Ever thought about cooling your drinks with CO2 cubes? It even gives it the fog-pouring-out-the-brim effect.
BUT, from my personal experience, what will happen is that the cooling material (dry-ice / alcohol cubes - which, at -114C, is about 40 below dry-ice) would cause the water in the drink to solidify around the much colder core - and totally fuck up your drink by screwing up the alcohol content and likely the chemical property of most of the stuff that's involved in the taste of a drink.
i mean, of course, unless you are drinking everclear...
causing frostbites on your lips / tongue / stomache may be another problem you'd have to contend with; though this is not something with which I have personal experience.
This should prove to be interesting in several ways:
1) hands on experience with an "never-crash" OS 2) if QNX is the inmmoveable object, and/. is the unstoppable force, will this cause the universe to end?
p.s. specialized OS don't crash because it's exactly that - specialized. I think windows crash so much because (part of the reason) it runs on so many kinds of hardware, for one. As much as I will get flamed, in OEM applications, like, say, most of the new fancy I-will-never-be-able-to-affort oscilloscopes and the likes, windows usually don't crash.
software and hardware goes together - you can't ALWAYS blame on the software; i am not saying MS writes good code, it's just that I don't think is 100% their fault.
I remember the time when we found out that the 3Com switch / router / whatever (i can't remember so clearly now, it's been such a traumatic shock that i am still trying to forget and having mild success), and we were basically like "WHAT?!?!" and then all passed out.
man that costed me dearly for the necessary therapy that ensued...
indeed; however notice that in discussing about the plasma that forms a force-field, we are precisely talking about "exotic things like high-energy particles trapped in magnetic fields."
So, not giving more detail, talking about the force-field comprising plasma being 15,000K means nothing to me, and that was my point (grand parent of your post) from the beginning.
i know you are trying to be funny, but realistically, the amount of energy a high-temperature "thing" contains can be a lot less than you think.
for example, some ions trapped by the earth's magnetic field goes up to some 14 MILLION kelvins (notice it's hotter than anywhere on, around, or inside the sun). However, as there are maybe one or two such high-temperature particles per cubic centimeter, you will still freeze to death standing (erm, floating) in the middle of it.
just a pedantic monday morning, i guess. I'll stop now.
She will have a big, fat, greasy bank accound of Bill Clinton (hell, she'd probably have his SOUL after what he supposedly told her recently).
But beyond that, not much.
And don't even dream of TV interviews, or news people putting you in a good shade of light. Media are one big percentage of the "content creators," remember. Not to mention that Disney owns ABC, and such.
In true Matrix fashion: "Tell me, Mrs. Clinton, what good is a popular viewpoint / political stance if nobody can hear you speak?"
wasn't there a place where hot and sultry female villians are willing to perform, erm, certain acts, in return for a rubix cube like that? Maybe this is the updated version of the intergalactic somethingoranother - beware if women on the street starts to act suspiciously intimate once you start solving this thing!
A long time ago, people used to hide on ships thats headed for various places, for one reason or another.
My question is: does anybody think it would be possible (let's assume one can get past the security, etc) to be a stowaway onboard the mars-bound spacecraft, if I don't plan to come back?
I mean, a spacesuit + a oxygen + urine/feces bag + yourself does not weight THAT much; and the acceleration won't kill you going up anyway.
So... what y'all think? haul ass to Mars, dig a shallow grave, and write in really big letters nearby: FIRST HUMAN HERE, BIATCH!
(i am not trolling, btw - in philosophy this would be considered a "thought excercise")
Last place I worked, each developer got his own personal 16-processor machine with 8 GB of RAM for application testing. These weren't servers. They were workstations, individual workstations for individual developers to use.
Aww that's nothing. Last place I worked everybody - including the janitorial staff, had their own robotic assistants modeled after Natalie Portman, and the personal computers everyone used for were liquid nitrogen cooled Cray with 295 GaAs based processors, and just over half a TB of memory pre system. That and the computers were connected to dual 40" OLED panels capable of 3640x2400 resolution each at 1500:1 contrast. Every system had neurological with supplimental eye-tracking input systems so you can think about moving the cursor in the 3D desktop and it would be done before you finished thinking about it. And that's only the computer for just reading and writing email! you should see the stuff we used for application development and integration testing.
Pff.
Actually, misreading it lead me to think about a mainframe at my college, which was an SGI with 12 processors and 512MB of memory.
The thing is, though - when I first went in the college, we were all like "WOW that's a lot of system resources." When I got out four years later I was carrying that much memory on my laptop...
breakneck speeds, man.
However, regardless - (with all due respect) why is this such a big deal that australia limped to #80 on the fastest computer list? didn't other linux clusters break teraflops quite a long time ago? EarthSim was neat because it put THAT much more distance between another country and the US (and nearly nobody saw it coming) - but this seems to me hardly news, besides the possible "one of the fastest computer in australia runs linux," or something...
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I was told by an aquaintance who worked at a major airplane engine manufacture stories about this. (note to everyone - Boeing actually DOES NOT MAKE ENGINES - so it would be quite silly if they did compliance and validations on the engines as much as engine manufactures, no?)
Anyhoo - apparently the method of the "chicken cannon" uses anything from a quail to a small turkey. They bird is stuck in a ball-like styrofoam shell, and when the entire apparatus leaves the cannon, the shell disintegrates, and the dead bird flies toward the intake of a full-power jet engine at maybe 3-500 mph.
The thing is, though - unless you have some REALLY big birds, they (dethawed) don't do any damage to the engine at all. The highspeed photograph would show in one frame the chicken flying toward the blades, and the next frame the head is chopped off, and the next part of the neck, one after the tip of the chest, etc. Apparently the blades are going so fast that the chicken's inertia alone will let it "float" while being chopped up and spit out through the back.
The humorous part is when they lent the chicken-cannon to france rail companies to test their high-speed trains. Apparently when the french set up the cannon and fired the small turkey toward the front-windshield, giddy with anticipation of everything going well, the bird went through the widshield, punched a hole in the dummy sitting in the operator's seat, went through the wall behind the dummy operator, and landed about halfway down the train car after causing quite some havoc within it. Everyone was scratching there heads with jaws to the ground (obviously you would not want to drive this thing if it will leave you a turkey-sized entry+exit-wound). Eventually it turned out that it was because they only (!) thawed the bird for 6 hours or something... When they did it with a proper bird it damaged the wind(bird)shield but the driver remained intact.
moral of the story? you can hear some interesting stuff from aerospace industry engineers.
I am really sorry to bring this up, but this technology can probably be paired up with something like this for the most realistic (or, possibly good beyond realism) blowjob in the history of mankind...
One big hurdle you'd have to jump through first is the "take micropayments."
From a merchant perspective, micropayments SUCKS ASS because the cost of processing such a payment is more expensive than the amount being paid. You end up with the same problem you describe, except now you are forking all the dough to the payment companies.
besides, even if we grant what you imply, that Apple is merely the lesser of two evils - I must remind you that up until now, almost all major distribution channels for music wants to screw you both ways - pump the artists dry AND limit the consumer's rights to their stuff. Apple, if not given any other credit, must be commended on their effort to make sure you can do (for the most part) whatever you want with the music you bought.
not only that, having a central place where your stuff is catalogued and easily purchased is a good thing. It's much less likely somebody will stumble upon your little corner of a website - but much more likely if you show up when they browse through the genre that they like on a major catalogued site. Don't underestimate the necessity of advertising channels, and the distribution / payment channels as outlined in paragraph 2.
I think right now there are two battles - one between the consumers and the labels / distribution / retail channels, and one between the bands and the same. Apple mostly allowed the first battle to be won in favor of consumers - the bands are another battle altogether - and i am sorry to say, unless there are some serious reason why the consumers would care to get involved, the vast majority of them probably wouldn't.
is it possibly conscievable that, if EVERY mac owner (on average) is going to spend some bux on the music store, that Apple can actually subsidize the price of the hardware, and create a circle of more-and-more sales?
say if they found out an iPod owner chokes up an average of 300 dollars over the life of the iPod - then they can price the iPod at maybe a 150-200 discount from where they are right now - which means MANY more people would be buying iPods, and buying more music, and probably a few extra Mac sales on the way.
Did y'all know that China has very recently launched it's third navigational satellite, making it possible for china to use its own positional system independently of US / EU / Russia? (three is the minimum for triangulation - if you assume that the triangulated point in space is to be thrown out)
btw, I find it so very amusing that whenever western sources refer to the chinese space program, they just HAVE to add phrase like "secret, military linked," as if NASA is completely independent of the military, or something...
anyhoo. maybe there is still a chance for me to visit mars before I die eh? or some serious possibility of WWIII - as China and EU becomes increasingly suspicious of US... (not unwarrented or anything)
is it me or is SCO suing EVERYBODY now? I wonder if they will soon decide to sue God for creating a universe in which all these patent infringement stuff takes place.
I can see it now: SCO vs. Creator of All Things [2003].
btw - Kirk and his big ego won against God, maybe SCO has a chance...
IIRC ID (industrial design) is about aesthetics and functionality. Looking at the other three contestants, most are very skewed in one of the two. Actually I have no idea why Vice-City was in there altogether.
Anyway, well deserved regardless. After all the attempts of copy-cat manufactures from Korea and Taiwan, nothing beats the simple and elegance of Apple products.
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Ever thought about cooling your drinks with CO2 cubes? It even gives it the fog-pouring-out-the-brim effect.
BUT, from my personal experience, what will happen is that the cooling material (dry-ice / alcohol cubes - which, at -114C, is about 40 below dry-ice) would cause the water in the drink to solidify around the much colder core - and totally fuck up your drink by screwing up the alcohol content and likely the chemical property of most of the stuff that's involved in the taste of a drink.
i mean, of course, unless you are drinking everclear...
causing frostbites on your lips / tongue / stomache may be another problem you'd have to contend with; though this is not something with which I have personal experience.
sorry for being a dork and replying to myself, but look here for Neutrino. right side of the page.
Neutrino being the QNX-based PC OS.
/. is the unstoppable force, will this cause the universe to end?
This should prove to be interesting in several ways:
1) hands on experience with an "never-crash" OS
2) if QNX is the inmmoveable object, and
p.s. specialized OS don't crash because it's exactly that - specialized. I think windows crash so much because (part of the reason) it runs on so many kinds of hardware, for one. As much as I will get flamed, in OEM applications, like, say, most of the new fancy I-will-never-be-able-to-affort oscilloscopes and the likes, windows usually don't crash.
software and hardware goes together - you can't ALWAYS blame on the software; i am not saying MS writes good code, it's just that I don't think is 100% their fault.
maybe 98%...
look what certain backdoors can do to you.
I remember the time when we found out that the 3Com switch / router / whatever (i can't remember so clearly now, it's been such a traumatic shock that i am still trying to forget and having mild success), and we were basically like "WHAT?!?!" and then all passed out.
man that costed me dearly for the necessary therapy that ensued...
I think now how well Bruce Almighty will fare in Egypt just became one of the most curious questions I have about the movie industry.
Or, heck, Dogma... (though they might like that one b/c they think it's making fun of the catholics)
like, say, when the damn servers with the .torrents gets hit hard and spontaneously combust into a pile of smoking ashes.
/. took out all the torrent servers a few weeks back?
Heck man (or, woman), havn't you been around when
I really hope this explains why there isn't a manned mission. =)
indeed; however notice that in discussing about the plasma that forms a force-field, we are precisely talking about "exotic things like high-energy particles trapped in magnetic fields."
So, not giving more detail, talking about the force-field comprising plasma being 15,000K means nothing to me, and that was my point (grand parent of your post) from the beginning.
i know you are trying to be funny, but realistically, the amount of energy a high-temperature "thing" contains can be a lot less than you think.
for example, some ions trapped by the earth's magnetic field goes up to some 14 MILLION kelvins (notice it's hotter than anywhere on, around, or inside the sun). However, as there are maybe one or two such high-temperature particles per cubic centimeter, you will still freeze to death standing (erm, floating) in the middle of it.
just a pedantic monday morning, i guess. I'll stop now.
She will have a big, fat, greasy bank accound of Bill Clinton (hell, she'd probably have his SOUL after what he supposedly told her recently).
But beyond that, not much.
And don't even dream of TV interviews, or news people putting you in a good shade of light. Media are one big percentage of the "content creators," remember. Not to mention that Disney owns ABC, and such.
In true Matrix fashion: "Tell me, Mrs. Clinton, what good is a popular viewpoint / political stance if nobody can hear you speak?"
wasn't there a place where hot and sultry female villians are willing to perform, erm, certain acts, in return for a rubix cube like that? Maybe this is the updated version of the intergalactic somethingoranother - beware if women on the street starts to act suspiciously intimate once you start solving this thing!
wonderful world, isn't it? How many years before we can't publish this kind of stuff on magzines?
A long time ago, people used to hide on ships thats headed for various places, for one reason or another.
My question is: does anybody think it would be possible (let's assume one can get past the security, etc) to be a stowaway onboard the mars-bound spacecraft, if I don't plan to come back?
I mean, a spacesuit + a oxygen + urine/feces bag + yourself does not weight THAT much; and the acceleration won't kill you going up anyway.
So... what y'all think? haul ass to Mars, dig a shallow grave, and write in really big letters nearby: FIRST HUMAN HERE, BIATCH!
(i am not trolling, btw - in philosophy this would be considered a "thought excercise")
Aww that's nothing. Last place I worked everybody - including the janitorial staff, had their own robotic assistants modeled after Natalie Portman, and the personal computers everyone used for were liquid nitrogen cooled Cray with 295 GaAs based processors, and just over half a TB of memory pre system. That and the computers were connected to dual 40" OLED panels capable of 3640x2400 resolution each at 1500:1 contrast. Every system had neurological with supplimental eye-tracking input systems so you can think about moving the cursor in the 3D desktop and it would be done before you finished thinking about it. And that's only the computer for just reading and writing email! you should see the stuff we used for application development and integration testing. Pff.
Is it me or anyone else misread it as "256MB"?
Actually, misreading it lead me to think about a mainframe at my college, which was an SGI with 12 processors and 512MB of memory.
The thing is, though - when I first went in the college, we were all like "WOW that's a lot of system resources." When I got out four years later I was carrying that much memory on my laptop...
breakneck speeds, man.
However, regardless - (with all due respect) why is this such a big deal that australia limped to #80 on the fastest computer list? didn't other linux clusters break teraflops quite a long time ago? EarthSim was neat because it put THAT much more distance between another country and the US (and nearly nobody saw it coming) - but this seems to me hardly news, besides the possible "one of the fastest computer in australia runs linux," or something...
I was told by an aquaintance who worked at a major airplane engine manufacture stories about this. (note to everyone - Boeing actually DOES NOT MAKE ENGINES - so it would be quite silly if they did compliance and validations on the engines as much as engine manufactures, no?)
Anyhoo - apparently the method of the "chicken cannon" uses anything from a quail to a small turkey. They bird is stuck in a ball-like styrofoam shell, and when the entire apparatus leaves the cannon, the shell disintegrates, and the dead bird flies toward the intake of a full-power jet engine at maybe 3-500 mph.
The thing is, though - unless you have some REALLY big birds, they (dethawed) don't do any damage to the engine at all. The highspeed photograph would show in one frame the chicken flying toward the blades, and the next frame the head is chopped off, and the next part of the neck, one after the tip of the chest, etc. Apparently the blades are going so fast that the chicken's inertia alone will let it "float" while being chopped up and spit out through the back.
The humorous part is when they lent the chicken-cannon to france rail companies to test their high-speed trains. Apparently when the french set up the cannon and fired the small turkey toward the front-windshield, giddy with anticipation of everything going well, the bird went through the widshield, punched a hole in the dummy sitting in the operator's seat, went through the wall behind the dummy operator, and landed about halfway down the train car after causing quite some havoc within it. Everyone was scratching there heads with jaws to the ground (obviously you would not want to drive this thing if it will leave you a turkey-sized entry+exit-wound). Eventually it turned out that it was because they only (!) thawed the bird for 6 hours or something... When they did it with a proper bird it damaged the wind(bird)shield but the driver remained intact.
moral of the story? you can hear some interesting stuff from aerospace industry engineers.
I am really sorry to bring this up, but this technology can probably be paired up with something like this for the most realistic (or, possibly good beyond realism) blowjob in the history of mankind...
One big hurdle you'd have to jump through first is the "take micropayments."
From a merchant perspective, micropayments SUCKS ASS because the cost of processing such a payment is more expensive than the amount being paid. You end up with the same problem you describe, except now you are forking all the dough to the payment companies.
besides, even if we grant what you imply, that Apple is merely the lesser of two evils - I must remind you that up until now, almost all major distribution channels for music wants to screw you both ways - pump the artists dry AND limit the consumer's rights to their stuff. Apple, if not given any other credit, must be commended on their effort to make sure you can do (for the most part) whatever you want with the music you bought.
not only that, having a central place where your stuff is catalogued and easily purchased is a good thing. It's much less likely somebody will stumble upon your little corner of a website - but much more likely if you show up when they browse through the genre that they like on a major catalogued site. Don't underestimate the necessity of advertising channels, and the distribution / payment channels as outlined in paragraph 2.
I think right now there are two battles - one between the consumers and the labels / distribution / retail channels, and one between the bands and the same. Apple mostly allowed the first battle to be won in favor of consumers - the bands are another battle altogether - and i am sorry to say, unless there are some serious reason why the consumers would care to get involved, the vast majority of them probably wouldn't.
is it possibly conscievable that, if EVERY mac owner (on average) is going to spend some bux on the music store, that Apple can actually subsidize the price of the hardware, and create a circle of more-and-more sales?
say if they found out an iPod owner chokes up an average of 300 dollars over the life of the iPod - then they can price the iPod at maybe a 150-200 discount from where they are right now - which means MANY more people would be buying iPods, and buying more music, and probably a few extra Mac sales on the way.
One heck of a job Jobs is doing.
cool. point taken and noted. heh, maybe all the chinese recievers need a altimeter to function properly for now...
very very unrelated: you seem to almost universally substitute "were" into places that need a "where." is there a reason for this?
I was always under the impression that even with three satellites, you would be able to use the GPS signal to correct your local clock.
Few reasons for this, IIRC:
1) all three satellites are keeping perfect time, so if your clock is off, it is very easy to compensate for.
2) satellites transmit positional information - this can be compared with your local positional table to correct your local time
Besides the point - since details are sketchy, they might even be using dual-band per satellite to compensate for atmospheric delay errors.
Of course, i might be talking out of my ass - so if you have evidence backing up what you say, prove me wrong.
btw, I find it so very amusing that whenever western sources refer to the chinese space program, they just HAVE to add phrase like "secret, military linked," as if NASA is completely independent of the military, or something...
anyhoo. maybe there is still a chance for me to visit mars before I die eh? or some serious possibility of WWIII - as China and EU becomes increasingly suspicious of US... (not unwarrented or anything)
is it me or is SCO suing EVERYBODY now? I wonder if they will soon decide to sue God for creating a universe in which all these patent infringement stuff takes place.
I can see it now: SCO vs. Creator of All Things [2003].
btw - Kirk and his big ego won against God, maybe SCO has a chance...
IIRC ID (industrial design) is about aesthetics and functionality. Looking at the other three contestants, most are very skewed in one of the two. Actually I have no idea why Vice-City was in there altogether.
Anyway, well deserved regardless. After all the attempts of copy-cat manufactures from Korea and Taiwan, nothing beats the simple and elegance of Apple products.