Thanks for your input. We do have the tax holiday here in the spring and fall, mostly for people to buy school supplies. There are a very limited number of items that fall under that holiday, however. For computers, you have to buy a complete machine, under a certain dollar amount. Computer parts aren't included in the holiday.
Thanks for your input. To be honest, I may end up doing exactly that. I've used NewEgg before for small things, and I've always been happy. I was just hoping that there was more than one vendor in the world that was trustworthy.
Thanks. That's an interesting idea. I really wanted to geek out a little this time and build my own machine (I'm a software guy, and don't get down to the hardware level much). I'm even planning on getting an ASUS motherboard that lets you easily OC your system. . . but depending on how busy I get, it may be worthwhile to let someone else get the thing up and running, then let me play with the voltages and timings. . .
Thanks for your input. When its all said and done, I may end up with the Egg as well, for all the reasons you give. I just thought that there might be another online store out there that/.ers had vetted, and found to be good. Lots of people have had good things to say about mwave, I'll have to check that out.
Thanks for this input. Tigerdirect was one of the places that I had considered, and I had even priced out my components with them. I was able to duplicate almost exactly the same build as I had scoped out on NewEgg, and they were similar in price. But they're if they're a pain to deal with, that may be a deal breaker.
I hate to rain on this parade, it would be nice if we could help, but the imagery on such sites isn't updated in real time. I'm not sure about Google earth, but Google maps uses satellite images that are several years old. Unless by some chance a new image was taken since Monday and already sent to whichever system they are using, the best that we might be able to do is identify some of the older wrecks that they are finding during this search.
I heard of a similar idea (don't know if its been used). You download a program from a website, and you get a unique "program key" to unlock your unique version of the program. The key is your name, credit card number, and expiration date used to purchase said program. You're welcome to share it with anyone you like;-) This allow people fair use, with a big incentive for them to not share it with others (at least until the credit card expires ). The only downside I see is like a previous poster mentioned, that you can't buy something anonymously. If you mail order something its not really anonymous anyway (they have to have your address, etc), but it is a problem compared to buying a game with cash at Best Buy.
IANAPP (I am not a Particle Physicist) but I *DO* work at the SNS site. I'm a software engineer in their Beam Diagnostics group, and was in the contorol room on Friday when we met this milestone.
My basic understanding is that here we use our Linac to accelerate protons (H-). A minipuse sent down the linac is approx 700 ns long. They first go into an accumulator ring, and are "stacked" to increase the intensity of the pulse to target. On Friday we accumulated for around 180 pulses, design specs are for around 1000. Finally the the pulse is extracted from the ring and hits a target vessel filled with mercury. Again, IANAPP, but my understanding is that this intense pulse of protons only 700 ns long, hits the mecury, and "spalls" neutrons from the mercury atoms. Then as others have mentioned the neutrons are columnated and fly down different beam lines to be used in different refraction experiments (or they will be once this source is fully operational;-) . Bottom line is that the particles that we acclerate are not the ones that contribute neutrons. Once more, IANAPP, but it helps me to think of it as we're accelerating cue balls, and hitting a (3D) rack of billard balls.
You have provided a wonderfully rational argument that shows the futility of addressing any terrorist style attacks with more laws . . . unfortunately rationality seems to have a very low correlation government action.
This may not be possible, given the nature of the device, but can anyone give a non-physicist a clue how this is supposed to work? I understand that a qubit holds all possible states, but how do you get it to collapse to the one state that you want? i.e. how do you control it so that the end result is the answer to whatever problem you're trying to solve, not just one of the (# qubits)^2 other possible states?
I agree with almost all of your points except the last one. Your pricing is a bit low, once you take into account the couple of grand for a nice wide screen TV, plus more $$$ for dvd player and surround sound (if you want the same experience as the theatre). To get "movie quality" multimedia experience at home, you've got to be willing to drop some serious cash.
CRTs still give much better resolution per $ than LCDs. You have to be able to afford the desk space, but if that's not an issue, CRTs are still better bargain at this point. There is some modification of the "Good/Fast/Cheap choose 2" at work here, something like "Resolution/Cheap/Small choose 2".
As other posters have mentioned, there are plenty of other reasons to still prefer CRTs.
(Slightly off topic) I just got 2 x 21" Viewsonic G810-4s at a used property auction for $25 a piece, and am running them dual. (I can afford the desk space). To get 2 LCDs that support 1600 X 1200 even used would be many many times my $50 investment.
When I co-oped @ the Brown's Ferry Nuclear Plant (you know the one that had the worst accident in the US until 3-Mile came along), the belief was that the NRC required a weight of original reports equal to the weight of the reactor vessel before we could re-start the reactor. There's just something about a bureaucracy that LOVES paper . . . But it IS comforting to know when you live near the reactor that they are crossing all the t's and dotting all the i's.
I'm sure the same is true for the guys that are gonna strap themselves into that thing and go for a ride.
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Thanks for your input. We do have the tax holiday here in the spring and fall, mostly for people to buy school supplies. There are a very limited number of items that fall under that holiday, however. For computers, you have to buy a complete machine, under a certain dollar amount. Computer parts aren't included in the holiday.
Thanks for your input. To be honest, I may end up doing exactly that. I've used NewEgg before for small things, and I've always been happy. I was just hoping that there was more than one vendor in the world that was trustworthy.
Thanks. That's an interesting idea. I really wanted to geek out a little this time and build my own machine (I'm a software guy, and don't get down to the hardware level much). I'm even planning on getting an ASUS motherboard that lets you easily OC your system. . . but depending on how busy I get, it may be worthwhile to let someone else get the thing up and running, then let me play with the voltages and timings. . .
I lived in Memphis for about a year growing up (a long time ago :-D) but now I'm in Knoxville.
Thanks for your input. When its all said and done, I may end up with the Egg as well, for all the reasons you give. I just thought that there might be another online store out there that /.ers had vetted, and found to be good. Lots of people have had good things to say about mwave, I'll have to check that out.
Thanks for this input. Tigerdirect was one of the places that I had considered, and I had even priced out my components with them. I was able to duplicate almost exactly the same build as I had scoped out on NewEgg, and they were similar in price. But they're if they're a pain to deal with, that may be a deal breaker.
Thanks for correcting me, I didn't know they published scans that quickly.
I hate to rain on this parade, it would be nice if we could help, but the imagery on such sites isn't updated in real time. I'm not sure about Google earth, but Google maps uses satellite images that are several years old. Unless by some chance a new image was taken since Monday and already sent to whichever system they are using, the best that we might be able to do is identify some of the older wrecks that they are finding during this search.
I heard of a similar idea (don't know if its been used). You download a program from a website, and you get a unique "program key" to unlock your unique version of the program. The key is your name, credit card number, and expiration date used to purchase said program. You're welcome to share it with anyone you like ;-) This allow people fair use, with a big incentive for them to not share it with others (at least until the credit card expires ). The only downside I see is like a previous poster mentioned, that you can't buy something anonymously. If you mail order something its not really anonymous anyway (they have to have your address, etc), but it is a problem compared to buying a game with cash at Best Buy.
IANAPP (I am not a Particle Physicist) but I *DO* work at the SNS site. I'm a software engineer in their Beam Diagnostics group, and was in the contorol room on Friday when we met this milestone. My basic understanding is that here we use our Linac to accelerate protons (H-). A minipuse sent down the linac is approx 700 ns long. They first go into an accumulator ring, and are "stacked" to increase the intensity of the pulse to target. On Friday we accumulated for around 180 pulses, design specs are for around 1000. Finally the the pulse is extracted from the ring and hits a target vessel filled with mercury. Again, IANAPP, but my understanding is that this intense pulse of protons only 700 ns long, hits the mecury, and "spalls" neutrons from the mercury atoms. Then as others have mentioned the neutrons are columnated and fly down different beam lines to be used in different refraction experiments (or they will be once this source is fully operational ;-) . Bottom line is that the particles that we acclerate are not the ones that contribute neutrons. Once more, IANAPP, but it helps me to think of it as we're accelerating cue balls, and hitting a (3D) rack of billard balls.
You have provided a wonderfully rational argument that shows the futility of addressing any terrorist style attacks with more laws . . . unfortunately rationality seems to have a very low correlation government action.
This may not be possible, given the nature of the device, but can anyone give a non-physicist a clue how this is supposed to work? I understand that a qubit holds all possible states, but how do you get it to collapse to the one state that you want? i.e. how do you control it so that the end result is the answer to whatever problem you're trying to solve, not just one of the (# qubits)^2 other possible states?
I agree with almost all of your points except the last one. Your pricing is a bit low, once you take into account the couple of grand for a nice wide screen TV, plus more $$$ for dvd player and surround sound (if you want the same experience as the theatre). To get "movie quality" multimedia experience at home, you've got to be willing to drop some serious cash.
They claim that its their money, and if you'd send a check for $126,155.29, nobody will get sued. . .
CRTs still give much better resolution per $ than LCDs. You have to be able to afford the desk space, but if that's not an issue, CRTs are still better bargain at this point. There is some modification of the "Good/Fast/Cheap choose 2" at work here, something like "Resolution/Cheap/Small choose 2". As other posters have mentioned, there are plenty of other reasons to still prefer CRTs. (Slightly off topic) I just got 2 x 21" Viewsonic G810-4s at a used property auction for $25 a piece, and am running them dual. (I can afford the desk space). To get 2 LCDs that support 1600 X 1200 even used would be many many times my $50 investment.
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When I co-oped @ the Brown's Ferry Nuclear Plant (you know the one that had the worst accident in the US until 3-Mile came along), the belief was that the NRC required a weight of original reports equal to the weight of the reactor vessel before we could re-start the reactor. There's just something about a bureaucracy that LOVES paper . . . But it IS comforting to know when you live near the reactor that they are crossing all the t's and dotting all the i's. I'm sure the same is true for the guys that are gonna strap themselves into that thing and go for a ride.