huh, actually, no. take a look at the article from march 8th and you'll see that the study is completed and the results compiled. They even fed it tot another computer for visual interpretation. The simulation lasted 7 months, and finished in march. It did not start in march and finish just now, check your facts.
I'm getting fed up of this bullshit. We all know that in 20 years the technology for online music exhange will still be here and it'll be legal. The music industry is doing the exact same thing the petroleum cies did, boycott the product until they own it. Then market it and prepare the market (ie. electrical cars), and finally say you played along the whole time, while unveiling your product.
The birth of a new monopoly, the same as before, just different packaging.
Anybody else use those promotion CDs that you get in the mail to put under coffee cups? I usually get 1 AOL CD a month.
My area is very well connected in terms of DSL and cable, and I don't know anybody who uses AOL. I think it's a big waste of material to send tens of thousands of CDs every month. They don't just screw you by advertising for other people, they piss you off by sending you useless junk.
I'm looking forward to the day we can actually dig to some depth and see if some liquid water remains. DNA from a primitive lifeform might provide more info on how life emerged in the primordial soup. I know mars was geologicaly active (whats the name of that big 15km volcanoe...), so there's a chance that some heat is left inside. Was there a study done on this?
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I totally agree with you:) Never said the contrary, I was just exposing the makings of another type of gun. Some people just didn't seem to believe me.
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And who's talking about wall sockets? The voltage coming in over wires in neighbourhoods is usually 5000 volts. It gets converted down to 220 or 110 for home usage in big downconverters that are either up in the poles (big gery cylinders) or buried. The reason the voltage is so high is to reduce energy loss over long distances.
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So fuckin what if it's the width of northern missouri?
Take a look at this page before talking about something you don't know about. Do you know how much energy you can get out of an electromagnetic field generated by a solenoid that's got 400km of wire? A hell of a lot. Oh, yah, do planes that fly at mach 7 burst into flames? It's gonna heat up like hell that's for sure. And by the way, the payload they accelerated was of the order of a few grams.
Have you ever heard of people being in a separate room? And the concrete wall being in the middle of a room with about 10 meters of water barrels behind it.
Don't think people are stupid before knowing the whole story. Every one aound would be dead, that has to be the stupidest I have ever heard. You check your physics dude, because expirements with explosives and high velocity projectiles happen everyday and people don't die.
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Instructions to build a gun that shoots a magnet at 2KM/second. Yes you read correctly.
Get a 3 meter long pipe made of pure iron. Coil 400km of thin copper wire around it. Buy a cylindrical magnet, the strongest you can get, that fits inside the pipe. Buy the fattest AC/DC converter around (or build it yourself...) and plug it in a 5000 Volt power supply (think neighbourhood electrical supply). Connect this to the 2 ends of the wires around the pipe.
Oh ya, make sure it's pointing the right way around.
My physics teacher did this while he was in university. They shot a concrete wall 2 feet thick and the magnet went through. The velocity was 2KM/s.
The first thing you should think about is who your target is going to be. If the target is geeks, you can spare on the bubbly crap and display essential information with ftp links and all.
If your target is in the elderly group, BIG fat fonts, etc...
It think the thing to keep in mind is simplicity. Stay away from flash & cie on the front page. Always have a link back to the front page. Put the search in an abvious location. Don't put popup menus. Clearly identify categories (a la slashdot with icons...). Provide an alternate page for dialups, with less graphics (or simply for text-only browsers). DO NOT try to put everything on the front page. Remember that not every one has high res 22 inch screens. this site looks freakin great on my screen but looks like crap at my friend's place. It's simple and it's got style. But it's not for dialups.
The important thing is to keep the end user in mind.
Water has a much higher calorific capacity than air. I believe it's around 4.19J/g*Celsius which is very high.
It is the logical choice for cooling, being less noisy, parts have to move slower, etc etc... But why does the article say this is for garage hobbyists? Water cooling has been around for a while and at least 5 relatively large cies offer it. Tomshardware and Anandtech have had quite a few reviews of the different brands.
Another plus is you can plug everything on the same circuit, Northbridge, CPU, GPU, hell, even the power supply. All you have to do is increase the pipe size by a relatively small factor.
The temperature is maintained around ambient too, so the cooling is MUCH more efficient than air.
The next step is nanocooling. There was an article in Nature a way back about nanofans (more like oscillating piezoelectric thingys), that dissipate heat at an astounding rate (although I don't recall how exactly since they throw it at the air which doesn't have such a good calorific capacity...). Anyways, the point is that this isn't really revolutionary because it has been used in home computers (by more than garage hobbyists) for at least 3 years. And before that there was Kryotech...
On 6.26am the morning of May 13th, 2001, the link is hit from IP 24.1.197.144 - a residential cable modem in Arizona
Google is big. Google has a very fat spider going around. Google definitly does not check a nowhere webpage as soon as it is created! How can somebody on a cable account (limited bandwith?) scan pages at a high enough rate that they hit an almost invisible webpage soon after it was created? Big machine, big connection? spoofed IP?
Is this business really so lucrative that people are willing to spend hours working on it? It'd like to have some stats on how many people actually subscribe to the "services" advertised for in spam. I know a spider is not a lot of maintenance once setup and the distribution cost for the spammers is almost null because they make everybody else pay for it, but where the hell do they get the profit...
IANAL so I'd like to know hoe people can ensure, if the code is released, that it'll stay private and confidential and that the copyright won't be screwed over. The code can't go public. A substential number of people will have to see it in order to sort it out, and then explainit to the court. What prevents those people to say "No this code cannot be separated into many modules"? I mean, it's all down to interpretation (I know that's what justice is supposed to do), but code can be rearranged, it just depands how much money you're willing to spend on it!
My parents did not want me fooling around on their computer becaus my dad felt I'd screw it up real bad (because he didn't know much about computers). My dad also refused to let me access the net cause he felt all I'd do was check out some pr0n. Well, when I finally got the money (17 years old) I bought my computer and internet access. I'd already been around on BBSs so I thought I new some... Oh shit was I wrong! Nowadays I compare myself to some of my friends and I have to say that I estimate the age for learning about computers to be around 13-14 years old. Later than that and you've got a hell of a lot to catch up.
Creativity is VERY important and I totally agree that a young kid should stay the hell away from computers, especially that every program I see being designed for kids is usualy idiotic anyway compared to what caring parents can provide.
"The Oracle database server itself runs on some sixty odd different operating systems," says Litchfield.
First I have to say I'm impressed, I had no idea. Secondly, what are those 60 different operating systems? Does anybody have a list? BSD, Linux, Windows, sun, novell, QNX, MacOS in all their flavors.
I can't help but picture the futuristic house: a.net passport to access your house, then you use MS voice recognition to start your X-box controlled blender ("start blender") and it opens the start menu on your tivo. You go to the bathroom and realise that the toilet paper was used up by the MS house maid when the washing machine crashed because some idiot DOSed it. No problem, the X-Box terminal in the bathroom has already sent a message through MSN to MS toilet HQ, and the delivery is on the way.
Then some script kiddie uses a widely-known-but-little-repaired-exploit (TM) and bluescreens your house. You have to go down to the basement (again!), unplug the internet cable, unplug the power cable, short the solders on your Microsoft House BIOS, reinstall House XP 2005...
It can ignite, but it cannot sustain a thermonuclear reaction, for it lacks the gravity to pack the atoms close enough that they fuse (that's rather simplified but it is the way stars convert hydrogen into helium).
Yeah, but spores don't just travel in space (right?)! they are tied to some piece of rock that got blasted out of a planet or something. Plus another thing I've thought about : radiation! Don't astronauts wear several layers of protection so that they don't turn into bacon?
Anyway, if the rock theory is right, the bacteria spores should vaporize with the heat!
actually it lacks the mass to ignite, so it could never become a star. But it's atmosphere is mostly acid and the pressure on the surface is unberable (the planet is mostly gas, liquid gas because of the pressure).
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huh, actually, no. take a look at the article from march 8th and you'll see that the study is completed and the results compiled. They even fed it tot another computer for visual interpretation. The simulation lasted 7 months, and finished in march. It did not start in march and finish just now, check your facts.
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I'm getting fed up of this bullshit. We all know that in 20 years the technology for online music exhange will still be here and it'll be legal. The music industry is doing the exact same thing the petroleum cies did, boycott the product until they own it. Then market it and prepare the market (ie. electrical cars), and finally say you played along the whole time, while unveiling your product.
The birth of a new monopoly, the same as before, just different packaging.
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Anybody else use those promotion CDs that you get in the mail to put under coffee cups? I usually get 1 AOL CD a month.
My area is very well connected in terms of DSL and cable, and I don't know anybody who uses AOL. I think it's a big waste of material to send tens of thousands of CDs every month. They don't just screw you by advertising for other people, they piss you off by sending you useless junk.
crap, that's 15 miles for the volcano, 24 km.
I'm looking forward to the day we can actually dig to some depth and see if some liquid water remains. DNA from a primitive lifeform might provide more info on how life emerged in the primordial soup. I know mars was geologicaly active (whats the name of that big 15km volcanoe...), so there's a chance that some heat is left inside. Was there a study done on this?
I totally agree with you :) Never said the contrary, I was just exposing the makings of another type of gun. Some people just didn't seem to believe me.
And who's talking about wall sockets? The voltage coming in over wires in neighbourhoods is usually 5000 volts. It gets converted down to 220 or 110 for home usage in big downconverters that are either up in the poles (big gery cylinders) or buried. The reason the voltage is so high is to reduce energy loss over long distances.
So fuckin what if it's the width of northern missouri?
Take a look at this page before talking about something you don't know about. Do you know how much energy you can get out of an electromagnetic field generated by a solenoid that's got 400km of wire? A hell of a lot. Oh, yah, do planes that fly at mach 7 burst into flames? It's gonna heat up like hell that's for sure. And by the way, the payload they accelerated was of the order of a few grams.
Have you ever heard of people being in a separate room? And the concrete wall being in the middle of a room with about 10 meters of water barrels behind it.
Don't think people are stupid before knowing the whole story. Every one aound would be dead, that has to be the stupidest I have ever heard. You check your physics dude, because expirements with explosives and high velocity projectiles happen everyday and people don't die.
Instructions to build a gun that shoots a magnet at 2KM/second. Yes you read correctly. Get a 3 meter long pipe made of pure iron. Coil 400km of thin copper wire around it. Buy a cylindrical magnet, the strongest you can get, that fits inside the pipe. Buy the fattest AC/DC converter around (or build it yourself...) and plug it in a 5000 Volt power supply (think neighbourhood electrical supply). Connect this to the 2 ends of the wires around the pipe.
Oh ya, make sure it's pointing the right way around.
My physics teacher did this while he was in university. They shot a concrete wall 2 feet thick and the magnet went through. The velocity was 2KM/s.
The first thing you should think about is who your target is going to be. If the target is geeks, you can spare on the bubbly crap and display essential information with ftp links and all.
If your target is in the elderly group, BIG fat fonts, etc...
It think the thing to keep in mind is simplicity. Stay away from flash & cie on the front page. Always have a link back to the front page. Put the search in an abvious location. Don't put popup menus. Clearly identify categories (a la slashdot with icons...). Provide an alternate page for dialups, with less graphics (or simply for text-only browsers). DO NOT try to put everything on the front page. Remember that not every one has high res 22 inch screens. this site looks freakin great on my screen but looks like crap at my friend's place. It's simple and it's got style. But it's not for dialups.
The important thing is to keep the end user in mind.
Water has a much higher calorific capacity than air. I believe it's around 4.19J/g*Celsius which is very high.
It is the logical choice for cooling, being less noisy, parts have to move slower, etc etc... But why does the article say this is for garage hobbyists? Water cooling has been around for a while and at least 5 relatively large cies offer it. Tomshardware and Anandtech have had quite a few reviews of the different brands.
Another plus is you can plug everything on the same circuit, Northbridge, CPU, GPU, hell, even the power supply. All you have to do is increase the pipe size by a relatively small factor.
The temperature is maintained around ambient too, so the cooling is MUCH more efficient than air.
The next step is nanocooling. There was an article in Nature a way back about nanofans (more like oscillating piezoelectric thingys), that dissipate heat at an astounding rate (although I don't recall how exactly since they throw it at the air which doesn't have such a good calorific capacity...). Anyways, the point is that this isn't really revolutionary because it has been used in home computers (by more than garage hobbyists) for at least 3 years. And before that there was Kryotech...
On 6.26am the morning of May 13th, 2001, the link is hit from IP 24.1.197.144 - a residential cable modem in Arizona
Google is big. Google has a very fat spider going around. Google definitly does not check a nowhere webpage as soon as it is created! How can somebody on a cable account (limited bandwith?) scan pages at a high enough rate that they hit an almost invisible webpage soon after it was created? Big machine, big connection? spoofed IP?
Is this business really so lucrative that people are willing to spend hours working on it? It'd like to have some stats on how many people actually subscribe to the "services" advertised for in spam. I know a spider is not a lot of maintenance once setup and the distribution cost for the spammers is almost null because they make everybody else pay for it, but where the hell do they get the profit...
IANAL so I'd like to know hoe people can ensure, if the code is released, that it'll stay private and confidential and that the copyright won't be screwed over. The code can't go public. A substential number of people will have to see it in order to sort it out, and then explainit to the court. What prevents those people to say "No this code cannot be separated into many modules"? I mean, it's all down to interpretation (I know that's what justice is supposed to do), but code can be rearranged, it just depands how much money you're willing to spend on it!
Somebody enlighten me please...
My parents did not want me fooling around on their computer becaus my dad felt I'd screw it up real bad (because he didn't know much about computers). My dad also refused to let me access the net cause he felt all I'd do was check out some pr0n. Well, when I finally got the money (17 years old) I bought my computer and internet access. I'd already been around on BBSs so I thought I new some... Oh shit was I wrong! Nowadays I compare myself to some of my friends and I have to say that I estimate the age for learning about computers to be around 13-14 years old. Later than that and you've got a hell of a lot to catch up.
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Creativity is VERY important and I totally agree that a young kid should stay the hell away from computers, especially that every program I see being designed for kids is usualy idiotic anyway compared to what caring parents can provide.
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forgot OS/390 and VMS
But what is the rest?
How do you think bugs spread in m$ programs? Cut and paste and cut and paste...
I can't help but picture the futuristic house: a .net passport to access your house, then you use MS voice recognition to start your X-box controlled blender ("start blender") and it opens the start menu on your tivo. You go to the bathroom and realise that the toilet paper was used up by the MS house maid when the washing machine crashed because some idiot DOSed it. No problem, the X-Box terminal in the bathroom has already sent a message through MSN to MS toilet HQ, and the delivery is on the way.
Then some script kiddie uses a widely-known-but-little-repaired-exploit (TM) and bluescreens your house. You have to go down to the basement (again!), unplug the internet cable, unplug the power cable, short the solders on your Microsoft House BIOS, reinstall House XP 2005...
wazoo....
It can ignite, but it cannot sustain a thermonuclear reaction, for it lacks the gravity to pack the atoms close enough that they fuse (that's rather simplified but it is the way stars convert hydrogen into helium).
Yeah, but spores don't just travel in space (right?)! they are tied to some piece of rock that got blasted out of a planet or something. Plus another thing I've thought about : radiation! Don't astronauts wear several layers of protection so that they don't turn into bacon?
Anyway, if the rock theory is right, the bacteria spores should vaporize with the heat!
actually it lacks the mass to ignite, so it could never become a star. But it's atmosphere is mostly acid and the pressure on the surface is unberable (the planet is mostly gas, liquid gas because of the pressure).