By the way, in San Jose you are allowed to keep chickens in your back yard. I think you can in Palo Alto too, the most expensive property I can think of offhand that is urban enough for this to apply.
Besides, the local neighborhood association specifies cedar shingles and can't stand the idea that the tin-covered house is the only one likely to be left standing if there is a nearby brushfire.
Hmm. According to material safety data sheets I've Googled at, Indium has and LD50 in rats of 4200mg/Kg (4.2grams/kilogram), What I see for Gallium is "Chronic Effects: Intravenous administration to humans caused metallic taste, skin rashes and bone marrow depression as well as anorexia, nausea and vomiting. May cause damage to kidneys."
RAID 1? Foo. Get the best of both worlds and go RAID 10. Reliability is optimal, even with 4 drives, a 2 out of 3 chance that a second failure will cause no data loss.
But when drives are cheap, the more the better - I tested a RAID 10 array of 12 400G Seagate SATA drives on a 3ware 9500S controller, and created one 48G partition to run SuSE 9.2 from. With 12 actuators and only the fastest 2% of the platters to move them over, I/O was gratifyingly fast.
Unfortunately, I was rather put off by the 3ware release notes; requiring me to remove half of the 4GB of RAM in the SuSE system, and:
Linux (all versions) and usage of Ctrl+c The use of Ctrl+c to abort operations is not recommended while having I/O to the 3ware controller. The following are know incompatibilities:
1. Create a RAID-0 unit
2. Migrate the unit to another RAID-0 using CLI
3. Format and perform I/O on the array
4. Delete the unit using CLI
5. Hitting Ctrl+c causes a kernel panic
"Following are know incompatibilities"? I just can't abide spelling errors in technical documents.
I think you should base the first robotic vehicle that can repair itself on an old Beetle. I think I could train my dog to change the cylinders on one of those.
I was under the impression that the term the man msde diamond industry was using for their stones was "cultured diamonds". Presumably they get to name them (in a way that distinguishes them from those scraped from kimberlite pipes), since they invented them.
I have one other bugbear, which I can't blame this site for above others: I dislike the use of compressed date formats except where necessary - Monday 16th May 2005 would fit easily and neatly, and it takes my brain much less time to parse than 2005-05-16. That might just be me though.
But 2005-05-16 is so much easier for Greasemonkey to sort chronologically!
Re:I need to find a new primary news source.
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Because they didn't have any idea that there was going to be an extreme geomagnetic storm on friday. On friday, there was just an ordinary M8 class flare on the sun. Nothing special, it didn't even seem to be aimed at the Earth, but for some strange reason a glob of solar spittle, carrying solar magnetic field with it, held together or constructively interfered with itself, and we got an extra dose of it.
Kind of like the tornado sirens that go off after the tornado has passed. This was less a warning than a report of something that already happened.
So I'd say this is the *REAL* superconductivity, and the phenomena discovered in near-0K conditions was just an attempt to it.Ah. So is this "REAL" superconductivity Type I or Type II superconductivity? Just to clarify.
BOZO: A man; fellow; guy; esp. a large, rough man or one with more brawn than brains. 1934: "Drive the heap, bozo!" Chandler, Finger Man. From Sp. dial. "boso" (from "vosotros") - you (pl.) which resembles a direct address.
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG by Wentworth and Flexner, 1960
BUS: A circuit in a mixing board which carries signals from one or more inputs to any output or set of outputs.
AUDIO CRAFT by Randy Thom, 1982
BARNY or BARNEY: In the English circus, a fight. The closest American equivalent is clem.
CLEM: Its most common meaning is that of a general fight or riot between town hoodlums who attack shows and the circus or carnival employees. As an interjection, clem has replaced Hey rube as a battle cry for a forthcoming fight.
THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICAN POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT by Don B. Wilmeth, 1981
II. SOME FANCY RHETORIC
THEME OF FAIR IS SCIENCE
An epic theme!... Science discovers, genius invents, industry applies, and man adapts himself to, or is molded by, new things... Individuals, groups, entire races of men fall into step with the slow or swift movement of the march of science and industry... "The Fair," wrote an observer, "considered as an electrical exposition only, would be well worth the attention of the world... It is barely within the compass of any man's mind to conceive of what the future has in store for us."
Official Guide To A Century of Progress Exposition, 1933
"THE WORLD OF TOMORROW MUST BE BUILT WITH THE TOOLS OF TODAY."
This is the gospel we feel you will be compelled to preach as you return thoughtfully from the Fair to your various destinations, filled, yes, and perhaps even overcome by the simple grandeur of what you have seen, every bit of which tells you that a glorious future is at hand, that a new day, one in which mankind at last realizes the tremendous necessity for close cooperation, is dawning, and that science and industry will both serve you and in return demand your service, both simple and complex.
Views of The New York World'S Fair, 1939
III. ON THE BUS AGAIN
"Garrison Keillor... world's tallest radio humorist... was drawn to the Eastern part of the U.S., he said. In the meantime Denmark, where he was 'just another bozo on the bus,' would be his home."
TIME, June 29, 1987
We were on tour, three-dimensionally staging Clem's assault on Dr. Memory and "the breaking of the 'Resident'," while the Nixon-Agnew Presidency was collapsing in showers of TV confetti in hotel rooms coast-to-coast. It was the spring of 1974. We had written BOZOS three years before and now borrowed its general form and "second act" for the touring show, called ANYTOWN USA - A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH FIRESIGN WORLD.
The first act of ANYTOWN, like side one of BOZOS, was shaped as a series of dioramic, holographic, disneylandish carnival rides. On stage we performed favorite chunks from our first three albums, leading into the intermission with our famous parody (by Phil Proctor's Ralph Spoilsport) of Molly Bloom's "yes I will yes" erotic fantasy from James Joyce's ULYSSES. On the album, the main ride had been drawn from images suggested by Norman Bel Geddes' 1939 "Futurama" - an audio trip through the idyllic, plexiglassed, Art Deco City of the (1960) Future, fantasized in model form as a smog-free and regularly-intersected paradise for the internal combustion engine - and the 1933 H(W)all of Science building, which visitors entered "to marvel at the interpretations of science it offers."
Incidentally, the 1933 Chicago Fair also gave us both the "Bozo" (a fire-breathing dragon of a roller-coaster which "takes us for a ride in the manner of Jonah") and the "Bus" (a miniature Greyhound for carting visitors between the exhibit buildings) of the title, as well as such key suggestions as
Anyway, give me disk platters with the surface area of that whole set of reels of 70MM strips of film, and I'll give you better resolution that that film can offer.
Slashdot Mirror
But what is a time machine?
Maybe this end of the time machine exists now, as my closet.
"Summer of Love", Lisa Maason
"The Man Who Folded Himself" David Gerrold
Okay, the rule seems clear.
Please note that it remains inapplicable to defaming that fraction of Belgans who only speak French.
Air intake? I want mine noiseless and fanless. 580W is about right. No convection noise either, please.
Well, hell, let's just call it "alumium" then.
By the way, in San Jose you are allowed to keep chickens in your back yard. I think you can in Palo Alto too, the most expensive property I can think of offhand that is urban enough for this to apply.
Besides, the local neighborhood association specifies cedar shingles and can't stand the idea that the tin-covered house is the only one likely to be left standing if there is a nearby brushfire.
Hmm. According to material safety data sheets I've Googled at, Indium has and LD50 in rats of 4200mg/Kg (4.2grams/kilogram), What I see for Gallium is "Chronic Effects: Intravenous administration to humans caused metallic taste, skin rashes and bone marrow depression as well as anorexia, nausea and vomiting. May cause damage to kidneys."
So "Do not mainline". Otherwise, s'ok.
61% Gallium
25% Indium
13% Tin
1% Zinc
Solid at 6.5C
Liquid at 7.6C
But when drives are cheap, the more the better - I tested a RAID 10 array of 12 400G Seagate SATA drives on a 3ware 9500S controller, and created one 48G partition to run SuSE 9.2 from. With 12 actuators and only the fastest 2% of the platters to move them over, I/O was gratifyingly fast.
Unfortunately, I was rather put off by the 3ware release notes; requiring me to remove half of the 4GB of RAM in the SuSE system, and:
"Following are know incompatibilities"? I just can't abide spelling errors in technical documents.
I think you should base the first robotic vehicle that can repair itself on an old Beetle. I think I could train my dog to change the cylinders on one of those.
See me...
Feel me...
Pluck me...
Meal me.
Hah. What about the plaids?
I was under the impression that the term the man msde diamond industry was using for their stones was "cultured diamonds". Presumably they get to name them (in a way that distinguishes them from those scraped from kimberlite pipes), since they invented them.
Nah, you'll get sunburned and your drapes will fade too fast.
I have one other bugbear, which I can't blame this site for above others: I dislike the use of compressed date formats except where necessary - Monday 16th May 2005 would fit easily and neatly, and it takes my brain much less time to parse than 2005-05-16. That might just be me though.
But 2005-05-16 is so much easier for Greasemonkey to sort chronologically!
Because they didn't have any idea that there was going to be an extreme geomagnetic storm on friday. On friday, there was just an ordinary M8 class flare on the sun. Nothing special, it didn't even seem to be aimed at the Earth, but for some strange reason a glob of solar spittle, carrying solar magnetic field with it, held together or constructively interfered with itself, and we got an extra dose of it.
Kind of like the tornado sirens that go off after the tornado has passed. This was less a warning than a report of something that already happened.
That could make a german game of billiard balls interesting, if logistically difficult.
So I'd say this is the *REAL* superconductivity, and the phenomena discovered in near-0K conditions was just an attempt to it.Ah. So is this "REAL" superconductivity Type I or Type II superconductivity? Just to clarify.
WELCOME (TO THE FUTURE)
... Science discovers, genius invents, industry applies, and man adapts himself to, or is molded by, new things ... Individuals, groups, entire races of men fall into step with the slow or swift movement of the march of science and industry ... "The Fair," wrote an observer, "considered as an electrical exposition only, would be well worth the attention of the world ... It is barely within the compass of any man's mind to conceive of what the future has in store for us."
... world's tallest radio humorist ... was drawn to the Eastern part of the U.S., he said. In the meantime Denmark, where he was 'just another bozo on the bus,' would be his home."
BOZOS!
I. FOUR DEFINITIONS
BOZO: A man; fellow; guy; esp. a large, rough man or one with more brawn than brains. 1934: "Drive the heap, bozo!" Chandler, Finger Man. From Sp. dial. "boso" (from "vosotros") - you (pl.) which resembles a direct address.
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG by Wentworth and Flexner, 1960
BUS: A circuit in a mixing board which carries signals from one or more inputs to any output or set of outputs.
AUDIO CRAFT by Randy Thom, 1982
BARNY or BARNEY: In the English circus, a fight. The closest American equivalent is clem.
CLEM: Its most common meaning is that of a general fight or riot between town hoodlums who attack shows and the circus or carnival employees. As an interjection, clem has replaced Hey rube as a battle cry for a forthcoming fight.
THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICAN POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT by Don B. Wilmeth, 1981
II. SOME FANCY RHETORIC
THEME OF FAIR IS SCIENCE
An epic theme!
Official Guide To A Century of Progress Exposition, 1933
"THE WORLD OF TOMORROW MUST BE BUILT WITH THE TOOLS OF TODAY."
This is the gospel we feel you will be compelled to preach as you return thoughtfully from the Fair to your various destinations, filled, yes, and perhaps even overcome by the simple grandeur of what you have seen, every bit of which tells you that a glorious future is at hand, that a new day, one in which mankind at last realizes the tremendous necessity for close cooperation, is dawning, and that science and industry will both serve you and in return demand your service, both simple and complex.
Views of The New York World'S Fair, 1939
III. ON THE BUS AGAIN
"Garrison Keillor
TIME, June 29, 1987
We were on tour, three-dimensionally staging Clem's assault on Dr. Memory and "the breaking of the 'Resident'," while the Nixon-Agnew Presidency was collapsing in showers of TV confetti in hotel rooms coast-to-coast. It was the spring of 1974. We had written BOZOS three years before and now borrowed its general form and "second act" for the touring show, called ANYTOWN USA - A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH FIRESIGN WORLD.
The first act of ANYTOWN, like side one of BOZOS, was shaped as a series of dioramic, holographic, disneylandish carnival rides. On stage we performed favorite chunks from our first three albums, leading into the intermission with our famous parody (by Phil Proctor's Ralph Spoilsport) of Molly Bloom's "yes I will yes" erotic fantasy from James Joyce's ULYSSES. On the album, the main ride had been drawn from images suggested by Norman Bel Geddes' 1939 "Futurama" - an audio trip through the idyllic, plexiglassed, Art Deco City of the (1960) Future, fantasized in model form as a smog-free and regularly-intersected paradise for the internal combustion engine - and the 1933 H(W)all of Science building, which visitors entered "to marvel at the interpretations of science it offers."
Incidentally, the 1933 Chicago Fair also gave us both the "Bozo" (a fire-breathing dragon of a roller-coaster which "takes us for a ride in the manner of Jonah") and the "Bus" (a miniature Greyhound for carting visitors between the exhibit buildings) of the title, as well as such key suggestions as
Use a balance instead of a scale.
I thionk that they have scales that jiggle things and determine mass from inertia too.
Why not attoparsecs per daytenth?
Anyway, give me disk platters with the surface area of that whole set of reels of 70MM strips of film, and I'll give you better resolution that that film can offer.
Not exactly infinite resolution. There's a grain size, the whole grain changes color when exposed, so it is effectively an irregular pixel.
You know, you could have something here.
I live in an earthquake-prone area, and just a couple of minutes ago my dog suddenly indicated a frantic need to leave the building I live in.
Remarkably, he was able to promptly demonstrate that had I not let him out, a local flood might have occurred!