...with electronics sometimes using a type of Epoxy... sometimes it's just to protect the circuit physically, but I've also seen it done (with a high temp resin and a black pigment) when distributing early samples of products-in-development in order to help protect the circuit from prying eyes... in order to make it a little less trivial to copy etc...
I've not known it done for the purposes of heat disspation though, I'm not sure how-efficient of a thermal conductor a non-electricly conductive solid resin would be...
I don't know... but go away and look up DialD... there may be something better than this now, but DialD was certainly the best solution I found before I stopped doing this around 7 years ago!
It's truely a sign of how in-bred people are, if they are genuinely fearful of genetic diversity in the population.
Genetic diversity is what leads to a strong, resilient and intelligent population.
You elected someone because he looked just like your cousin cleetus, but "knowed how to talk a bit more smart" the last two times... and look where we are now... when will you learn?
RTFA
The user made their selection and a paper ballot printed out (with both a bar code, and a printed candidate name) - this was then placed in the balot box.
When it became time to count, it was done in public, the candidate name was read, and then the ballot bar-code scanned, making the candidate tally increase on screen.
Surprisingly, counting ballots is not rocket science
Of course not, however there is a lot of science involved in the process of mis-counting ballots... especially in a way that avoids the possibility of getting caught.
Those are valuable trade secrets worth protecting!
I was working on an almost identical system in the UK literally 10 years ago... and I know we have patents on it... I wonder if they took care of the saturation issues... Still nice to see someone else picking up on the work though...
This has some merit, but I can think of one reason why the lack of these makes Google nervous of getting into a bidding war...
Because not including these two levels of 'open-ness' means a higher potential value to whoever is the winner... because there's a greater degree of possible profit... you get to pick your competitors and set your prices
It simply wouldnt be in the interests of the huge telecoms giants to bid too high if they then had to turn around and sell access for next to nothing to anyone (including google) who wanted to use it... but if they're getting total control over who provides service and at what cost... then its worth a lot more money.
If they can charge what they want for access, suddenly you can justify bidding a lot higher
Well, I do see some of your points... perhaps I just don't have enough depth in my physics education...
But, even assuming frames of reference etc the relativistic mass of the matter involved in the collision would be HUGE, far more than the original matter... and I don't think all that would dissapear into the black holes for several reasons... but one main one comes to mind:
- The accretion disks are by definition not inside the event horizon of either black hole, and therefore not at the point where any energy or exotic particles from matter colisions would be completely incapable of escape - if stuff releases energy at that point... it CAN escape, as long as it has enough energy - that's the whole reason we see the disks in the first place.
Whatever way the matter collides, close to the event horizon of a black hole is quite possibly THE fastest you're ever going to be able to smash atoms together (until we discover new physics) - while that collision happens outside of the event horizon (so we can see the results) and inside an area of time dilation (so from our frame of reference we can see the interations slowed down) that HAS to be interesting! or am I missing something?
You know... I've wondered about that myself in the past...
I also wondered what might happen to the matter trapped in the accretion disks of two black holes when they began to merge, especially if they had opposing rotation... matter travelling at virtually the speed of light, hitting yet more matter, travelling at virtually the speed of light in the opposite direction... meaning an effective speed of impact almost double the speed of light... and all that happening in an area of dilated time... you have to wonder what that would look like...
The episode where the Q were having their little civil war? massive explosions happening in space... of course they were not GRBs, but it does strike a similar tone somewhere inside me...
These things almost seem like the WMD of the future, the ability to wipe out all life within almost half a galaxy with a single explosion due to the concentration of gamma rays... kindof makes any nuke look insignificant...
Oh no, I just mentioned a weapons application... so if we suddenly see lots of funding of this research by the bush administration... we know why!
Doesnt that mean that SQL server could have had 1000 bugs reported during that period, but only 50 or so got fixed?
It might be just poorly worded, but if this really was the metric... it doesnt really mean anything about security, in-fact one could argue that the higher number is better (since more were fixed!)
Yes, You're confused... the term USB port here is not literal, but rather used to illustrate a small discrete port built into the back of the machine
Hence why it says 'the equivalent of a USB port at the back of your computer' - it's not literally a USB port, but rather just an illustration to give you the idea of something small tucked away at the back of the system...
Can you imagine how many lines this thing will need to run a true hypertransport bus? even if they trim it down it's going to be a heck of a lot more than the 4 used for USB.
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You're calling him an iMac user now? Man that's cold.
...with electronics sometimes using a type of Epoxy... sometimes it's just to protect the circuit physically, but I've also seen it done (with a high temp resin and a black pigment) when distributing early samples of products-in-development in order to help protect the circuit from prying eyes... in order to make it a little less trivial to copy etc...
I've not known it done for the purposes of heat disspation though, I'm not sure how-efficient of a thermal conductor a non-electricly conductive solid resin would be...
Yeah, you have nothing to worry about - not even the virus writers make programs for hurd!
Apparently they have (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7006056.stm) hundreds of tons of the stuff that they need to get rid of....
Sure, you'll need to process it, but isn't that an option?
I don't know... but go away and look up DialD... there may be something better than this now, but DialD was certainly the best solution I found before I stopped doing this around 7 years ago!
It just goes to show what statistics have long said...
In any country, close to 50% of people have below average intelligence...
Unfortunately sometimes it's mainly that half that can be bothered to go out and vote...
It's truely a sign of how in-bred people are, if they are genuinely fearful of genetic diversity in the population.
Genetic diversity is what leads to a strong, resilient and intelligent population.
You elected someone because he looked just like your cousin cleetus, but "knowed how to talk a bit more smart" the last two times... and look where we are now... when will you learn?
RTFA The user made their selection and a paper ballot printed out (with both a bar code, and a printed candidate name) - this was then placed in the balot box. When it became time to count, it was done in public, the candidate name was read, and then the ballot bar-code scanned, making the candidate tally increase on screen.
Surprisingly, counting ballots is not rocket science
Of course not, however there is a lot of science involved in the process of mis-counting ballots... especially in a way that avoids the possibility of getting caught.
Those are valuable trade secrets worth protecting!
I was working on an almost identical system in the UK literally 10 years ago... and I know we have patents on it... I wonder if they took care of the saturation issues... Still nice to see someone else picking up on the work though...
With the various new fronts opening up... and the inevitable attempts to corrupt the ideals of linux (tivoization etc)
Perhaps a better question is... Where SHOULDN'T linux go from here?
Will attempts to modify the underlying licenses actually end up taking away much of the very freedom we're trying to protect?
Its a NORMAL thing... happens at the end of EVERY 11 year cycle... and has been happening for a long time...
Ok then,
Would "Fork off to hell and die!" be better?
Is why nobody told us that they started making good-looking female nerds?
I suppose it could be more unusual... she could be on slashdot!
it says "it cannot, says Raytheon, cause visible, permanent injury."
That seems an awfully calculated thing to say... so that means they have found it to cause INVISIBLE permanent injury then?
This has some merit, but I can think of one reason why the lack of these makes Google nervous of getting into a bidding war...
Because not including these two levels of 'open-ness' means a higher potential value to whoever is the winner... because there's a greater degree of possible profit... you get to pick your competitors and set your prices
It simply wouldnt be in the interests of the huge telecoms giants to bid too high if they then had to turn around and sell access for next to nothing to anyone (including google) who wanted to use it... but if they're getting total control over who provides service and at what cost... then its worth a lot more money.
If they can charge what they want for access, suddenly you can justify bidding a lot higher
How, exactly is this informative?
Besides telling us what kind of mental help it is that you nead?
Well, I do see some of your points... perhaps I just don't have enough depth in my physics education...
But, even assuming frames of reference etc the relativistic mass of the matter involved in the collision would be HUGE, far more than the original matter... and I don't think all that would dissapear into the black holes for several reasons... but one main one comes to mind:
- The accretion disks are by definition not inside the event horizon of either black hole, and therefore not at the point where any energy or exotic particles from matter colisions would be completely incapable of escape - if stuff releases energy at that point... it CAN escape, as long as it has enough energy - that's the whole reason we see the disks in the first place.
Whatever way the matter collides, close to the event horizon of a black hole is quite possibly THE fastest you're ever going to be able to smash atoms together (until we discover new physics) - while that collision happens outside of the event horizon (so we can see the results) and inside an area of time dilation (so from our frame of reference we can see the interations slowed down) that HAS to be interesting! or am I missing something?
You know... I've wondered about that myself in the past...
I also wondered what might happen to the matter trapped in the accretion disks of two black holes when they began to merge, especially if they had opposing rotation... matter travelling at virtually the speed of light, hitting yet more matter, travelling at virtually the speed of light in the opposite direction... meaning an effective speed of impact almost double the speed of light... and all that happening in an area of dilated time... you have to wonder what that would look like...
Maybe someone smarter than me could tell us!
By these kinds of events?
The episode where the Q were having their little civil war? massive explosions happening in space... of course they were not GRBs, but it does strike a similar tone somewhere inside me...
These things almost seem like the WMD of the future, the ability to wipe out all life within almost half a galaxy with a single explosion due to the concentration of gamma rays... kindof makes any nuke look insignificant...
Oh no, I just mentioned a weapons application... so if we suddenly see lots of funding of this research by the bush administration... we know why!
I think so far the comments missed the point.
He's not looking for a laptop WITH 4gb, he knows he can get those now, he's wondering about a laptop with MORE than 4Gb of memory.
"Reported AND FIXED"
Doesnt that mean that SQL server could have had 1000 bugs reported during that period, but only 50 or so got fixed?
It might be just poorly worded, but if this really was the metric... it doesnt really mean anything about security, in-fact one could argue that the higher number is better (since more were fixed!)
"Put another way, this would equal 50 full-time employees doing nothing but surfing online game and auction sites."
Normally I'm not in favor of pointless job creation schemes but I wouldn't mind applying for one of those jobs!
Meh, They'll probably get out-sourced to India!
Maybe they're off trying to figure out how to plug an opteron into a USB port...?
Yes, You're confused... the term USB port here is not literal, but rather used to illustrate a small discrete port built into the back of the machine
Hence why it says 'the equivalent of a USB port at the back of your computer' - it's not literally a USB port, but rather just an illustration to give you the idea of something small tucked away at the back of the system...
Can you imagine how many lines this thing will need to run a true hypertransport bus? even if they trim it down it's going to be a heck of a lot more than the 4 used for USB.