So we ended up putting in two 60mm fans, and we came up with a water-cooled heat sink as well for the CPU. We've actually applied for a patent on that one.
He goes on to decribe a setup where water under reduced pressure boils in the hot part, and condenses in the fins. Two questions: Can such an old invention really be patented, and what happens when you stand the thing up on it's side or upside down?
I'll give them one thing, they're expanding our vocabularies. Those words are indeed in the dictionary. But the problem is, I cannot imagine ever using them in a non-BS context.
I'm not married to Nick Park. He's the "Wallace and Gromit" guy. I was citing him up as an example of a producer of video shorts that that made the big time.
My wife is a musician who self-produces her albums. She's now making more money through a handful of songs on Itunes than by selling her CDs. This great outlet is now (or should soon be) available to independant video producers. Watch out for the next Nick Park on iTMS.
Kubrick's only flaws as a filmmaker are that he had no sense of humor
You're kidding, right? 2001 is full of tongue-in-cheek stuff. Example: A streamlined spacecraft slowly approaches and enters a rotating space station to Strauss's 'Blue Danube' waltz. It's an echo of the opening sequence in Dr. Strangelove, where a B-52 couples up to a tanker plane with romantic music. I nearly spat out my popcorn when I saw that.
Two hours? Sounds like your computer is more of a portable than a real laptop. So yeah, go for the fast, hot CPU. My neighbor has a "laptop" like that. Whenever he carries it across the room he takes the power brick along and plugs in. Not much good for cross country flights, though. You'll even be looking for somewhere to plug it in at your local coffee shop, if you ever do the working-at-the-cafe thing. Usage profiles vary.
In photography terms, 1,000,000:1 is about 20 "stops" (doublings of light intensity), whereas 100,000:1 is about 17 stops.
As a comparison, photographic film can register about a 10-stop range (less for color) within a single exposure. For normal usage, it might be hard to tell this difference between these two screens, but for a movie editor it might be important to see the extremes just a little better.
we should have half the solar system under our belt by now.
You realize, of course, that after Mars, there's a distinct shortage of viable places for people to go. Venus is hot enough to melt led, and all those moons around the gas giants take years to get to. They are also extemely cold and dark. Leave them to the robots.
How about using the usual measure of science, and counting published peer-reviewed papers coming out of it. Plenty for Hubble, and unamanned planetary probes. ISS and the Shuttle? Not so much.
I saw it on the RSS feed, but the story was gone when I clicked on it. Something about the head of Windows development sending a pessimistic memo to Bill. Pretty average/. story, in other words.
..the current one I have (Windows 2000) isn't broken
Maybe your Win2000 isn't broken but mine sure is. Yesterday Windows update downloaded a bunch of patches, installed them, and froze. Now Windows wont even boot, not even safe mode. It was a dual boot machine, now it just runs Linux.
These kinds of articles are as old as amplified music.
As for iPods, you only need to turn them up if the environmnet gets noisy, so is it the environment rf the music that's responsible for driving us deaf?
I think there is one other possible response: "We believe we have a strong case and we intend to vigorously defend it"
This is legalese for "Oh shit, maybe they'll settle"
Reconstructing a score from an orchestral work is kinda difficult. Mozart claimed he could do it, but, well, he was Mozart.
Even public domain music can be copyrighted, in it's sheet music form. The copyright applies to the edition, which is usually re-typeset and does not look like the original score. If it were a photocopy of the original score, it would be public domain. AFAIK, this copyright on the sheet music does not carry over to any recordings made from it.
I thought Real Pirates did things like taking over ships at sea and murdering their crews. This is a nasty craime that still takes place in some parts of the world. How did this term get attached to copyright violations? Should we be using it?
I've ridden the London-Paris train at 300kph (180mph). The sensation was like being in a plane that's flying entirely too low. The scenery blurs, so that you cannot see any detail that's closer than 100m or so. The thought of a train that goes nearly twice that speed is scary!
Reason 1: To get close to the equator.
Reason 2: It's an already-built launch system. Remember the Cold War? These things were built to lob nukes at U.S. targets.
Good point, It's actually impossible to play tunes on an iPod while the data connection is up. You can leave it connected to charge the battery, but you have to soft-eject it, which tears down the USB link. You cannot control the playing from the computer either.
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So we ended up putting in two 60mm fans, and we came up with a water-cooled heat sink as well for the CPU. We've actually applied for a patent on that one. He goes on to decribe a setup where water under reduced pressure boils in the hot part, and condenses in the fins. Two questions: Can such an old invention really be patented, and what happens when you stand the thing up on it's side or upside down?
Nice writup. And people complain that Linux is complicated!
I'll give them one thing, they're expanding our vocabularies. Those words are indeed in the dictionary. But the problem is, I cannot imagine ever using them in a non-BS context.
Yup. CDBaby is who she went through. I think Apple relies on them to ensure there are no copyright encumberances on music that gets submitted.
Well, OK then...
Her name's Cathi Walkup and she sings Jazz. Check out "Hang Up And Drive"
I'm not married to Nick Park. He's the "Wallace and Gromit" guy. I was citing him up as an example of a producer of video shorts that that made the big time.
Doesn't the DRM prevent playing these things on anything other than an iPod or iTunes?
My wife is a musician who self-produces her albums. She's now making more money through a handful of songs on Itunes than by selling her CDs. This great outlet is now (or should soon be) available to independant video producers. Watch out for the next Nick Park on iTMS.
Well, at the end of the scene, she rips off her clothes, and...
Or you could try this nice article, with some stills and interpretation.
Kubrick's only flaws as a filmmaker are that he had no sense of humor
You're kidding, right? 2001 is full of tongue-in-cheek stuff. Example: A streamlined spacecraft slowly approaches and enters a rotating space station to Strauss's 'Blue Danube' waltz. It's an echo of the opening sequence in Dr. Strangelove, where a B-52 couples up to a tanker plane with romantic music. I nearly spat out my popcorn when I saw that.
Same in in the S.F. Bay Area. iPods are almost a uniform on BART these days.
Two hours? Sounds like your computer is more of a portable than a real laptop. So yeah, go for the fast, hot CPU. My neighbor has a "laptop" like that. Whenever he carries it across the room he takes the power brick along and plugs in. Not much good for cross country flights, though. You'll even be looking for somewhere to plug it in at your local coffee shop, if you ever do the working-at-the-cafe thing. Usage profiles vary.
In photography terms, 1,000,000:1 is about 20 "stops" (doublings of light intensity), whereas 100,000:1 is about 17 stops.
As a comparison, photographic film can register about a 10-stop range (less for color) within a single exposure. For normal usage, it might be hard to tell this difference between these two screens, but for a movie editor it might be important to see the extremes just a little better.
You realize, of course, that after Mars, there's a distinct shortage of viable places for people to go. Venus is hot enough to melt led, and all those moons around the gas giants take years to get to. They are also extemely cold and dark. Leave them to the robots.
How about using the usual measure of science, and counting published peer-reviewed papers coming out of it. Plenty for Hubble, and unamanned planetary probes. ISS and the Shuttle? Not so much.
I saw it on the RSS feed, but the story was gone when I clicked on it. Something about the head of Windows development sending a pessimistic memo to Bill. Pretty average /. story, in other words.
Maybe your Win2000 isn't broken but mine sure is. Yesterday Windows update downloaded a bunch of patches, installed them, and froze. Now Windows wont even boot, not even safe mode. It was a dual boot machine, now it just runs Linux.
Hey, Steve Jobs, here's your next killer feature!
What happened to those captchas?
These kinds of articles are as old as amplified music.
As for iPods, you only need to turn them up if the environmnet gets noisy, so is it the environment rf the music that's responsible for driving us deaf?
I think there is one other possible response:
"We believe we have a strong case and we intend to vigorously defend it"
This is legalese for "Oh shit, maybe they'll settle"
Reconstructing a score from an orchestral work is kinda difficult. Mozart claimed he could do it, but, well, he was Mozart.
Even public domain music can be copyrighted, in it's sheet music form. The copyright applies to the edition, which is usually re-typeset and does not look like the original score. If it were a photocopy of the original score, it would be public domain.
AFAIK, this copyright on the sheet music does not carry over to any recordings made from it.
I thought Real Pirates did things like taking over ships at sea and murdering their crews. This is a nasty craime that still takes place in some parts of the world. How did this term get attached to copyright violations? Should we be using it?
I've ridden the London-Paris train at 300kph (180mph). The sensation was like being in a plane that's flying entirely too low. The scenery blurs, so that you cannot see any detail that's closer than 100m or so. The thought of a train that goes nearly twice that speed is scary!
Reason 1: To get close to the equator.
Reason 2: It's an already-built launch system. Remember the Cold War? These things were built to lob nukes at U.S. targets.
Good point, It's actually impossible to play tunes on an iPod while the data connection is up. You can leave it connected to charge the battery, but you have to soft-eject it, which tears down the USB link. You cannot control the playing from the computer either.