China has been building Tokamaks for the last 30 years or so. He Fei has housed a Tokamak in the Physics dept. of the local university for at least 20 years for conducting fusion research.
In any case, why does it sound more reasonable if I said there were fusion devices in Madison, Wisconson and Princeton, New Jersey (both at universities as well) than in China? Don't be a racist troll. Even if it were a publicity stunt, I'd take a publicity stunt over ignorance any day.
I actually attend UT - there are about 15 libraries on campus (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html/) , and this process is only happening to one library, the FAC. Its books have been scattered throughout the other libraries (I went in one day over summer and was not-so-pleasantly surprised). Sleep easy though, the PCL, the largest library on campus, is still chock full of six stories worth of books.
AJAX is a combination of technologies that allows web app creators to have real-time refreshing of data. This refresh is not only selective (you can choose only to update a portion of the page), but it also won't waste bandwidth when there's nothing to refresh (it just sends a checksum or an id number). I'm currently using it in http://www.mogos.net/. On the front page of the site, you can see the latest word's that people have posted (and through AJAX, it refreshes every 8 seconds). It's a sort of real-time/turn-based word game.
Not totally free, but www.voipbuster.com allows you to make calls to many countries (some landlines, some mobile, some both) for free... once you put at least 1 Euro into an account.
I've used it for about an hour so far - it's definitely not worse than POTS. In some respects, its better - really easy to dial, good sound quality with no huge lag or choppyness. However, the software is still pretty basic, only for Windows, and the lag is about the same from your house to your neighbors as it is from your house to some country halfway around the world (should not be the case, but it seems to happen anyways).
So the bottom line: not completely free, but O(1) cost is asymptotically better than O(n) cost:)
I bought this router a few weeks ago, and it runs really well actually; no DNS discon. error that everyone else seems to be getting. One thing that bugs me though, I'm pretty sure some other routers have signal strength controls in the admin. panel, not just wifi radio: on/off. Does anyone know for certain which other firmwares work with this router, and if any of them are better in any regard?
Okay, I can either mod you down for being flamebait, or counter your argument. "Militant, extremist attitude". Seriously. Yes, NASCAR has multiple sponsors, but if you RTFA, it says "title sponsor". Yes, QuakeCon, like pretty much every event that has sponsors, has multiple sponsors. But as in most cases, they are not competing companies. If you read about the xbox360 ad on the laundromat across the street from where sony was unveiling the ps3 in Japan, you'll notice that sony paid the laundromat money to take down the xbox360 sign, not to put up its own next to it. That's how advertising works; and admit it, it would be pretty ridiculous to have both AMD and Intel banners hanging around the convention area.
Seriously, Peltier devices are known for their inefficiency; way worse than what most A/C's now use. I have no idea why they got an award for this; yes, Peltier cooling is a lot of fun, and yay for solid-state and environmentally-friendly contraptions, but as many have already stated, Freon's gone the way of the dinosaur in most new cars (definitely all here in the States), and the greater wattage translates directly to wasted gaoline, something people won't be too happy with if you consider the long run.
I'm pretty sure it's way more than 7 or 9 now; last I heard was somewhere around the order of 32 or 40. Of course, that's the individual layers in the wafer; the article talks about layers of components: IO, memory, processor. IMO, that's basically taking a system on chip and stacking it vertically to reduce die size.
And the robotic dog, Muffit! What was the point of that?! They blew probably 100k on the slowest-walking animatronic dog ever (supposedly research into having robotic pilots and firefighters I think).
Whoa, if that's true, whatever happened to StarCraft (the boat) and StarCraft (the game)? I could've sworn Blizzard sought and won a legal victory over that. Or something.
That's totally the wrong way to make a LEEROY joke. But then again, it was a gamble, knowing that you only had a 32.33%... (repeating, of course), probability of pulling it off.
Well, in China (and most likely other parts of Asia) they price MMOG's by the hour (I know WoW is, and I'm fairly sure Lineage II is as well). If companies like Blizzard can adapt to the economics of other countries, they can, and should adapt themselves here in the US to tap into the market of (softcore) gamers who are currently undecided on whether or not to join a MMOG. It doesn't even involve coming up with any new pricing models; all they have to do is have pay-by-the-hour plans at reasonable US dollar prices.
Oops, I guess I'm wrong. People do care and or have mod points today! But +2 funny? Man that's overrated. Luckily no one has the mod points to mod me down.... oh crap.
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China has been building Tokamaks for the last 30 years or so. He Fei has housed a Tokamak in the Physics dept. of the local university for at least 20 years for conducting fusion research.
In any case, why does it sound more reasonable if I said there were fusion devices in Madison, Wisconson and Princeton, New Jersey (both at universities as well) than in China? Don't be a racist troll. Even if it were a publicity stunt, I'd take a publicity stunt over ignorance any day.
Modded +5 informative... wow. Great job you guys with mod points :)
Not just any site, this is 1up.com! Where their referers (sic) are more from slashdot.org than from 1up.com :P
I actually attend UT - there are about 15 libraries on campus (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html/) , and this process is only happening to one library, the FAC. Its books have been scattered throughout the other libraries (I went in one day over summer and was not-so-pleasantly surprised). Sleep easy though, the PCL, the largest library on campus, is still chock full of six stories worth of books.
Check discover magazine, circa 1999 I think.
AJAX is a combination of technologies that allows web app creators to have real-time refreshing of data. This refresh is not only selective (you can choose only to update a portion of the page), but it also won't waste bandwidth when there's nothing to refresh (it just sends a checksum or an id number). I'm currently using it in http://www.mogos.net/. On the front page of the site, you can see the latest word's that people have posted (and through AJAX, it refreshes every 8 seconds). It's a sort of real-time/turn-based word game.
Not totally free, but www.voipbuster.com allows you to make calls to many countries (some landlines, some mobile, some both) for free... once you put at least 1 Euro into an account. I've used it for about an hour so far - it's definitely not worse than POTS. In some respects, its better - really easy to dial, good sound quality with no huge lag or choppyness. However, the software is still pretty basic, only for Windows, and the lag is about the same from your house to your neighbors as it is from your house to some country halfway around the world (should not be the case, but it seems to happen anyways). So the bottom line: not completely free, but O(1) cost is asymptotically better than O(n) cost :)
You can read a curiously familiar Slashdot story from a month ago too. Heh, /. editors should append this to front-page stories more often!
Swing and a miss!^H^H^H^H
I bought this router a few weeks ago, and it runs really well actually; no DNS discon. error that everyone else seems to be getting. One thing that bugs me though, I'm pretty sure some other routers have signal strength controls in the admin. panel, not just wifi radio: on/off. Does anyone know for certain which other firmwares work with this router, and if any of them are better in any regard?
Okay, I can either mod you down for being flamebait, or counter your argument. "Militant, extremist attitude". Seriously. Yes, NASCAR has multiple sponsors, but if you RTFA, it says "title sponsor". Yes, QuakeCon, like pretty much every event that has sponsors, has multiple sponsors. But as in most cases, they are not competing companies. If you read about the xbox360 ad on the laundromat across the street from where sony was unveiling the ps3 in Japan, you'll notice that sony paid the laundromat money to take down the xbox360 sign, not to put up its own next to it. That's how advertising works; and admit it, it would be pretty ridiculous to have both AMD and Intel banners hanging around the convention area.
Seriously, Peltier devices are known for their inefficiency; way worse than what most A/C's now use. I have no idea why they got an award for this; yes, Peltier cooling is a lot of fun, and yay for solid-state and environmentally-friendly contraptions, but as many have already stated, Freon's gone the way of the dinosaur in most new cars (definitely all here in the States), and the greater wattage translates directly to wasted gaoline, something people won't be too happy with if you consider the long run.
I'm pretty sure it's way more than 7 or 9 now; last I heard was somewhere around the order of 32 or 40. Of course, that's the individual layers in the wafer; the article talks about layers of components: IO, memory, processor. IMO, that's basically taking a system on chip and stacking it vertically to reduce die size.
And the robotic dog, Muffit! What was the point of that?! They blew probably 100k on the slowest-walking animatronic dog ever (supposedly research into having robotic pilots and firefighters I think).
Whoa, if that's true, whatever happened to StarCraft (the boat) and StarCraft (the game)? I could've sworn Blizzard sought and won a legal victory over that. Or something.
That's totally the wrong way to make a LEEROY joke. But then again, it was a gamble, knowing that you only had a 32.33%... (repeating, of course), probability of pulling it off.
Well, in China (and most likely other parts of Asia) they price MMOG's by the hour (I know WoW is, and I'm fairly sure Lineage II is as well). If companies like Blizzard can adapt to the economics of other countries, they can, and should adapt themselves here in the US to tap into the market of (softcore) gamers who are currently undecided on whether or not to join a MMOG. It doesn't even involve coming up with any new pricing models; all they have to do is have pay-by-the-hour plans at reasonable US dollar prices.
Oops, I guess I'm wrong. People do care and or have mod points today! But +2 funny? Man that's overrated. Luckily no one has the mod points to mod me down.... oh crap.
No one cares and or has any mod points today :)
Now if only we put a gun on one hand, a bionic latch device on the other, and make him sing 8-bit MIDI... we could have ourselves a Bionic Commando!
Don't listen to him, Anakin! Competition is the path to the Dark Side...
Wow, those people with mod points really blew past the previous poster (the one above parent), despite the two saying the same thing. What a burn...
I've seen it before too; this morning in fact. I think that's the first time my local newspaper has pre-empted slashdot in getting to an article :)
Fifth Post! :)
If I had mod points, I'd give this guy a +1 troll.