This must be a troll, but I'll bite. MS does not go to Jackson, and say, Can we appeal this? No they file the paperwork directly to the Federal Court of Appeals. Think about this. Why should Jackson be involved in MS submission of the appeal? He just ruled against them. They are appealing his decision.
As for the fast timing of this, think again. Was the Court of Appeals blindsided by this? No, they knew that this was coming. They obviously discussed this among themselves, came to a decision, and acted promptly when MS finally filed the paperwork.
I'm obviously a night owl as I'm posting this relatively late in the DC time zone. But hey! I like your articles. I also like Rob's except I sort of miss the Fast Forward insert that you used to print. Hehehe, sort of miss. I used to like the video reviews; buy it, rent it, or...
But the Washington Post sucks. This will be an inside joke but I don't care. I got stuck on the Wilson Bridge when it raised to let in a particular barge. Paper, we don't need no steeking paper.
I still trying to find the Washington Times tech section. Oh yes, perhaps I can find it on the Moon.
The laptops are aimed at computer professionals and scientists, two groups that have embraced Linux, said Irving Wladawsky-Berger, the head of IBM's Linux group.
Okay, I'll bite. I'm a scientist. What do I want in a laptop linux system? If one has to transport bulky computers, then the answer is obvious. But there are other factors to consider.
First and foremost, software compatibility, either home-grown or from elsewhere. For home-grown code the question is does it compile and run the same. If one has a GUI interface program, does the GUI work? Ppl that post here seem to hate Motif/Lesstif. But compatibility is important for this specific case.
Is this a replacement for some other system? What type of system? Why change? To the latter question is the answer, because it is cheaper in terms of hardware and licencing costs. Additionally, if one comes from a Unix based environment, Linux provides a means to implement a mobile system. About 10 yrs ago, some company tried to sell a mobile Sparc system. AFAIK, this was not a financial success.
Problem: binary compatibility (aka the big/little endian problem). If you don't have conversion code or don't use XDR, then you have a serious problem.
I use a dual boot PowerBook. Other ppl that I work with use dual boot IBM's and Dell's. I've been trying to convince the powers to be that we can buy a good laptop system for the same price as the additional higher cost of shipping a bulky traditional workstation/computer. Note: laptops need to have effective access to large disk storage devices.
My personal bias: USB support is critical when it comes to laptops. The next one with be Firewire/ILink support. Good to see the 2.4.0-test kernel providing more support for this.
John Schwartz, the author of the featured story, has a/. account. He also wrote two previous/. related articles for the Washington Post. The 1st article was mainly about/., CmdrTaco, and Hemos. The next article was about the Kerberos flap between MS and/. Both stories were featured here. Another WashPost writer, Rob Pegorano who writes articles for the weekly Fast Forward section (featuring techie stuff) also has a/. account. They hardly post any comments, but I would guess that they do visit the site now and then.
At least they say that they are "working" when they come here. Then again maybe not as Pegorano seems to indicate.
I remember that my High Schools years meant, pool, pinball, foosball, and bowling. You hung out in either some bowling alley or pool hall. We weren't suppose to hang out in these places at night, but that just made them more appealing. Of course, we told our parents that we were going to the library, but that's another story.
I don't what it like now, but when one was shooting pool, bowling, or play pinball with girls, one *always* positioned yourself behind them. Note that this was in the days of mini-skirts and short-shorts. The view was pretty good.:) Lot's of, uh, hip action when they played pinball.
Visualize a certain young actress playing pinball. No wait, don't.
DOS on steroid?:) DOS is CPM on steroids except the recipient is Natalie Portaman. UNIX could better be described as DOS or any other OS after being passed thru babblefish.:)
awk, grep, cron, vi, biff (nice naming a command after your dog), etc...
Let's see if I understand this. @home will provide at some additional cost, "special" access to their network for a company like Akamai (means smart in Hawaiian). Akamai provides their clients a faster and more efficient means of providing content because of their distributed caching servers. An Akamai client is CNN interative (Time-Warner), a company that is trying to merge with AOL. Yahoo, Microsoft, and GO Network are also Akamai customers.
Hence, @home via Akamai is saying to these companies that they will provide them fast(er) service to @home customers. But it will cost you. If these companies maintain their relationship with Akamai, then they will be essentially saying okay. Can't wait for the open access fights to start up again.
But most importantly, Victoria's Secret is an Akamai client. You know what this means.:-)
I think that this is related to this story. Check out this report at SANS Global Incident Analysis Center. The source is listed as the second incident report. BTW, GIAC is a good source of info about seems to be the port scan du jour.
From the FAQ: We believe strongly in unfettered individual freedom, particularly in the area of electronic communications that the G8 and specifically France have recently come out against in their 13 May closed-door meetings.
Well, there you have it. They are going to host web sites that intentionaly piss off France, and only France.:-) The Brits will conveniently find some excuse to extend their defenses to the Sealanders who have ancestral links back to the old homeland. But there is still the Germans to consider as one of Zeldman's Failed Ads attests to.
People, have you ever taken an elementary physics class? Actually, this would only partially help. Okay, have any of you taken an elementary Geophysics class?
A while back, a slashdot poll asked whether you would taller or short at the north pole than at the equator. The physics was relatively poor although one insightful poster asked about the effect of the well know process known as "shrinkage". This guy obviously watched Seinfeld.
The magnitude of gravity at the earth's surface is determined by the volume integrated mass distribution of the earth. There are local variations in gravity (g) but the main contribution is determined by stuff deep within the earth. Think Gauss's Law.
The one thing that you should always do is to perform a first-order, back of the envelope series of calculations. Then ask if it makes sense. Suppose g dropped by 10%. The dino would still be very heavy. 20%? Still heavy. 20% reduction in the mass of the earth (or in the size of the earth)? Pretty major change in the earth.
The earth radius is approximately 6371 km. The most dense masses are not at the surface. To the first order, density increase linearly with respect to depth from the surface down to the core (depth of about 2700 km). Ph.D. geophysics qualifying exam question: What is the first order variation in g as a function of depth thru the earth? Get it right, then I will give you one of my karma whore points.
Atmospheric density variations is more interesting. But this means serious amount of higher density material (water vapor?) in the atmosphere.
Sort of OT, but many academic research ships starting implementing e-mail via Inmarsat about 10 years ago. Queued msgs would be sent and received about twice a day. I know I used this back in 1990 on two separate ships. Once we had a schematic diagram of some circuit board sent to us.
More OT. There is an old trick that is sometimes hoisted on naive newbies out at sea. Get some more experienced ppl together, and have someone announced that the ship should be reaching a mail buoy the next day. This buoy is the ocean version of a mailbox. Everybody gets excited and goes running off to write letters to their love ones. If the rookies sort of bite, then the next day bring out some type of grappling hook/pole. Fill a bag with junk. Tell the rookies to look for the buoy on one side of the ship, while you look for it on the other side.
Attach the bag to your grappling hook and excitedly shout, I got it, I got it. Go to "distribute" the mail. Tell the rookies that another mail buoy will be by the next day.
There is a natural progression of one's career in all technical/scientific fields. Additionally, there is an average age when one reaches the peak of one's technical/creative abilities. For instance, in the sciences, biologists and geologists reach their peak at a later age (IIRC, mid to late 30's). For mathematicians and physicists, the peak years are earlier.
High tech is a very competitive field. While one can argue the effect about having other outside interests (like having a life), we do peak mentally in a similar fashion as we peak physically. The human body and brain ages and loses capabilities.
So what is the solution for old geezers? Once again the solution is not unique to the computer industry. One must become a mentor, teacher, or manager. This requires that one realize that younger ppl can do a better job than you at doing the hard nitty-gritty work. An older person can provide much needed guidance and advice. Furthermore, one can succeed if one has the ability to identify the "kids" who have the skills to do the work.
Additionally, an older person can survive by other means. In the computer industry, one such method is called legacy code. In this case, one does not allow for any upgrade of software that is mission critical. Don't laugh. I work with someone that uses this technique to survive. I don't recommend this method.
Finally, while this may be a controversial subject, H1-B provides a conduit for the addition of new talent.
Dickinson pooh-pahs the notion that internet patents are inherently different from other telecommunication technologies like the telephone, telegraph, and television. Deja vu all over again. However, it seems to me that there is something different.
Why has there been an incredible increase in the number of computer software related patents such that the USPTO cannot keep up with the work load? Well, this is relatively new technology (especially internet related things) and one would expect an increase. However, I believe that the increase in the number of patents is anomalously large even for a new technology. And the reason for this is simply frivolous patent applications for things that are obvious and/or have prior art.
Finally, if the USPTO keeps issuing these obvious or prior art patents, the number of these types of patent applications will continue to increase (accelerate).
I see that some moderators have deemed this post to be off-topic. Perhaps, they are correct. However, to me at least, having Jason Haas post a story is more important than having MPEG on LinuxPPC. Do you clueless moderators have any idea about what Jason has gone through? He was almost recently killed by some drunk driver.
Off-topic my ass! Jason has been the marketing voice of LinuxPPC. He also been a good poster on the LinuxPPC user group discussion list (I read the archive list). About a month ago, Jason posted an update (I'm back!) on this list, but AFAIK hasn't posted since then. Just seeing his name here is great news. Rayban stated that he thought that it was great that Jason is back, and I concur.
Moderation started because some assholes trolled on a story about when Stevens, the author of many great books on IPC and UNIX, passed away. While many of the comments on Stevens were obvious trolls, others were based on quasi-antilinux sentiment. Compters and Linux are not life and death. F*ck me, but, I'm starting to believe and *agree* with the trolls about moderation.
You moderators that are clueless about life give an interesting slant on news for nerds and life that does not matter. For you others, bump up Rayban's (#2 post) comment. F*ck mine. I have karma whore points, and I'll post at default 2.
Did I say that this pisses me off. Anyway, good luck Haas and your wife Cassie.
In the not so-near future, there will be no internet. After humanity make contact with a superior alien life form in the year 2001, all hell breaks loose. First large megacorps take over and anarchy reins. Fortunately, a half-man, half-machine policeman helps to restore the peace. Then we start to build replicants to be our servants. But they revolt, and we have to send bounty hunters after them.
Meanwhile, the powers to be decide to build this automated defense network. On the day that it is started, AI's launch a global nuclear war. Survivors struggle to find Barter Town. But humanity fights back by blocking out the sun to cut off the main power source of the AI's. However, that doesn't doesn't work, and all seems lost until the chosen one is found. But alas, another nuclear war takes place and melts all the ice caps. The world is then covered with water.
I've read most (but not all) of the comments and have not seen this. I don't really get it. To know where somebody is, requires a transmission of a signal saying, here I am. GPS is a passive system, AFAIK. A cell phone says I'm here. GPS is a DoD system. I'm confused.
What these telemarketers are drooling over is the ability to acurately track cell phone users. And the technology is improving to do this.
Disclaimer (standard for me). It is late, and I need to get to bed.
Nice advice so far, but what if the parents want their kids to be 3133t? Well, I would recommend that they first learn how to write MS Word macros. To start them off, you could give them samples of all the fine macros/docs on your computer that NAV has helpfully flagged.
Then it it is on to VBS. Just think of the pride that you will have when your darling children send Grandma a wonderful I Love You note on Grandma's birthday. Oh, this just brings tears to my eyes. But make sure, they don't wipe out Grandma's MP3 collection!
Of course, proficiency with the CLI is a must. A kid that can't run a root kit shell script,..., well that's just sad. Unfortunately, kids grow up and will not be adorable script kiddies forever. When your kids start to questioned authority (not the gov, but big business), then they will be ready to move on to bigger and better challenges. I suggest they then learn C. Give them copies of DeCSS and Gnutella (ahh, the forbidden fruits). And don't forget to introduce them to buffer overflows using such classics as the WU-FTP, BIND, and Sendmail.
Finally, make sure they snap up a snazzy nick real quick as all the good ones are being taken.
Does anybody else have this opinion on this face-off. This was comparison between what is considered to be a very user friendly OS (MacOS 9), and is reported to be an extremely difficult, hacker only OS (Linux). To me this is a clear indication of how Linux has progressed. A few years ago, even trying to make such a comparison between the MacOS and Linux would have been absolutely ludicrous.
What I really want to see is a media reported faceoff between which company uses the most anti-competive techniques to further their cause. Let's have a death match: MS, AOL, Apple, Adobe, Sun, IBM, AT&T, Oracle, SGI, HP, Dell, Cisco, etc... I can just see it. And there goes Ellison thrown into the Sun with an Apple shoved up his butt. Oooo, he landed on his ballmer, that's got to hurt.
We my friend, are a distinct minority. Right now I'm in the MacOS realm on my dual-boot PowerBook because I'm multi-processing. Reading/. and trying to revise a MS Word Doc that someone sent me. Other times, I'm on the LinuxPPC end of things. In this case, reading/. and trying to write some code.
As a LinuxPPC user one really appreciates having the source code rather than the binaries. One also appreciates clean code, and good makefiles (or imakefiles).
As always I present my random thoughts. First, is it pronounced Eye Oh, or Ee Oh? Sort of like the problems in pronouncing Linux.
I had the chance to see some of the pics from Io from Voyager very shortly after they were obtained. No WWW back then so transmission of this info was more difficult, Nonetheless, when we saw the pics we all said, Holy Fsck. Time to reboot the disk storage in ones' head.
Life on Io (or Europa)? Maybe. Why? Because it is now recognized that life can occur in "exotic" environments. This realization is based on studying harsh environment life on this planet. I'm biased on this subject, but why not spend more money to understand this on Mother Earth?
About seven years ago, seismic activity on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of Washington state was monitored by the US Navy's SOSUS system of underwater hydrophones designed to track submarines. Scientists quickly went out to sea to monitor this event. What they discovered was a massive amount of life (bacteria) in this area. Where this this sh*t come from? The conclusion was that it was already in place in the rocks below, and that the seismic activity/eruption released these critters.
The underwater hydrothermal vents have been studied and have revealed exotic life. Photosynthesis? We don't need no photosynthesis.
I like NASA. But, let us not forget that we need to study stuff on this planet. I'm waiting for when NASA says that they can get a better understanding of Earth's global climate change by studying other planets. BTW, my last comment is troll bait.
Whoa, hey stop that!:-) When I first saw your subject line I thought that it read, ADMROCKS. If you follow linux security news you would know what that means. You've been cracked!
To remove heat, one uses a heat sink. The heat sink connects to the heat source via heat conduction. The heat in the heat sink is dispersed via directly connected fans or by air flow controlled by case cooling fans. Heat release by radiation or convection do not matter to the first order. Actually, I'm not sure about convection. Help me on this.
These kind folks showed one way to improve conduction. IOW, make sure the contact surface area is improved. I can just see it: a true geek hand crafts one's CPU using high-grit sandpaper.
Is there a substance with a high heat conductivity that is also very flexible so that it clings to the CPU?
While air is a good insulator (hey, check out your double plane windows), the distances describe here are extremely small. Heat will be tranfered somewhat effectively. Right?
My take on this is that the heat conduction will not be uniform across the CPU. Then the weak link will cause failure. I wish that I didn't open my last beer before answering this question.
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As for the fast timing of this, think again. Was the Court of Appeals blindsided by this? No, they knew that this was coming. They obviously discussed this among themselves, came to a decision, and acted promptly when MS finally filed the paperwork.
But the Washington Post sucks. This will be an inside joke but I don't care. I got stuck on the Wilson Bridge when it raised to let in a particular barge. Paper, we don't need no steeking paper.
I still trying to find the Washington Times tech section. Oh yes, perhaps I can find it on the Moon.
Okay, I'll bite. I'm a scientist. What do I want in a laptop linux system? If one has to transport bulky computers, then the answer is obvious. But there are other factors to consider.
First and foremost, software compatibility, either home-grown or from elsewhere. For home-grown code the question is does it compile and run the same. If one has a GUI interface program, does the GUI work? Ppl that post here seem to hate Motif/Lesstif. But compatibility is important for this specific case.
Is this a replacement for some other system? What type of system? Why change? To the latter question is the answer, because it is cheaper in terms of hardware and licencing costs. Additionally, if one comes from a Unix based environment, Linux provides a means to implement a mobile system. About 10 yrs ago, some company tried to sell a mobile Sparc system. AFAIK, this was not a financial success.
Problem: binary compatibility (aka the big/little endian problem). If you don't have conversion code or don't use XDR, then you have a serious problem.
I use a dual boot PowerBook. Other ppl that I work with use dual boot IBM's and Dell's. I've been trying to convince the powers to be that we can buy a good laptop system for the same price as the additional higher cost of shipping a bulky traditional workstation/computer. Note: laptops need to have effective access to large disk storage devices.
My personal bias: USB support is critical when it comes to laptops. The next one with be Firewire/ILink support. Good to see the 2.4.0-test kernel providing more support for this.
The travelling salesman problem can be solved using simulated annealing which is the Metropolis algorithm for Monte Carlo.
Ballmer: WTF are you doing putting a speech recognition application into Windows?
Gates: Define application. Besides, this is just some speech recognition internal functions and API's. I can show you the API's.
Ballmer: BS! You're hiding something from me!
Gates: Moi? Oh no, *all* of our API's are made available to all our outside developers. Just like before the breakup. *snicker* *snicker*
Ballmer: IF I EVER SEE YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!
At least they say that they are "working" when they come here. Then again maybe not as Pegorano seems to indicate.
I don't what it like now, but when one was shooting pool, bowling, or play pinball with girls, one *always* positioned yourself behind them. Note that this was in the days of mini-skirts and short-shorts. The view was pretty good.:) Lot's of, uh, hip action when they played pinball.
Visualize a certain young actress playing pinball. No wait, don't.
awk, grep, cron, vi, biff (nice naming a command after your dog), etc...
Hence, @home via Akamai is saying to these companies that they will provide them fast(er) service to @home customers. But it will cost you. If these companies maintain their relationship with Akamai, then they will be essentially saying okay. Can't wait for the open access fights to start up again.
But most importantly, Victoria's Secret is an Akamai client. You know what this means.:-)
I think that this is related to this story. Check out this report at SANS Global Incident Analysis Center. The source is listed as the second incident report. BTW, GIAC is a good source of info about seems to be the port scan du jour.
Well, there you have it. They are going to host web sites that intentionaly piss off France, and only France.:-) The Brits will conveniently find some excuse to extend their defenses to the Sealanders who have ancestral links back to the old homeland. But there is still the Germans to consider as one of Zeldman's Failed Ads attests to.
A while back, a slashdot poll asked whether you would taller or short at the north pole than at the equator. The physics was relatively poor although one insightful poster asked about the effect of the well know process known as "shrinkage". This guy obviously watched Seinfeld.
The magnitude of gravity at the earth's surface is determined by the volume integrated mass distribution of the earth. There are local variations in gravity (g) but the main contribution is determined by stuff deep within the earth. Think Gauss's Law.
The one thing that you should always do is to perform a first-order, back of the envelope series of calculations. Then ask if it makes sense. Suppose g dropped by 10%. The dino would still be very heavy. 20%? Still heavy. 20% reduction in the mass of the earth (or in the size of the earth)? Pretty major change in the earth.
The earth radius is approximately 6371 km. The most dense masses are not at the surface. To the first order, density increase linearly with respect to depth from the surface down to the core (depth of about 2700 km). Ph.D. geophysics qualifying exam question: What is the first order variation in g as a function of depth thru the earth? Get it right, then I will give you one of my karma whore points.
Atmospheric density variations is more interesting. But this means serious amount of higher density material (water vapor?) in the atmosphere.
More OT. There is an old trick that is sometimes hoisted on naive newbies out at sea. Get some more experienced ppl together, and have someone announced that the ship should be reaching a mail buoy the next day. This buoy is the ocean version of a mailbox. Everybody gets excited and goes running off to write letters to their love ones. If the rookies sort of bite, then the next day bring out some type of grappling hook/pole. Fill a bag with junk. Tell the rookies to look for the buoy on one side of the ship, while you look for it on the other side.
Attach the bag to your grappling hook and excitedly shout, I got it, I got it. Go to "distribute" the mail. Tell the rookies that another mail buoy will be by the next day.
Oh yes, take lots of pictures.
High tech is a very competitive field. While one can argue the effect about having other outside interests (like having a life), we do peak mentally in a similar fashion as we peak physically. The human body and brain ages and loses capabilities.
So what is the solution for old geezers? Once again the solution is not unique to the computer industry. One must become a mentor, teacher, or manager. This requires that one realize that younger ppl can do a better job than you at doing the hard nitty-gritty work. An older person can provide much needed guidance and advice. Furthermore, one can succeed if one has the ability to identify the "kids" who have the skills to do the work.
Additionally, an older person can survive by other means. In the computer industry, one such method is called legacy code. In this case, one does not allow for any upgrade of software that is mission critical. Don't laugh. I work with someone that uses this technique to survive. I don't recommend this method.
Finally, while this may be a controversial subject, H1-B provides a conduit for the addition of new talent.
Why has there been an incredible increase in the number of computer software related patents such that the USPTO cannot keep up with the work load? Well, this is relatively new technology (especially internet related things) and one would expect an increase. However, I believe that the increase in the number of patents is anomalously large even for a new technology. And the reason for this is simply frivolous patent applications for things that are obvious and/or have prior art.
Finally, if the USPTO keeps issuing these obvious or prior art patents, the number of these types of patent applications will continue to increase (accelerate).
Off-topic my ass! Jason has been the marketing voice of LinuxPPC. He also been a good poster on the LinuxPPC user group discussion list (I read the archive list). About a month ago, Jason posted an update (I'm back!) on this list, but AFAIK hasn't posted since then. Just seeing his name here is great news. Rayban stated that he thought that it was great that Jason is back, and I concur.
Moderation started because some assholes trolled on a story about when Stevens, the author of many great books on IPC and UNIX, passed away. While many of the comments on Stevens were obvious trolls, others were based on quasi-antilinux sentiment. Compters and Linux are not life and death. F*ck me, but, I'm starting to believe and *agree* with the trolls about moderation.
You moderators that are clueless about life give an interesting slant on news for nerds and life that does not matter. For you others, bump up Rayban's (#2 post) comment. F*ck mine. I have karma whore points, and I'll post at default 2.
Did I say that this pisses me off. Anyway, good luck Haas and your wife Cassie.
Meanwhile, the powers to be decide to build this automated defense network. On the day that it is started, AI's launch a global nuclear war. Survivors struggle to find Barter Town. But humanity fights back by blocking out the sun to cut off the main power source of the AI's. However, that doesn't doesn't work, and all seems lost until the chosen one is found. But alas, another nuclear war takes place and melts all the ice caps. The world is then covered with water.
What these telemarketers are drooling over is the ability to acurately track cell phone users. And the technology is improving to do this.
Disclaimer (standard for me). It is late, and I need to get to bed.
Then it it is on to VBS. Just think of the pride that you will have when your darling children send Grandma a wonderful I Love You note on Grandma's birthday. Oh, this just brings tears to my eyes. But make sure, they don't wipe out Grandma's MP3 collection!
Of course, proficiency with the CLI is a must. A kid that can't run a root kit shell script,..., well that's just sad. Unfortunately, kids grow up and will not be adorable script kiddies forever. When your kids start to questioned authority (not the gov, but big business), then they will be ready to move on to bigger and better challenges. I suggest they then learn C. Give them copies of DeCSS and Gnutella (ahh, the forbidden fruits). And don't forget to introduce them to buffer overflows using such classics as the WU-FTP, BIND, and Sendmail.
Finally, make sure they snap up a snazzy nick real quick as all the good ones are being taken.
What I really want to see is a media reported faceoff between which company uses the most anti-competive techniques to further their cause. Let's have a death match: MS, AOL, Apple, Adobe, Sun, IBM, AT&T, Oracle, SGI, HP, Dell, Cisco, etc... I can just see it. And there goes Ellison thrown into the Sun with an Apple shoved up his butt. Oooo, he landed on his ballmer, that's got to hurt.
As a LinuxPPC user one really appreciates having the source code rather than the binaries. One also appreciates clean code, and good makefiles (or imakefiles).
When I'm work I use X86 Linux.
I had the chance to see some of the pics from Io from Voyager very shortly after they were obtained. No WWW back then so transmission of this info was more difficult, Nonetheless, when we saw the pics we all said, Holy Fsck. Time to reboot the disk storage in ones' head.
Life on Io (or Europa)? Maybe. Why? Because it is now recognized that life can occur in "exotic" environments. This realization is based on studying harsh environment life on this planet. I'm biased on this subject, but why not spend more money to understand this on Mother Earth?
About seven years ago, seismic activity on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of Washington state was monitored by the US Navy's SOSUS system of underwater hydrophones designed to track submarines. Scientists quickly went out to sea to monitor this event. What they discovered was a massive amount of life (bacteria) in this area. Where this this sh*t come from? The conclusion was that it was already in place in the rocks below, and that the seismic activity/eruption released these critters.
The underwater hydrothermal vents have been studied and have revealed exotic life. Photosynthesis? We don't need no photosynthesis.
I like NASA. But, let us not forget that we need to study stuff on this planet. I'm waiting for when NASA says that they can get a better understanding of Earth's global climate change by studying other planets. BTW, my last comment is troll bait.
Whoa, hey stop that!:-) When I first saw your subject line I thought that it read, ADMROCKS. If you follow linux security news you would know what that means. You've been cracked!
These kind folks showed one way to improve conduction. IOW, make sure the contact surface area is improved. I can just see it: a true geek hand crafts one's CPU using high-grit sandpaper.
Is there a substance with a high heat conductivity that is also very flexible so that it clings to the CPU?
While air is a good insulator (hey, check out your double plane windows), the distances describe here are extremely small. Heat will be tranfered somewhat effectively. Right?
My take on this is that the heat conduction will not be uniform across the CPU. Then the weak link will cause failure. I wish that I didn't open my last beer before answering this question.
OT: Concerning /. answer to MS: You go girl.:-)
Whew. Given the past history of /. I was scared that the reply was going to start out something like this.
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To: J.K. Weston, Designated Agent, Microsoft Corporation
IANAL but,
BTW, you should cc: Joel Klein, Washington, DC