But what happens when a (multithreaded) app runs away with 100% CPU and hoses everyone? What happens when a virus or badly written app that your kid downloaded wipes a ton of data?
What you really need is virtualization, one big box that runs different VMs for all your needs. Currently VMs are great for most apps, but not games. That pretty much sinks the home server idea unless you just say screw it and get a console or three.
Hey VMWare are you listening? Game VMs, make them happen. Everything from PCs to GameBoys and Mame. Maybe even one day PS2s and Xboxen. Now that would be cool.
That was one of Hobart's funnies, otherwise known as the flail or crab tank and it was a completely different beast. It detonated mines by whipping around steel balls on the end of lengths of chain. The whole flail assembly was mounted in front of the tank so that detonations only blew off the flail that detonated it. There were so many of these flails that when one was blown off it would still function. Only after a certain number were blown off did they have to stop/retreat and replace them. Really it was quite a brilliant design.
A modern effort at mine clearing is the M58 MICLIC (Mine Clearing Line Charge), that clears several hundred feet at a time.
Of course to withstand multiple blasts the roller would have to be so thick it would weight many tens of tons and if it did, it would sink into the ground and go nowhere. It probably would only make matters worse that you'd need a huge engine to move it (before it gets stuck) and of course that means it would suck fuel back like the cookie monster on a chocolate chip binge.
So what I'm really saying is that you have a very bright future in Government work.
Use Asterix and configure it to require and extension which would route the call thru to your phone otherwise it gets routed to voice mail.
That way people you want to talk to can call you from phones other than their main ones (such as payphones, new phones, their friends, police stations, etc).
Much like a car's water cooling system you want the air to circulate in a closed loop until it's reaches a certain temp and then you want to open the loop and dump the heat.
You also want the circulation within the case to be good so that you don't end up with hot or cold spots (cooked/frozen).
You'd also want to use a heat exchanger to preheat the incoming air to above freezing so that you don't get instant condensation from the inrush of sub zero moist air and make sure there is a fail safe in case the control system dies.
Already done. Modern torpedo's work in a similar fashion. They explode underneath a ship creating a bubble of gas. While the bow and stern are still boyant the center of the ship is not so the ship breaks in two under the stress.
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But what happens when a (multithreaded) app runs away with 100% CPU and hoses everyone? What happens when a virus or badly written app that your kid downloaded wipes a ton of data?
What you really need is virtualization, one big box that runs different VMs for all your needs. Currently VMs are great for most apps, but not games. That pretty much sinks the home server idea unless you just say screw it and get a console or three.
Hey VMWare are you listening? Game VMs, make them happen. Everything from PCs to GameBoys and Mame. Maybe even one day PS2s and Xboxen. Now that would be cool.
Yeah ok it'll never happen, I can dream can't I?
That was one of Hobart's funnies, otherwise known as the flail or crab tank and it was a completely different beast. It detonated mines by whipping around steel balls on the end of lengths of chain. The whole flail assembly was mounted in front of the tank so that detonations only blew off the flail that detonated it. There were so many of these flails that when one was blown off it would still function. Only after a certain number were blown off did they have to stop/retreat and replace them. Really it was quite a brilliant design.
A modern effort at mine clearing is the M58 MICLIC (Mine Clearing Line Charge), that clears several hundred feet at a time.
Of course to withstand multiple blasts the roller would have to be so thick it would weight many tens of tons and if it did, it would sink into the ground and go nowhere. It probably would only make matters worse that you'd need a huge engine to move it (before it gets stuck) and of course that means it would suck fuel back like the cookie monster on a chocolate chip binge.
So what I'm really saying is that you have a very bright future in Government work.
"Mistake number one, mugging Lizzy Borden."
"Normally dogs don't work with squids."
"He brought: Rose. She brought: Trapeze."
"Being half octopus eventually wore thin."
"He took her hand, she bled."
"Unexpectedly the fisherman became the fish."
"Avoid home cooking. The murdering bitch."
"Dog corrects the professor's math, again."
Use Asterix and configure it to require and extension which would route the call thru to your phone otherwise it gets routed to voice mail.
That way people you want to talk to can call you from phones other than their main ones (such as payphones, new phones, their friends, police stations, etc).
This blue rose reminds me of you,
Beautiful and artificial.
OK, didn't think so.
How about we sweeten the deal, we'll throw in cremation at no extra cost!
Anyone?
Bueller?
You also want the circulation within the case to be good so that you don't end up with hot or cold spots (cooked/frozen).
You'd also want to use a heat exchanger to preheat the incoming air to above freezing so that you don't get instant condensation from the inrush of sub zero moist air and make sure there is a fail safe in case the control system dies.
Already done. Modern torpedo's work in a similar fashion. They explode underneath a ship creating a bubble of gas. While the bow and stern are still boyant the center of the ship is not so the ship breaks in two under the stress.