Well, what the other poster said, and if the water allowed some electricity through, it would just waste it, produce some bubbles and slightly corrode the connectors. If the voltage was regulated with some feedback loop, 400V goes to the lamp another 60 wasted on leakage (damn this word...) through the water and the impact on the device wouldn't be serious. But if your CPU voltage drops by 15% due to leakage it WILL mean problems.
Well, others argue about underwater flares etc. It's all burning using oxygen, it's just that the oxygen gets produced in place from chemicals contained in the flare/whatever.
But burning without oxygen is possible. You can for example burn some gasses (IIRC, methane but I'm not sure) in atmosphere of chlorine gas, producing visible flame and without oxygen used thorough the process altogether.
Where? This would be non-blocker. Just provide the drive with a snorkel.;) Attach a pipe to the opening and pull it to the surface so it ballances the pressure with atmospheric air. Just where's that hole?
Hmmm... Would have to be pretty pure - usually the remainder in spirit is water, and not demineralized. 2-5% water, is it much when it comes to conductivity? (anything above "consumption rate" 98% is devilishly expensive. Meantime smuggled russian 95% is quite cheap around these parts...) Nice thing with oil is that it automatically separates any water that might get in the rig (condensation etc). In spirit it will just dissolve, increasing conductivity. The rig could nicely cool itself using evaporation though. And about risk of fire/explosion - no worries, spirit is quite volatile and flammable but provides very little heat. (You can burn a little in your palm if you want, a cool trick to impress others. Good 5-10s before it starts to hurt and you need to put it out) Effect - in case of fire a blanket over the case or just blowing strong enough (not strong enough to sprinkle it all over though) will put it out. It's very easy to extinguish. The explosions are cool but pretty harmless too - Just a poof, some hair burnt on your hand at worst, but the amount of heat won't even hurt or make your skin red. (showcase: pour a little spirit in a plastic bottle. Stir so all the walls are wet on the inside, and just very little if any spirit left on the bottom (it will be wasted.) Put a match to the opening. Don't keep anything flammable within a meter from the opening in the direction the bottle is facing. And avoid getting spirit on your hands. When you're on fire you tend to panic and drop anything you have in hands to the floor. You have a lit match and a bottle with some spirit in your hands. You won't suffer any serious burns from the spirit flaming on your hands, but the carpet/floor/whatever may do.)
Well, it is definitely a bigger problem than dunking everything in a vat with oil. Plus with a big vat the problems of flow of oil solve themselves nicely thanks to standard coolers. With small quantity of oil around the CPU you'd have to provide additional piping and pumps for heat exchange.
For your idea quite a bit of engineering is needed. For the original one - just dunk it. Easy.
Yes, that's true that in the long term low sales of XBox may be pretty disastrous to Microsoft. But looking at the short-term perspective, we get a pretty ridiculous image where even a failure to sell something causes improvement of financial results of the Evil Empire.
What on earth are you talking about? The loss comes at the time of MANUFACTURING, if they SELL it, they get back a portion of that loss.
And you think the current store supply is sufficient to fill demand for XBox360 till June? Do you really think Microsoft is too poor to use JIT? Storage inbetween production and sales is a small insignificant margin. In modern manufacturing it contains at most 3 days worth of sales of given product.
There is no universe that exists where taking in LESS money means you make MORE money.
Let's take this school task: In January shares of SCO were $1/share and IBM shares were $15/share. Silly joranbelar bought 50 shares of SCO paying a total $50, and 10 shares of IBM paying a total of $150. He spent $200. Meantime smart Sharpfang bought 5 shares of SCO paying $5 and 13 shares of IBM paying $195. He also spent $200. In August both joranbelar and Sharpfang decided to sell their shares. In the meantime SCO lost the litigation, resulting in shares dropping to $0.10 and IBM signed a new contract with Apple resulting in its shares gaining value of $20. As result Sharpfang got $260.50 and joranbelar earned $205. Sharpfang earned $60.50 by selling 18 shares. joranbelar earned $6 by selling 60 shares.
Bigger sales = more manufactured = bigger losses. Less sold = less manufactured = lower losses. Got it?
The most ironical part? Lower XBox sales mean higher profits at end of financial year for Microsoft. It will take quite a while till the games start paying back the loss generated by each unit sold. Probably 2 financial years till XBox360 investments break even, maybe 4 for any real profit. Currently the more XBoxes are sold, the more Microsoft loses, at least short-term. Bigger sales = bigger losses.
It's just a little mean question with a built-in fallacy, tickle your brain, "ouch, it won't work". Just like these 0=1 proofs, just physics-based. The first case I thought of it was at the time of the article about the Voyager probe crossing the border where solar wind slows down below the speed of sound... speed of sound in what?!
Actually, that's what the sensor+optics is. The mouse is likely to report movement by one pixel reliably, unless it does some good sub-pixel image comparison (which isn't impossible...).
Thing is you can get about any DPI you desire (up to the limit of light wave length) from such a rig by replacing the optics. You're still stuck with readout area of some 16x16 pixels though, so lower resolution = better, meaning less waving your hand to "wipe" whole area of the document.
Handscanners had LOTS of disadvantages compared to flatbeds. Poor resolution resulting from uneven movement speed (flatbed can go as slow as you desire. User moves the handscanner slightly faster and data gets lost.), small width - need for "stitching", poor absolute distance/shape quality (turn it a little, let it slide a bit etc), poor tollerance for uneven surfaces (try to scan a page in a thick book, the roll of the scanner falls off the book when the scanning element is still 5cm into the text) and quite a few other serious disadvantages. The guy advising you a camera is right. I have a Logitech handscanner and a cheap Canon camera, and the camera produces better images than the scanner. Not to mention it's vastly faster:) In great most cases camera suffices. Only if you need -huge- image in good resolution (I mean like 10000x10000px) the scanner makes sense, but you rarely do. And definitely not with a laptop, on a travel. One more handy thing. You won't scan a 2mx3m train schedule hanging on the wall, no matter if you use handscanner or a flatbed. Camera is just right for that.
No, viruses (virii is a 1337sp33ch) are NOT considered 'life' as much as tricky and far-fetched the explaination may sound. I do remember this from my biology class.
So the first, you concede - no matter what the CPU, the OS requirements overtake Moore's law progress, we're better off with first, old CPU-OS pairs than the new ones. (of course I agree, Win95 on P4 is a pretty fast and responsive OS:)
I don't know about that DOS/IBM not being the leader in the household. Almost every friend I had had either a Mac or a PC. It was just that way. Apple ruled for a while, because that's what they put in the schools, but the PC had marketing.
I was talking about Europe. I don't know nor remember the situation in the US. I know Amigas were never really tall there. I can just recall the jawdrop of my PC friend when I took my A600 with me and let him play Test Drive 2 on it. Neither the best Amiga nor the best Amiga game, but in exchange he let me play some game (sorry too drunk ATM to recall, a famous one) Dragon something IIRC. Fantasy hack&slash including riding on birdlike mounts, maybe you recall.) I was less than impressed because it was CGA or EGA mode and looked worse than best games I played on Atari and WAY worse than what was the worst available for Amiga.
Also, the era I'm referring to is the very early 90's. I think VAX was already toast by then, so perhaps our little misunderstanding is due to this. AFAIR VAX was doing well as the big iron for quite long. As my first touch with big irons was when Vax was long dead, I can just tell what I heard so don't take this too seriously.
Amiga was definitely not doing too well, Amstrad was almost gone, Atari was a memory, Tandy was no longer Tandy....when? Early 90's definitely no. Late 90's definitely yes. '95 Amiga was in the most lively period of its death [;)] and AFAIK Amiga never took off in the States. In Poland, '2000 was still a good year for Amigas in TV studios. It was just really good at this.
Then capitalism got really high in Poland. TV got enough money to afford custom solutions, that costed maybe 500-1000 times as much as Amiga-based ones (I know because some press tried to wreak havoc by announcing how much the TV spends on its "upgrades") but performed at least slightly better than Amigas.
The first steps "beyond Amiga" were very expensive for the TV. Really, news logo animated at twice the resolution previous Amiga logo was, caused quite a bit of outrage, costing about 500 times what the previous one did. But the new zone of commercials was followed by some big money which was spent on improvements in quality. Small improvements for incredibly high price increase, but they happened.
...will it be purposedly hard-blocked or will it be just "unsupported" so that by installing 3rd party drivers you get your old DVD support back? Vista may of course not support lots of obsolete hardware and there's nothing wrong with that. It's ancient, hardly anybody uses it anymore, developing drivers costs money and time, so cutting back on these costs is understandable. If someone wants to have their ISA gfx card or some obscure SCSI scanner supported, they'd have to write the driver themselves or pay someone to write them to work, cool. But if some hardware is blacklisted as in "This kind of hardware may be used for illegal purposes, we won't allow you to use it", it's a different matter.
Anyway, I strongly believe that in both cases the hacker community will be more efficient that Microsoft.
Well, after some great, memorable achievments like slashdoting NASA, Google, Microsoft, White House, RIAA, MPAA, physical snailmail mailbox of some spam lord, computational cluster of IBM, Bugzilla, Chernobyl webpages and quite a few others of lesser significance, seems Slashdot should be the next target. Difficult but not impossible.
Google should agree to pay 1000x loss of profit compensation. If they didn't make their Google Talk service, the company would earn about $0 on the patents....
Slashdot Mirror
Well, what the other poster said, and if the water allowed some electricity through, it would just waste it, produce some bubbles and slightly corrode the connectors. If the voltage was regulated with some feedback loop, 400V goes to the lamp another 60 wasted on leakage (damn this word...) through the water and the impact on the device wouldn't be serious. But if your CPU voltage drops by 15% due to leakage it WILL mean problems.
Well, others argue about underwater flares etc. It's all burning using oxygen, it's just that the oxygen gets produced in place from chemicals contained in the flare/whatever.
But burning without oxygen is possible. You can for example burn some gasses (IIRC, methane but I'm not sure) in atmosphere of chlorine gas, producing visible flame and without oxygen used thorough the process altogether.
Where? ;)
This would be non-blocker. Just provide the drive with a snorkel.
Attach a pipe to the opening and pull it to the surface so it ballances the pressure with atmospheric air. Just where's that hole?
Hmmm... Would have to be pretty pure - usually the remainder in spirit is water, and not demineralized. 2-5% water, is it much when it comes to conductivity? (anything above "consumption rate" 98% is devilishly expensive. Meantime smuggled russian 95% is quite cheap around these parts...)
Nice thing with oil is that it automatically separates any water that might get in the rig (condensation etc). In spirit it will just dissolve, increasing conductivity.
The rig could nicely cool itself using evaporation though. And about risk of fire/explosion - no worries, spirit is quite volatile and flammable but provides very little heat. (You can burn a little in your palm if you want, a cool trick to impress others. Good 5-10s before it starts to hurt and you need to put it out) Effect - in case of fire a blanket over the case or just blowing strong enough (not strong enough to sprinkle it all over though) will put it out. It's very easy to extinguish. The explosions are cool but pretty harmless too - Just a poof, some hair burnt on your hand at worst, but the amount of heat won't even hurt or make your skin red. (showcase: pour a little spirit in a plastic bottle. Stir so all the walls are wet on the inside, and just very little if any spirit left on the bottom (it will be wasted.) Put a match to the opening. Don't keep anything flammable within a meter from the opening in the direction the bottle is facing. And avoid getting spirit on your hands. When you're on fire you tend to panic and drop anything you have in hands to the floor. You have a lit match and a bottle with some spirit in your hands. You won't suffer any serious burns from the spirit flaming on your hands, but the carpet/floor/whatever may do.)
Well, it is definitely a bigger problem than dunking everything in a vat with oil. Plus with a big vat the problems of flow of oil solve themselves nicely thanks to standard coolers. With small quantity of oil around the CPU you'd have to provide additional piping and pumps for heat exchange.
For your idea quite a bit of engineering is needed. For the original one - just dunk it. Easy.
Plus the more pure, the more prone to extract ions from any material available, making the purest deionized water actually quite corrosive. (!)
You missed the essential keyword: Modchip! :D
Now how long till 360 gets hacked? I'm definitely not buying one before that.
The idea of sonic boom in void explained here.
Yes, that's true that in the long term low sales of XBox may be pretty disastrous to Microsoft. But looking at the short-term perspective, we get a pretty ridiculous image where even a failure to sell something causes improvement of financial results of the Evil Empire.
That "ironical" isn't a word?
Wrong, it is.
Uh, no. Simple math here - if you sell less, you bring in less money. If you bring in less money, you get LOWER profits.
Selling what? Air? Sand? You're talking about selling damn expensive devices.
What on earth are you talking about? The loss comes at the time of MANUFACTURING, if they SELL it, they get back a portion of that loss.
And you think the current store supply is sufficient to fill demand for XBox360 till June? Do you really think Microsoft is too poor to use JIT?
Storage inbetween production and sales is a small insignificant margin. In modern manufacturing it contains at most 3 days worth of sales of given product.
There is no universe that exists where taking in LESS money means you make MORE money.
Let's take this school task:
In January shares of SCO were $1/share and IBM shares were $15/share.
Silly joranbelar bought 50 shares of SCO paying a total $50, and 10 shares of IBM paying a total of $150. He spent $200.
Meantime smart Sharpfang bought 5 shares of SCO paying $5 and 13 shares of IBM paying $195. He also spent $200.
In August both joranbelar and Sharpfang decided to sell their shares. In the meantime SCO lost the litigation, resulting in shares dropping to $0.10 and IBM signed a new contract with Apple resulting in its shares gaining value of $20.
As result Sharpfang got $260.50 and joranbelar earned $205.
Sharpfang earned $60.50 by selling 18 shares. joranbelar earned $6 by selling 60 shares.
Bigger sales = more manufactured = bigger losses.
Less sold = less manufactured = lower losses.
Got it?
The most ironical part? Lower XBox sales mean higher profits at end of financial year for Microsoft.
It will take quite a while till the games start paying back the loss generated by each unit sold. Probably 2 financial years till XBox360 investments break even, maybe 4 for any real profit. Currently the more XBoxes are sold, the more Microsoft loses, at least short-term. Bigger sales = bigger losses.
It's just a little mean question with a built-in fallacy, tickle your brain, "ouch, it won't work". Just like these 0=1 proofs, just physics-based. The first case I thought of it was at the time of the article about the Voyager probe crossing the border where solar wind slows down below the speed of sound... speed of sound in what?!
Actually, that's what the sensor+optics is. The mouse is likely to report movement by one pixel reliably, unless it does some good sub-pixel image comparison (which isn't impossible...).
Thing is you can get about any DPI you desire (up to the limit of light wave length) from such a rig by replacing the optics. You're still stuck with readout area of some 16x16 pixels though, so lower resolution = better, meaning less waving your hand to "wipe" whole area of the document.
Handscanners had LOTS of disadvantages compared to flatbeds. Poor resolution resulting from uneven movement speed (flatbed can go as slow as you desire. User moves the handscanner slightly faster and data gets lost.), small width - need for "stitching", poor absolute distance/shape quality (turn it a little, let it slide a bit etc), poor tollerance for uneven surfaces (try to scan a page in a thick book, the roll of the scanner falls off the book when the scanning element is still 5cm into the text) and quite a few other serious disadvantages. The guy advising you a camera is right. I have a Logitech handscanner and a cheap Canon camera, and the camera produces better images than the scanner. Not to mention it's vastly faster :) In great most cases camera suffices. Only if you need -huge- image in good resolution (I mean like 10000x10000px) the scanner makes sense, but you rarely do. And definitely not with a laptop, on a travel.
One more handy thing. You won't scan a 2mx3m train schedule hanging on the wall, no matter if you use handscanner or a flatbed. Camera is just right for that.
Of course any -organic- (protein-based) material would be incinerated. Why are you so DNA-centric when it comes to extraterrestial life?
not organic - yes. not life - why?
Take the protein blindfold off.
It is quite clear to me that by todays definition of "life" these red microbes do not fall under that category.
No. By today's definition of protein-based life. That's all.
No, viruses (virii is a 1337sp33ch) are NOT considered 'life' as much as tricky and far-fetched the explaination may sound. I do remember this from my biology class.
Actually there was some sequel for DN3D, for Playstation I.
It sucked.
So the first, you concede - no matter what the CPU, the OS requirements overtake Moore's law progress, we're better off with first, old CPU-OS pairs than the new ones. (of course I agree, Win95 on P4 is a pretty fast and responsive OS :)
...when? Early 90's definitely no. Late 90's definitely yes. '95 Amiga was in the most lively period of its death [;)] and AFAIK Amiga never took off in the States. In Poland, '2000 was still a good year for Amigas in TV studios. It was just really good at this.
I don't know about that DOS/IBM not being the leader in the household. Almost every friend I had had either a Mac or a PC. It was just that way. Apple ruled for a while, because that's what they put in the schools, but the PC had marketing.
I was talking about Europe. I don't know nor remember the situation in the US. I know Amigas were never really tall there. I can just recall the jawdrop of my PC friend when I took my A600 with me and let him play Test Drive 2 on it. Neither the best Amiga nor the best Amiga game, but in exchange he let me play some game (sorry too drunk ATM to recall, a famous one) Dragon something IIRC. Fantasy hack&slash including riding on birdlike mounts, maybe you recall.) I was less than impressed because it was CGA or EGA mode and looked worse than best games I played on Atari and WAY worse than what was the worst available for Amiga.
Also, the era I'm referring to is the very early 90's. I think VAX was already toast by then, so perhaps our little misunderstanding is due to this.
AFAIR VAX was doing well as the big iron for quite long. As my first touch with big irons was when Vax was long dead, I can just tell what I heard so don't take this too seriously.
Amiga was definitely not doing too well, Amstrad was almost gone, Atari was a memory, Tandy was no longer Tandy.
Then capitalism got really high in Poland. TV got enough money to afford custom solutions, that costed maybe 500-1000 times as much as Amiga-based ones (I know because some press tried to wreak havoc by announcing how much the TV spends on its "upgrades") but performed at least slightly better than Amigas.
The first steps "beyond Amiga" were very expensive for the TV. Really, news logo animated at twice the resolution previous Amiga logo was, caused quite a bit of outrage, costing about 500 times what the previous one did. But the new zone of commercials was followed by some big money which was spent on improvements in quality. Small improvements for incredibly high price increase, but they happened.
...will it be purposedly hard-blocked or will it be just "unsupported" so that by installing 3rd party drivers you get your old DVD support back?
Vista may of course not support lots of obsolete hardware and there's nothing wrong with that. It's ancient, hardly anybody uses it anymore, developing drivers costs money and time, so cutting back on these costs is understandable. If someone wants to have their ISA gfx card or some obscure SCSI scanner supported, they'd have to write the driver themselves or pay someone to write them to work, cool. But if some hardware is blacklisted as in "This kind of hardware may be used for illegal purposes, we won't allow you to use it", it's a different matter.
Anyway, I strongly believe that in both cases the hacker community will be more efficient that Microsoft.
Well, after some great, memorable achievments like slashdoting NASA, Google, Microsoft, White House, RIAA, MPAA, physical snailmail mailbox of some spam lord, computational cluster of IBM, Bugzilla, Chernobyl webpages and quite a few others of lesser significance, seems Slashdot should be the next target. Difficult but not impossible.
It's winter now. /. search and be thankful to the world for this slashvertisment.
Think of XBox360 in the summer. You'll dig back throgh
Google should agree to pay 1000x loss of profit compensation. If they didn't make their Google Talk service, the company would earn about $0 on the patents....
What about giving those of us who are from outside of US a full badge color range~meaning list?
Blue collar, red tape, pink slip, blue print, brown out, red hering, red neck, for non-native english speakers this stuff is really hard.