I am about to purchase a Peltier to cool my K7 600. I'm not even going to overclock the processor! I'm trying to prolong the life of my processor (electron migration and all that jazz).
I am considering a Swiftech MC2001. Has anyone out there, have any recommendations/reservations about this product? At $219, it's not cheap. Swiftech do make cheaper units, but I've learnt to buy the best that I can afford. Saves hassle and money in the long run.
emancipate v. tr. emancipated, emancipating, emancipates.       1. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate.       2.Law. To release (a child) from the control of parents or a guardian.
As in liberated, not tied down to looking after the family and doing the housework. So the joke usees the ambiguity between eggs for breakfast and the human ova. Get it?
Would anyone like Propellerhead to do a port to Linux of the Mac & Windows software synth Rebirth or of the loop slicer ReCycle or even the software studio Reason? If you know of anyone else doing that, let me know.
I know of Open Sound System's, "a set of device drivers that provide a uniform API across all the major UNIX architectures," answer to ReBirth: Gsyn. It's a good start but more needs to be done before we get to the professional level.
One of the main factors behind Singapore's commercial success is its harbour. From spices to a major global financial centre.
You can read more here. Whether you agree/disagree with the way the Lee dynasty has run the country, they term it a "benign dictatorship," the country has become more prosperous, which seems to be the bottom line for most Singaporeans.
There's an informative chapter on User Tracking at the Web Tools Review. Have a gander at Erik Rossen's advice in the Reader's Comments section at the article's end.
On a related note, Zero Knowledge Systems sell a 'total internet privacy' program called Freedom. Have a look at the FAQ. Has anyone experience of this product? What are your impressions?
You can choose which sites can set cookies, e.g. Slashdot. Some sites like mail.com do require cookies to be set to function. This can be subverted by allowing the cookie to be set but not stored, by making the cookie file read only.
THere's an informative chapter on User Tracking at the Web Tools Review. Have a gander at Erik Rossen's advice in the Reader's Comments section at the article's end.
At OFC2000 today, Nanovation displayed new optical switches, splitters and modulators. From their press release: "These switches, splitters and modulators are the first of what will be an extensive offering of integrated photonic components from Nanovation. These products will help businesses and consumers access the full power of all-optical communications in a cost-effective manner," said G. Robert Tatum, president and CEO of Nanovation. "Companies will now be able to build their own customized, optical integrated circuits, thanks to the advanced capabilities of Nanovation components."
Nanovation's new and revolutionary Nanoshutterä technology outperforms other optical switching products by providing a latching switch mechanism for reduced power, very wideband operation, and the ability to integrate these switches with other functional components. This innovative patent-pending technology combines silicon MEMS switches with a proprietary silica-on-silicon wave-guide process, which will enable Nanovation to offer optical components not only with substantial size and cost advantages, but unparalleled flexibility in optical systems architecture - all on a single integrated device.
The offerings from the switch family using Nanoshutterä technology include versions of the following: Wide band 1X2 optical switch Wide band 1X2 optical switch with integrated 5% monitoring taps Wide band 2X2 optical switch Wide band 2X2 optical switch with integrated 5% monitoring taps Wide band 1X4 optical switch Wide band 1X8 optical switch Wide band 1X16 optical switch
Nanovation's new offerings for the 1310 nm and 1550 nm telecommunications bands include versions of the following members of the silica-on-silicon wave-guide splitters product family using NanoblockTM technology. Single mode 1X8 wide band optical splitter Single mode 1X16 wide band optical splitter Single mode 2X8 wide band optical splitter Single mode 2X16 wide band optical splitter
The company also demonstrated its 1550 nm high-speed switching technology using Indium Phosphide materials. First components planned around this technology include sub-nanosecond optical switches and high-speed modulators.
A listing of their product line is here. You can download the specs there in PostScript format.
I have been following this company with some interest since their mention on/. Q1 1999.
We've seen STM pictures that show an echo of one atom, but does that mean that the STM is innacurate, and the image is being distorted by the ring of atoms?
As I understand it, the degree of imaging quality is dependent on both the surface topography of the sample and that of the STM tip.
Basically, to improve the resolution of the STM and retard convolution, you need to reduce the radius of curvature of the tip as well as reducing its cone angle (think of the tip as a cylindrical wire with a cone at its apex). The aim is to have a single atom at the summit, in an orientation that negates any contribution from neighbouring atoms.
This comes out from the physics of quantum tunnelling where the tunnelling current is exponentially dependent on the separation between tip and sample. If you can engineer a single atom tip with a convolution negating orientation (say a single atom pillar that remains at a right angle to the sample topography at all times, no matter how bumpy the surface).
Or does it mean that the atom actually appears, at an atomic level, to be in both positions?
Remember collapsing the wavefunction on measurement? It's an observable event not a probability.
I've probably rambled on enough... As an aside I recently learnt about the great frank Zappa's take on chance -> you have a 50% chance of becoming homeless, either you do or you don't. *cryptic comment* Particularly apt. */cryptic comment*
Aren't the good people of Britain proud to have such a principled politician as Jack Straw, Home Minister, in the New Labour government?
Some of his recent accomplishments include: 1) allowing Colonel Pinochet, the Chilean dictator and alleged perpetrator of crimes against humanity, to escape justice on the grounds that he is too frail to face the hardships of a court trial. This decision is further to a private medical report on Pinochet's condition, which by its nature seems pretty difficult to challenge.
What exactly about his mind/body is unable to sit through a trial? What are the odds of his staging a "miraculous" recovery upon arrival back to Chile, where he has immunity from prosecution?
2) then there's the case of his letting Mike Tyson, former heavyweight champion boxer, rapist of a teenager and ear gourmet into Britain. The UK law says that aliens convicted of a crime that would carry a prison sentence of 12 months in Britain are denied entry, unless on extreme compassionate grounds. Compassion towards Tyson not towards the British businesses who had invested in the fight!
3) there's the example of the alleged Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs who is accused of killing >30,000 civilians in Latvia during World War II. He was found living in a residential countryside home. Instead of prosecuting him, Straw allowed his deportation from the UK as he had *gasp* overstayed his 6 month visa.
It makes me *so* proud to be a part of such an ethical government. *sob* I'm choking up here.
and people just naturally don't want to TOUCH one even if they find it (which would keep it from being detected)
Sorry to be so pedantic. detect (d-tkt) v. tr. detected, detecting, detects. 1. To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of. 2. To discern the true nature or character of: detected malice behind the smile. 3. Electronics. To demodulate.
If someone finds the snake, ergo it is detected (from defn.1). As to not wanting to touch it, use an object(s) long enough to keep the snake away from striking distance.
The NSA is secretive and powerful enough that they could tell Congress to take a walk when Congress wanted to find out what all the money was being spent on
Congress was annoyed enough by this that it "has drafted a bill requiring it (the NSA) to account for itself, while the House Government Reform Committee has decided to grill NSA officials in hearings early next year."
For example, I can navigate links in a Webpage without a mouse, move forward/back document windows, amble to next/previous document in history and so on.
You would be breaking UK copyright law if you did make a transcript for public consumption. The BBC is in the habit of licensing programmes to overseas markets so you would be depriving them of their revenue stream in some small way. You could write a summary, but it would have to avoid quoting from the programme verbatim.
Radio 4 does transmit a simultaneous broadcast on the Net. Unfortunately, (1) as this page states: We regret that, for rights reasons, we are not yet able to offer a full webcast service across the the Radio 4 schedule (2) and of those programmes that are webcast, archived copies are only accessible to BBC researchers.
IMHO I think the only solution to this is to get/., or some similar site, to host discussions concerning wider topics of interest to us. We should be able to vote for people who arouse our curiousity. For instance, earlier today on the Radio 4 programme, In Touch, there was a lively debate about consciousness between Roger Penrose and a doubting physicist. Penrose is one of the chaps, the other being Stuart Hameroff, who have suggested that there a structures in the brain called microtubules where electron tunneling occurs [across Gap Junctions] between microtubules in each of two adjacent neurons. These microtubules are connected to each other by Microtubule Associated Proteins (MAPs). With these structures in mind Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff propose that Consciousness involves a Planck scale Collapse of Quantum Superpositions that they call Orch OR. More info here.
Penrose claims that there can be no artificial intelligence due to the purely mechanistic workings of automata. He called for more research into consciousness as a bridge between the micro - quantum physics and the macroscopic everyday world.
Slashdot Mirror
I am considering a Swiftech MC2001. Has anyone out there, have any recommendations/reservations about this product? At $219, it's not cheap. Swiftech do make cheaper units, but I've learnt to buy the best that I can afford. Saves hassle and money in the long run.
emancipate
v. tr. emancipated, emancipating, emancipates.
      1. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate.
      2.Law. To release (a child) from the control of parents or a guardian.
As in liberated, not tied down to looking after the family and doing the housework. So the joke usees the ambiguity between eggs for breakfast and the human ova. Get it?
Would anyone like Propellerhead to do a port to Linux of the Mac & Windows software synth Rebirth or of the loop slicer ReCycle or even the software studio Reason? If you know of anyone else doing that, let me know.
I know of Open Sound System's, "a set of device drivers that provide a uniform API across all the major UNIX architectures," answer to ReBirth: Gsyn. It's a good start but more needs to be done before we get to the professional level.
You can read more here. Whether you agree/disagree with the way the Lee dynasty has run the country, they term it a "benign dictatorship," the country has become more prosperous, which seems to be the bottom line for most Singaporeans.
On a related note, Zero Knowledge Systems sell a 'total internet privacy' program called Freedom. Have a look at the FAQ. Has anyone experience of this product? What are your impressions?
raw cod annoy sumo
Zero Knowledge Systems sell Freedom. Have a look at the FAQ. Has anyone here used this product? What are your impressions?
raw cod annoy sumo
You can choose which sites can set cookies, e.g. Slashdot. Some sites like mail.com do require cookies to be set to function. This can be subverted by allowing the cookie to be set but not stored, by making the cookie file read only.
THere's an informative chapter on User Tracking at the Web Tools Review. Have a gander at Erik Rossen's advice in the Reader's Comments section at the article's end.
raw cod annoy sumo
Press release and up you go.
At OFC2000 today, Nanovation displayed new optical switches, splitters and modulators.
From their press release:
"These switches, splitters and modulators are the first of what will be an extensive offering of integrated photonic components from Nanovation. These products will help businesses and consumers access the full power of all-optical communications in a cost-effective manner," said G. Robert Tatum, president and CEO of Nanovation. "Companies will now be able to build their own customized, optical integrated circuits, thanks to the advanced capabilities of Nanovation components."
Nanovation's new and revolutionary Nanoshutterä technology outperforms other optical switching products by providing a latching switch mechanism for reduced power, very wideband operation, and the ability to integrate these switches with other functional components. This innovative patent-pending technology combines silicon MEMS switches with a proprietary silica-on-silicon wave-guide process, which will enable Nanovation to offer optical components not only with substantial size and cost advantages, but unparalleled flexibility in optical systems architecture - all on a single integrated device.
The offerings from the switch family using Nanoshutterä technology include versions of the following:
Wide band 1X2 optical switch
Wide band 1X2 optical switch with integrated 5% monitoring taps
Wide band 2X2 optical switch
Wide band 2X2 optical switch with integrated 5% monitoring taps
Wide band 1X4 optical switch
Wide band 1X8 optical switch
Wide band 1X16 optical switch
Nanovation's new offerings for the 1310 nm and 1550 nm telecommunications bands include versions of the following members of the silica-on-silicon wave-guide splitters product family using NanoblockTM technology.
Single mode 1X8 wide band optical splitter
Single mode 1X16 wide band optical splitter
Single mode 2X8 wide band optical splitter
Single mode 2X16 wide band optical splitter
The company also demonstrated its 1550 nm high-speed switching technology using Indium Phosphide materials. First components planned around this technology include sub-nanosecond optical switches and high-speed modulators.
A listing of their product line is here. You can download the specs there in PostScript format.
I have been following this company with some interest since their mention on /. Q1 1999.
As I understand it, the degree of imaging quality is dependent on both the surface topography of the sample and that of the STM tip.
Basically, to improve the resolution of the STM and retard convolution, you need to reduce the radius of curvature of the tip as well as reducing its cone angle (think of the tip as a cylindrical wire with a cone at its apex). The aim is to have a single atom at the summit, in an orientation that negates any contribution from neighbouring atoms.
This comes out from the physics of quantum tunnelling where the tunnelling current is exponentially dependent on the separation between tip and sample. If you can engineer a single atom tip with a convolution negating orientation (say a single atom pillar that remains at a right angle to the sample topography at all times, no matter how bumpy the surface).
Or does it mean that the atom actually appears, at an atomic level, to be in both positions?
Remember collapsing the wavefunction on measurement? It's an observable event not a probability.
I've probably rambled on enough... As an aside I recently learnt about the great frank Zappa's take on chance -> you have a 50% chance of becoming homeless, either you do or you don't.
*cryptic comment* Particularly apt. */cryptic comment*
Some of his recent accomplishments include:
1) allowing Colonel Pinochet, the Chilean dictator and alleged perpetrator of crimes against humanity, to escape justice on the grounds that he is too frail to face the hardships of a court trial. This decision is further to a private medical report on Pinochet's condition, which by its nature seems pretty difficult to challenge.
What exactly about his mind/body is unable to sit through a trial? What are the odds of his staging a "miraculous" recovery upon arrival back to Chile, where he has immunity from prosecution?
2) then there's the case of his letting Mike Tyson, former heavyweight champion boxer, rapist of a teenager and ear gourmet into Britain. The UK law says that aliens convicted of a crime that would carry a prison sentence of 12 months in Britain are denied entry, unless on extreme compassionate grounds. Compassion towards Tyson not towards the British businesses who had invested in the fight!
3) there's the example of the alleged Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs who is accused of killing >30,000 civilians in Latvia during World War II. He was found living in a residential countryside home. Instead of prosecuting him, Straw allowed his deportation from the UK as he had *gasp* overstayed his 6 month visa.
It makes me *so* proud to be a part of such an ethical government. *sob* I'm choking up here.
Sorry to be so pedantic.
detect (d-tkt) v. tr. detected, detecting, detects.
1. To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of.
2. To discern the true nature or character of: detected malice behind the smile.
3. Electronics. To demodulate.
If someone finds the snake, ergo it is detected (from defn.1). As to not wanting to touch it, use an object(s) long enough to keep the snake away from striking distance.
Actually snakes do not have slimy skin. They have scales which are quite dry I assure you.
walk when Congress wanted to find out what all the money was being spent on
Congress was annoyed enough by this that it "has drafted a bill requiring it (the NSA) to
account for itself, while the House Government Reform Committee has decided
to grill NSA officials in hearings early next year."
For example, I can navigate links in a Webpage without a
mouse, move forward/back document windows, amble to
next/previous document in history and so on.
A list of shortcuts is available here.
Radio 4 does transmit a simultaneous broadcast on the Net. Unfortunately,
(1) as this page states:
We regret that, for rights reasons, we are not yet able to offer a full webcast service across the the Radio 4 schedule
(2) and of those programmes that are webcast, archived copies are only accessible to BBC researchers.
IMHO I think the only solution to this is to get /., or some similar site, to host discussions concerning wider topics of interest to us. We should be able to vote for people who arouse our curiousity. For instance, earlier today on the Radio 4 programme, In Touch, there was a lively debate about consciousness between Roger Penrose and a doubting physicist. Penrose is one of the chaps, the other being Stuart Hameroff, who have suggested that there a structures in the brain called microtubules where electron tunneling occurs [across Gap Junctions] between microtubules in each of two adjacent neurons. These microtubules are connected to each other by Microtubule Associated Proteins (MAPs). With these structures in mind Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff propose that Consciousness involves a Planck scale Collapse of Quantum Superpositions that they call Orch OR. More info here.
Penrose claims that there can be no artificial intelligence due to the purely mechanistic workings of automata. He called for more research into consciousness as a bridge between the micro - quantum physics and the macroscopic everyday world.