Something tells me that the organizers of MacWorld don't really care about what you do after the show. But since there's a good number of complaints about how Boston's Boring and all, here's a few things you can do after the show:
Visit a friend at one of the schools here. God knows half the people at BU are all suburban Jersey Girls.
Go clubbing. Landsdowne Street near Kenmore has stuff going on Thur-Sat nights.
Experience some of the Bostonized cultural events (e.g. Boston Ballet, etc.)
Find a strip club.
Frat Party hopping, but be warned of the MIT ones.
Historical tours.
Watch the Celtics lose.
Watch the Red Sox lose.
Drink, drink, and drink some more because the Sox lost.
GO BACK HOME!We don need yiz New Yawkahs 'round heah!
Get a petri dish, a plate magnet, a superconductor, and some liquid nitrogen. Put the petri dish on top of the plate magnet, and the superconductor inside the petri dish. Slowly pour in the liquid nitrogen. When the superconductor reaches superconductivity, it'll float.
I'm wondering how they're going to generate the power for this laser. Sure you can run a bevel shaft from the main engine shaft or use bleed pressure to run compressors, but is that enough juice for 100 KW?
IR laser emission is totally invisible, even the scattered stuff...
The that would mean that mounted on a stealth fighter, that would give the military to destroy something (virtually) without anybody seeing where it came from. In essence, from the view of the ground troops, it would appear to be an act of [insert preferred deity], adding a psychological effect.
Don't forget that battle machinery is usually not destroyed completely by the round it is hit with. Onboard fuel and ammunition will contribute to total destruction, just like H.M.S. Hood.
Find a picture of the ass end of a fighter jet. How many flat surfaces do you see that can bounce back a beam of light? For the light to return as nearly a whole beam carrying the nearly same amount of power, the reflecting surface needs to be normal (perpendicular, orthagonal, etc.) to the path of the beam. Any other angle will just deflect and/or scatter it. Also, how many mirrored (bare aluminum) surfaces do you see? Most planes these days have a layer of low-visability paint, usually a flat grey-blue, not something you'd see on The Fast & The Furious.
Now, if fighter jets had license plates and trunks, then I'd start to worry.
Maybe the pentagon has been watching ID4 too much...
Of all the VCD's I've seen in China, about 10% are not pirated.
IIRC, the VCD format is (c.'99) nothing more than ISO 9660 with MPEG-1 (just plain MPEG-1) video files located at specific folder locations. However, I don't know where the sound data is stored.
About the heat recycling - If it were possible, why have we not seen a car that can recycle the heat from its exaust? (Turbochargers don't count)
and I know I'm gonna get offtopic'd for the rest of this, but.. Idea 1: Adjustable solar panels on the back of the LCD, as an option for the outdoorish types Idea 2: Instead of one fan at 6,000 RPM, have 3 at 2,000 PM (Note: BS numbers). Fan noise levels increase exponentially relative to spin speed, and it's been proven more efficient in the aerospace and nautical industries.
Aircraft cabins at 35,000 feet are not going to exceed sea level 14.7 PSI of pressure. You seemed to have misunderstood the term "pressurized." At 35,000 feet altitude, the ambient atmospheric pressure is considerably less than that at sea level. Furthermore, no animal can survive above 25,000 due to oxygen deprivation. Commercial aircraft pressurize their cabins to provide the oxygen density necessary to sustain life, as well as give some form of comfort to the passengers. However, to pump the cabin up to 14.7 PSI while it's only 5 PSI outside is not economical (expensive seals), and to do so would also put unnecessary stress on the aircraft (how many square inches of skin are there on an airframe? Multiply that by 14.7). To put it simply, you're mistaken in thinking that there will be increased air pressure while flying, compared to being on the ground.
It seems like the increased pressure might weaken the piping system
Even if you subjected the coolant system to increased air pressure, it would not weaken the plumbing. Water is an incompressible fluid, while air can be compressed. It'll take some serious PSIs to bust through a well engineered cooling system. Also, the technology of water cooling was invented during WW1, during development of fighter engines, so the technology has been proven.
If I get one of these, I'll use a vacuum case for travelling with it.
Bad idea buddy. Although the tensil strength of the cooling pipes would probably contain the liquid, but you'd be subjecting them to more stress. Without air pressure pushing in on the pipes, there's only the pressure of the water pushing out.
The only concern I'd have with the cooling system regards the amount of power it would consume compared to fans. You can never have too much battery life.
Last thing - if you're really concerned, RTFM/RTFDS (Read the fucking data sheet)! There's always a page describing the operating environments the device was designed for. A pressurized airplane cabin can be assumed equivalent to 10,000 ft altitude.
A few years back, I remember seeing a report on CCTV (Chinese Central Television) about a group of scientists who found that all the A/C units in Beijing had contributed in raising the ambient temperature several degrees, to the point where 40C+ (104F+) days were common in July.
A quick search in Google shows normal temperatures to be 25C-30C (77F - 86F)
Mac users are smarter, but what about Linux users.
Then what do you say about the people that use Linux/Mac/AIX/Win32/etc.?
I'll give you the demographic answer to this. Go to a major university, and go check out the Chemistry, Math, and Communications departments. Biochemists/Microbiologists seem to have a mac fetish, and so do mathmaticians. Commies (communications) use macs because of the graphic design capabilities. A good number of the liberal arts people use macs for both asthetics and ease of use, and so do a good number of the engineers as well as the IT departments. I suspect, however, that the engineering population will use macs a little more with the development of MATLAB for OSX (yay! excuse to burn money on powerbook!)
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Which idiot deemed this offtopic? Anybody who knows Boston at all would see how the Big Dig would affect a few thousand people moving around.
Get a petri dish, a plate magnet, a superconductor, and some liquid nitrogen. Put the petri dish on top of the plate magnet, and the superconductor inside the petri dish. Slowly pour in the liquid nitrogen. When the superconductor reaches superconductivity, it'll float.
(or do something along those lines...)
What about video cameras that can record events on public streets? How would you write a law for such a situation?
Great, we've found a loophole to create a large scale blinding weapon. Ever hear of Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
I'm wondering how they're going to generate the power for this laser. Sure you can run a bevel shaft from the main engine shaft or use bleed pressure to run compressors, but is that enough juice for 100 KW?
IR laser emission is totally invisible, even the scattered stuff...
The that would mean that mounted on a stealth fighter, that would give the military to destroy something (virtually) without anybody seeing where it came from. In essence, from the view of the ground troops, it would appear to be an act of [insert preferred deity], adding a psychological effect.
Don't forget that battle machinery is usually not destroyed completely by the round it is hit with. Onboard fuel and ammunition will contribute to total destruction, just like H.M.S. Hood.
Find a picture of the ass end of a fighter jet. How many flat surfaces do you see that can bounce back a beam of light? For the light to return as nearly a whole beam carrying the nearly same amount of power, the reflecting surface needs to be normal (perpendicular, orthagonal, etc.) to the path of the beam. Any other angle will just deflect and/or scatter it. Also, how many mirrored (bare aluminum) surfaces do you see? Most planes these days have a layer of low-visability paint, usually a flat grey-blue, not something you'd see on The Fast & The Furious.
Now, if fighter jets had license plates and trunks, then I'd start to worry.
Maybe the pentagon has been watching ID4 too much...
Watch out with that abbreviation. There's also a music artist by the name of BT.
I haven't had the clunking noise, but I've had about 4 WD drives die on me after approx. 4 years of use.
Since history has proven that there are many unoriginal ideas out there, is it possible that whoever made the Nazca lines taught themselves geometry?
Of all the VCD's I've seen in China, about 10% are not pirated. IIRC, the VCD format is (c.'99) nothing more than ISO 9660 with MPEG-1 (just plain MPEG-1) video files located at specific folder locations. However, I don't know where the sound data is stored.
New in the US at least. In '99, when DVD was just developing and VCD was unheard of in the US, VCD was quite popular in China.
Ahem... DMCA?
If it were possible, why have we not seen a car that can recycle the heat from its exaust? (Turbochargers don't count)
and I know I'm gonna get offtopic'd for the rest of this, but..
Idea 1: Adjustable solar panels on the back of the LCD, as an option for the outdoorish types
Idea 2: Instead of one fan at 6,000 RPM, have 3 at 2,000 PM (Note: BS numbers). Fan noise levels increase exponentially relative to spin speed, and it's been proven more efficient in the aerospace and nautical industries.
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And as for sealing the lappy.. it's been done, it's just freakin' expensive.
That was the reaction of a small office staff when the IT guy programmed the HP Laserjet to display coolant leak on April Fools'.
Even if you subjected the coolant system to increased air pressure, it would not weaken the plumbing. Water is an incompressible fluid, while air can be compressed. It'll take some serious PSIs to bust through a well engineered cooling system. Also, the technology of water cooling was invented during WW1, during development of fighter engines, so the technology has been proven.
Bad idea buddy. Although the tensil strength of the cooling pipes would probably contain the liquid, but you'd be subjecting them to more stress. Without air pressure pushing in on the pipes, there's only the pressure of the water pushing out. The only concern I'd have with the cooling system regards the amount of power it would consume compared to fans. You can never have too much battery life.Last thing - if you're really concerned, RTFM/RTFDS (Read the fucking data sheet)!
There's always a page describing the operating environments the device was designed for. A pressurized airplane cabin can be assumed equivalent to 10,000 ft altitude.
A quick search in Google shows normal temperatures to be 25C-30C (77F - 86F)
Cue dramatic music.. flash blue screen of death..
http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/requireme nts.shtml
I said math, not computer science departments.
Mac users are smarter, but what about Linux users.
Then what do you say about the people that use Linux/Mac/AIX/Win32/etc.?
I'll give you the demographic answer to this.
Go to a major university, and go check out the Chemistry, Math, and Communications departments. Biochemists/Microbiologists seem to have a mac fetish, and so do mathmaticians. Commies (communications) use macs because of the graphic design capabilities. A good number of the liberal arts people use macs for both asthetics and ease of use, and so do a good number of the engineers as well as the IT departments. I suspect, however, that the engineering population will use macs a little more with the development of MATLAB for OSX (yay! excuse to burn money on powerbook!)
Think different. Think el337ism. Don't forget that not too long ago, your entire grade probably used Macs.