Mounting the hd to a big, fat heatsink with thermal paste and isolating the whole assembly with rubber pads (mousepads, etc...) should easily handle the heat through just convection, no fan needed. Of course if you want it to fit in a standard case, you'll have to get creative.
You mean cool it with water, perhaps? Hmmm... It's been done, but it really increases the cost, and the risk of a leak is ever present.
Or you could do like these guys http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php , and build a system completely submersed in mineral oil - baby oil for all the freaks in the house. You know who you are!;)
Last time I had to climb 500 ft to change a lightbulb on the college radio tower, it took about an hour, and it was EXACTLY like being on a stairmaster. One of the first tips I got on that job was never grab the next rung - always grab the vertical side of the ladder. Reason: the protective paint on the ladder could/would develop pinholes and rust would eat through the rung, but it would appear fine to a visual inspection. If I ran into that, it wouldn't matter if I DID have a grip that Superman couldn't break, I was still going to fall.
People that want political office are usually the same people that you would least want to have it. Honest, smart people never want the job. You have to inflict it on them! I think one way to help clean things up is to make the office holder PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for their choices and actions while in office. There will suddenly be an absence of fat-asses in cushy chairs, and a lot of people deciding that private sector work is where it's at. Of course, they'll fail there too...
Depends on the "yacht" (barge) and the "apartment" (Silicon Valley). As far as cheap accomodations at sea go, ferro-cement boat hulls have been made for years. I've even heard rumors of diesel subs with ferro-cement hulls being made south of the US borders to smuggle drugs in. If South American drug lords can afford it for their drug runs, then surely Google can!
Yes, I can 'take this for serious' because I'm almost in the same boat. No, I didn't lie about a god damned thing, no I didn't apply for a job I knew I couldn't do. I'm a new hire in a small IT shop where the previous mentor/admin/con man DID lie. And got caught and canned. Some of the other guys knew I played with linux and networking at home and shoved the job at me. As far as hiring a mentor goes... We're a small shop in a small town, with low cost of living, and low incomes. Do you really think that our company could hire someone from a $80K/yr job to take a $45K/yr job? Didn't think so.
You sound like a bitter, bitter person. I was in your position (worked my way through my degree, decade in avionics for Big Name Companies, laid-off, people shit themselves reading my resume, unemployed for YEARS), but got "retrained" (barely) as a java dev, and dropped in OP's position. I understand your bitterness only too well, but it's only hurting you. And your comment about "a professional administrators association"? You mean like the AMA, or the plumbers union? And you think that actually helps anyone? The better-than-average people are hurt by it, the client companies are hurt by it, it only helps the barrel-scrapers and the "Family Men" running the organization (I've seen it). If that's what you want, maybe you aren't as good as you think you are...
It was so weird reading the OP, 'cause it was like I had written it myself. I'm in much the same situation he is. Small start-up full of smart-but-new devs (mostly trained in-house), with a few mentors for supervisors, except for networking and server admin. The original guy was a con man who couldn't put a simple network together in a week, and wound up getting fired when I (skilled amature) did it in a day (with documentation)! I'm one of the few people in the shop with any linux experience, and the only one that received any sys admin training, ever (1991 for a couple months). I got a CVS server going on Ubuntu server, and now I'm fighting to get Oracle Database Server 10g running on CentOS. I'm trying hard not to fail, but I don't have any anyone to fall back on in this. I've not fooled anyone about my lack of skills, I was actually hired as a newbie java dev, and got a little SQL training. I understand that network/server admin is a LOT of OJT, but are there any guides to help ease some of the bumps?
"Theres nothing like an odometer to measure you're overall useage of bandwidth." I call BULLSHIT! I'm on satellite, and I have to check my bandwidth usage constantly. At work, I check our usage of our fiber connection using Multi Router Traffic Grapher - http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
Yeah, about that satellite... I'm on Wildblue and ALL the service packages offered have bandwidth caps, because a satellite only has so much bandwidth, understand? It also has quite the bit of latency (No WoW for me), and it is the ONLY choice I've got for connectivity (I'm totally discounting the 22Kbaud capable phone line that is noisy as hell). Sorry, but your simple answer won't help me at all. *NOTE* *The first moron that says 'move to a better area' without knowing my situation will have me reach though his net connection and choke the living shit out of him!* I've got the economy package ($50/mo.) and my limit is 7GB in a rolling 30 day period. They do excuse the occasional over-run, but repeated abuse will get you cut off and you still have to pay off the service agreement. That said, I'm actually pretty happy with it. I do light/moderate surfing from home with the occasional bittorrent, saving the heavy stuff for work (Optical fiber goodness, OH YEAH!) I'm running about 4323 MB per 30 day period as of this moment. I constantly check my home bandwidth using a web-based tool supplied by Wildblue, while at work our ISP activated a web-based bandwidth monitoring tool for us based on MRTG.
My wife and I had a simple, traditional country (USA) wedding in a grove of trees at my parents home. Her first marriage was common-law, and she wanted a real wedding. It was worth 100 times the money we paid, just for the lasting memories and joy it has brought us.
Steam engine? Why yes, but now they call them 'Power Plants'. Most still use coal, but there are a lot of natural gas powered ones, and a few nuclear powered ones.
I've used this method for years, with a high degree of success: 1. clean cd with alcohol/windex/water 2. buff from center to edge using toothpaste 3. Use a high quality auto finish wax with a high percentage of carnauba wax in it to fill the scratches. 4. rip it quick! I suggest Exact Audio Copy, but your prefs may vary.
Trains aren't much of an option in the US, beyond the East Coast. We've been ripping out our rail system infrastructure for over 50 years now. Thanks to the teamsters union.
I'm sure a lot of people also said that most of the previous space missions were "an utterly worthless dick-swinging contest". They were so fucking stupid. And so fucking wrong. They mistook the declared target for the actual benefit. The big win was in the fallout of the programs: improved electronics, aerospace design, optics, space medicine, materials science, etc... These things would probably have developed on their own due to market pressure, but a "national goal" quite literally "put a rocket under their ass". The greatest benefit of a colony presence on the moon would be the general technology developed. As a card-carrying geek, that's enough for me. Anyone here that feels that going to the moon is just an expensive waste of money and time needs to have their geek status revoked and they must join the ranks of the PHB morons.
XP is long in the tooth, eh? Maybe you should look into ReactOS, for a "new" OSS version of XP. Myself, I prefer the new hotness of Ubuntu, wrapped around a linux kernel modeled after 1970's Unix. Older code simply means that (hopefully) most of the bugs have been hammered out of it.
"Fresh" code is like "fresh" wine: it may do the job, but the older stuff is probably more enjoyable!
But one thing is for sure, Kurzweil will die just like every other "prophet" before him. Possibly, but I believe he and I share a common goal, "Live forever, or die trying!"
there probably isnt a big market outside/. for putting chips in your brain. I can start naming a couple GIANT markets right now: Autistics, Alzheimers patients, ALS, MS, parapalegics, head trauma survivors, IT/knowledge workers (yeah,/.ers will get em, too), people who do time critical work and require massive focus and an extensive knowledge base (aerospace pilots, air traffic controllers, surgeons, ems workers, law enforcement/spy/freelancers. Once the competitive edge is felt, people line up to get on board. "Moral Qualms" be damned, they've got to put food on the table!
I think the "best way" for locomotion for a bot is determined by the purpose for which it is designed. A remote-piloted drone will naturally be some kind of aircraft, balloon-craft, whatever... A droid designed to work with humans would naturally be best if designed to mimic humans. So there are some very credible use-case scenarios for this research.
I am also the father of an autistic child, and had several people bring up this absurd theory of "vaccination caused your child's problems". That's BS. My father and I both are aspy's, and his development of autism was a roll of the genetic dice. There are also people that think it could be caused by some food allergy. I point out to these people that there are several diseases that can have autism-like symptoms, but they are not true autism.
Yeah, there is increased resource usage in Ubuntu. But it uses about 3% on my core2 duo laptop as opposed to Vista with 20-80% avg usage. And the UI feels "snappier". Hell, running Ubuntu LiveCD was faster than Vista on the HD!
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Mounting the hd to a big, fat heatsink with thermal paste and isolating the whole assembly with rubber pads (mousepads, etc...) should easily handle the heat through just convection, no fan needed. Of course if you want it to fit in a standard case, you'll have to get creative.
You mean cool it with water, perhaps? Hmmm... It's been done, but it really increases the cost, and the risk of a leak is ever present.
Or you could do like these guys http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php , and build a system completely submersed in mineral oil - baby oil for all the freaks in the house. You know who you are! ;)
Last time I had to climb 500 ft to change a lightbulb on the college radio tower, it took about an hour, and it was EXACTLY like being on a stairmaster. One of the first tips I got on that job was never grab the next rung - always grab the vertical side of the ladder. Reason: the protective paint on the ladder could/would develop pinholes and rust would eat through the rung, but it would appear fine to a visual inspection. If I ran into that, it wouldn't matter if I DID have a grip that Superman couldn't break, I was still going to fall.
People that want political office are usually the same people that you would least want to have it. Honest, smart people never want the job. You have to inflict it on them! ...
I think one way to help clean things up is to make the office holder PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for their choices and actions while in office. There will suddenly be an absence of fat-asses in cushy chairs, and a lot of people deciding that private sector work is where it's at. Of course, they'll fail there too
Depends on the "yacht" (barge) and the "apartment" (Silicon Valley). As far as cheap accomodations at sea go, ferro-cement boat hulls have been made for years. I've even heard rumors of diesel subs with ferro-cement hulls being made south of the US borders to smuggle drugs in. If South American drug lords can afford it for their drug runs, then surely Google can!
I call BULLSHIT! on your argument. Try likening it to being carjacked at knife point. That's more in line with the reality, you Bozo.
Yes, I can 'take this for serious' because I'm almost in the same boat. No, I didn't lie about a god damned thing, no I didn't apply for a job I knew I couldn't do. I'm a new hire in a small IT shop where the previous mentor/admin/con man DID lie. And got caught and canned. Some of the other guys knew I played with linux and networking at home and shoved the job at me.
As far as hiring a mentor goes... We're a small shop in a small town, with low cost of living, and low incomes. Do you really think that our company could hire someone from a $80K/yr job to take a $45K/yr job? Didn't think so.
You sound like a bitter, bitter person. I was in your position (worked my way through my degree, decade in avionics for Big Name Companies, laid-off, people shit themselves reading my resume, unemployed for YEARS), but got "retrained" (barely) as a java dev, and dropped in OP's position. I understand your bitterness only too well, but it's only hurting you.
And your comment about "a professional administrators association"? You mean like the AMA, or the plumbers union? And you think that actually helps anyone? The better-than-average people are hurt by it, the client companies are hurt by it, it only helps the barrel-scrapers and the "Family Men" running the organization (I've seen it). If that's what you want, maybe you aren't as good as you think you are...
What's that? Being an Asshat?
It was so weird reading the OP, 'cause it was like I had written it myself. I'm in much the same situation he is. Small start-up full of smart-but-new devs (mostly trained in-house), with a few mentors for supervisors, except for networking and server admin. The original guy was a con man who couldn't put a simple network together in a week, and wound up getting fired when I (skilled amature) did it in a day (with documentation)! I'm one of the few people in the shop with any linux experience, and the only one that received any sys admin training, ever (1991 for a couple months). I got a CVS server going on Ubuntu server, and now I'm fighting to get Oracle Database Server 10g running on CentOS. I'm trying hard not to fail, but I don't have any anyone to fall back on in this. I've not fooled anyone about my lack of skills, I was actually hired as a newbie java dev, and got a little SQL training. I understand that network/server admin is a LOT of OJT, but are there any guides to help ease some of the bumps?
"Theres nothing like an odometer to measure you're overall useage of bandwidth." I call BULLSHIT! I'm on satellite, and I have to check my bandwidth usage constantly. At work, I check our usage of our fiber connection using Multi Router Traffic Grapher - http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
Where do you live? How are the schools there? What's the neighborhood like?
Yeah, about that satellite ...
I'm on Wildblue and ALL the service packages offered have bandwidth caps, because a satellite only has so much bandwidth, understand?
It also has quite the bit of latency (No WoW for me), and it is the ONLY choice I've got for connectivity (I'm totally discounting the 22Kbaud capable phone line that is noisy as hell). Sorry, but your simple answer won't help me at all.
*NOTE* *The first moron that says 'move to a better area' without knowing my situation will have me reach though his net connection and choke the living shit out of him!*
I've got the economy package ($50/mo.) and my limit is 7GB in a rolling 30 day period. They do excuse the occasional over-run, but repeated abuse will get you cut off and you still have to pay off the service agreement.
That said, I'm actually pretty happy with it. I do light/moderate surfing from home with the occasional bittorrent, saving the heavy stuff for work (Optical fiber goodness, OH YEAH!) I'm running about 4323 MB per 30 day period as of this moment.
I constantly check my home bandwidth using a web-based tool supplied by Wildblue, while at work our ISP activated a web-based bandwidth monitoring tool for us based on MRTG.
My wife and I had a simple, traditional country (USA) wedding in a grove of trees at my parents home. Her first marriage was common-law, and she wanted a real wedding. It was worth 100 times the money we paid, just for the lasting memories and joy it has brought us.
Steam engine? Why yes, but now they call them 'Power Plants'. Most still use coal, but there are a lot of natural gas powered ones, and a few nuclear powered ones.
"Potentially explosive"?
You moron. I can make *water* explode given the right circumstances...
What an open-ended statement. And you're defending them? Turn in your radical/liberal/geek card.
I've used this method for years, with a high degree of success:
1. clean cd with alcohol/windex/water
2. buff from center to edge using toothpaste
3. Use a high quality auto finish wax with a high percentage of carnauba wax in it to fill the scratches.
4. rip it quick! I suggest Exact Audio Copy, but your prefs may vary.
Trains aren't much of an option in the US, beyond the East Coast. We've been ripping out our rail system infrastructure for over 50 years now. Thanks to the teamsters union.
I'm sure a lot of people also said that most of the previous space missions were "an utterly worthless dick-swinging contest". They were so fucking stupid. And so fucking wrong. They mistook the declared target for the actual benefit. The big win was in the fallout of the programs: improved electronics, aerospace design, optics, space medicine, materials science, etc ... These things would probably have developed on their own due to market pressure, but a "national goal" quite literally "put a rocket under their ass". The greatest benefit of a colony presence on the moon would be the general technology developed. As a card-carrying geek, that's enough for me. Anyone here that feels that going to the moon is just an expensive waste of money and time needs to have their geek status revoked and they must join the ranks of the PHB morons.
XP is long in the tooth, eh? Maybe you should look into ReactOS, for a "new" OSS version of XP.
Myself, I prefer the new hotness of Ubuntu, wrapped around a linux kernel modeled after 1970's Unix.
Older code simply means that (hopefully) most of the bugs have been hammered out of it.
"Fresh" code is like "fresh" wine: it may do the job, but the older stuff is probably more enjoyable!
I think the "best way" for locomotion for a bot is determined by the purpose for which it is designed. A remote-piloted drone will naturally be some kind of aircraft, balloon-craft, whatever... A droid designed to work with humans would naturally be best if designed to mimic humans. So there are some very credible use-case scenarios for this research.
I am also the father of an autistic child, and had several people bring up this absurd theory of "vaccination caused your child's problems". That's BS. My father and I both are aspy's, and his development of autism was a roll of the genetic dice. There are also people that think it could be caused by some food allergy. I point out to these people that there are several diseases that can have autism-like symptoms, but they are not true autism.
Yeah, there is increased resource usage in Ubuntu. But it uses about 3% on my core2 duo laptop as opposed to Vista with 20-80% avg usage. And the UI feels "snappier". Hell, running Ubuntu LiveCD was faster than Vista on the HD!