Darmstadtium has a half life of only about 270 microseconds according to the web elements page.
It also says they first created one atom of 269Ds, then later managed to create one atom of 271Ds. Sounds funny getting all jazzed about 2 single atoms that are gone before you realize you made it.
What about radiation? I remember way back in physics using a piece of radioactive material in front of a sensor connected to a computer to generate a large number of random numbers. It would be fairly easy to use a small piece of Californium such as is in a smoke detector connected to a sensor. The time between radioactive particles should be random enough and it is small enough to fit anywhere.
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More appropriately would be Thayeria boehlkei, more commonly known as Penguin Tetra or penguin fish. These guys like 22C - 28C, and don't crash nearly as often. ha ha ha.
But seriously though, this idea is pretty cool. If you are into designing a custom case, this is just as good as any. Perhaps a bit more maintenance then is normally required of a PC, but if you like fish anyhow, why not?
I have just about everything I need to build one of these lying around my garage. Now all I need to do is convince the wife we need another computer and another fishtank.
At the rate that hardware becomes outdated, what benifit do they think they would have screwing their customers out of trying to recoup some of their costs?
Not to mention that every time I sell old hardware, it is for the express purpose of purchasing new hardware. Everyone wins.
This would ROCK at work. Most of our problems (production plant) stem from flexing and bending sensor wires. If we could just tie all the sensors on a machine into wireless interfaces, my job would be twice as easy... but... then they wouldn't need as many technicians.
That's exactly the problem with this, it doesn't force the technician to understand the machine. At work we have piles of documents describing how to repair the assembly machines, but none of it is useful or makes any sense, it is just there to satisfy some ISO 9001 crud.
It goes the same for training operators for short assembly run's, and prototyping. Yes, the operator then doesn't need to learn a task that isn't going to need to be done more then just once, but it assumes the author of the task did a good enough job that the operator doesn't need to understand what he/she is doing. I still feel that nothing replaces human intuition and education.
Wireless is great, but if you are renovating your house, you may as well pull in the massive amounts of cable and be done with it. In the long run it will be WAY less maintenance, and in the short run it will be WAY cheaper.
"Windows XP on the 3 front pc's and 98se on the rest"
I was wondering about the licensing costs associated with the operating systems. Hopefully he is running legit copies, but at over a hundred bucks a piece, that is almost a thousand bucks for OS's alone! Combine that with the fact that the EULA for MS Flight Sim probably says something about the number of pc's it can be installed on... Don't you love OSS?
[Millikin hopes that by refocusing the show, MediaLive can make all parties happier. "You get more bang for your buck by being serious and focusing on the content, and not focusing on the elephants balancing on the chairs," he said.]
So... is it just the overweight geeks they are trying to exclude? Maybe the vendors will just not stock the 3XL sizes?
I just now cleaned my filter and did a 20% water change for the first time since my son was born in January. You don't have to clean your aquarium as much if you don't feed the fish as much. Less food => Less crap => Less nitrates => Lazy me!
What? You don't trust www.evilmegacorporation.com to do your fair, unbiased searching? (sorry, I don't know how to insert links. I am a hardware guy.)
The reason I use google is the lack of adds and other crap that get in the way. Like yahoo.
In Canada we have these things called "Large Forests". In these "Forests" we have large amounts of "Trees". Because we have so many of these "Trees", it is cheaper for lumber companies to harvest, and make "Lumber". This "Lumber" can be sold cheaply to countries where the lumber companies must pay high prices in order to harvest their small number of "Trees".
Apparently this is unfair to the Bush administration. Hence we have ~30% tariffs on our lumber. But hey, our dollar is going up and theirs isn't so PBTBTBTBTBT:-Ãz
The head engineer at work thought it was funny to see me enter text into a heat shrink printer with my thumbs where everyone older then me would be using their index fingers. I told him it came from years of abusing Nintendo controllers. He just scoffed and walked away.
It is definitely a setback to have messy printing. I type everything I possibly can, but I still have to write in the log books for all the machines at work. It is funny to see that about 90% of the robotics tech's have brutal penmanship. At least I don't feel left out.
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How appropriate. I wonder if it is upgradeable.
Darmstadtium has a half life of only about 270 microseconds according to the web elements page.
It also says they first created one atom of 269Ds, then later managed to create one atom of 271Ds. Sounds funny getting all jazzed about 2 single atoms that are gone before you realize you made it.
Power's out on Wall Street. I guess SCO stocks should remain stable for the rest of the day huh?
What about radiation? I remember way back in physics using a piece of radioactive material in front of a sensor connected to a computer to generate a large number of random numbers. It would be fairly easy to use a small piece of Californium such as is in a smoke detector connected to a sensor. The time between radioactive particles should be random enough and it is small enough to fit anywhere.
More appropriately would be Thayeria boehlkei, more commonly known as Penguin Tetra or penguin fish. These guys like 22C - 28C, and don't crash nearly as often. ha ha ha.
But seriously though, this idea is pretty cool. If you are into designing a custom case, this is just as good as any. Perhaps a bit more maintenance then is normally required of a PC, but if you like fish anyhow, why not?
I have just about everything I need to build one of these lying around my garage. Now all I need to do is convince the wife we need another computer and another fishtank.
At the rate that hardware becomes outdated, what benifit do they think they would have screwing their customers out of trying to recoup some of their costs?
Not to mention that every time I sell old hardware, it is for the express purpose of purchasing new hardware. Everyone wins.
This would ROCK at work. Most of our problems (production plant) stem from flexing and bending sensor wires. If we could just tie all the sensors on a machine into wireless interfaces, my job would be twice as easy... but... then they wouldn't need as many technicians.
Forget it, the idea stinks.
More like "Terminator 4, Dance Of The Machines"
Can we call it a tri-quarter?
That's exactly the problem with this, it doesn't force the technician to understand the machine. At work we have piles of documents describing how to repair the assembly machines, but none of it is useful or makes any sense, it is just there to satisfy some ISO 9001 crud. It goes the same for training operators for short assembly run's, and prototyping. Yes, the operator then doesn't need to learn a task that isn't going to need to be done more then just once, but it assumes the author of the task did a good enough job that the operator doesn't need to understand what he/she is doing. I still feel that nothing replaces human intuition and education.
What? A Geocities site taking the full brunt of slashdot? Not likely.
Wireless is great, but if you are renovating your house, you may as well pull in the massive amounts of cable and be done with it. In the long run it will be WAY less maintenance, and in the short run it will be WAY cheaper.
"Windows XP on the 3 front pc's and 98se on the rest"
I was wondering about the licensing costs associated with the operating systems. Hopefully he is running legit copies, but at over a hundred bucks a piece, that is almost a thousand bucks for OS's alone! Combine that with the fact that the EULA for MS Flight Sim probably says something about the number of pc's it can be installed on... Don't you love OSS?
[Millikin hopes that by refocusing the show, MediaLive can make all parties happier. "You get more bang for your buck by being serious and focusing on the content, and not focusing on the elephants balancing on the chairs," he said.] So... is it just the overweight geeks they are trying to exclude? Maybe the vendors will just not stock the 3XL sizes?
I just now cleaned my filter and did a 20% water change for the first time since my son was born in January. You don't have to clean your aquarium as much if you don't feed the fish as much. Less food => Less crap => Less nitrates => Lazy me!
What? You don't trust www.evilmegacorporation.com to do your fair, unbiased searching? (sorry, I don't know how to insert links. I am a hardware guy.) The reason I use google is the lack of adds and other crap that get in the way. Like yahoo.
In Canada we have these things called "Large Forests". In these "Forests" we have large amounts of "Trees". Because we have so many of these "Trees", it is cheaper for lumber companies to harvest, and make "Lumber". This "Lumber" can be sold cheaply to countries where the lumber companies must pay high prices in order to harvest their small number of "Trees". Apparently this is unfair to the Bush administration. Hence we have ~30% tariffs on our lumber. But hey, our dollar is going up and theirs isn't so PBTBTBTBTBT :-Ãz
The head engineer at work thought it was funny to see me enter text into a heat shrink printer with my thumbs where everyone older then me would be using their index fingers. I told him it came from years of abusing Nintendo controllers. He just scoffed and walked away. It is definitely a setback to have messy printing. I type everything I possibly can, but I still have to write in the log books for all the machines at work. It is funny to see that about 90% of the robotics tech's have brutal penmanship. At least I don't feel left out.
"soda is sold in 1 and 2 litre increments so I kinda do already " What the crap is SODA?
You don't use this thing for serving any old webpage, it goes in a device to allow you to communicate with that device through the LAN.
-It needs to be soldered into a device. Therefore, you would design the device to provide the required 3.3V on the appropriate pin.
I wish they had put these in the PLC's at work. Just connect the CAT5 and it is networked.