The boiling point of nitrogen is miles below the freezing point of water, so in the immediate vicinity you'd have some fast chilling and ice crystals. I'd be more worried about liquid condensation further away from the cpu, if it lowered the internal temperature of the case for example.
Unless they're venting vast quantites of boiling nitrogen into there though, it shouldn't be too bad. Plenty of hydrophillic stuff ariund should deal with that. A few sugar cubes in there, or some conc. sulphuric acid maybe!
Yeah, you point out the manuals and information and stuff like that. I'm sure that if he has the ability to post on/. that he has the ability to read.
What if he's looking for user experiences in the real world (you have been in the real world right? You don't just stay in your parents' basement compliling kernels over and over again?).
Manuals will tell you the how to, but not the how good.
I guess he got his answer - ask the slashdot crowd and all the condescending assholes come out of the woodwork to parade their 133t status.
And to stay on topic, I have found that cat5 is perfectly acceptable for gigabit ethernet, but I've only used it point to point, not as a backbone, and then only using a G4 tower and a Powerbook - obviously due to the aestheticly pleasing nature of these computers they can't be 133t, and hence my opinion doesn't count.
It is in fact designed on I-deas, one of the industry standard CAD programs running on a Unix platform.
Either that or Catia, which runs on both Unix and PC. Geoff Kirk, designer of the Rolls Royce Trent 800 abandoned the PC version of Catia citing "OS instabilities when performing complex FEM stuff"
When I get tired of making sure you don't fall out of the sky during the day, I don't want to have to keep rebooting a crash-happy computer, so I use a Mac.
Welcome to the world of the iBook. I came to all the same conclusions about the iBook when I first got it. My 600MHz dvd/cdrw beauty is the best computer I have ever owned, and I started way back with an Amstrad 1512.
It was made by the BBC - we don't even have commercial breaks. It will be a cold day in Hell when the BBC sinks to the depths of commercials and product placement.
Remember that jet aircraft use pretty weak fuel o run. The fuel used in your average turbofan engine would barely produce smoke in a parafin burner, it's not at all inflammable. The same can be said for the fuel used in turbojet engines like those used in the JSF.
Like diesel fuel, it's only explosive under high pressure and temperature.
He's not the first I don't think. The recent Sunday Times CD with the free Oasis tracks on them had some form of DRM.
You could play two of the tracks normally (the two old ones from What's The Story Morning Glory), but the new ones from Heathen Chemistry could only be played 3 times, and required you to install software from the CD, presumably to access the online database thing.
Of course, I listened to the two unlocked tracks then used the CD as a coaster. Even if I'd wanted to listen to the other tracks, I wouldn't be able to - I have a Mac and the DRM software was Windoze only.
ok, so it gets warm, but it's not exactly a mini desktop supernova (that award goes to the Tibook and the "whole case as heatsink" idea - still a cool machine though).
Most of the heat I get from my iBook comes from the left wrist support - underneath which is the hard drive. Heavy disc access heats it up a lot. The underside gets warm, but I recently found that it gets warm when it's off and sitting in my lap - how hot are you?
The cooling fan is almost silent and most of the waste heat is removed without fuss.
Not on an iBook? so how do I play Quake III then?
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I have a 600 MHz iBook, running OSX 10.1.5 with the 8Mb graphics card and 384Mb of Ram.
Not only does it zip along nicely and has replaced my Windows machine about 90% (there are still a few old games I play on the windows machine), but I can play Quake III Arena in lan matches against my friends.
ok, so I have to use 800X600 mode and knock the textures down to 16 bit, but I still get perky, non-jumpy framerates.
I fail to see why you're so down on this hardware/OS combo unless you're just spouting off against it because it's the vogue thing to do.
Get on your thought train - it's still boarding at the station.
The point here being that Apple isn't out to assist you too much with storage and playback of illegal media - copying it back is easy enough from your own mac.
Apple do state "don't steal music" even at the bottom of their rip, mix, burn adverts. Plugging your iPod into someone else's Mac can only mean you're doing one thing - copying their music.
Ok, so you might be putting on a CD you just bought and couldn't wait until you get home, but it's not perfect.
And with that "always attack, never defend" they're just like the AI in Command and Conquer - you just have to lure them into situations where it is advantageous to defend and you can soon make short work of otherwise superior forces.
Media 100's monster card (called Vincent) does a good job of reducing the render time for the most common transitions (wipes, mixes, dissolves etc) but it's still not real time
Even with our recent upgrade from 9600/300 to dual G4, we're still feeling the render pain.
Although, if Apple solve this so that all rendering happens as quickly as you can click then how will we plan our lunch breaks? Lunch is during rendering, dinner is during mpeg2 encoding...
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A similar thing happened to me while installing an extension for a friend.
I had already attached the wires to the primary phone jack downstairs and I was stripping the wires upstairs in preparation for attaching them to the new upstairs jack. Most phone jack boxes use v-shaped slicing grips to hold the cable, cutting through the insulation to make the connection, bu this box was chocolate box style, with screw down connections.
I had no knife on me, so I was biting into the insulation then pulling it back with my teeth. This worked well for one of the wires, but on the second one, just as I had pulled the insulation back, the phone rang and this must have been the positive connection because I got a powerful 12V shock on my tongue in time with the rings of the phone downstairs. Not too painful, but enough to hit my head on the desk above me.
I think BT frown on you listing your ISP number in friends and family - I know that isps are excluded from the weekend special pricing (I forget what they call it exactly).
It's still a good idea though, if you can get away with it.
Indeed, my "mildly annoying" should be read as "totally unacceptable".
I had my player fixed to remove region coding and macrovision. The company that sold it to me offer most modern players "new" (but modified by them) with a warranty and all the other benefits of buying from a shop.
Here in the UK, we were a little slower with broadband, but it's taking off here now to some extent.
Rather than the 12 month contract, leased modems, astronomical prices and company monopolies, a new method has emerges that seems to be working. Approximately 40 to 70% of UK exchanges are dsl capable now, dependign on how far along you think they are. Oftel (the UK telecoms regulator) ruled that BT was obligated to allow other ISPs to offer dsl over BT's existing phone lines with no punitive charges in order to aid competition.
As a result of that, I have a dsl service (640k down, 256-300k up) that costs me $35 (equiv) a month with no 12 month contract. The only outage I had was when lightning struck my house and cut the phone off (hardly the ISP's fault!) and I own all the hardware at my end.
You buy a small dsl splitter from your ISP (or an online retailer) that you plug into your existing phone socket allowing you to connect your phone and modem. This way, no engineer needs to call round and install any hardware. The setup is a breeze, and I can have a static ip and run my own servers for a small fee if I need that capability.
The other option is to get your broadband with cable TV. NTL offers cable internet with their cable TV service. The modem is built into all of their set top boxes, so if you want to use the service, all you need is an ethernet cable from your tv box to your PC and a phonecall to them to get set up.
I think the driving force for this is the way the phone system works here. Local calls are not free, so dialup access is either through an ISP that offers a toll free number (AOL, Compuserve etc) which are expensive or an ISP that offers free use, but with a normal local call rate number, costing you 2p per minute off peak, and 3.5p per minute on peak.
For the amount of time I spend on the net daily, I'd easily rack up the same cost in phonecalls as I'm paying for my broadband access, except at dialup speed. No contest.
Indeed. Plus, you'd have the added bonus of being able to set a mark in point on the Betacam deck and it would shuttle back to that point faithfully every time. So you could shoot the same scene over and over on the set and not worry about the monitors visible in the shot being out of sync or causing jump cuts in the action.
Sure, you could wind a vhs deck back to the same place every time, but the Betacam deck does it with one button.
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I was unimpressed with Sony's DigiBeta camera (I forget which model now) but it had a kickass Canon lens on, so we swapped it over to our 'old' Betacam SP camera with excellent results.
We're migrating to DV-CAM now though; it's easier to digitise to Media 100 via firewire. Fortunately, Media 100 still offers analogue capure via component, s-video and composite (ugh!) inputs.
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The boiling point of nitrogen is miles below the freezing point of water, so in the immediate vicinity you'd have some fast chilling and ice crystals. I'd be more worried about liquid condensation further away from the cpu, if it lowered the internal temperature of the case for example.
Unless they're venting vast quantites of boiling nitrogen into there though, it shouldn't be too bad. Plenty of hydrophillic stuff ariund should deal with that. A few sugar cubes in there, or some conc. sulphuric acid maybe!
It's obvious that this is a Vorlon Planet Killer come to destroy the Earth - Bush convinced them that Al Queda had links to the Shadows.
and have you considered that this might be a small, non IT company that just wants a way to move big files around?
What if they don't want to hire a sys admin? What if this guy has been given this job by his boss and has never done stuff like this before?
Who knows.
Yeah, you point out the manuals and information and stuff like that. I'm sure that if he has the ability to post on /. that he has the ability to read.
What if he's looking for user experiences in the real world (you have been in the real world right? You don't just stay in your parents' basement compliling kernels over and over again?).
Manuals will tell you the how to, but not the how good.
I guess he got his answer - ask the slashdot crowd and all the condescending assholes come out of the woodwork to parade their 133t status.
And to stay on topic, I have found that cat5 is perfectly acceptable for gigabit ethernet, but I've only used it point to point, not as a backbone, and then only using a G4 tower and a Powerbook - obviously due to the aestheticly pleasing nature of these computers they can't be 133t, and hence my opinion doesn't count.
Have a nice day.
It is in fact designed on I-deas, one of the industry standard CAD programs running on a Unix platform.
Either that or Catia, which runs on both Unix and PC. Geoff Kirk, designer of the Rolls Royce Trent 800 abandoned the PC version of Catia citing "OS instabilities when performing complex FEM stuff"
I build jet engines and use Macs.
When I get tired of making sure you don't fall out of the sky during the day, I don't want to have to keep rebooting a crash-happy computer, so I use a Mac.
Ah, so that's how wars start.
Do you need an oil stone for that axe? I do a good line in oil stones and grinding wheels.
Cut and paste that review into the text box here:
http://www.apple.com/switch/tell/us.html
Welcome to the world of the iBook. I came to all the same conclusions about the iBook when I first got it. My 600MHz dvd/cdrw beauty is the best computer I have ever owned, and I started way back with an Amstrad 1512.
I will never go back to PC again.
They're not politicians. Why would they lie?
Oh wait, they're PC manufacturers.
It was made by the BBC - we don't even have commercial breaks. It will be a cold day in Hell when the BBC sinks to the depths of commercials and product placement.
Remember that jet aircraft use pretty weak fuel o run. The fuel used in your average turbofan engine would barely produce smoke in a parafin burner, it's not at all inflammable. The same can be said for the fuel used in turbojet engines like those used in the JSF.
Like diesel fuel, it's only explosive under high pressure and temperature.
He's not the first I don't think. The recent Sunday Times CD with the free Oasis tracks on them had some form of DRM.
You could play two of the tracks normally (the two old ones from What's The Story Morning Glory), but the new ones from Heathen Chemistry could only be played 3 times, and required you to install software from the CD, presumably to access the online database thing.
Of course, I listened to the two unlocked tracks then used the CD as a coaster. Even if I'd wanted to listen to the other tracks, I wouldn't be able to - I have a Mac and the DRM software was Windoze only.
ok, so it gets warm, but it's not exactly a mini desktop supernova (that award goes to the Tibook and the "whole case as heatsink" idea - still a cool machine though).
Most of the heat I get from my iBook comes from the left wrist support - underneath which is the hard drive. Heavy disc access heats it up a lot. The underside gets warm, but I recently found that it gets warm when it's off and sitting in my lap - how hot are you?
The cooling fan is almost silent and most of the waste heat is removed without fuss.
I have a 600 MHz iBook, running OSX 10.1.5 with the 8Mb graphics card and 384Mb of Ram.
Not only does it zip along nicely and has replaced my Windows machine about 90% (there are still a few old games I play on the windows machine), but I can play Quake III Arena in lan matches against my friends.
ok, so I have to use 800X600 mode and knock the textures down to 16 bit, but I still get perky, non-jumpy framerates.
I fail to see why you're so down on this hardware/OS combo unless you're just spouting off against it because it's the vogue thing to do.
Get on your thought train - it's still boarding at the station.
The point here being that Apple isn't out to assist you too much with storage and playback of illegal media - copying it back is easy enough from your own mac.
Apple do state "don't steal music" even at the bottom of their rip, mix, burn adverts. Plugging your iPod into someone else's Mac can only mean you're doing one thing - copying their music.
Ok, so you might be putting on a CD you just bought and couldn't wait until you get home, but it's not perfect.
And with that "always attack, never defend" they're just like the AI in Command and Conquer - you just have to lure them into situations where it is advantageous to defend and you can soon make short work of otherwise superior forces.
Commander "that was left handed!" Joe
Media 100's monster card (called Vincent) does a good job of reducing the render time for the most common transitions (wipes, mixes, dissolves etc) but it's still not real time
Even with our recent upgrade from 9600/300 to dual G4, we're still feeling the render pain.
Although, if Apple solve this so that all rendering happens as quickly as you can click then how will we plan our lunch breaks? Lunch is during rendering, dinner is during mpeg2 encoding...
A similar thing happened to me while installing an extension for a friend.
I had already attached the wires to the primary phone jack downstairs and I was stripping the wires upstairs in preparation for attaching them to the new upstairs jack. Most phone jack boxes use v-shaped slicing grips to hold the cable, cutting through the insulation to make the connection, bu this box was chocolate box style, with screw down connections.
I had no knife on me, so I was biting into the insulation then pulling it back with my teeth. This worked well for one of the wires, but on the second one, just as I had pulled the insulation back, the phone rang and this must have been the positive connection because I got a powerful 12V shock on my tongue in time with the rings of the phone downstairs. Not too painful, but enough to hit my head on the desk above me.
It's not just a Mac thing.
Apple now sells a Windows compatible iPod along with the Mac version. The cost is the same.
I think BT frown on you listing your ISP number in friends and family - I know that isps are excluded from the weekend special pricing (I forget what they call it exactly).
It's still a good idea though, if you can get away with it.
Indeed, my "mildly annoying" should be read as "totally unacceptable".
I had my player fixed to remove region coding and macrovision. The company that sold it to me offer most modern players "new" (but modified by them) with a warranty and all the other benefits of buying from a shop.
Maybe, maybe, but I wrote it while eating lunch.
The dsl provider that I harp on about above is Pipex. A direct link to their pricing for the setup I have is here.
I can't post links to my good experience, but either way, I'm just telling it as I see it.
Here in the UK, we were a little slower with broadband, but it's taking off here now to some extent.
Rather than the 12 month contract, leased modems, astronomical prices and company monopolies, a new method has emerges that seems to be working. Approximately 40 to 70% of UK exchanges are dsl capable now, dependign on how far along you think they are. Oftel (the UK telecoms regulator) ruled that BT was obligated to allow other ISPs to offer dsl over BT's existing phone lines with no punitive charges in order to aid competition.
As a result of that, I have a dsl service (640k down, 256-300k up) that costs me $35 (equiv) a month with no 12 month contract. The only outage I had was when lightning struck my house and cut the phone off (hardly the ISP's fault!) and I own all the hardware at my end.
You buy a small dsl splitter from your ISP (or an online retailer) that you plug into your existing phone socket allowing you to connect your phone and modem. This way, no engineer needs to call round and install any hardware. The setup is a breeze, and I can have a static ip and run my own servers for a small fee if I need that capability.
The other option is to get your broadband with cable TV. NTL offers cable internet with their cable TV service. The modem is built into all of their set top boxes, so if you want to use the service, all you need is an ethernet cable from your tv box to your PC and a phonecall to them to get set up.
I think the driving force for this is the way the phone system works here. Local calls are not free, so dialup access is either through an ISP that offers a toll free number (AOL, Compuserve etc) which are expensive or an ISP that offers free use, but with a normal local call rate number, costing you 2p per minute off peak, and 3.5p per minute on peak.
For the amount of time I spend on the net daily, I'd easily rack up the same cost in phonecalls as I'm paying for my broadband access, except at dialup speed. No contest.
Indeed. Plus, you'd have the added bonus of being able to set a mark in point on the Betacam deck and it would shuttle back to that point faithfully every time. So you could shoot the same scene over and over on the set and not worry about the monitors visible in the shot being out of sync or causing jump cuts in the action.
Sure, you could wind a vhs deck back to the same place every time, but the Betacam deck does it with one button.
I was unimpressed with Sony's DigiBeta camera (I forget which model now) but it had a kickass Canon lens on, so we swapped it over to our 'old' Betacam SP camera with excellent results.
We're migrating to DV-CAM now though; it's easier to digitise to Media 100 via firewire. Fortunately, Media 100 still offers analogue capure via component, s-video and composite (ugh!) inputs.