doing what he has. He's already archiving them as.WAVs, and apparently on a shoestring budget.
All I did was suggest he use a better distribution format. Sorry if you thought I sounded like a comic-book store guy. I guess that's a risk one takes with written communication.
But let's add some real flamebait shall we? Every decent software player does Ogg Vorbis, and most of the better portables do too. MP3 should have died years ago.
I somehow managed to get modded down for asking why you hold that opinion.
Could you, 93 Escort Wagon, please tell me why posting the sentence, "For a technology that has been in stable release since May 22, 2000, PHP 4 has finally reached the end of its official life." is such an editing faux pas?
Let's change the players a bit: "Engadget reports Microsoft has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your Vista PC."
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yes, and that's kind of the point.
We need to remove heat from objects such as GPUs, CPUs and RAM chips that both produce large quantities of and are sensitive to heat. Since us humans haven't yet worked out a way to destroy heat, we need to move it somewhere else. Traditionally we've used large heatsinks to create a bit of thermal inertia and radiant area, and fans to transfer heat to the surrounding air. Problem is, air doesn't have a great deal of heat capacity and radiant heat transfer is too slow. Conduction to other solids (or liquids) are extremely good ways of spreading thermal energy - it's spread across the entire surface of the circuit and, usually to a much greater extent, the conductive medium.
So while heat is being transferred from that powerhouse GeForce8800GTX++ and spread evenly across all your precious components, the temperature of your 5V voltage regulator probably isn't going to go up. You may even find the thermal gradient goes the other way.
So what's with the nod tag that's been thrown on the past couple of articles?
I'm not sure "good enough" is the right term. The point is that the mirror produces results utterly indistinguishable from a mathematically perfect surface.
Nothing to do with settling for "good enough" which usually implies a compromise has been made somewhere.
You could say it was practically perfect in every way. I'll go stand outside now.
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Sure, if reliability is valueless to you.
How many write cycles are your SSDs good for?
I think that SSDs will eventually take over, but until this major engineering hurdle is cleared, it's not a serious runner.
All the better. The GTX series cards are looking to be completely craptastic. Outlook not bright.
Truer words have never been spoken. Tell me, what do you think of Exchange Server?
Really? Aren't all half-decent AC units these days inverter-based (ie running constantly)?
True, that would seem a good idea. But I would be worried that we've suddenly multiplied the chances of any one component in our capsule failing by several dozen (CPU, MB, copper traces, capacitors, hard disk, firmware(s), etc)
Glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers that song. ...Cows well hung...
Beware cows with guns.
I think we're in the presence of greatness here.
Tell me, Dr Avery, when is the next release of Loose Change (again cunningly released to p2p networks as "United 93" of course) up for release?
thanks
I can see it now:
(raises hands)
"It's about nothing!"
Hmmmm, yes I see what you're saying - the error that crept into the dictionary needs to be fixed to correctly reflect the law.
Good point.
Thanks for the laugh.
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Moderators, thanks for the bigger laugh.
Yes. Increasing your bit density to the nth power does nothing for your access times.
Uhh, no. "Firewire" is the Apple trademark of their implementation of the IEEE 1394 interface. A name dreamed up presumably to help them sell more Macs.
Speak for yourself. I use "aggressive negotiations", "you assume too much" and "the negotiations will be short" on a fairly regular basis.
Did I just say that out loud?
No, what the hell are you talking about? I don't have the time or inclination to preserve or distribute such relics. But if you're available, care to give it a go? Kudos to this guy for doing what he has. He's already archiving them as .WAVs, and apparently on a shoestring budget.
All I did was suggest he use a better distribution format. Sorry if you thought I sounded like a comic-book store guy. I guess that's a risk one takes with written communication.
But let's add some real flamebait shall we? Every decent software player does Ogg Vorbis, and most of the better portables do too. MP3 should have died years ago.
... and no cool Star Wars toys.
No, but I sure would be grateful if he'd post them in a format not controlled by a patent troll.
Ogg Vorbis would be fine, and he'd have the benefit of smaller files for the same quality.
Only if you're an applied scientist. Proofs come up all the time in the purer sciences.
I somehow managed to get modded down for asking why you hold that opinion.
Could you, 93 Escort Wagon, please tell me why posting the sentence, "For a technology that has been in stable release since May 22, 2000, PHP 4 has finally reached the end of its official life." is such an editing faux pas?
You would be correct, except we're talking manual transmission over automatic, not 2-wheel drive over 4WD.
Thanks for playing.
Wow. Just... wow
Let's change the players a bit:
"Engadget reports Microsoft has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your Vista PC."
Do we still feel warm and protected?
I guess I won't be applying for that title. What, pray tell, is wrong with that sentence?
They even used "its" correctly, not "it's".