I think the parent brings up a good point, albeit sarcastically:
Why not just play this out? Isn't there some legal strategy LimeWire could pursue to not only continue losing (while taking it to higher and higher courts), but to increase their damages by orders of magnitude each time? After they owe more than the combined wealth of all resources humanity could ever potentially obtain, surely someone somewhere will realize something was wrong with that picture.
On a related note, has anyone ever sat down and thought of bankrupting the music industry with legal fees? That is to say, to make their legal bills exceed their revenue, and for all defendants to basically be unable to pay a dime? They would see dollar signs all the way until they starved to death...
Mach 6 is a little over 2 km/s, for 200 seconds, is 400 km... so in 3 minutes and 20 seconds, the plane just about crossed over the equivalent of Pennsylvania, from east to west.
Advocates relinquishing development of nano-tech, genetics, robotics, and AI. He feels that an arms race in any of those fields would be detrimental to human survival.
A thought had by countless others about thousands of past technologies. If history has taught us anything, avoiding an arms race only guarantees that your enemies become your conquerors. The nations that abstain from these four fields will simply become the first slaves to the nations that pursue them.
If you speak from personal experience, then you sir are far more hardcore than I.
If I'm not mistaken, I think the internet gives out medals for this sort of depravity. At the very least you might get lucky and find a newsgroup of similarly minded individuals.
Personally, I'm not sure whether I should congratulate you or back away from you slowly.
The only real issue there is that it couldn't really be intended for long-term, infrequently-accessed storage. A prominent failure mode of platter drives comes (surprisingly) from sitting idle, not being used.
and between 1/6 and 1/15 that of diamond (900–2,320 W/mK)
A very apt comparison since I only use diamond heat sinks for my gaming machines.
Diamond is widely considered to be one of if not the most thermally conductive material available. This comparison was included because for those familiar, it is a handy reference. It was as if, because your arms are too short to touch the ceiling, you believe it doesn't matter how high it is.
On a side note, there actually IS diamond thermal paste available for sale! Huzzah.
The ability to direct the heat flow can make up for a somewhat lower conductivity for many applications, and can also allow for layouts and applications which wouldn't work with metal heat sinks.
Since the primary issue with metal heat sinks is generally getting the heat wicked off of them, I'd be more apt to consider Finite Element based Thermal Analysis when designing my heat sinks, instead of considering a non isothermal material. That is to say, the problem probably isn't with your material, it's probably with your airflow.
The problem with that is that most likely, the interface for the Polyethylene heat sink would be worse than for an aluminum one; The Polyethylene molecule is vastly more complicated than the Aluminum atom, and not nearly as mobile once cast (and would be just as likely to capture little insulating pockets of air, etc.). Even if the Polyethylene molecules on the end could "mold" to the interface, there is not guarantee they wouldn't flop over and become insulating - an Aluminum sink "molded" to the interface wouldn't care, as it's isothermal.
This fiber was about 300 times more thermally conductive than normal polyethylene
Since I couldn't find in TFA the ACTUAL measured conductivity, I turned to the internets:
Using data from the first source I found, at its highest, HDPE's thermal conductivity is 0.51 W/mK. So this material's thermal conductivity in that dimension is about 153 W/mK, or about 3/5 that of Al (250 W/mK), 3/8 that of Cu (401 W/mK), and between 1/6 and 1/15 that of diamond (900–2,320 W/mK, according to wikipedia.
So all in all, while this is very fascinating research (and I enthusiastically encourage them to continue exploring this avenue), I'm not optimistic about practical applications for computers (at least in the remote future). They would at least have to double the conductivity, while at least matching aluminum's cost - a feat that may be too difficult to overcome.
Early man must have been MIGHTILY constipated if they had to wait for the invention of toilet paper to defecate.
Really, I think they must have used whatever was available, such as leaves or (Sanitation Forbid!) their hands. Which is really, I think, the larger problem in the areas that this product is targeted to... it would STILL require the use of toilet paper in order to improve sanitation. So if this becomes the norm, it just got $0.02 to $0.03 more expensive to take a crap, for a very marginal (but existing) gain. I haven't done a cost-benefits analysis of the situation, but considering that the alternatives for this step in the process are FREE (just, you know, currently not being done), I don't hold out much hope for the DooSatchel here.
They probably would have a lot of success, though, if they changed their target market to wealthy Westerner environmentally-over-conscious hikers and survivalists, and raised their price to $0.50 a bag, pledging with every purchase to donate bags to the third world.
A recurring cost revenue model for using the toilet is not exactly what I would call a "simple solution." Especially not for people who can't even afford a toilet today.
Now proper fecal composting, THAT'S a simple solution... and damned near free, too. Hell, if you do it right, it's not even supposed to smell.
When a magnetic field is applied to the solders [they heat up]
Not to be pedantic, but this is the Internet... They are applying magnetic flux to their solder, not just a magnetic field. A field doesn't impart any energy.
Perhaps true, but keep in mind that in the context of Solder, "Flux" has an entirely different meaning.
This would work great for individual components, and you could leave final assembly in the realm of other soldering techniques.
The only problem with that is that when you want to use two separate bonding techniques on a board, the cost and complexity skyrockets. This is why (or at least, one reason) this is traditionally avoided (the exception for that is reflow and wave soldering, which touch different component types... DIP vs. surface mount... even then though, the chemistries involved are frequently similar).
Even if you could manufacture that on the cheap, how are you going to support it? Throw away whole boards instead of rework/repair them? Some boards might be cheap enough to just throw away... but if they're that cheap, you're probably not using a fancy pants soldering technique anyhow.
The result is a tin-silver alloy that contains a dispersion of iron particles tens of micrometers in diameter.
Not saying it can't work, as the above is light on precise chemistry, but in an alloy like this, you're bound to have atoms floating around... say, to the surface of the deposition... where it will oxidize. And something like OSP (which yes, wouldn't bond to SnAg) only lasts so long in storage... Don't we already have ENOUGH problems with solder joint oxidation? I look forward to seeing how this issue is addressed.
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Dammit. You fucking got me with The Weather Channel.
I got pretty close, too
I think the parent brings up a good point, albeit sarcastically:
Why not just play this out? Isn't there some legal strategy LimeWire could pursue to not only continue losing (while taking it to higher and higher courts), but to increase their damages by orders of magnitude each time? After they owe more than the combined wealth of all resources humanity could ever potentially obtain, surely someone somewhere will realize something was wrong with that picture.
On a related note, has anyone ever sat down and thought of bankrupting the music industry with legal fees? That is to say, to make their legal bills exceed their revenue, and for all defendants to basically be unable to pay a dime? They would see dollar signs all the way until they starved to death...
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/09/15/109-the-onion/
You're one of those people, STFU.
There's a good chance he will... a nice round lead one.
Mach 6 is a little over 2 km/s, for 200 seconds, is 400 km... so in 3 minutes and 20 seconds, the plane just about crossed over the equivalent of Pennsylvania, from east to west.
Advocates relinquishing development of nano-tech, genetics, robotics, and AI. He feels that an arms race in any of those fields would be detrimental to human survival.
A thought had by countless others about thousands of past technologies. If history has taught us anything, avoiding an arms race only guarantees that your enemies become your conquerors. The nations that abstain from these four fields will simply become the first slaves to the nations that pursue them.
If you speak from personal experience, then you sir are far more hardcore than I.
If I'm not mistaken, I think the internet gives out medals for this sort of depravity. At the very least you might get lucky and find a newsgroup of similarly minded individuals.
Personally, I'm not sure whether I should congratulate you or back away from you slowly.
I'm pretty sure that was Nacho Libre
So what you're saying is that I jumped the gun fitting the harness over my shark's head...?
That may be, but its clearly lacking driver support for certain models of anal dildos. But not for long!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the TRUE spirit of free software.
The only real issue there is that it couldn't really be intended for long-term, infrequently-accessed storage. A prominent failure mode of platter drives comes (surprisingly) from sitting idle, not being used.
and between 1/6 and 1/15 that of diamond (900–2,320 W/mK)
A very apt comparison since I only use diamond heat sinks for my gaming machines.
Diamond is widely considered to be one of if not the most thermally conductive material available. This comparison was included because for those familiar, it is a handy reference. It was as if, because your arms are too short to touch the ceiling, you believe it doesn't matter how high it is.
On a side note, there actually IS diamond thermal paste available for sale! Huzzah.
The ability to direct the heat flow can make up for a somewhat lower conductivity for many applications, and can also allow for layouts and applications which wouldn't work with metal heat sinks.
Since the primary issue with metal heat sinks is generally getting the heat wicked off of them, I'd be more apt to consider Finite Element based Thermal Analysis when designing my heat sinks, instead of considering a non isothermal material. That is to say, the problem probably isn't with your material, it's probably with your airflow.
The problem with that is that most likely, the interface for the Polyethylene heat sink would be worse than for an aluminum one; The Polyethylene molecule is vastly more complicated than the Aluminum atom, and not nearly as mobile once cast (and would be just as likely to capture little insulating pockets of air, etc.). Even if the Polyethylene molecules on the end could "mold" to the interface, there is not guarantee they wouldn't flop over and become insulating - an Aluminum sink "molded" to the interface wouldn't care, as it's isothermal.
This fiber was about 300 times more thermally conductive than normal polyethylene
Since I couldn't find in TFA the ACTUAL measured conductivity, I turned to the internets:
Using data from the first source I found, at its highest, HDPE's thermal conductivity is 0.51 W/mK. So this material's thermal conductivity in that dimension is about 153 W/mK, or about 3/5 that of Al (250 W/mK), 3/8 that of Cu (401 W/mK), and between 1/6 and 1/15 that of diamond (900–2,320 W/mK, according to wikipedia.
So all in all, while this is very fascinating research (and I enthusiastically encourage them to continue exploring this avenue), I'm not optimistic about practical applications for computers (at least in the remote future). They would at least have to double the conductivity, while at least matching aluminum's cost - a feat that may be too difficult to overcome.
I don't know about you, but I've never worked for someone poorer than me (at least, within a small margin or error).
Early man must have been MIGHTILY constipated if they had to wait for the invention of toilet paper to defecate.
Really, I think they must have used whatever was available, such as leaves or (Sanitation Forbid!) their hands. Which is really, I think, the larger problem in the areas that this product is targeted to... it would STILL require the use of toilet paper in order to improve sanitation. So if this becomes the norm, it just got $0.02 to $0.03 more expensive to take a crap, for a very marginal (but existing) gain. I haven't done a cost-benefits analysis of the situation, but considering that the alternatives for this step in the process are FREE (just, you know, currently not being done), I don't hold out much hope for the DooSatchel here.
They probably would have a lot of success, though, if they changed their target market to wealthy Westerner environmentally-over-conscious hikers and survivalists, and raised their price to $0.50 a bag, pledging with every purchase to donate bags to the third world.
A recurring cost revenue model for using the toilet is not exactly what I would call a "simple solution." Especially not for people who can't even afford a toilet today.
Now proper fecal composting, THAT'S a simple solution... and damned near free, too. Hell, if you do it right, it's not even supposed to smell.
Not to be pedantic, but this is the Internet... They are applying magnetic flux to their solder, not just a magnetic field. A field doesn't impart any energy.
Perhaps true, but keep in mind that in the context of Solder, "Flux" has an entirely different meaning.
This would work great for individual components, and you could leave final assembly in the realm of other soldering techniques.
The only problem with that is that when you want to use two separate bonding techniques on a board, the cost and complexity skyrockets. This is why (or at least, one reason) this is traditionally avoided (the exception for that is reflow and wave soldering, which touch different component types... DIP vs. surface mount... even then though, the chemistries involved are frequently similar).
Even if you could manufacture that on the cheap, how are you going to support it? Throw away whole boards instead of rework/repair them? Some boards might be cheap enough to just throw away... but if they're that cheap, you're probably not using a fancy pants soldering technique anyhow.
Just don't spec this on any components laid out next to mains surge suppression inductors... ;)
The result is a tin-silver alloy that contains a dispersion of iron particles tens of micrometers in diameter.
Not saying it can't work, as the above is light on precise chemistry, but in an alloy like this, you're bound to have atoms floating around... say, to the surface of the deposition... where it will oxidize. And something like OSP (which yes, wouldn't bond to SnAg) only lasts so long in storage... Don't we already have ENOUGH problems with solder joint oxidation? I look forward to seeing how this issue is addressed.
That said, it is used in acidemia all the time because nothing allows you to get build smaller structures.
I've never heard such a caustic opinion of our universities! You must have sulfered much at their hands!
Would someone be so kind as to provide a mirror?
I tried to RTFA, but my office has my.opera.com blocked under the Forbidden Category "Intimate Apparel/Swimsuit". Who knew?
Aaaaaah! For cryin' in the mud! IT WAS A CORNY JOKE. THAT IS ALL.
Why are people browsing at -1 to downmod jokes they don't get??? I understand! It wasn't funny! You didn't get it! That's FINE.