Reminds me of how people thought about how well XP would sell. So lets be honest: it supports 64bit and your expensive 3D hardware! Who would have wanted that over Windows NT/2000 and compared to an XP + SP2 breaking all your internet apps?
I just had a look at the pictures of the surface's structure. It looks as if it is capable of squeezing out all the air due to its crossed shapes. Thus the problem IBM must have had is that before it enclosed a lot of air. The valleys should conduct the air out during the mounting and thereby guarantee a minimum of how much air stays behind. The shape actually defines the spots where air can get enclosed whereas before - flat to flat - it could have been anywhere and with one or many bubbles. I am now too lazy to think of a formula to describe the benefit, but it should explain the 2x improvement.
There are many advantages and disadvantages. The problem with just a blob is that it may not be enough to cover the complete surface. I therefore disagree with the argument one could put too much paste onto a chip. The pressure of the mount will always squeeze a paste flat. Heat then will make a paste more liquid and it starts to spread out even more. Thus you can notice an improvement in cooling after several hours, even after days. You can help this by twisting a heat sink slowly left and right and for some time after you mounted it. The only danger then is that when you put on too much paste it can drop onto other components, possibly causing a short circuit. Best is to start with a small drop, mount the sink, twist it and take it of again to see how well it spread. If then the paste has spread over the sides but not the corners you are close to the optimum size for the blob.
The liquid metals are a mix of metals, which happens to be liquid at room temperature. I believe the science there is quite complicated and must not necessarily be all based on mercury. What I know however from one of the currently existing products is that it can make aluminium dissolve (due its weaker electrical order[?]). Therefore one needs to be more careful than with standard paste. However, this problem should exists with pastes, too, when they contain a high concentration of silver and starts to conduct electricity.
Actually I am writing about already existing products like the stuff from CoolLaboratory. It is said that even some liquid-metal based heat 'pastes' can achieve up to 10x more conductive than pastes like Arctive Silver. I do not see where you would want to put water. It would vamporate. The liquid metals are AFAIK not based on mercury but said to be nonpoisoness.
Using sinus instead of triangles will have a similar surface. You could however do sin(x) + sin(y) - sin(10x)/5 - sin(10y)/5 and make it all more wobblier. But then again you can do that with triangles, too. Therefore there is no need for any fancy sinus and you get the reason for your "D'oh!". It is just not necessary. What IBM was looking for was a simple solution and they found one.
What they have now achieved can ultimately be achieved through the use of liquid-metal heat conductors. The liquid metal will fill any gaps on the surfaces and deep down to an atomic level, creating the best contact imaginable.
It is less funny when you realize that the roughness stands in a direct relationship to the size of the metal bits in the paste. If all you can get between the valleys of a roughened copper heat sink is the binding mass instead of the silver particles because their too large then you will have a rather bad heat conduction. If you however get the surface rough and the silver particles are as small as nano particles, then you might get what IBM has achieved: much more surface and lots of contact.
The only time when Microsoft needs to prove anything is when their infront of a court... They do as they please and Vista will sell with any new hardware. That is where the money will be coming from and always has been. Microsoft also never claimed to use their money to make more money and we all know that. They are selling their latest innovations and if sales are not as expected the more visionary Vista will be thought of. And in some respect it is - just as its price.
So who does not want it? Microsoft could kick-start sales by just lowering the price. However, I would not be surprised if the price gets dictated by a clever algorithm design by Bill Gates himself. A binary-search like approach for finding the best price would only make a very small minority grin.
Most things have been said. So I will just add my opinion to the others. I, too, agree that it is a bad thing. Earlier, we knew how to distinguish between stable and unstable. Now we leave it to someone else and have to search for the right one. Yes, it doesn't mean anything. But only for now. The outcome of this decision can not be forseen. Distros will try to persuade their users of having the most stable kernel. It will be used as an argument in the competition of the distros. If that is a good or a bad thing, is left to the reader. Just remind yourself that marketing does not understand why featurism and stability do not go hand in hand. Problems will not pop up suddenly. But what has before prevented them in doing so, is gone. Who can be trusted? I only see Debian. Before they were the ones lacking behind. But now they might win since they always concentrated on stability. I say, go for Debian. They have the right people and should be the last ones caring about this decision.
Ion drives are rather new than well proven. The ESA is still having their SMART satellite out there, on its way to the moon. Will probably arrive in 2005. It only uses an ion drive to get there and spirals its way out of earth's gravity field. Not as fast as the Apollo missions, but the first real test for ion drives I would say. Btw, low earth orbits usually means well below 1000km and that means you are still within the earths thermosphere. A part of the atmosphere which contains mostly hot, ionized gas. Using an ion drive there might look completely different.
Why should I with my decision to use Linux make Linus Torwalds to one of the most influential persons on this planet?
Is it because he could turn Linux into something I would not want to use? Or into something that would not let me use my computer anymore or only on a very high cost?
Or is it because he is hard to convince of the necessity of a particular patch and appears to be the most annoyed person on the kernel mailing list?
You might see these young professionals as idiots, but what you do not see is your attitude towards them. Yes, you are ignorant when you are young, but you do have choices and if you deal with people you don't like, you have missed a choice.
You might see these young professionals as idiots, but what you do not see is your attitude towards them. Yes, you are ignorant when you are young, but you do have choices and if you deal with people you don't like, you have missed a choice.
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> So if it does not interoperate with other devices it is not really a CD/RW breakthrough but rather an extension to the hell that has become CD-R.
It supports all other formats as well, is faster than many other CD writers and can also read copy protected music CDs. Plextor is back to its old heights in providing a quality product and moves all OEM stuff back into in the shadow.
They were the first who recognized that a black interior decreases the bit error rate. They also provide good support. They once sent me a new ROM for no price.
They also have DVD writers and the only reason why they do not support this variable pit length feature there is probably because they haven't ordered bigger flash ROMs yet.
Yes, the pit length can be set in such a way that 1.2 GB fits on a CD-R or you can change it to 900 MB and get a good chance that it can still be read by others CDROM drives.
They also sell the CD writer with analyses software, so you can check the quality of your burnings.
They don't leave you with much arguments to call them a bad company...
In other words: they never cared much about what you call hell:-)
You have had your struggles with it when you started, felt anger followed by sadness when hit by a freak BSOD and finally accepted and started to love it.
Now something comes along, which looks and "feels" better - luckily, it's not a woman!
why God and Google have to be mentioned in one sentence? In this case it's a headline. Why do some people need to do this? It makes the article anything but interesting. May the author get a headache or read a book about migraine management.
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Reminds me of how people thought about how well XP would sell. So lets be honest: it supports 64bit and your expensive 3D hardware! Who would have wanted that over Windows NT/2000 and compared to an XP + SP2 breaking all your internet apps?
I just had a look at the pictures of the surface's structure. It looks as if it is capable of squeezing out all the air due to its crossed shapes. Thus the problem IBM must have had is that before it enclosed a lot of air. The valleys should conduct the air out during the mounting and thereby guarantee a minimum of how much air stays behind. The shape actually defines the spots where air can get enclosed whereas before - flat to flat - it could have been anywhere and with one or many bubbles. I am now too lazy to think of a formula to describe the benefit, but it should explain the 2x improvement.
There are many advantages and disadvantages. The problem with just a blob is that it may not be enough to cover the complete surface. I therefore disagree with the argument one could put too much paste onto a chip. The pressure of the mount will always squeeze a paste flat. Heat then will make a paste more liquid and it starts to spread out even more. Thus you can notice an improvement in cooling after several hours, even after days. You can help this by twisting a heat sink slowly left and right and for some time after you mounted it. The only danger then is that when you put on too much paste it can drop onto other components, possibly causing a short circuit. Best is to start with a small drop, mount the sink, twist it and take it of again to see how well it spread. If then the paste has spread over the sides but not the corners you are close to the optimum size for the blob.
The liquid metals are a mix of metals, which happens to be liquid at room temperature. I believe the science there is quite complicated and must not necessarily be all based on mercury. What I know however from one of the currently existing products is that it can make aluminium dissolve (due its weaker electrical order[?]). Therefore one needs to be more careful than with standard paste. However, this problem should exists with pastes, too, when they contain a high concentration of silver and starts to conduct electricity.
Actually I am writing about already existing products like the stuff from CoolLaboratory. It is said that even some liquid-metal based heat 'pastes' can achieve up to 10x more conductive than pastes like Arctive Silver. I do not see where you would want to put water. It would vamporate. The liquid metals are AFAIK not based on mercury but said to be nonpoisoness.
Using sinus instead of triangles will have a similar surface. You could however do sin(x) + sin(y) - sin(10x)/5 - sin(10y)/5 and make it all more wobblier. But then again you can do that with triangles, too. Therefore there is no need for any fancy sinus and you get the reason for your "D'oh!". It is just not necessary. What IBM was looking for was a simple solution and they found one.
You might have a point there ...
What they have now achieved can ultimately be achieved through the use of liquid-metal heat conductors. The liquid metal will fill any gaps on the surfaces and deep down to an atomic level, creating the best contact imaginable.
It is less funny when you realize that the roughness stands in a direct relationship to the size of the metal bits in the paste. If all you can get between the valleys of a roughened copper heat sink is the binding mass instead of the silver particles because their too large then you will have a rather bad heat conduction. If you however get the surface rough and the silver particles are as small as nano particles, then you might get what IBM has achieved: much more surface and lots of contact.
The only time when Microsoft needs to prove anything is when their infront of a court ... They do as they please and Vista will sell with any new hardware. That is where the money will be coming from and always has been. Microsoft also never claimed to use their money to make more money and we all know that. They are selling their latest innovations and if sales are not as expected the more visionary Vista will be thought of. And in some respect it is - just as its price.
So who does not want it? Microsoft could kick-start sales by just lowering the price. However, I would not be surprised if the price gets dictated by a clever algorithm design by Bill Gates himself. A binary-search like approach for finding the best price would only make a very small minority grin.
Most things have been said. So I will just add my opinion to the others. I, too, agree that it is a bad thing. Earlier, we knew how to distinguish between stable and unstable. Now we leave it to someone else and have to search for the right one. Yes, it doesn't mean anything. But only for now. The outcome of this decision can not be forseen. Distros will try to persuade their users of having the most stable kernel. It will be used as an argument in the competition of the distros. If that is a good or a bad thing, is left to the reader. Just remind yourself that marketing does not understand why featurism and stability do not go hand in hand.
Problems will not pop up suddenly. But what has before prevented them in doing so, is gone. Who can be trusted? I only see Debian. Before they were the ones lacking behind. But now they might win since they always concentrated on stability. I say, go for Debian. They have the right people and should be the last ones caring about this decision.
Sven
Ion drives are rather new than well proven. The ESA is still having their SMART satellite out there, on its way to the moon. Will probably arrive in 2005. It only uses an ion drive to get there and spirals its way out of earth's gravity field. Not as fast as the Apollo missions, but the first real test for ion drives I would say.
Btw, low earth orbits usually means well below 1000km and that means you are still within the earths thermosphere. A part of the atmosphere which contains mostly hot, ionized gas. Using an ion drive there might look completely different.
Sven
Hey look, I use my computer now for everything, I don't even need light bulps or a heating!
Why should I with my decision to use Linux make Linus Torwalds to one of the most influential persons on this planet?
Is it because he could turn Linux into something I would not want to use? Or into something that would not let me use my computer anymore or only on a very high cost?
Or is it because he is hard to convince of the necessity of a particular patch and appears to be the most annoyed person on the kernel mailing list?
Sven
and forces them to laugh.
Cool guys with holy cows!
Sven
I have developed a laser which uses billions of atoms and you can control a billion quantum computers with it!
I just won't let you use it! Besides, you are violating my rights.
Super Clever Organisation
You might see these young professionals as idiots, but what you do not see is your attitude towards them. Yes, you are ignorant when you are young, but you do have choices and if you deal with people you don't like, you have missed a choice.
You might see these young professionals as idiots, but what you do not see is your attitude towards them. Yes, you are ignorant when you are young, but you do have choices and if you deal with people you don't like, you have missed a choice.
SCO has been infiltrated by Scientology. They see potential in the three letters S, C and O.
Is what I thought at the end of reading the article. Still I believe the samba team does good work.
Sven
But otherwise they perform just as good as without.
Hope this helps.
Sven
> So if it does not interoperate with other devices it is not really a CD/RW breakthrough but rather an extension to the hell that has become CD-R.
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:-)
It supports all other formats as well, is faster than many other CD writers and can also read copy protected music CDs. Plextor is back to its old heights in providing a quality product and moves all OEM stuff back into in the shadow.
They were the first who recognized that a black interior decreases the bit error rate. They also provide good support. They once sent me a new ROM for no price.
They also have DVD writers and the only reason why they do not support this variable pit length feature there is probably because they haven't ordered bigger flash ROMs yet.
Yes, the pit length can be set in such a way that 1.2 GB fits on a CD-R or you can change it to 900 MB and get a good chance that it can still be read by others CDROM drives.
They also sell the CD writer with analyses software, so you can check the quality of your burnings.
They don't leave you with much arguments to call them a bad company
In other words: they never cared much about what you call hell
Sven
You have had your struggles with it when you started, felt anger followed by sadness when hit by a freak BSOD and finally accepted and started to love it.
Now something comes along, which looks and "feels" better - luckily, it's not a woman!
Sorry, but your post does not deserve a rating of "Funny". "Illuminative" would be closer to the truth. Can we have this?
Just my 2 cents
why God and Google have to be mentioned in one sentence? In this case it's a headline. Why do some people need to do this? It makes the article anything but interesting. May the author get a headache or read a book about migraine management.