The article describes this software in all respects to be a Noise-canceling program, which it is most definitely not. I downloaded Chatter Blocker demo, and was greeted with this window. This program may be for some people, but the article labels it as a completely different animal. And yes, it is a white noise (and other noise) generator
As any race like that between AMD and Intel goes, there is an ebb and tide that goes on between them. It wasn't until just recently that AMD's opteron, X2 and FX lines of chips were top of the class when it came to their prospective markets. However now with Core 2 Duo out, and Core Quadro just coming down the chute, Intel has gained significant ground on AMD. That's the way this industry works, one comes out ahead for a while, and then the competitor surges ahead. I wouldn't be surprised to see AMD back in the lead in a year or two with their new 65nm process and 4-way chip
So the big, bad SCO decided to try an scare their victims with a long trial, and in doing so reaching an out-of-court settlement. SCO is now getting a taste of what they were threatening, a long trial. However, it is their ass that is getting whooped, not IBM's as they had hoped. Ohhh the Irony!!
another really easy method is to build in a tiny, one-chip radio receiver inside the mp3-player and tune it to a very little-used frequency. The antenna only has to be long enough to get some good white noise. Radio static is more than random enough to seed a mp3 player.
It is possible to buy a commercial wind turbine, however for someone like myself and others out there, it is possible to save a fair amount of money by building a wind tubine homebrew (like the one desribed in the Otherpower.com link above out of a trashed Volvo). The basic permenent-magnet wind turbine is a simple design, which is fairly easy to build. The money for the parts of a moderate sized wind turbine will be definitally alot cheaper than a professionally designed, commercial package. While a homebrew turbine may not have gone through rigorous wind tunnel tests, computer models and the like, it will do the job, which is to generate electricity.
The power drain of Folding@home on a GPU is not worth worrying about in comparison to the millions of people who play high-end graphics games using their GPU. Even if it is 80 watts for running Folding@home, at the very least it is doing some good, which is more than what can be said for those high-end grapics games. (ducks)
First, this isn't about a battery with a 100x higher energy density. That would be a major breakthrough. It's about one with a high peak power, for surge applications. That's a specialty item
This new battery/capacitor hybrid can be used for long term usage. It is not only for short surges. I quote TFA:
The result is a hybrid. Like a capacitor, the battery can be rapidly charged then discharged to deliver power. Like a battery, it can store and deliver that charge over long periods of time. During performance testing, the new battery performed like a hybrid, too. It had twice the storage capacity of an electric double-layer capacitor. And it delivered more than 100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery.
I can see women who hate their husbands going through nasty divorces and blaming their husbands with having raped them. Even if the other grounds for divorce are legitamite, they could be placed on this "potential sex offender" list and be denied jobs left and right. Divorce lawyers rejoice.
Diebold is Soooo 2004. Flaky results, mystery errors, no paper trail are things of 2004. Diebold, thou have cheated death with continuing on to the 2006 Congressional elections. Thou should and shall die, and not exist beyond the hand of death. Death to flaky results! We need a version of the Office Space Copier Beatdown with one of these Diebold voting machines.
The idea of vegatable-oil submersion definitally works for the motherboard, pci-boards, etc. without any mods. However things like powersupply and hard-drive would require a bit more extra care. You could submerge the hard-drive for instance by covering it in some sort of leak-proof -thermally conductive container, and then silicone the hole where the wires come out.
you do realize as well that many people in America are workaholics, and if they are on a tight budget, they may simply work through their opportunity. In that case making voting day a vacation would force these people to leave their work.
Even if they are given full paid time off for voting, some people may try to emphasize their loyalty to their employers by working through it. In their minds they think working through breaks, taking no vactions (even paid), etc. will get them up another rung on the latter, and therefore increase their paycheck.
The Motorola Q is quite apptly named for such a distinguished race of beins as "The Q". The Q need a communicator that is very agile and capable to match their omnipotentance, and of course the Blackberry won't cut it without its video and camera. Humph.
Note that the policy you link to has this line on the top of it: "Effective 06/16/06"
The article says that the new policy will be effective Friday, and since the article was published today, this equates to this upcoming Friday, 06/23/06. This probably means that the author of the article somehow got his hands on a copy of the new policy and that we'll have to wait til Friday to see it on the SBC frontpage, UNLESS they have it buried somewhere's in their press release statements.
if the other telcos started doing the same thing. In the beginning they simply said all their interactions were "classified" with the governement, building a huge smokescreen with which to hide behind. Now they have to deal with lawsuits, and they slip this into their privacy statement to stymie the 'suits. Knowing how telcos really like to avoid such suits I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T has started a fad.
Why restrict to a certain engine? There are several possible reasons for this:
One: As you said, it's advertising for one of their biggest sponsers, Briggs & Stratton.
Two: Limiting all teams to a standard engine focuses the contest on designing a super efficient body. It gives a somewhat scientific control to the "experiment" of the race you could say.
Three: It may (possibly) be a deterrent for the teams to not cop out and buy a super duper-efficient experimental engine from some no-name company and call it as their own.
"but until now it has been too expensive and too difficult for many people to use effectively"
and what about the site licence needed for this baby, huh? For us mere basement-cluster builders, there is a cheaper, open source alternative: The OSCAR Project ( Open Source Cluster Application Resources). Yes, it runs on Linux, but it is a nearly step-by-step system of setting up HPC-level clusters. It is being used on many 100+ CPU High Performance Clusters around the world, and it is free without those pesky site licences.
" If you have a liquid that is supersaturated with gas (like soda, which is pumped full of carbon dioxide), a nucleation site is a place where the gas is able to form bubbles. Nucleation sites can be scratches on a surface or specks of dust - anywhere that you have a high surface area in a very small volume. That's where bubbles can form."
Call me crazy, but what about using small bits of carbon aerogel? I know its expensive, but with 600 m^2/g of surface area, it would be a perfect canadate!
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The article describes this software in all respects to be a Noise-canceling program, which it is most definitely not. I downloaded Chatter Blocker demo, and was greeted with this window. This program may be for some people, but the article labels it as a completely different animal. And yes, it is a white noise (and other noise) generator
Maybe in a while when the price goes down from 500+ will I take a look at it.
As any race like that between AMD and Intel goes, there is an ebb and tide that goes on between them. It wasn't until just recently that AMD's opteron, X2 and FX lines of chips were top of the class when it came to their prospective markets. However now with Core 2 Duo out, and Core Quadro just coming down the chute, Intel has gained significant ground on AMD. That's the way this industry works, one comes out ahead for a while, and then the competitor surges ahead. I wouldn't be surprised to see AMD back in the lead in a year or two with their new 65nm process and 4-way chip
So the big, bad SCO decided to try an scare their victims with a long trial, and in doing so reaching an out-of-court settlement. SCO is now getting a taste of what they were threatening, a long trial. However, it is their ass that is getting whooped, not IBM's as they had hoped. Ohhh the Irony!!
"Intel has lunched a unique guerrilla marketing campaign for their new dual-core processor."
I really wish I could be at that luncheon
another really easy method is to build in a tiny, one-chip radio receiver inside the mp3-player and tune it to a very little-used frequency. The antenna only has to be long enough to get some good white noise. Radio static is more than random enough to seed a mp3 player.
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Boiled down to one sentence: Cut and Paste. There.
It is possible to buy a commercial wind turbine, however for someone like myself and others out there, it is possible to save a fair amount of money by building a wind tubine homebrew (like the one desribed in the Otherpower.com link above out of a trashed Volvo). The basic permenent-magnet wind turbine is a simple design, which is fairly easy to build. The money for the parts of a moderate sized wind turbine will be definitally alot cheaper than a professionally designed, commercial package. While a homebrew turbine may not have gone through rigorous wind tunnel tests, computer models and the like, it will do the job, which is to generate electricity.
The power drain of Folding@home on a GPU is not worth worrying about in comparison to the millions of people who play high-end graphics games using their GPU. Even if it is 80 watts for running Folding@home, at the very least it is doing some good, which is more than what can be said for those high-end grapics games. (ducks)
First, this isn't about a battery with a 100x higher energy density. That would be a major breakthrough. It's about one with a high peak power, for surge applications. That's a specialty item
This new battery/capacitor hybrid can be used for long term usage. It is not only for short surges. I quote TFA:
The result is a hybrid. Like a capacitor, the battery can be rapidly charged then discharged to deliver power. Like a battery, it can store and deliver that charge over long periods of time. During performance testing, the new battery performed like a hybrid, too. It had twice the storage capacity of an electric double-layer capacitor. And it delivered more than 100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery.
I can see women who hate their husbands going through nasty divorces and blaming their husbands with having raped them. Even if the other grounds for divorce are legitamite, they could be placed on this "potential sex offender" list and be denied jobs left and right. Divorce lawyers rejoice.
Fe, Fi, Force, Fum, I smell the blood of a grammer nazi...
Diebold is Soooo 2004. Flaky results, mystery errors, no paper trail are things of 2004. Diebold, thou have cheated death with continuing on to the 2006 Congressional elections. Thou should and shall die, and not exist beyond the hand of death. Death to flaky results! We need a version of the Office Space Copier Beatdown with one of these Diebold voting machines.
The idea of vegatable-oil submersion definitally works for the motherboard, pci-boards, etc. without any mods. However things like powersupply and hard-drive would require a bit more extra care. You could submerge the hard-drive for instance by covering it in some sort of leak-proof -thermally conductive container, and then silicone the hole where the wires come out.
you do realize as well that many people in America are workaholics, and if they are on a tight budget, they may simply work through their opportunity. In that case making voting day a vacation would force these people to leave their work.
Even if they are given full paid time off for voting, some people may try to emphasize their loyalty to their employers by working through it. In their minds they think working through breaks, taking no vactions (even paid), etc. will get them up another rung on the latter, and therefore increase their paycheck.
The Motorola Q is quite apptly named for such a distinguished race of beins as "The Q". The Q need a communicator that is very agile and capable to match their omnipotentance, and of course the Blackberry won't cut it without its video and camera. Humph.
Apperently the Shinese dog breed have taken over the government of China Hopefully they will be kind to their previous masters.
The article says that the new policy will be effective Friday, and since the article was published today, this equates to this upcoming Friday, 06/23/06. This probably means that the author of the article somehow got his hands on a copy of the new policy and that we'll have to wait til Friday to see it on the SBC frontpage, UNLESS they have it buried somewhere's in their press release statements.
for some reason. "Chesnuts roasting on an open fire..." and it isn't even Christmas!
if the other telcos started doing the same thing. In the beginning they simply said all their interactions were "classified" with the governement, building a huge smokescreen with which to hide behind. Now they have to deal with lawsuits, and they slip this into their privacy statement to stymie the 'suits. Knowing how telcos really like to avoid such suits I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T has started a fad.
One: As you said, it's advertising for one of their biggest sponsers, Briggs & Stratton.
Two: Limiting all teams to a standard engine focuses the contest on designing a super efficient body. It gives a somewhat scientific control to the "experiment" of the race you could say.
Three: It may (possibly) be a deterrent for the teams to not cop out and buy a super duper-efficient experimental engine from some no-name company and call it as their own.
[lol] Yep, you'll need half the cluster just to run the Aero interface! [/lol]
and what about the site licence needed for this baby, huh? For us mere basement-cluster builders, there is a cheaper, open source alternative: The OSCAR Project ( Open Source Cluster Application Resources). Yes, it runs on Linux, but it is a nearly step-by-step system of setting up HPC-level clusters. It is being used on many 100+ CPU High Performance Clusters around the world, and it is free without those pesky site licences.
" If you have a liquid that is supersaturated with gas (like soda, which is pumped full of carbon dioxide), a nucleation site is a place where the gas is able to form bubbles. Nucleation sites can be scratches on a surface or specks of dust - anywhere that you have a high surface area in a very small volume. That's where bubbles can form."
Call me crazy, but what about using small bits of carbon aerogel? I know its expensive, but with 600 m^2/g of surface area, it would be a perfect canadate!