Allright, I am going to get rid of windows soon. WHile I am fairly new to linux, I hope I can get by on it. Can anyone point me to the best distro for laptops please??
I am downloading RH9 as we speak to try it out, this is why this is not out of context.
That is a good resume of the technology. I have had the chance to do some searching on the subject for a physics class and there is also another fact that troubles me. Electrostatic speakers require very high tension (around 1-10 kV) to generate the electric field between the two cunductive layers. That would, for sure, disrupt the LCD, unless they find a way to lower the field of shield the screen, which I find doubtful.
There is also the problem of low-frequescies reproduction. Two exemples are:
1. http://monsoonaudio.com/index_mmedia.htm
- monsoon audio, that market low-end electrostatic speakers with a mall sub to generate the low-frequencies
2. http://www.soundlab-speakers.com/m2.htm
- the millenium-2 system that will set you back 10 k$ but produces full-range audio
The problem with the first is that altough you have the low-range, you do not have the clarity in the full spectrum like the second more expensive one.
All in all, a good idea but you have to wait for electrostatic speakers to mature before enjoying them on their own
Superconductors can offer no resistance whatsoever to electrons moving trough the material because the electrons gather in pairs and can avoid the large molecules in the material. The only problem is that the closest to room temperature we can get is 120 Kelvins if my memory serves me right. One resercher I saw used that YBrxCuy something cooled by LN2 in a small wagon oven an oval track ~ 30 cms wide made of magnets. Once the material is cooled, the electric current inside it creates an electric field that makes it levitate over the track. Said resercher pushed it slightly and it kept on turning on the track pretty fast for some time, slowed down only by air friction. That is where the laws of thermodynamics kick in. Oh, and feel free to corect me, I'm only in college but have a facination in the things
The original VW bug is still made in Mexico and another third-world country I can't remember of.
Guess nobodys cares as much for round colorful coputers as they do about cars....
The thing is, I had to buy him the fastest stuff, he had "techies" working at his cabinet who told him if what I made his was fast or not. I mean, I first suggested an anthlon xp 2700+ but the thechies said they were slower then a p4 2.56. I didn't really care, as long as he was happy. Never hurts to have a lawyer friend.
Lately, on of my friends (girl, actually) approched me saying that her dad wanted a new computer and had a 3.5k canadian pesos to put on it (about 2k US). I said no problem. He is a lawyer and couldn't tell a ps/2 ball mouse from a USB dual optical mouse. Anyway I built him a p4 2.56 with all the goodies and grabbed a 19" high res monitor. I set it all up for him and when I went to leave, happy that I made a happy fellow, he offered me his old computer, a k6-2 450. The moral of this story? I am sure that that k6-2, that is now my stp server at home(mp3, actually, only has 13.6 gig hard drive) is used more often and to it's full extent then the p4 he now has. He checks e-mails and does some browsing and VERY LITE photoshop.
SO why, oh why, does he needs it? I could use that, but I made a computer in janurary that was 1k CND, about 600 US$, and it is a bomb. I enjoy working on it when I get home from school. And then I can drop my laptop and get serious.
So tell me, do you have any rich people you built systems for? DO they use them to their full extent?
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I am downloading RH9 as we speak to try it out, this is why this is not out of context.
so please, what distro to use?
thanks a lot
1. http://monsoonaudio.com/index_mmedia.htm - monsoon audio, that market low-end electrostatic speakers with a mall sub to generate the low-frequencies
2. http://www.soundlab-speakers.com/m2.htm - the millenium-2 system that will set you back 10 k$ but produces full-range audio
The problem with the first is that altough you have the low-range, you do not have the clarity in the full spectrum like the second more expensive one.
All in all, a good idea but you have to wait for electrostatic speakers to mature before enjoying them on their own
Superconductors can offer no resistance whatsoever to electrons moving trough the material because the electrons gather in pairs and can avoid the large molecules in the material. The only problem is that the closest to room temperature we can get is 120 Kelvins if my memory serves me right. One resercher I saw used that YBrxCuy something cooled by LN2 in a small wagon oven an oval track ~ 30 cms wide made of magnets. Once the material is cooled, the electric current inside it creates an electric field that makes it levitate over the track. Said resercher pushed it slightly and it kept on turning on the track pretty fast for some time, slowed down only by air friction. That is where the laws of thermodynamics kick in.
Oh, and feel free to corect me, I'm only in college but have a facination in the things
... then the /.ed effect will take care of any standing server...
The original VW bug is still made in Mexico and another third-world country I can't remember of. Guess nobodys cares as much for round colorful coputers as they do about cars....
Actually, no I am not. I am a canadian frog, as one might say, so I am the one that has to bear the firecrackers shoved where the sun never shines. ;-)
The thing is, I had to buy him the fastest stuff, he had "techies" working at his cabinet who told him if what I made his was fast or not. I mean, I first suggested an anthlon xp 2700+ but the thechies said they were slower then a p4 2.56. I didn't really care, as long as he was happy. Never hurts to have a lawyer friend.
Lately, on of my friends (girl, actually) approched me saying that her dad wanted a new computer and had a 3.5k canadian pesos to put on it (about 2k US). I said no problem. He is a lawyer and couldn't tell a ps/2 ball mouse from a USB dual optical mouse. Anyway I built him a p4 2.56 with all the goodies and grabbed a 19" high res monitor. I set it all up for him and when I went to leave, happy that I made a happy fellow, he offered me his old computer, a k6-2 450. The moral of this story? I am sure that that k6-2, that is now my stp server at home(mp3, actually, only has 13.6 gig hard drive) is used more often and to it's full extent then the p4 he now has. He checks e-mails and does some browsing and VERY LITE photoshop. SO why, oh why, does he needs it? I could use that, but I made a computer in janurary that was 1k CND, about 600 US$, and it is a bomb. I enjoy working on it when I get home from school. And then I can drop my laptop and get serious. So tell me, do you have any rich people you built systems for? DO they use them to their full extent?