They used to have these old things called books and magazines. Believe it or not, you could actually swivel your head/eyes slightly and it all seemed to work out ok.
That isn't a third type of person. You are are just a single monitor person. You do realize there are people doing multi-heads with 20" high res montitors as well, don't you?
Just because it delievers equal torque at zero RPM doesn't mean it's delivering maximum power to the wheels at low rpm.
Not equal, MAXIMUM. And yes, because it does delever maximum torque at low RPM, it does mean it is delevering the type of energy needed to start quickly. Horsepower means how fast you can go. Torque is how fast you can get there.
For just getting from 0 to 60 as the grandparent was talking about, low RPM torque is the way to go. You don't need torque at higher RPMs unless you are pushing for higher speeds.
That has never been the issue. Electric motors deliver their maximum torque at 0 RPM. They are always good at giving torque from launch as long as you have enough electricity to give them (and use a big enough electric motor to begin with, but that's never been a practical issue). Acceleration like that takes a lot of juice, which means the range of the vehicle just dropped significantly. It's the range of the electric cars that has always been their biggest fatal flaw.
I'm aware people often do this, that's why I said "Most of the time yes, this is boneheaded shopping". I was pointing out that occasionally it wasn't. There was nothing in your original comment about limiting the comment to items that are still currently commonly available for the lower price.
Most of the time yes, this is boneheaded shopping. But don't forget that for a small percentage of the time, folks may be looking for a very specific discontinued item that is no longer available through retail outlets, even at the lower original price. In other cases, the item may just be rare and hard to find. That being said, I've never actually bought anything off Ebay myself.
Any ISP that doesnt have a virus checker on their mailserver in this day and age is a crappy ISP (either that or they are too cheap to buy a copy of whatever virus checker is available:)
Many new viruses are not recognized by virus scanners and get passed over by them. A lot of spreading can be done in the many hours between when a virus is reported, a definition for it created, and the email virus scanners machines updating with the new definition list.
Do not open files that are sent to you by email except from people you know and trust as they could be viruses...
Sorry dude, but that is moronic advice. Most email viruses these days scan your computer for your email programs address book and send themselves to everyone in it. You are VERY likely got get a virus sent to you from someone you knows email address. I tell my users not to open any attachments, even from people they know, unless they are specifically expecting that attachment. Otherwise take two seconds, email the person back, and make sure it's real.
How do you know they weren't patched? Patching doesn't really help you when the user runs the executable attachment they got in their email, or installs something shiny they found on the web.
BTW, each of those heat tubes, 3 on each side, looks to be aobut 3/4 of an inch diameter. The whole copper radiator is about as large as my computer case, and the fan on it looks to be similar in size with the one I run in my living room in the summer. It's a joke.
4. I can't tell what metal it's made out of, but if they changed to a more efficient metal, then they'd be able to reduce the size without sacrificing ability
It looks to be almost all copper, with 3 of those large phase changing heat tubes.
I was happily typing the last page of this 20page document when the fucker decided it's a good time to pop up stupid shit asking whether I'd like to reboot now (OF COURSE NOT! WHO WANTS TO REBOOT THEIR PUTER? YOU TURN IT ON, YOU TURN IT OFF; REBOOTS ARE SILLY BULLSHIT) - and the requester stole focus, and had [YES] as default. I hit enter at end of line and VOILA!
Now, I use an OpenBSD box and a 12" Powerbook a good bit of the time, (no MS fanboy). But whenever I've been using my windows machine and it wants to reboot while I've got a document I'm working on open, it ALWAYS asks if I want to save the document before rebooting.
Yes, it requires rebooting way too often, but it's never trashed a 20 page document to do it.
Nail in Window's coffin? I don't think they are anywhere near ready for a coffin yet.
Besides which, you do realize Windows used to run on the PPC platform right? Windows NT4 ran on that MIPS and Alpha machines. And guess what? The new XBox, which is a cut down-modified version of windows 2000, is going to run on PPC chips. MS could quite easily move Windows the the Cell chips of they chose to. This is competition for AMD and Intel, not MS.
I still don't see why you would think it's surprising at all. You admit you know Windows was runing on PPC for some time.
For some reason you think it was 'wedded to x86 for two decades' while Apple having an OS which *potentially* (it doesn't yet, not the whole thing) run on x86 for only the last 4 years is some long track record on another platform. OSX was never fully ported. Wiindows was. And Windows ran on those other architechtures a lot more than 4 years out of the last 20.
Why did they leave that market? Because the hardware was inferior to x86? Nope. It was because very few folks were using it Why was that? Because almost no one ported their applications to those other platforms. x86 was the only thing you could get the vast majority of the software available to run on. I would have loved to have had an Alpha system, even though they were horribly expensive at the time, but there just wasn't enough of the applications I wanted to use available for it.
Now they are doing a gaming console. Lack of applications is no longer a factor. All the game writers they want will write to the platform they build.
As for being surprised they are running on Apple hardware, what else did you think they would use? How many different hardware manufacturers make PPC machines? Ok, several, including IBM. But most of those are big wamping workstation or server machines, often with lots of CPUs. Where do you get a fairly economical desktop/console like PPC platform with only one or a couple CPUs? Pretty much Apple. Not really shocking there once you think about it, is it?
Since many of the Xbox developers will already have Apple machines in house for their graphics artists, it's really a no-brainer. Are they going to use some IBM behemoth server instead? Build some wild reference platform to give to developers while the xbox hardware is still under development itself? No way. It's not shocking. It makes a whole lot of sense.
As for being suprised they are still demoing on Apple hardware... A manufacturer of electronics hardware or software running late in getting a product out the door is about as predictible as you can get.
Sorry, it's not *shocking* at all. Windows NT4 ran on x86, MIPS, Alpha, and PPC. It's code was very portable. The only reason Windows2000 and XP/2003 aren't available on the other platforms was that there just wasn't that much market for it at the time. The tiny market wasn't worth the effort to port it. If they think they can do better price/performance for a gaming console, then it becomes worth porting again. Windows running on the PPC architecture is nothing new.
Apple on the other hand, for the first time in their history has an OS that would be fairly easily ported to x86 (pretty much the base of the OS, Darwin, already does, they would just need to port all the GUI stuff). That's a big first for Apple.
It depends on how anal the place is. Here it's only required if you work with 10 millicuries. We use 10 millicuries a shot of P32 all the time, but most experiments I've ever run that require tritium, call for far less.
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The only places in the world that doesn't have it is in the arctic and antarctic. Here is a map.
There may be less lightning, but there is still lightning in deserts.
South of California, near the equator, they don't have lightning? You're joking.
They used to have these old things called books and magazines. Believe it or not, you could actually swivel your head/eyes slightly and it all seemed to work out ok.
That isn't a third type of person. You are are just a single monitor person. You do realize there are people doing multi-heads with 20" high res montitors as well, don't you?
Because modding it as Informative was a better joke than the post itself?
You just have to wait a bit to get accurate readings from them. Until they 'outgas' for a bit.
The would require the 'editors' to actually read the article. Or even the blurb that's posted. Not going to happen.
Not equal, MAXIMUM. And yes, because it does delever maximum torque at low RPM, it does mean it is delevering the type of energy needed to start quickly. Horsepower means how fast you can go. Torque is how fast you can get there.
For just getting from 0 to 60 as the grandparent was talking about, low RPM torque is the way to go. You don't need torque at higher RPMs unless you are pushing for higher speeds.
Here's a little primer for you:
That has never been the issue. Electric motors deliver their maximum torque at 0 RPM. They are always good at giving torque from launch as long as you have enough electricity to give them (and use a big enough electric motor to begin with, but that's never been a practical issue). Acceleration like that takes a lot of juice, which means the range of the vehicle just dropped significantly. It's the range of the electric cars that has always been their biggest fatal flaw.
I'm aware people often do this, that's why I said "Most of the time yes, this is boneheaded shopping". I was pointing out that occasionally it wasn't. There was nothing in your original comment about limiting the comment to items that are still currently commonly available for the lower price.
Most of the time yes, this is boneheaded shopping. But don't forget that for a small percentage of the time, folks may be looking for a very specific discontinued item that is no longer available through retail outlets, even at the lower original price. In other cases, the item may just be rare and hard to find. That being said, I've never actually bought anything off Ebay myself.
Many new viruses are not recognized by virus scanners and get passed over by them. A lot of spreading can be done in the many hours between when a virus is reported, a definition for it created, and the email virus scanners machines updating with the new definition list.
Do not open files that are sent to you by email except from people you know and trust as they could be viruses ...
Sorry dude, but that is moronic advice. Most email viruses these days scan your computer for your email programs address book and send themselves to everyone in it. You are VERY likely got get a virus sent to you from someone you knows email address. I tell my users not to open any attachments, even from people they know, unless they are specifically expecting that attachment. Otherwise take two seconds, email the person back, and make sure it's real.
Unless the trojan writer has it deactivate the firewall before it launches any internet communication...
How do you know they weren't patched? Patching doesn't really help you when the user runs the executable attachment they got in their email, or installs something shiny they found on the web.
Haven't you ever been to the movies? The only way to stop a zombie is with a head shot.
BTW, each of those heat tubes, 3 on each side, looks to be aobut 3/4 of an inch diameter. The whole copper radiator is about as large as my computer case, and the fan on it looks to be similar in size with the one I run in my living room in the summer. It's a joke.
It looks to be almost all copper, with 3 of those large phase changing heat tubes.
http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/video/mite.html
Now, I use an OpenBSD box and a 12" Powerbook a good bit of the time, (no MS fanboy). But whenever I've been using my windows machine and it wants to reboot while I've got a document I'm working on open, it ALWAYS asks if I want to save the document before rebooting.
Yes, it requires rebooting way too often, but it's never trashed a 20 page document to do it.
Besides which, you do realize Windows used to run on the PPC platform right? Windows NT4 ran on that MIPS and Alpha machines. And guess what? The new XBox, which is a cut down-modified version of windows 2000, is going to run on PPC chips. MS could quite easily move Windows the the Cell chips of they chose to. This is competition for AMD and Intel, not MS.
For some reason you think it was 'wedded to x86 for two decades' while Apple having an OS which *potentially* (it doesn't yet, not the whole thing) run on x86 for only the last 4 years is some long track record on another platform. OSX was never fully ported. Wiindows was. And Windows ran on those other architechtures a lot more than 4 years out of the last 20.
Why did they leave that market? Because the hardware was inferior to x86? Nope. It was because very few folks were using it Why was that? Because almost no one ported their applications to those other platforms. x86 was the only thing you could get the vast majority of the software available to run on. I would have loved to have had an Alpha system, even though they were horribly expensive at the time, but there just wasn't enough of the applications I wanted to use available for it.
Now they are doing a gaming console. Lack of applications is no longer a factor. All the game writers they want will write to the platform they build.
As for being surprised they are running on Apple hardware, what else did you think they would use? How many different hardware manufacturers make PPC machines? Ok, several, including IBM. But most of those are big wamping workstation or server machines, often with lots of CPUs. Where do you get a fairly economical desktop/console like PPC platform with only one or a couple CPUs? Pretty much Apple. Not really shocking there once you think about it, is it?
Since many of the Xbox developers will already have Apple machines in house for their graphics artists, it's really a no-brainer. Are they going to use some IBM behemoth server instead? Build some wild reference platform to give to developers while the xbox hardware is still under development itself? No way. It's not shocking. It makes a whole lot of sense.
As for being suprised they are still demoing on Apple hardware... A manufacturer of electronics hardware or software running late in getting a product out the door is about as predictible as you can get.
Apple on the other hand, for the first time in their history has an OS that would be fairly easily ported to x86 (pretty much the base of the OS, Darwin, already does, they would just need to port all the GUI stuff). That's a big first for Apple.
Oh, and no bioassays are needed for 10 millicuries of P32. I've avoided the 1 millicurie iodine limit as well.
It depends on how anal the place is. Here it's only required if you work with 10 millicuries. We use 10 millicuries a shot of P32 all the time, but most experiments I've ever run that require tritium, call for far less.