...surprise them when they're sleeping. Just like Batman. Except with less bats
If some arsehole steals my car and chases people down residential streets at 80mph, I'd want the police to use more bats! Apart from that, I agree with you.
I didn't say he's been generous with his income. Of course he could give more away, but he's already given more money than you or I am ever likely to earn (legally or otherwise).
Sorry, that's probably right! I'm tired and that was a rushed post!
It just annoys me that people here seem to think of Gates as an evil man trying to take over the world (which may or may not be true), when he has spent a lot of money trying to make a difference in the world.
He may not have done a lot of charity work with his own hands, but last time I heard, the Gates foundation has an endowment of something like $28 billion! That money has enabled a huge amount of work, and helped countless numbers of poeple accross the world.
I was thinking much the same thing, but if it was done right this could be a big boost to something like Bittorrent.
I don't use ITMS, so I don't know what the file sizes are like for their video downloads, but if people were willing to wait a little longer I guess it could work for DVD type videos too.
But at least Dundonians aren't a bunch of sheepshaggers.:)
Damn, thought I might get away without that one! (I was actually born in Inverness, but depending on who you believe the bestiality gets worse the further North you go! That's why I don't trust the "Islanders":) )
If you're an engineer, Aberdeen is pretty great. Being the oil capital of Britain and all! Not so much for software development though...
I quite like Aberdeen, but I don't really want be here for long after I graduate. Looking for a work placement for next year, hopefully I'll manage to find somewhere away from here!
I'm a third year Computing Science (A.I.) student. I was at my university careers fair today, and the most I can expect to earn as a starting graduate in the UK is in the area of £21,500 (~$38,000).
A friend of mine just graduated with a BSc Games Technology (Hons) degree at another univerisity in Scotland. He said only one of the 20 or so people who graduated this summer have found a job!
I think it would be quite interesting, but I don't know how much work is available afterwards. That, and it would mean spending four years in Dundee! Go Aberdeen!
Sorry to anyone that lives in Dundee. My friend told me that Dundee itself was the worst part of his university experience!
Q: Can I continue to eat chicken?
Yes. Experts say avian flu is not a food-borne virus, so eating chicken is safe.
The only people thought to be at risk are those involved in the slaughter and preparation of meat that may be infected.
However the World Health Organisation recommends to be absolutely safe, all meat should be cooked to a temperature of at least 70C. Eggs should also be thoroughly cooked.
Professor Hugh Pennington of Aberdeen University underlined the negligible risk to consumers: "The virus is carried in the chicken's gut.
"A person would have to dry out the chicken meat and would have to sniff the carcass to be at any risk. But even then, it would be very hard to become infected."
I have four different accounts (ISP, Gmail, general university and CS department email). It's much easier for me to set up POP3 access to each and check them all at the same time with one program.
All my mail is in the same place, and I can get at old email when I'm offline.
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RAID won't protect you from deleting your own data, or a malformed script trashing stuff.
Which is exactly why I prefer to use a DVD backup instead. I get free DVDs from my university, so I keep one backup in my flat in case I need it quickly and one at a friend's place for off-site storage. That way I'm also (more) protected from fire. If my machine goes up in flames it doesn't matter how many HDDs I have, they'll all be damaged, but at least with DVDs I can save my really important stuff.
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As a (poor) student, I find that I simply can't afford an extra hard drive! I got a 2nd hand DVD burner from a friend for £15 and backup all my really important stuff (Code for university, photos, etc) every week. All my MP3s go on another DVD along with the hard disk, and they're "backed up" on my MP3 player anyway.
As of yet I've never had a single hard disk failure... but I've not really got anything I'm bothered about losing, so RAID isn't worth it for me.
Schumacher's having a crap season this year. He's only scored 16 points from 7 races! In fact, the whole Ferrari team is piss poor compared to their usual form.
I've never really understood why people (who probably have a fairly modern PC) would be interested in a console system such as an XBox or PlayStation.
I used to think that, until my brother gave me his old PS2. I'm not a hardcore gamer, so I'm not too bothered about customisation and the like. I still use my PC for some games (FPS mostly), but it's just so much easier to come home from the pub with a bunch of mates, hit a switch and play.
Here's the article text anyway: Liquid-Metal Cooling Loop Technology for CPU and processor cooling,
for laptops, desktops, servers, and graphics cards
The ever increasing demands put on cooling solutions for semiconductor devices have never been greater than today and there are no indications that these requirements will diminish in the future. With higher power dissipation due to higher speed processors, ever increasing leakage losses and extremely high heat flux densities due to hot spots on the chip, the demand for advanced cooling solutions continues to increase.
Until recently the demand for advanced cooling solutions was reserved for a small fraction of the ICs produced. Today these needs are becoming pervasive. New CPUs in almost every application are starting to require more than just a heat sink and a fan, and the need is not just with the CPU. In a modern portable computer or server there are several different heat sources that require advanced cooling. One can easily imagine a CPU, GPU, power supply, and other heat sources that need to be cooled.
nanoCoolers has developed a unique approach to cooling these high power heat sources. Cooling with liquid metals has been used for decades in the nuclear reactor industry, but never before have the systems been miniaturized and developed specifically for computer cooling. nanoCoolers has developed solutions to address the high heat source issues for portable computers, desktop computers, servers and other electronic applications. Within each of these categories are specialized situations that have additional needs, such as the elevated temperature requirements for ruggedized computers, or the overclocking requirements from gamers. nanoCoolers' advanced liquid metal cooling solutions address each of these concerns.
Processor Cooling and CPU Cooling for Portable Computing
Each application has issues with high heat flux densities and high power dissipation, but each also has their own unique issues that need to be addressed. nanoCoolers' solution for portable computers not only solves the power dissipation and high heat flux densities with the use of a highly thermally conductive liquid metal but also allows the system to be completely orientation independent. Since our solution is a completely filled and sealed unit, there are no gravitational effects on the thermal solution and therefore on the computer itself. Our electromagnetic pump, consisting of magnets and electrodes allows for extremely small pumps with a variety of profiles. Since the pump has no moving parts, it is inherently reliable. In the future, advanced cooling solutions will be required in portable computers for cooling CPUs, GPUs, other ICs, power supplies and even fuel cells. Our technology lets the system designer determine how many heat sources they would like to cool and at what remote location they would like to dissipate the heat. Another trend for portable computers is to make the computer thinner. nanoCoolers' heat exchangers can be made extremely thin to allow for these design challenges. The heat can be efficiently removed from the heat source and then transported to a remote location where it can be rejected to ambient air. Finally, one of the most important issues with a portable computer is the battery life of the unit. nanoCoolers' thermal solution is not only very power efficient, it could also be designed to vary based on the amount of cooling needed. If the system is idling, the current to the pump could be reduced or even shut off. However, if the CPU is running at 100%, the pump current could be increased for maximum cooling. These attributes allow for system designers to be able to design the very best portable solution available.
CPU Cooling and Graphics Card Cooling for Desktop Computing
Desktop computers have many of the same issues as all CPU driven devices; high power dissipation and high heat densities. Our desktop soluti
...google is probably one of the first things you try when visiting that site.
...the first thing I looked up was the example solution to a high school coding exercise from the year before. Surprisingly enough, my younger brother is doing that same exercise right now... 3 years later!
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If some arsehole steals my car and chases people down residential streets at 80mph, I'd want the police to use more bats! Apart from that, I agree with you.
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OK, so the may in which Microsoft makes it's money is often questionable at best, but what you prefer he did with his "dirty" money?
Should he just sit on it in his mansion? Or should he fund vaccine research, for example.
I didn't say he's been generous with his income. Of course he could give more away, but he's already given more money than you or I am ever likely to earn (legally or otherwise).
Sorry, that's probably right! I'm tired and that was a rushed post!
It just annoys me that people here seem to think of Gates as an evil man trying to take over the world (which may or may not be true), when he has spent a lot of money trying to make a difference in the world.
He may not have done a lot of charity work with his own hands, but last time I heard, the Gates foundation has an endowment of something like $28 billion! That money has enabled a huge amount of work, and helped countless numbers of poeple accross the world.
Say whatever you like about Microsoft (I can't say I'm a big fan of them!), but you can't realy fault Bill Gates as a man.
I mean, how many billions of dollars have you given to charities and foundations?
Yeah... thought so.
I was thinking much the same thing, but if it was done right this could be a big boost to something like Bittorrent.
I don't use ITMS, so I don't know what the file sizes are like for their video downloads, but if people were willing to wait a little longer I guess it could work for DVD type videos too.
But at least Dundonians aren't a bunch of sheepshaggers. :)
Damn, thought I might get away without that one! (I was actually born in Inverness, but depending on who you believe the bestiality gets worse the further North you go! That's why I don't trust the "Islanders" :) )
If you're an engineer, Aberdeen is pretty great. Being the oil capital of Britain and all! Not so much for software development though...
I quite like Aberdeen, but I don't really want be here for long after I graduate. Looking for a work placement for next year, hopefully I'll manage to find somewhere away from here!
$60,000...Yeah, right!!
I'm a third year Computing Science (A.I.) student. I was at my university careers fair today, and the most I can expect to earn as a starting graduate in the UK is in the area of £21,500 (~$38,000).
A friend of mine just graduated with a BSc Games Technology (Hons) degree at another univerisity in Scotland. He said only one of the 20 or so people who graduated this summer have found a job!
I think it would be quite interesting, but I don't know how much work is available afterwards. That, and it would mean spending four years in Dundee! Go Aberdeen!
Sorry to anyone that lives in Dundee. My friend told me that Dundee itself was the worst part of his university experience!
Avian flu is dangerous because people get if from eating livestock and then spread it to other people.
From the BBC Health website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3422839.stm
Sorry, got distracted while writing the post. Didn't re-check the threads before posting.
Truly shameless. I wonder how much of a kickback Hemos got for this one.
Yeah, this is the sort of editing that makes Zonk look good!
http://www.eyeonmogs.com/
From a google search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Eye+On+MOGS &btnG=Google+Search&meta=/
I'm still using Thunderbird.
I have four different accounts (ISP, Gmail, general university and CS department email). It's much easier for me to set up POP3 access to each and check them all at the same time with one program.
All my mail is in the same place, and I can get at old email when I'm offline.
RAID won't protect you from deleting your own data, or a malformed script trashing stuff.
Which is exactly why I prefer to use a DVD backup instead. I get free DVDs from my university, so I keep one backup in my flat in case I need it quickly and one at a friend's place for off-site storage. That way I'm also (more) protected from fire. If my machine goes up in flames it doesn't matter how many HDDs I have, they'll all be damaged, but at least with DVDs I can save my really important stuff.
As a (poor) student, I find that I simply can't afford an extra hard drive! I got a 2nd hand DVD burner from a friend for £15 and backup all my really important stuff (Code for university, photos, etc) every week. All my MP3s go on another DVD along with the hard disk, and they're "backed up" on my MP3 player anyway.
As of yet I've never had a single hard disk failure... but I've not really got anything I'm bothered about losing, so RAID isn't worth it for me.
...kinda
Googling May Break Copyright in Canada3 14242&tid=95&tid=17/
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/13/2
It should be hard to prove he did it... I mean, his machine could have been compromised
I'm glad I don't have mod points... I wouldn't know whether to mod that Funny or Insightful...
AOL, the largest provider, had the most zombies
Sometimes jokes just write themselves...
It was featured on the BBC motoring program 'Top Gear' last week.
They had to build it from scratch instead of just modifying a base vehicle. It looks kind of like a big monster truck thing, pretty cool!
http://www.movieforums.com/news/277
I've had AMD64 Gentoo running for over a year.
Indeed, I've been running AMD64 Fedora 3 since it was released.
What about the 64-Bit version of Windows XP?
I'll believe you when it beats Michael Schumacher
Schumacher's having a crap season this year. He's only scored 16 points from 7 races! In fact, the whole Ferrari team is piss poor compared to their usual form.
http://www.itv-f1.com/Championship.aspx/
I've never really understood why people (who probably have a fairly modern PC) would be interested in a console system such as an XBox or PlayStation.
I used to think that, until my brother gave me his old PS2. I'm not a hardcore gamer, so I'm not too bothered about customisation and the like. I still use my PC for some games (FPS mostly), but it's just so much easier to come home from the pub with a bunch of mates, hit a switch and play.
Put all your Terminator 2 jokes here, please.
Can't think of any at the moment... but I'll be back!
It just looks like another advert to me...
Here's the article text anyway:
Liquid-Metal Cooling Loop Technology for CPU and processor cooling, for laptops, desktops, servers, and graphics cards
The ever increasing demands put on cooling solutions for semiconductor devices have never been greater than today and there are no indications that these requirements will diminish in the future. With higher power dissipation due to higher speed processors, ever increasing leakage losses and extremely high heat flux densities due to hot spots on the chip, the demand for advanced cooling solutions continues to increase.
Until recently the demand for advanced cooling solutions was reserved for a small fraction of the ICs produced. Today these needs are becoming pervasive. New CPUs in almost every application are starting to require more than just a heat sink and a fan, and the need is not just with the CPU. In a modern portable computer or server there are several different heat sources that require advanced cooling. One can easily imagine a CPU, GPU, power supply, and other heat sources that need to be cooled.
nanoCoolers has developed a unique approach to cooling these high power heat sources. Cooling with liquid metals has been used for decades in the nuclear reactor industry, but never before have the systems been miniaturized and developed specifically for computer cooling. nanoCoolers has developed solutions to address the high heat source issues for portable computers, desktop computers, servers and other electronic applications. Within each of these categories are specialized situations that have additional needs, such as the elevated temperature requirements for ruggedized computers, or the overclocking requirements from gamers. nanoCoolers' advanced liquid metal cooling solutions address each of these concerns.
Processor Cooling and CPU Cooling for Portable Computing
Each application has issues with high heat flux densities and high power dissipation, but each also has their own unique issues that need to be addressed. nanoCoolers' solution for portable computers not only solves the power dissipation and high heat flux densities with the use of a highly thermally conductive liquid metal but also allows the system to be completely orientation independent. Since our solution is a completely filled and sealed unit, there are no gravitational effects on the thermal solution and therefore on the computer itself. Our electromagnetic pump, consisting of magnets and electrodes allows for extremely small pumps with a variety of profiles. Since the pump has no moving parts, it is inherently reliable. In the future, advanced cooling solutions will be required in portable computers for cooling CPUs, GPUs, other ICs, power supplies and even fuel cells. Our technology lets the system designer determine how many heat sources they would like to cool and at what remote location they would like to dissipate the heat. Another trend for portable computers is to make the computer thinner. nanoCoolers' heat exchangers can be made extremely thin to allow for these design challenges. The heat can be efficiently removed from the heat source and then transported to a remote location where it can be rejected to ambient air. Finally, one of the most important issues with a portable computer is the battery life of the unit. nanoCoolers' thermal solution is not only very power efficient, it could also be designed to vary based on the amount of cooling needed. If the system is idling, the current to the pump could be reduced or even shut off. However, if the CPU is running at 100%, the pump current could be increased for maximum cooling. These attributes allow for system designers to be able to design the very best portable solution available.
CPU Cooling and Graphics Card Cooling for Desktop Computing
Desktop computers have many of the same issues as all CPU driven devices; high power dissipation and high heat densities. Our desktop soluti
...the first thing I looked up was the example solution to a high school coding exercise from the year before. Surprisingly enough, my younger brother is doing that same exercise right now... 3 years later!