Eh, Computational Flow Dynamics is not easy. A friend mumbles to themselves a lot. Fluent is useful but some of the stuff they're doing with water craft defy it as the budget for any external computing power breaks their budget. And Fluent has some limitations but I'm not fluent in Fluent.;)
Actually the system currently in place likes vacuums a lot. So much so that it's set things up so that all the icky bits are crammed into little balls of goo.
Yep. And you can make a damn fortune if you work for a defense contractor and have even inadequate proof. If you pursue it you get 30 percent, if the government takes it over you get 10 percent but it's pretty damned firm and they usually grind more out of the contractor for you.;)
Congress seems to adore this law as do I. I'd love to have nailed the company I'd worked for but I never had any proof they crossed the line or I'd have turned 'em into tasty meat.
You are stepping into the twilight zone of the military industrial complex/government procurement system.
An existing system that works has gone through the bowels of this system and been sanctified.
It would take as much money to re-engineer it as it does to maintain it. It is an annoying fact that getting money to fix something in either the military or government is easier than getting something new even if the new item would save money. This is one of the reasons several of the systems I've worked on were 20+ years old. The anti-mortar Firefinder radar being used in Iraq was designed in the seventies and finally approved and deployed in the 80s and is still in use today.
There are plans to replace it but right this instant they need them in the field so it costs much more to refurbish one than to buy either a 'newly' made one which is intended for foreign sales and is not authorized for procurement or procure the newest model.
Currently the latest and greatest is rumbling around the guts of the system and some prototypes were fielded in 1998 so expect them to be finalized in 2008 and accepted later....
I wish I could point and say "graft and corruption" but it's fighting that which has led to our current procurement system. It's not ever going to be perfect but it does help to keep sawdust out of MREs.
Our constitution is worth the rag it's written on. We will go screaming into the dark as well.
We're losing the culture of freedom albeit at a slower pace than Europe. Here as in other countries it's the autonomic systems of the permanent government that are helping to maintain the status quo. That can be changed drastically as 9/11 has shown. There are still faithful who worship that document but I don't think they will matter.
File individual lawsuits that have seperate merits so that the turds can't get them lumped under a class action. Do it under state law or under the Americans with Disabilities act and screw with them until they buckle.
via any means is more likely to be hazardous to the traveler rather than the inhabitants of the future. Unless we stop evolving and developing resistance to more cleaver and lethal diseases we would easily be able to thwart such a bug. A virus might be more problematic if it's something like hemorrhagic smallpox but even an earlier version of that may have a hard time catching up.
Do you wonder how many assassins a certain diamond conglomerate were going to send to those fellows making pristine diamonds for $5/carat if they'd gotten 'uppity'?;) I personally want to squeel with glee when I can by 1/4" slabs of diamond for the cost of a cup of Starbucks. By the time it's a reality it will only be a days pay!
PS I have some BeO that's in some old VSLI chips. A 4"x2" 'integrated circuit' is cool and would stay cool too if it were still functional.
I think they are trying to stretch the old technology to stay ahead of solid state drives.
I doubt it's the "most efficient heat dissipating" but I think someone would shriek if they were to announce they're making the casing out of massive chunk of beryllium oxide.;)
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Eh, Computational Flow Dynamics is not easy. A friend mumbles to themselves a lot. Fluent is useful but some of the stuff they're doing with water craft defy it as the budget for any external computing power breaks their budget. And Fluent has some limitations but I'm not fluent in Fluent.;)
bulby? I despise it more than Clippy.
It does seem to do that for a LOT of the electronics forums I read. Others I read don't get in nearly as fast yet both have RSS feeds.
I think someone at google is catering to us.
OMG you sound just like the actor playing the 'fake' teal'k in "Wormhole eXtreme" 'outtakes'!!!!
BWA HA HA HA
Just spray surfaces all over the place with some.
Sheesh the morons.
I never bought an iD product after that. No I've not played Doom III at all.
The level of contempt I'd heard for the Doom series from the creators was enough to break me of the iD habit.
Actually the system currently in place likes vacuums a lot. So much so that it's set things up so that all the icky bits are crammed into little balls of goo.
;)
Then it sets them on fire.
Blasphemer! Worship the dihydrogen monoxide!
The only thing that's sacred is nothing.
Pip and Flinx novels are getting antsy about him at least finishing the Pip and Flinx arc.
I'd be even more offended if some 'friend' comes out of the closet to finish them over his rotting corpse.
Yes it was. If you knew the creator of your whole universe was dying wouldn't you steal them, cure them and leave a worthless corpse in their place?
;)
Then you could write the universe as it should be.
Sort of a cross between Heinlein and King.
Professor John Cramer has something to say on the subject
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http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/
All of his science articles for Analog
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/av_index_sub.htm
Paradoxes and FTL Communication
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw28.html
Yep. And you can make a damn fortune if you work for a defense contractor and have even inadequate proof. If you pursue it you get 30 percent, if the government takes it over you get 10 percent but it's pretty damned firm and they usually grind more out of the contractor for you. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam
Congress seems to adore this law as do I. I'd love to have nailed the company I'd worked for but I never had any proof they crossed the line or I'd have turned 'em into tasty meat.
You are stepping into the twilight zone of the military industrial complex/government procurement system.
An existing system that works has gone through the bowels of this system and been sanctified.
It would take as much money to re-engineer it as it does to maintain it. It is an annoying fact that getting money to fix something in either the military or government is easier than getting something new even if the new item would save money. This is one of the reasons several of the systems I've worked on were 20+ years old. The anti-mortar Firefinder radar being used in Iraq was designed in the seventies and finally approved and deployed in the 80s and is still in use today.
There are plans to replace it but right this instant they need them in the field so it costs much more to refurbish one than to buy either a 'newly' made one which is intended for foreign sales and is not authorized for procurement or procure the newest model.
Currently the latest and greatest is rumbling around the guts of the system and some prototypes were fielded in 1998 so expect them to be finalized in 2008 and accepted later....
I wish I could point and say "graft and corruption" but it's fighting that which has led to our current procurement system. It's not ever going to be perfect but it does help to keep sawdust out of MREs.
You'll need a spork but you'd have to get him to mate with a fork first.
I will accept one spam from your sorry ass if I get to cut out your heart right after.
We can do it in a country where it's legal. Maybe China.
Our constitution is worth the rag it's written on. We will go screaming into the dark as well.
We're losing the culture of freedom albeit at a slower pace than Europe. Here as in other countries it's the autonomic systems of the permanent government that are helping to maintain the status quo. That can be changed drastically as 9/11 has shown. There are still faithful who worship that document but I don't think they will matter.
First to name the old SOD.
File individual lawsuits that have seperate merits so that the turds can't get them lumped under a class action. Do it under state law or under the Americans with Disabilities act and screw with them until they buckle.
This is what national hellcare would be.
via any means is more likely to be hazardous to the traveler rather than the inhabitants of the future. Unless we stop evolving and developing resistance to more cleaver and lethal diseases we would easily be able to thwart such a bug. A virus might be more problematic if it's something like hemorrhagic smallpox but even an earlier version of that may have a hard time catching up.
Do you wonder how many assassins a certain diamond conglomerate were going to send to those fellows making pristine diamonds for $5/carat if they'd gotten 'uppity'? ;) I personally want to squeel with glee when I can by 1/4" slabs of diamond for the cost of a cup of Starbucks. By the time it's a reality it will only be a days pay!
PS
I have some BeO that's in some old VSLI chips. A 4"x2" 'integrated circuit' is cool and would stay cool too if it were still functional.
I think they are trying to stretch the old technology to stay ahead of solid state drives.
;)
I doubt it's the "most efficient heat dissipating" but I think someone would shriek if they were to announce they're making the casing out of massive chunk of beryllium oxide.
Other than that pesky problem of *what* killed the human race.....Dun Dun DUN!
It's the B grade spoiler, hadda do it.
I'd be happy if they'd fix the problems with libart that crash Konqueror in the current KDE.
Buffalo WHR-54GS + DD-WRT= W00T
l ess-g-125-high-speed/wireless-g-125-high-speed-bro adband-router-and-access-point-with-high-gain-ante nna/
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/wire
You can overclock it and you can set the output power. It's about half the cost of the L suffix linksys. Easy setup, etc.
I'm still learning it's capabilities.