Eons ago I read an article in a photo magazine, relating the author's tour of the Nikon factory. He remarked to the company honcho that of all features on a camera, the self-timer (the gadget that lets you photograph yourself) is the least likely ever to be used, and yet every Japanese camera has one...why was that?
The company guy responded by driving him past the Yasukuni Shrine, a war memorial that corresponds roughly to the Tomb Of The Unknowns. In front of it stood an army of tourist families smiling cheerfully at an army of tripods manned by an army of phantom photographers. "In Japan," he said, "No self-timer, no sell camera."
...plus c'est la meme chose. Tandy Corp pulled this one circa 1980 when a magazine called Softside was publishing games in the form of printed BASIC code for the Apple, Atari and TRS-80.
A Tandy lawyer confronted the publisher and threatened to sue if he continued to publish games for their computer. On the advice of his own lawyer, the publisher kept publishing the games but Tandy was able to keep him from mentioning the names Radio Shack or TRS-80. He substituted the name "S-80 bus", which Tandy didn't control.
Tandy got its wish, of course: nobody ever mentions their computers.
rj
Newton's demonstration of the composition of sunlight. He hypothesized that a prism doesn't "add" color to light, but just separates the colors already there -- and proceeded to demonstrate it by using a second prism to recombine them into white light.
rj
Hey, that's just the Venice Beach model. You know damn well there's a big-block Chevy being grafted onto a pair of 15-inch mags somewhere even as we speak.
rj
Joyce does have some of her own money in this, but there has been lots of help. That's pretty much the pattern there...on the two occasions when they moved up to larger quarters, customers showed up with trucks and dollies and moved the books. All it cost Joyce was some beer.
rj
So they show the trailer on Fox and then tell you to see "Ice Age" in order to see the theatrical version of the trailer...wow. A trailer for a trailer, with an inline hype for another picture. Wonder if the actual movie is that creative...
rj
This has been common among overclockers for a couple of years at least, and I'm using it on a 1.3GHz Athlon running at normal speed. I found it would not run under heavy load (like big graphic renders) without going past the BIOS temp limit, whereupon it would slow the clock down. (This is on a home-assembled system with the Asus A7A266 mobo. A coworker tells me his son has no such problem with the same chip in his Compaq, but I have to wonder if the OEM systems aren't simply implementing software overtemp protection without announcing it.)
I was able to get the temp to stay in limits by installing a high-quality copper heatsink and a very potent fan, but the noise level was a show stopper: loud and VERY offensive, so I went to a water cooling setup. It's a bit of a hassle, but works very well.
The only purpose-built component is a copper heat exchanger block that bolts onto the CPU; the rest consists of an aquarium pump, a plastic water tank and a transmission cooler.
Overclockers don't consider this an unusual setup at all. They start with water, and then typically add a Peltier-effect thermoelectric cooler which is essentially a heat pump between the CPU and the water block. Others are experimenting with various types of true phase-change refrigeration.
rj
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Eons ago I read an article in a photo magazine, relating the author's tour of the Nikon factory. He remarked to the company honcho that of all features on a camera, the self-timer (the gadget that lets you photograph yourself) is the least likely ever to be used, and yet every Japanese camera has one...why was that?
The company guy responded by driving him past the Yasukuni Shrine, a war memorial that corresponds roughly to the Tomb Of The Unknowns. In front of it stood an army of tourist families smiling cheerfully at an army of tripods manned by an army of phantom photographers. "In Japan," he said, "No self-timer, no sell camera."
rj
Well, add a little gasoline, strap yourself to the computer, and you've got something similar to your car...
rj
Sorry, editing crash, should have referred to "Les freres Montgolfier". rj
Niepce's countrymen, >, might take offense at that.
rj
A note of caution: Dissing the Morse code in a group of hams is roughly equivalent to walking into a biker bar and announcing that wrestling is fixed.
Except, of course, that the hams are a great deal older than the bikers.
Ralph NY0F
...plus c'est la meme chose. Tandy Corp pulled this one circa 1980 when a magazine called Softside was publishing games in the form of printed BASIC code for the Apple, Atari and TRS-80. A Tandy lawyer confronted the publisher and threatened to sue if he continued to publish games for their computer. On the advice of his own lawyer, the publisher kept publishing the games but Tandy was able to keep him from mentioning the names Radio Shack or TRS-80. He substituted the name "S-80 bus", which Tandy didn't control. Tandy got its wish, of course: nobody ever mentions their computers. rj
Some keys for your googling pleasure: "Yangtze gunboat" "gunboat diplomacy" "USS Panay" "The Sand Pebbles" rj
You could think of it as Hollywood's payback for "Breaking the Sound Barrier" (1952) which credits the British with the eponymous feat. rj
Newton's demonstration of the composition of sunlight. He hypothesized that a prism doesn't "add" color to light, but just separates the colors already there -- and proceeded to demonstrate it by using a second prism to recombine them into white light. rj
Hey, that's just the Venice Beach model. You know damn well there's a big-block Chevy being grafted onto a pair of 15-inch mags somewhere even as we speak. rj
Lucky sumbitch... rj Ga. Tech '62
Joyce does have some of her own money in this, but there has been lots of help. That's pretty much the pattern there...on the two occasions when they moved up to larger quarters, customers showed up with trucks and dollies and moved the books. All it cost Joyce was some beer. rj
There's a popular one hereabouts that says "My kid can beat up your honor student." rj
That sound you hear is your friends sniggering about your use of the singular. rj
So they show the trailer on Fox and then tell you to see "Ice Age" in order to see the theatrical version of the trailer...wow. A trailer for a trailer, with an inline hype for another picture. Wonder if the actual movie is that creative... rj
No more Acme products...but we still have Microsoft.
This has been common among overclockers for a couple of years at least, and I'm using it on a 1.3GHz Athlon running at normal speed. I found it would not run under heavy load (like big graphic renders) without going past the BIOS temp limit, whereupon it would slow the clock down. (This is on a home-assembled system with the Asus A7A266 mobo. A coworker tells me his son has no such problem with the same chip in his Compaq, but I have to wonder if the OEM systems aren't simply implementing software overtemp protection without announcing it.) I was able to get the temp to stay in limits by installing a high-quality copper heatsink and a very potent fan, but the noise level was a show stopper: loud and VERY offensive, so I went to a water cooling setup. It's a bit of a hassle, but works very well. The only purpose-built component is a copper heat exchanger block that bolts onto the CPU; the rest consists of an aquarium pump, a plastic water tank and a transmission cooler. Overclockers don't consider this an unusual setup at all. They start with water, and then typically add a Peltier-effect thermoelectric cooler which is essentially a heat pump between the CPU and the water block. Others are experimenting with various types of true phase-change refrigeration. rj