I don't. It'd be much more expensive IMO to convert from Linux to Windows. First off, you gotta buy it. Second off, you'd have to hire all new IT staff, because the previous guys would've committed hari-kari in the bathroom. Second, you'd have to figure out how to get all of your applications running again in an environment that is as stable as a drunkard on a fence.
I believe when he said "optical network switches" he meant the physical part of the switch itself that deals with the optical data coming in and out. Obviously what we call a "switch" has a processor in it, but he meant the more rudimentary "on-off" type switch. The conversation above was about that.
You've obviously never used the internet before. First of all, homestar runner is all flash animation. Second of all, they give you printable stencils.
Nope, you're thinking about it wrong, the ground plays a big part in all of this. A wing skimming along 1 inch from the ground will slap into the ground faster than you can say "aw crap, my wing".
If you have a really low front bumper, you're shoving all of the air that would normally go under the car over it. Throw a bunch of mass over you, and you're bound to move downwards. It's a front-spoiler basically. You get a venturi effect between the car and the ground, making a much bigger low-pressure area underneath the car.
I knew a guy (who died in an unfortunate motorcycle accident) who had a turbocharged Dodge Caravan that was ridiculously fast on a drag strip.
I'm also an Electrical Engineer with a mind to tinker. I only have one car, but it's also my project car, heh. I can't leave well enough alone, even if it leaves me stranded sometimes. It's been a lot of fun working on it though (AWD Turbo Plymouth Laser).
Those Nye turbine guys are great, I love their videos. Did you see the turbocharged wood stove?
My car is turbocharged. I only have one fan in it, and it's disconnected most of the time (it runs cool). The airflow required by the engine is supplied by the suction of the engine itself, and the suction of the turbo itself. Boost doesn't have a map, it has a level.
When was the last time you needed 2 GHz to check your e-mail. When was the last time you needed a giant SUV to get a carton of milk? When was the last time you needed anything more than bare minimum to do anything?
Personally, I hang out with a different crowd of people that actually does race their cars (on tracks, not the street like assholes), and I've seen many a car kick out the rear end around a corner (FWD or otherwise).
The average joe doesn't need much more than bare minimum. But it's fun to go overboard sometimes, for that time when you do want to take it to a track.
Something that will make power on engine 99.9% of the time will make power on another engine. Bigger exhaust, cold air intakes like you mentioned are the bread-and-butter of "ricers". The concepts are all the same, cram more air into the engine, along with more fuel. It's the same whether it's a 1.6L honda, or a 6.7 liter turbo diesel.
You're all somewhat wrong. Spoilers create downforce at _any_ speeds, including 0 (more weight). It's only really appropriate at higher speeds though. An FWD car, while not up high on the list of "needs more downforce" (FWD cars usually understeer very terribly because the front wheels have so much force (and usually weight by design) on them), but any car will benefit from more downforce in the "able to stay on the road while turning" category.
Downforce on the rear wheels of a car won't lift up the front wheels, the front will receive the same amount of downforce, unless the rear wing is _way_ out behind the rear wheels, using the rear wheels like a lever. Yes ricers do that a lot, no it won't lift the front wheels up. Most of the shoddy body kits also serve to increase front downforce as well, by blocking off air from going underneath the car, creating a nice low pressure zone.
I thought they were supposed to prevent stuff like this... or is it a matter of "once the crime's been comitted, the damage is done permanently" so the law can't possibly compensate enough for the loss? Also, does it being probably international screw up the judicial process?
People have almost died by choking on it! People could contract terrible diseases via it (look up "rat parts per million" if you're curious and don't have a weak stomach).
The acceptable rate of death via Breakfast Cereal is certainly acceptable.
Between the need to keep myself safe from injustice by documenting/recording everything, and massive invasion of privacy by documenting/recording everything...
Can someone reason me out of this conundrum? Is there a way to have my cake and eat it too?
Okay, find me some absolute pure water, and an absolute clean processor surface with no dust or contaminants on it, and a heatsink equally as clean, and deoxidize the entire area, and you've got yourself a deal!
The reason why water doesn't work (even as pure as possible) in real life is because of these things, otherwise this whole discussion would be moot... Get it?
If you want to see the effects of real water on a processor die (they start with distilled, believe you me), look at some pictures of long-term direct-die CPU cooling.
Despite this being Slashdot and everything, I like to keep my feet firmly planted on the ground.
We actually heated / cooled our apartment at school like this. We had a Saab radiator I scavenged hooked up to the kitchen sink. We rigged up some cardboard ducting, and strapped a few fans in pusher-configuration behind the radiator blowing outwards. The hot water flowed from the bottom of the radiator to the top, so it remained in the radiator for longer, to throw off as much heat as possible. The water going in was hot hot hot, the water coming out was lukewarm (we'd run it at a trickle to extract as much heat from the water as possible). If we cranked it, we could get the entire apartment up to a balmy 75 degrees. It also worked "ok" to cool the house when it was hot, but much less well than heating the house.
Aah, I didn't realize it was so expensive... What about using this stuff as the coupling agent between the on-chip CPU die, and the heatsink/waterblock itself? Rather than thermal-goo, which doesn't have a wonderful thermal transfer coefficient, a liquid has excellent thermal transfer capabilities. I remember seeing a test on one of those hardware sites where they tested the abilities of different substances. I believed they tested regular thermal-goo, "arctic silver" with the metallic paste, ripoff arctic silver, peanutbutter and water. Water was by far the best, but has the obvious downsides of being well, ya know.
With this $240/liter stuff, you could use a sealing o-ring of some sort around the die part of the CPU, and put a drop or two of this onto the die, then put the heatsink onto the top of the whole thing, so you'd get an excellent thermal transfer... Hmmm... this is sounding pretty great.
You could have the "hot" areas of your mobo/videocard just totally immersed in this liquid. Throw in an electric fan to swirl around the liquid, and just strap a gigantic heatsink onto the side of the tank... nearly passive excellent cooling.
The RFID tags are embedded in the _cast_ made of the teeth, in the manufacturing process, not in the actual fake teeth/toothwork itself! RTFA RTFS RTFAnything! Jeez.
I don't think I've seen one post that understood this. The RFID is only used during the manufacturing process. The information about that RFID tag is given in a memory card to the customer at the end of the dental work. It probably contains information like when it was made, the tooth/teeth it pretains to, type of material used, etc, etc. Goddamnitreadthearticle.
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Sox won the world series last night. My BAC is probably a significant nonzero number still.
-Jesse
Fourth off, I hate you :)
It's the day after the Sox won the World Series, I'm allowed to be a belligerent and wrong.
-Jesse
I don't. It'd be much more expensive IMO to convert from Linux to Windows. First off, you gotta buy it. Second off, you'd have to hire all new IT staff, because the previous guys would've committed hari-kari in the bathroom. Second, you'd have to figure out how to get all of your applications running again in an environment that is as stable as a drunkard on a fence.
-Jesse
You just copied the post above you, you bastard. Why do people keep doing this?
-Jesse
I believe when he said "optical network switches" he meant the physical part of the switch itself that deals with the optical data coming in and out. Obviously what we call a "switch" has a processor in it, but he meant the more rudimentary "on-off" type switch. The conversation above was about that.
-Jesse
You've obviously never used the internet before. First of all, homestar runner is all flash animation. Second of all, they give you printable stencils.
You are dumb.
-Jesse
Nope, you're thinking about it wrong, the ground plays a big part in all of this. A wing skimming along 1 inch from the ground will slap into the ground faster than you can say "aw crap, my wing".
If you have a really low front bumper, you're shoving all of the air that would normally go under the car over it. Throw a bunch of mass over you, and you're bound to move downwards. It's a front-spoiler basically. You get a venturi effect between the car and the ground, making a much bigger low-pressure area underneath the car.
-Jesse
You sound like a like minded kinda guy!
I knew a guy (who died in an unfortunate motorcycle accident) who had a turbocharged Dodge Caravan that was ridiculously fast on a drag strip.
I'm also an Electrical Engineer with a mind to tinker. I only have one car, but it's also my project car, heh. I can't leave well enough alone, even if it leaves me stranded sometimes. It's been a lot of fun working on it though (AWD Turbo Plymouth Laser).
Those Nye turbine guys are great, I love their videos. Did you see the turbocharged wood stove?
-Jesse
Your statement is wrong on so many levels...
My car is turbocharged. I only have one fan in it, and it's disconnected most of the time (it runs cool). The airflow required by the engine is supplied by the suction of the engine itself, and the suction of the turbo itself. Boost doesn't have a map, it has a level.
-Jesse
When was the last time you needed 2 GHz to check your e-mail. When was the last time you needed a giant SUV to get a carton of milk? When was the last time you needed anything more than bare minimum to do anything?
Personally, I hang out with a different crowd of people that actually does race their cars (on tracks, not the street like assholes), and I've seen many a car kick out the rear end around a corner (FWD or otherwise).
The average joe doesn't need much more than bare minimum. But it's fun to go overboard sometimes, for that time when you do want to take it to a track.
-Jesse
Something that will make power on engine 99.9% of the time will make power on another engine. Bigger exhaust, cold air intakes like you mentioned are the bread-and-butter of "ricers". The concepts are all the same, cram more air into the engine, along with more fuel. It's the same whether it's a 1.6L honda, or a 6.7 liter turbo diesel.
-Jesse
You're all somewhat wrong. Spoilers create downforce at _any_ speeds, including 0 (more weight). It's only really appropriate at higher speeds though. An FWD car, while not up high on the list of "needs more downforce" (FWD cars usually understeer very terribly because the front wheels have so much force (and usually weight by design) on them), but any car will benefit from more downforce in the "able to stay on the road while turning" category.
-Jesse
Downforce on the rear wheels of a car won't lift up the front wheels, the front will receive the same amount of downforce, unless the rear wing is _way_ out behind the rear wheels, using the rear wheels like a lever. Yes ricers do that a lot, no it won't lift the front wheels up. Most of the shoddy body kits also serve to increase front downforce as well, by blocking off air from going underneath the car, creating a nice low pressure zone.
-Jesse
I thought they were supposed to prevent stuff like this... or is it a matter of "once the crime's been comitted, the damage is done permanently" so the law can't possibly compensate enough for the loss? Also, does it being probably international screw up the judicial process?
-Jesse
People have almost died by choking on it! People could contract terrible diseases via it (look up "rat parts per million" if you're curious and don't have a weak stomach).
The acceptable rate of death via Breakfast Cereal is certainly acceptable.
-Jesse
Between the need to keep myself safe from injustice by documenting/recording everything, and massive invasion of privacy by documenting/recording everything...
Can someone reason me out of this conundrum? Is there a way to have my cake and eat it too?
-Jesse
Okay, find me some absolute pure water, and an absolute clean processor surface with no dust or contaminants on it, and a heatsink equally as clean, and deoxidize the entire area, and you've got yourself a deal!
The reason why water doesn't work (even as pure as possible) in real life is because of these things, otherwise this whole discussion would be moot... Get it?
If you want to see the effects of real water on a processor die (they start with distilled, believe you me), look at some pictures of long-term direct-die CPU cooling.
Despite this being Slashdot and everything, I like to keep my feet firmly planted on the ground.
-Jesse
We actually heated / cooled our apartment at school like this. We had a Saab radiator I scavenged hooked up to the kitchen sink. We rigged up some cardboard ducting, and strapped a few fans in pusher-configuration behind the radiator blowing outwards. The hot water flowed from the bottom of the radiator to the top, so it remained in the radiator for longer, to throw off as much heat as possible. The water going in was hot hot hot, the water coming out was lukewarm (we'd run it at a trickle to extract as much heat from the water as possible). If we cranked it, we could get the entire apartment up to a balmy 75 degrees. It also worked "ok" to cool the house when it was hot, but much less well than heating the house.
-Jesse
Aah, I didn't realize it was so expensive... What about using this stuff as the coupling agent between the on-chip CPU die, and the heatsink/waterblock itself? Rather than thermal-goo, which doesn't have a wonderful thermal transfer coefficient, a liquid has excellent thermal transfer capabilities. I remember seeing a test on one of those hardware sites where they tested the abilities of different substances. I believed they tested regular thermal-goo, "arctic silver" with the metallic paste, ripoff arctic silver, peanutbutter and water. Water was by far the best, but has the obvious downsides of being well, ya know.
With this $240/liter stuff, you could use a sealing o-ring of some sort around the die part of the CPU, and put a drop or two of this onto the die, then put the heatsink onto the top of the whole thing, so you'd get an excellent thermal transfer... Hmmm... this is sounding pretty great.
-Jesse
Wowie! That'd be awesome.
You could have the "hot" areas of your mobo/videocard just totally immersed in this liquid. Throw in an electric fan to swirl around the liquid, and just strap a gigantic heatsink onto the side of the tank... nearly passive excellent cooling.
-Jesse
I thought refrigerators (sp) had efficiencies up closer to 60%...
-Jesse
I had the exact same worry. I was a little relieved that they weren't sending up 10.552 3-meter 'scopes.
-Jesse
The RFID tags are embedded in the _cast_ made of the teeth, in the manufacturing process, not in the actual fake teeth/toothwork itself! RTFA RTFS RTFAnything! Jeez.
I don't think I've seen one post that understood this. The RFID is only used during the manufacturing process. The information about that RFID tag is given in a memory card to the customer at the end of the dental work. It probably contains information like when it was made, the tooth/teeth it pretains to, type of material used, etc, etc. Goddamnitreadthearticle.
-Jesse
that is Pi up there, not n. It's a very small font, so it may look like an n, but it's actually a PI symbol...
-Jesse
Right on! Too many people suck a lot. I wish there were more folk of this same mindset.
-Jesse