I saw a system recently which massively concentrates sunlight onto high efficiency PV cells, which are actively cooled, I think by a mixture of gas and liquid coolant. In other words they are cooled like any other type of engine.
Its not mine though. Years ago there was a magazine called Kilobaud Microcomputing. In one issue they ran a funny graphic story called "The man from CPU". It was a detective story built around computer jargon. By the time I realised the value of it my Dad had cleared out the attic and all the old magazines were gone. From time to time I google a few choice keywords in the hope that somebody has put their archives on line and I can recover the article.
So far it has been no go but I put that line in my sig in the hope it would jog someone's memory and they would have a copy they could put on line for me.
From memory: few choice lines:
That must be the same massive compiler which executed Object ProgRam, our Indian agent.
He picked up a nearby filing cabinet and tried to delete me.
I flipped the Matre D' two bits. Parity checked out and I was good to go.
In a couple of microseconds I was on the other side of town.
What I wanted to see was a graph with time on the horizontal axis and energy on the vertical axis. That would give me a better feel of what the burst actually did.
One of the articles I read about this event talks about a technique which relies on the way light between the source and us is absorbed by dust along the path which the light traverses. Low energy photons are absorbed at a different rate to high energy photons. Measuring the spectrum at our end can tell you how much dust is between us and the light source. This gives astronomers an estimate of distance.
What the hell is a "social bookmarking service"? Since the site is dead, going to their webpage didn't help clear that up at all. Is it seriously a social networking site where people share _bookmarks_?
I've done it loads of times. It's actually easier than on Linux or Windows. What's the process, you ask? Open up system preferences, navigate to sharing, and check "web sharing."
Does it have a checkbox for 100% reliable offsite backups?
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How's that any different than when the government overpays you?
Then they just go to your bank account and correct the mistake. Bad luck for you if you have already spent your windfall.
Makes me wonder if all the digging into the permafrost increased humidity around the lander, and caused condensation on the structure.
would the perchlorate they suspect in there keep it liquid at the (what I believe to be is) low atmospheric pressure on Mars? Seriously don't know :)
Surface tension might be a factor as well. The forces which keep molecules stuck together on small scales can prevent water molecules from flying off.
Council has to approve a new business. They consult the police about security and thew police ask for CCTV.
Then again, if you have antimatter, why not just send it at the debris?
I think we should launch a satellite in the opposite direction and then explode it.
But that was only put there because of Roland Piquepaille so maybe it can come off now.
Use a Very Hard vacuum.
In the places where you would install a solar power plant hot water is probably not a rare commodity.
I saw a system recently which massively concentrates sunlight onto high efficiency PV cells, which are actively cooled, I think by a mixture of gas and liquid coolant. In other words they are cooled like any other type of engine.
SSDs have a different feel to them. The time to load a file is more consistent on my eeePC than on other laptops I own which have rotating disks.
Thanks.
P.S. - Great sig. I actually LOL'ed.
Its not mine though. Years ago there was a magazine called Kilobaud Microcomputing. In one issue they ran a funny graphic story called "The man from CPU". It was a detective story built around computer jargon. By the time I realised the value of it my Dad had cleared out the attic and all the old magazines were gone. From time to time I google a few choice keywords in the hope that somebody has put their archives on line and I can recover the article.
So far it has been no go but I put that line in my sig in the hope it would jog someone's memory and they would have a copy they could put on line for me.
From memory: few choice lines:
What I wanted to see was a graph with time on the horizontal axis and energy on the vertical axis. That would give me a better feel of what the burst actually did.
Personally I wonder if somebody was fighting a hot war 12 billion years ago, and occasionally a weapon gets pointed in our direction.
One of the articles I read about this event talks about a technique which relies on the way light between the source and us is absorbed by dust along the path which the light traverses. Low energy photons are absorbed at a different rate to high energy photons. Measuring the spectrum at our end can tell you how much dust is between us and the light source. This gives astronomers an estimate of distance.
Cripes with all the reliance they are placing on windows internals they will never get this thing ported to *nix. Its almost as bad as autocad.
At mere $3,000,000 per bug our government will create swarms of moths to charge into the windshields of Taliban truckers and irk the crap out of them.
No they will take up residence in Osama's beard.
I hope they can reconstruct my own personal Milla Jovovich from fragment DNA :)
How are you going to get your hands on her her DNA?
Linux Torvalds doesn't
Oh thats embarrassing.
I don't think Apple will be concerned unless the app allows you to save the music.
Personally I don't think it is any of their business. Linux Torvalds doesn't seem to care what I do with his kernel.
What the hell is a "social bookmarking service"? Since the site is dead, going to their webpage didn't help clear that up at all. Is it seriously a social networking site where people share _bookmarks_?
Apparently, yes.
Just thinking about it I am sitting here on a Saturday morning backing up my own systems. Been putting it off for a while.
The second shuttle was not destroyed by a component failure.
The foam on the external tank is a component.
I've done it loads of times. It's actually easier than on Linux or Windows. What's the process, you ask? Open up system preferences, navigate to sharing, and check "web sharing."
Does it have a checkbox for 100% reliable offsite backups?
"do you have a backup copy of the encryption keys too?"
Inasmuch as they exist in the heads of multiple people who do not generally travel together, yes.
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Crypto can't be very strong then.