There's also another danger with this method. The surface area needed to acheive a decent power output would be great indeed. As most of our oxygen is produced by sea algae you'd be starving light from a sizeable chunk of our oxygen producing buddy.
One side of the phone call to the rival scientist:
Eh?
No, it works well
What?
Well my brain does feel a bit warm now you mention it.
Why are you laughing?
Really? You're working on some kind of oven instead of the cell phone now?
Look I'm going under a bridge, talk later.
Quick and dirty way of doing this...
Use the output of your sound card. Add an LED VU meter (one with fade, these are available from places like Maplin etc. in kit form) to the line out. Constantly play a tone through the card and turn the volume up and down depending on the "news".
You'll probably want a second sound card for this but hey, they're cheap.
I was just (wildly) thinking, why not have a platter ontop of the magnetic platter that is just made from a matrix of heads. That way nothing would need to spin and the only thing needed would be to select the right head to read from. This should be instant! I'm kind of imagining the heads working not unlike a keyboard matrix does.
As Homer would say...
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If you do not use OpenGL/Direct3D, then any RAM above, say 8MB (you may be doing dual or triple-head at 1600x1200 32bit or more), is completely useless.
This is not true. I'm writing some educational software at the moment that uses DirectDraw and the 'bitmaps' are loaded into the VRAM for a large increase in blt-ing speed. Copying bitmaps from system RAM slows to a crawl at decent fps especially on older machines used in schools.
All in all I think it's a much under used area of RAM in the non gaming world.
"Bond always has a very serious look when riding anything. I think he's trying to figure out how it works. "
...or when he's going to die, or why he's being punished, or what breakfast looked like, or my favourite: It's not going to be long before he sees a vertical drop roller coaster:-D
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You can just imagine it
Scientist: (Rumages about the debrise) Oh no...
Admin: What? What have you found?
Scientist: We've opened up a whole can of worms here...
Let's not forget Tron here people, although that was based on a true story rather than a game ;-)
I root for those little guys inside my PC everyday :-D
There's also another danger with this method. The surface area needed to acheive a decent power output would be great indeed. As most of our oxygen is produced by sea algae you'd be starving light from a sizeable chunk of our oxygen producing buddy.
One side of the phone call to the rival scientist: Eh? No, it works well What? Well my brain does feel a bit warm now you mention it. Why are you laughing? Really? You're working on some kind of oven instead of the cell phone now? Look I'm going under a bridge, talk later.
Quick and dirty way of doing this... Use the output of your sound card. Add an LED VU meter (one with fade, these are available from places like Maplin etc. in kit form) to the line out. Constantly play a tone through the card and turn the volume up and down depending on the "news". You'll probably want a second sound card for this but hey, they're cheap.
I was just (wildly) thinking, why not have a platter ontop of the magnetic platter that is just made from a matrix of heads. That way nothing would need to spin and the only thing needed would be to select the right head to read from. This should be instant! I'm kind of imagining the heads working not unlike a keyboard matrix does.
...mmmmmm curvey...
Can you imagine tinned food etc containing email information so everything you pick up added the companies email address to your address book?
If you do not use OpenGL/Direct3D, then any RAM above, say 8MB (you may be doing dual or triple-head at 1600x1200 32bit or more), is completely useless.
This is not true. I'm writing some educational software at the moment that uses DirectDraw and the 'bitmaps' are loaded into the VRAM for a large increase in blt-ing speed. Copying bitmaps from system RAM slows to a crawl at decent fps especially on older machines used in schools.
All in all I think it's a much under used area of RAM in the non gaming world.
Anyone ever seen 'Junkyard wars'/'Scrap heap challenge'? Just send the contestants up there and use the orbiting resources for their creations :-)
CGI eh? Are they going to film it in PERL or C I wonder ;-)
I just love this line
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"Bond always has a very serious look when riding anything. I think he's trying to figure out how it works. "
...or when he's going to die, or why he's being punished, or what breakfast looked like, or my favourite: It's not going to be long before he sees a vertical drop roller coaster