I'm not sure if you don't know what you're talking about, or if I don't, but one of us certainly doesn't. The fan's engine doesn't decrease the flow of heat to the sink. It is a second sink of heat energy, which changes the overall picture of how heat flows, certainly. It doesn't decrease the flow of heat whatsoever, and in fact the more heat the fan consumes as work, the more heat the overall setup will pump. If you look at the engine closely, you'll see a piston driving the fan. That piston is how the fan is extracting thermal energy. It does not affect the extraction of heat energy via the main heatsink component - the copper pipes and the aluminum(?) wings - whatsoever; those are driven purely by the flow of heat across a thermal conductor, and their worst-case performance is the same as it would be without the fan.
It would be fair to ask if there could be a more efficient radiator without the fan, but that's not how you phrased the question.
The basic answer is no. You're mis-imagining the scenario. The heat is going to flow across thermal conductors according to physical laws regardless. The only thing that this cooler does differently is it harnesses a portion of that flow for mechanical work rather than simply allowing it to distribute evenly across the heatsink. Unless I'm missing something, however, it seems likely that the fan will run slower the longer the machine is turned on, since the distribution of heat will gradually reach uniformity across the mechanism, at which point you no longer have a source of useful power.
Correct. But in this case you don't have to move the heat with the engine directly. You can just rely on secondary effects (convection, the atmosphere as a heat sink) to carry the burden.
If you read a Kurzweil book, it's as if he understands hope and has no concept of problems. The man is so good at glossing over difficulties he should patent his methods and join the magazine industry.
Of course, being able to access pretty much everything for under $100 a month would be a fairly attractive proposal for those of us who actually pay for our services at present - I know folks who currently pay around $200 for their media fix. You could even levy the tax on a metered basis, which would help ensure those on a fixed income who are behaving appropriately wouldn't get unnecessarily hit.
It's a problem, though, that only Microsoft has. Everyone else is just expected to conform to the standards. But they've given a solution that only affects website developers and admins, and moreover only affects them in a way that should not break anyone else.
Read here for the WebKit team's response to this and why they're not going to define or obey any such tags themselves. "It's too hard" hasn't ever been a good reason not to implement a feature if it makes your app significantly better for users.
Books aren't movies. Songs aren't TV shows. Dance performances are not paintings. It's amazing that people don't get these fairly simple rules, but they don't. If you're going to do a treatment of a source in a particular medium, you have to be writing for that medium, informed by that source, not writing for that source informed by that medium. Making movie copies of games - even something like KOTOR or Mass Effect - is simply not at all the same experience, emotionally, intellectually, or physically. Writers and producers seem to have had a really hard time with that. Look at Singer's X-Men - the movies were movies, they weren't comic books. There were a couple of in-jokes, but that's about it.
Of course, there's no way to know that the whole collection of human beings hasn't been bought, so we'll have to replace them with dogs whose intelligences have been raised via genetic engineering. Luckily, dogs only accept food as legal tender, so we can be sure they're honest until they start pooping unexpectedly.
While there are good reasons to have some elements of form input validation in the db, you're doing some pretty horrible, unmaintainable things to do it for every field of every form. A server-side validator can actually run the same JScript validator as a client using a virtual engine, or a generator can create both the server- and client-side validators automatically, guaranteeing they're doing the same work. That really doesn't work for the database validation. Your 3rd level of validation is a fool's game when it comes to maintenance.
Given Microsoft's involvement, the fear is that any green identifier used would eventually turn red, at which point you would have to ship your HD DVD back to the factory for service.
My sis is a nurse and her exact words on the topic were "You can't avoid it. It's everywhere."
Cleanliness and discipline don't do all that well against the actual conditions in a hospital, which is full of *gasp* sick people.
It may not have been an issue at the caucus, but it's certainly an issue in this community. Rather than a warning to the candidates, maybe the post informs the public? Of course, that's clearly unpossible.
I don't need to load my previous OS on the same machine to say that there is no performance problem, no. I'm not having a performance issue. My question wasn't "could it be faster?" My question was "what configurations should expect a problem". Point being, the current configuration is very peppy. I mean, Down With Microsoft, etc, but seriously. What is the expectation threshhold for actual issues? Seems like a simple enough question to answer.
I got Ultimate when I bought my new system. It's a nice machine, but nothing ridiculous - low-to midrange core 2 duo processor, 3 gigs of RAM, Geforce 8600. I haven't had any performance problems. Compatibility issues, yes. But no performance issues. Only thing that's vaguely interesting is that it takes a second or two after Firefox pops up for it to access my homepage.
What configurations expect a performance issue?
He would have made large sums of money. From which we get the synonym "make a killing, but die at the age of two, only to be remembered years later in half-assed attempts at humor".
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I'm not sure if you don't know what you're talking about, or if I don't, but one of us certainly doesn't. The fan's engine doesn't decrease the flow of heat to the sink. It is a second sink of heat energy, which changes the overall picture of how heat flows, certainly. It doesn't decrease the flow of heat whatsoever, and in fact the more heat the fan consumes as work, the more heat the overall setup will pump. If you look at the engine closely, you'll see a piston driving the fan. That piston is how the fan is extracting thermal energy. It does not affect the extraction of heat energy via the main heatsink component - the copper pipes and the aluminum(?) wings - whatsoever; those are driven purely by the flow of heat across a thermal conductor, and their worst-case performance is the same as it would be without the fan.
It would be fair to ask if there could be a more efficient radiator without the fan, but that's not how you phrased the question.
The basic answer is no. You're mis-imagining the scenario. The heat is going to flow across thermal conductors according to physical laws regardless. The only thing that this cooler does differently is it harnesses a portion of that flow for mechanical work rather than simply allowing it to distribute evenly across the heatsink. Unless I'm missing something, however, it seems likely that the fan will run slower the longer the machine is turned on, since the distribution of heat will gradually reach uniformity across the mechanism, at which point you no longer have a source of useful power.
Correct. But in this case you don't have to move the heat with the engine directly. You can just rely on secondary effects (convection, the atmosphere as a heat sink) to carry the burden.
Jigawatts. But you have to have a Delorean nearby for this to sound plausible.
Don't worry. In a few years it won't just be for high-maintenance ladies anymore. Instead, you'll be able to melt through the surface of the earth while running spreadsheet calculations at lightning speed.
If you read a Kurzweil book, it's as if he understands hope and has no concept of problems. The man is so good at glossing over difficulties he should patent his methods and join the magazine industry.
I don't even want to be converted to an electric car. I like my body. It's human-ey.
Of course, being able to access pretty much everything for under $100 a month would be a fairly attractive proposal for those of us who actually pay for our services at present - I know folks who currently pay around $200 for their media fix. You could even levy the tax on a metered basis, which would help ensure those on a fixed income who are behaving appropriately wouldn't get unnecessarily hit.
In Soviet Russia, Pirate Bay Gold Farms YOU.
Duh, that's what all that junk DNA is...
"It's too hard" hasn't ever been a good reason not to implement a feature if it makes your app significantly better for users.
Specs? HA! That's a good one.
Books aren't movies. Songs aren't TV shows. Dance performances are not paintings. It's amazing that people don't get these fairly simple rules, but they don't. If you're going to do a treatment of a source in a particular medium, you have to be writing for that medium, informed by that source, not writing for that source informed by that medium. Making movie copies of games - even something like KOTOR or Mass Effect - is simply not at all the same experience, emotionally, intellectually, or physically. Writers and producers seem to have had a really hard time with that. Look at Singer's X-Men - the movies were movies, they weren't comic books. There were a couple of in-jokes, but that's about it.
Of course, there's no way to know that the whole collection of human beings hasn't been bought, so we'll have to replace them with dogs whose intelligences have been raised via genetic engineering. Luckily, dogs only accept food as legal tender, so we can be sure they're honest until they start pooping unexpectedly.
While there are good reasons to have some elements of form input validation in the db, you're doing some pretty horrible, unmaintainable things to do it for every field of every form. A server-side validator can actually run the same JScript validator as a client using a virtual engine, or a generator can create both the server- and client-side validators automatically, guaranteeing they're doing the same work. That really doesn't work for the database validation. Your 3rd level of validation is a fool's game when it comes to maintenance.
Given Microsoft's involvement, the fear is that any green identifier used would eventually turn red, at which point you would have to ship your HD DVD back to the factory for service.
My sis is a nurse and her exact words on the topic were "You can't avoid it. It's everywhere." Cleanliness and discipline don't do all that well against the actual conditions in a hospital, which is full of *gasp* sick people.
It may not have been an issue at the caucus, but it's certainly an issue in this community. Rather than a warning to the candidates, maybe the post informs the public? Of course, that's clearly unpossible.
Am I crazy, or did that case get decided against Howell already?
But there is some good news: I saved money on car insurance!
Maybe they were going for Areola, because it's the very tip of the tits.
I for one welcome our rock-moving overlords.
I don't need to load my previous OS on the same machine to say that there is no performance problem, no. I'm not having a performance issue. My question wasn't "could it be faster?" My question was "what configurations should expect a problem". Point being, the current configuration is very peppy. I mean, Down With Microsoft, etc, but seriously. What is the expectation threshhold for actual issues? Seems like a simple enough question to answer.
I got Ultimate when I bought my new system. It's a nice machine, but nothing ridiculous - low-to midrange core 2 duo processor, 3 gigs of RAM, Geforce 8600. I haven't had any performance problems. Compatibility issues, yes. But no performance issues. Only thing that's vaguely interesting is that it takes a second or two after Firefox pops up for it to access my homepage. What configurations expect a performance issue?
He would have made large sums of money. From which we get the synonym "make a killing, but die at the age of two, only to be remembered years later in half-assed attempts at humor".