They licensed the AMD64 instruction set and renamed it.
That's the biggest load of horseshit on the planet. The chip is not a 64 bit processor it is a 32 bit processor with a 64 bit memory address space. . . . moron.
nB
The difference is water cooling can move heat a significant distance. Peltiers cannot. Peltiers move some heat a short distance, and then throw in more heat of their own into that small area. In short, they suck. They have very few practical uses. That's why you don't see them around much.
yeah, what he said. I was not clear enough in my inital argument against peltiers, this clarifies that nicely. Another solution may be heat pipes as they have several qualities that are positive in this environment (no open water for one).
-nB
Heat is solvable with next generation cooling (i.e peltier or cryo...or just a really big freaking fan)
The peltier is not cooling at all. It is only heat transfer (as opposed to dissapation). While it may present a cool surface to the chip, that won't last long at all. Cryo is impractable, as is air over heatsinks(you'll need a heatsink big enough that it would obviate the size gains from the elimination of the PCB. Which leaves us with water cooling. This has been successfully employed by several major manufacturers (CRAY, NEC) for super computers. Just my 2c
-nB
[...]to escape the treadmill you must place your bets at some point. So how do you do that shrewdly? If you wait until it's a "sure thing," it's surely too late.
Over a reasonable ammount of time (I seem to remember 10 years as the magic number) the market average will return 11 percent or better. The 11% is worst case and accounts for the great depression, normalized averages are closer to 14%. The lesson thus is not to bet on a single stock (unless you want to bet) but rather to invest wisely in diversified funds which match your tolerance for risk.
That's what I've done and though I'm poor right now I've got no worries about my retirement.
-nB
If you run a 12 volt battery through a transformer then nothing at all will happen (except the transformer getting warm). Batteries produce DC Transformers only work on AC. -nB
My point still stands. The belts themselves are a manifestation of the magnetic lines of force. My point was that when those lines are distorted appriciably by forces we don't understand and a large solar storm hits we are all fubar. -nB
The only prospect we have (at least until Zephram Cochrane appears) is to establish a manned base on Mars. I'm wondering if that's a very good prospect in view of the lack of success of the ISS.
not entirly true. The big problem with the ISS is that it is floating out there and needs to be fully self supporting against hits from debris.
Now, granted it's in a gravity well, but the moon is an attractive position for a perminant base. Building would be predominately underground where fractures in the rock could be quickly and easily sealed with epoxy or glassification. This would provide several benifits: Integrated shielding from hard radiation, structural integrity, lower cost (no need to ship all the materials as a large portion will leverage natural resources, unlimited (?) expansion using techniques already mature on earth (tunnel / bore excavation).
Not saying it'd be easy, but it would be easier.
-nB
You know the biggest obstacle to manned exploration of (deep) space is that we loose the protective advantage of the Van Allen belts. That said, I believe it is also the single most important reason why we continue to reach to deep space. If for some (completely unforeseen) reason the Van Allen belts were to collapse or malform in such a way that the surface of the Earth were exposed to unmitigated cosmic radiation for any reasonable (unreasonable?) length of time then we would all be in pretty sorry shape. Conversely if we have already successfully combated this particular problem (say by building a moon base) then that is not so much a concern.
Before I get yelled at let me back up my above scenario: 1) The Van Allen belts are tied to the earth's electromagnetic properties. 2) We have empirical evidence that the magnetic poles to weird and drastic things. 3) We have no empirical data as to what happens with the Van Allen belts when #2 happens. -nB
WTF WTF?
I was responding to a parent which stated:
There is a story over on Wired about how NASA engineers put a thin thermal blanket on the soon-to-be-launched Mercury probe. It supposedly cools the sun side of the craft from a toasty 800+ deg. F to around 95 deg F.
If they can cool down 705 deg F, you'd figure a P4 would be trivial.
-chill
I suppose you neglected to read the parent post before trying to flame me.
Grrrrr.
-nB
Because of the high rate of emission of alpha particles and the element being specifically absorbed in bone the surface and collected in the liver, plutonium, as well as all of the other transuranium elements except neptunium, are radiological poisons and must be handled with very special equipment and precautions. Plutonium is a very dangerous radiological hazard. Precautions must also be taken to prevent the unintentional formulation of a critical mass. Plutonium in liquid solution is more likely to become critical than solid plutonium. The shape of the mass must also be considered where criticality is concerned.
I have a screwy deformed rib cage so I squat instead of sitting usually.
Screwy deformed brain too . . .
Why dig a hole in your back yard? Just because?
that said I did read his entire webpage about diggingthe hole. Some kind of sick fascination I suppose....
-nB
~s/M/N/ DOH -nB That and I hate the damn 2 minute wait. Why not allow editing your post within the first 2 minutes and loosing any moderation on the post if you do so?
IAMA(nuke arms scientist) Plutonium is far more toxic than radioactive (as far as hazards go). What I mean by that is that it takes fall less PU to kill you by poisioning than required to cook you with radiation. -nB
directly tied to Buffets continued sucess and growth
and death not trying to be funny, but you must consider this. BH is essentially stock in Buffet. When he keels over the stock price will dive. This is going to happen in spite of the actual value being in his holdings because confidence in the ability of someone to run things as well as Buffet did will be lacking.
-nB
Good Idea, I've just done what I can in 15 minutes. Your inspirational speech now is the top item on my homepage; which should reach people directly affected by (and interested in) this as it covers various hacks for the xbox.
Cheers,
-nB
actually it *is* expected to work properly, that's the idea of going from Beta -> RC. The next step in the progression is RC -> Gold, at which point it better damn well work rather than should work.
It's always been possible to run linux on them. I honestly wonder why this (tablet PCs) is only now such a big deal. I love both of mine (Fujitsu Stylistic LT old model) these both have 486 DX4-100 CPUs with LiIon batteries and boot from compact flash (type3 PCMCIA really but I use CF and an adapter). All in all I love both of mine. One is an uber remote (B&W model), while the other is a portable network monitor (color model) and with solid state disk storage these things are indestructable. -nB
Actually he has a good point (even if he didn't mean it): A slip card is all that's required to play pirated games, while a mod-chip allows for so much more, like homebrew applications and such. -nb
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They licensed the AMD64 instruction set and renamed it.
That's the biggest load of horseshit on the planet. The chip is not a 64 bit processor it is a 32 bit processor with a 64 bit memory address space. . . . moron.
nB
The difference is water cooling can move heat a significant distance. Peltiers cannot. Peltiers move some heat a short distance, and then throw in more heat of their own into that small area. In short, they suck. They have very few practical uses. That's why you don't see them around much.
yeah, what he said. I was not clear enough in my inital argument against peltiers, this clarifies that nicely. Another solution may be heat pipes as they have several qualities that are positive in this environment (no open water for one).
-nB
Heat is solvable with next generation cooling (i.e peltier or cryo...or just a really big freaking fan)
The peltier is not cooling at all. It is only heat transfer (as opposed to dissapation). While it may present a cool surface to the chip, that won't last long at all. Cryo is impractable, as is air over heatsinks(you'll need a heatsink big enough that it would obviate the size gains from the elimination of the PCB. Which leaves us with water cooling. This has been successfully employed by several major manufacturers (CRAY, NEC) for super computers. Just my 2c
-nB
implement transmitter/receivers using capacitive inductence
Ha! That's the funniest mis-use of electronics terms I've seen in quite a while.
Yeah I know this is OT/FB but what the hell.
-nB
[...]to escape the treadmill you must place your bets at some point. So how do you do that shrewdly? If you wait until it's a "sure thing," it's surely too late.
Over a reasonable ammount of time (I seem to remember 10 years as the magic number) the market average will return 11 percent or better. The 11% is worst case and accounts for the great depression, normalized averages are closer to 14%. The lesson thus is not to bet on a single stock (unless you want to bet) but rather to invest wisely in diversified funds which match your tolerance for risk.
That's what I've done and though I'm poor right now I've got no worries about my retirement. -nB
Ah!!! So you must work for Gator!
-nB
If you run a 12 volt battery through a transformer then nothing at all will happen (except the transformer getting warm).
Batteries produce DC Transformers only work on AC.
-nB
It wasn't really a trilogy as there were actually 6 seperate books and an appendix. Most publishers bound it into three volumes, however.
Also, if you have not yet read the Silmarillion, you really should. Ties everything together nicely.
-nB
My point still stands. The belts themselves are a manifestation of the magnetic lines of force. My point was that when those lines are distorted appriciably by forces we don't understand and a large solar storm hits we are all fubar.
-nB
The only prospect we have (at least until Zephram Cochrane appears) is to establish a manned base on Mars. I'm wondering if that's a very good prospect in view of the lack of success of the ISS.
not entirly true. The big problem with the ISS is that it is floating out there and needs to be fully self supporting against hits from debris.
Now, granted it's in a gravity well, but the moon is an attractive position for a perminant base. Building would be predominately underground where fractures in the rock could be quickly and easily sealed with epoxy or glassification. This would provide several benifits: Integrated shielding from hard radiation, structural integrity, lower cost (no need to ship all the materials as a large portion will leverage natural resources, unlimited (?) expansion using techniques already mature on earth (tunnel / bore excavation).
Not saying it'd be easy, but it would be easier.
-nB
You know the biggest obstacle to manned exploration of (deep) space is that we loose the protective advantage of the Van Allen belts. That said, I believe it is also the single most important reason why we continue to reach to deep space. If for some (completely unforeseen) reason the Van Allen belts were to collapse or malform in such a way that the surface of the Earth were exposed to unmitigated cosmic radiation for any reasonable (unreasonable?) length of time then we would all be in pretty sorry shape. Conversely if we have already successfully combated this particular problem (say by building a moon base) then that is not so much a concern.
Before I get yelled at let me back up my above scenario:
1) The Van Allen belts are tied to the earth's electromagnetic properties.
2) We have empirical evidence that the magnetic poles to weird and drastic things.
3) We have no empirical data as to what happens with the Van Allen belts when #2 happens.
-nB
WTF WTF?
I was responding to a parent which stated:
There is a story over on Wired about how NASA engineers put a thin thermal blanket on the soon-to-be-launched Mercury probe. It supposedly cools the sun side of the craft from a toasty 800+ deg. F to around 95 deg F.
If they can cool down 705 deg F, you'd figure a P4 would be trivial.
-chill
I suppose you neglected to read the parent post before trying to flame me.
Grrrrr.
-nB
Because of the high rate of emission of alpha particles and the element being specifically absorbed in bone the surface and collected in the liver, plutonium, as well as all of the other transuranium elements except neptunium, are radiological poisons and must be handled with very special equipment and precautions. Plutonium is a very dangerous radiological hazard. Precautions must also be taken to prevent the unintentional formulation of a critical mass. Plutonium in liquid solution is more likely to become critical than solid plutonium. The shape of the mass must also be considered where criticality is concerned.
-nB
from: http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/94.html
Which is why the thermal blanket. Prevent the heating in the first place and you don't have to get rid of it.
-nB
They aren't cooling anything, rather they are preventing being heated by the sun. Big difference.
-nB
In spite of the thermal problem I want one. Just another challenge to overcome in modding it ;)
-nB
I have a screwy deformed rib cage so I squat instead of sitting usually.
Screwy deformed brain too . . .
Why dig a hole in your back yard? Just because?
that said I did read his entire webpage about diggingthe hole. Some kind of sick fascination I suppose....
-nB
Best damn first post I've ever seen.
~s/M/N/
DOH
-nB
That and I hate the damn 2 minute wait. Why not allow editing your post within the first 2 minutes and loosing any moderation on the post if you do so?
IAMA(nuke arms scientist)
Plutonium is far more toxic than radioactive (as far as hazards go). What I mean by that is that it takes fall less PU to kill you by poisioning than required to cook you with radiation.
-nB
directly tied to Buffets continued sucess and growth
and death
not trying to be funny, but you must consider this. BH is essentially stock in Buffet. When he keels over the stock price will dive. This is going to happen in spite of the actual value being in his holdings because confidence in the ability of someone to run things as well as Buffet did will be lacking.
-nB
Good Idea, I've just done what I can in 15 minutes. Your inspirational speech now is the top item on my homepage; which should reach people directly affected by (and interested in) this as it covers various hacks for the xbox.
Cheers,
-nB
It's EXPECTED not to work properly.
actually it *is* expected to work properly, that's the idea of going from Beta -> RC. The next step in the progression is RC -> Gold, at which point it better damn well work rather than should work.
my 2c
-nB
It's always been possible to run linux on them.
I honestly wonder why this (tablet PCs) is only now such a big deal. I love both of mine (Fujitsu Stylistic LT old model) these both have 486 DX4-100 CPUs with LiIon batteries and boot from compact flash (type3 PCMCIA really but I use CF and an adapter). All in all I love both of mine. One is an uber remote (B&W model), while the other is a portable network monitor (color model) and with solid state disk storage these things are indestructable.
-nB
Actually he has a good point (even if he didn't mean it):
A slip card is all that's required to play pirated games, while a mod-chip allows for so much more, like homebrew applications and such.
-nb