A new thermoelectric material is 2.4X as efficient as best existing materials. The new solid state heat pumps can provide 700 watts of cooling (nearly one horsepower) with just one square centimeter. These new materials have the potential to replace current heat sinks, thermoelectric generators and mechanical heat pumps.
Just means more overclocking potential.;)
Hrm. One superconductor, plus a heat sink the size of my car, plus that liquid nitrogen pump, and I might just get Win2k to load in under a minute. Wow.
Ah, I love it when people read one thing, and assume the worst.
Or just totally are morons, like yourself.
I don't have a single problem with Air marshalls, security checks at airports, background checks on people entering the country, long customs lines, fuck-all annoying immigration checks or anything like that.
I have a SIGNIFICANT problem with invasion of my privacy.
I don't have a problem with Carnivore -- provided that its used WITH a warrant.
I don't have a problem with face recogniztion -- as long as I don't get mistaken for anyone. Simply the fact that someone DID get mistaken for the test face (and he was detained, as I recall, but released) proves that invasion of this kind is a Bad Thing.
Freedom of speech was meant to regard speaking about the government in a uncomplimentary manner. Well, dammit, I don't want to get fucking arrested, or even questioned -- not because it violates my rights, but because it bloody well violates my paycheck!
This is what we call trolling. Get a login, stop hiding behind AC, and say who you are so this can be debated properly.
To be honest? Your friend probably did something STUPID. Or, fit MORE than just a physical profile. Was he evasive? Beligerant? Making bomb jokes?
(not to mention that I sincerly doubt that even the Israeli government blindfolds and handcuffs random innocent people without provaction just based on appearance. That is what generally provokes other governments to raise great big nasty stinks.)
And what if you LOOK like someone who has committed a crime?
And what if someone steals your license plate, and YOU Get the fine?
Both have happened already. The 'test' face used for the face-recogniztion software pinged on a man in Florida -- who wasn't a criminal. He just happened to look like a test face.
Well, it's far harder when you just don't give a damn.;)
The email program I use has two types of return reciepts. One for 'mail has arrived in this person's mailbox' and one for "Hey, the person you sent this to actually bothered to open it/read it"
Most of the people I email aren't techs, and so aren't naturally paranoid. Techs require an entirely totally different set of skills if you're inclined to track one down who doesn't want to be found.
I'm on.. probably 9 or 10 email lists, plus my work email forwards to my home email addy, plus I, like everyone else, get a metric assload of spam, plus I'm in a very active online community.
and I get probably.. 50-60 emails a day at work if I'm testing something.
I learned a long, long time ago that it was filters or nothing. So all my mailing lists get filtered twice -- once for which list they're on, and once for Content that I'm actually interested in.
Work email gets filtered by various criteria, personal email gets dumped into a few folders "Family" "Stupid forwards from friends" "Mail from the Significant Ogre, respond Immediatly".
Yeah, some email goes unread for a week or more -- but its generally unimportant foo that can WAIT.
Subordinates who refuse to make decisions on their own -- they get FIRED. Putting up with it isn't a sign of email taking over the world, its the sign that you're a crappy manager.
And, -everything- has an away message in one form or another. Voicemail, answering machine, auto-responders for email, away message for IM. Technology hasn't become more intrusive, people just don't bother using the options they've been given. AS USUAL.
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I admit freely that I'll IM my roommate rather than shout across the house to get his attention, or get up and get him. It's not only easier, but its less intrusive.
I'll use email over the phone sometimes, because I know that email is 24/7, and I've got friends on weird schedules because of work. Far less intrusive.
And as for the "I never got you email' excuse - hey, that's what return reciepts are for.
Uh-huh. You may want to send that to www.snopes.com then, since THEY insist that it doens't happen, and they're leading source for debunking Urban Legends.
Send them your ticket, and proof that you got it FROM the toll operator at the turnpike, and they'll happily recinde their statement that it has not ever happened.
Um, no, cluephone. The Story of Icarus is a GREEK MYTH. It has shit-all to do with the Christian Mythos, and everything to do with the Greek/Roman Mythos.
Icarus was the son of an inventor named Daedalus who invented those wings so that they could escape being imprisoned by the King of Minos, who had Daedalus build and design the Great Labryinth to house the Minotaur.
Daudalus built the wings of feathers and wax, and warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun, or the water. Icarus, being a typical teenage boy, ignored his dad, the wax on his wings melted and he fell into the sea and drowned.
No Jesus. NO Christian God, no Yahweh, no Allah. ZEUS, Posiedon, and the bloody minotaur.
Sheesh, preach all you like, but get your damn stories straight.
Pot, LSD, some of the less harmful, less addictive drugs (which... for some bizarre reason, always got the attention of my teachers and other adults figures. We heard about the Evils of Pot, and the Evils of Acid -- but never "Look, if you take crack, you'll end up a jobless prostitite ho inside a year.") -- anyawy, I digress... less addictive drugs that the dealers may very well have other reasons for selling.
And because I generally consider them harmless but not to my taste (done pot, didn't really like it. Not doin' acid, I'v got lack of sleep if I want to see weird stuff), I didn't lump them in with the folks selling crack cocaine and heroin
Does "having the really good luck to have a staff that gave me +3 to my Lightening Bolt" and "Insane cold resistance out the wazoo due to armor AND a ring" count as a strategy?
If so, that's what I did.;)
I died once or twice trying to kill him, got annoyed, ran around, leveled a few times, and managed to get some armor and a weapon that was good in whacking his sorry annoying ass.
And IMO, he's the MOST annoying boss. I had an easier time with Diablo himself than Duriel, although that may have been due to the character I was playing.
've got a barbarian now that's just awesome who's about to go take him on though.
Okay, I ride Amtrak pretty often. I buy my tickets online about half the time with my ever-so-handy-Mister Visa.
My boyfriend does the same. (Rides, buys online, yadda, yadda).
I'm working for a company that sends people to New York on a DAMNED regular basis. And up until a week ago, none of those folks even tried to buy the tickets online, and it only took a mandate fron on high by the Human Relations people to make them start doing it.
When you buy a ticket online, they get your name, address, phone number, all that great info.
But they don't know when you'll be on the train, unless you buy a reserved ticket.
And unless you go to the counter with your photo ID to pick it up, they have no idea of knowing where you might be to pick up yout ticket.
Union Station, in Washington DC has about 10 of those little ATM-type machines where you stick in the credit card, and *poof* out pops your ticket.
And I suppose they could watch them easily. Very easily.
I also suppose it would be extremly easy for a suspected drug dealer to have his cronie or 'bitch' go get the ticket FOR him. All you need is that little plastic card and the pin number, and if your drug dealer is smart enough to know how to get tickets online, he's most likely smart enough to send a cronie (or "bitch") to go get his ticket FOR him.
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Which brings me to my second conclusion.
How many drug dealers do you know who have computers, internet accounts, and credit cards in their name -- and who are STUPID enough to think they can't be traced?
How many drug dealers realistically buy things WITH A credit card? Cash, baby. And if its cash, they can't trace you.
All this will do -- is weed out the STUPID drug dealers, and leave the smart ones still around to sell more drugs and make a larger amount of money off the morons who get hooked on crack.
Look, you dolt. The ORINGAL post, and subsequent OTHERS said that the companies were demanding rights to *EVERYTHING* the employee produced, inclusing developments OFF company time.
Learn to read and then get in tune with the rest of us.
I've had two kids. (they are not 3 and 5) -- BOTH with complications. (Premature labor, and lung problems with the first, induced labor b/c of water breaking with the second) -- my son (teh first) required a 3 day stay in the NeoNatal ICU.
My total bill for each was less than 5,000 -- and I had NO insurance at the time.
IF you're going to present an arguement, get correct information, please.
Its nice to know that I and my friends aren't the only ones who used to do this.
Up until about2 years ago, friends of mine and I would skulk around the old Beta properties in Abderdeen, Maryland.
Old, abandoned hotel -- it'd probably been closed for close to 25 years when we were poking around it.
Several rowhome-style houses - Some that had been closed no more than 2 years previous, some that had been abandoned for over 10 years.
And a old large (5 or 6 bedroom) house that was owned by the Beta family.
We ended up finding all kinds of interesting stuff -- old magazines, scraps of note paper (never anything really interesting on them though)
The buildings were torn down about, I think a year or two ago, but before they tore them down, we mamanged to get in with a video camera and a large flashlight (It helped that the one friend who did this with us was a member of the local volunteer firefighters, so we had a badge to show if the police arrived) (They didn't, but it was nice to have that 'safety net')
Now I live near Quantico, Virginia, and I've ALWAYS wanted to go skulking around there, there HAD To be some good exploration type stuff - but the Marines don't take kindly to that sort of thing.:)
But the professor can download porn from HOME, provided his admuinistration are being dicks and refuse to let him download it For A Good Reason from work.
Sexually explicit is defined as any depiction or description of ``sexual excitement,'' ``sexual conduct,'' or ``a lewd exhibition of nudity.''
Sexual excitement,conduct or a LEWD exhibition of nudity.
I don't really see proctology being exciting, sexual or lewd.
Nor are STD's, pregnancy, or any of the other countless legitmate things we can look up on the 'net that have some minor connection to sex.
Be realistic, guys. PLEASE.
Now, as for, oh, the study of adult art, or porn through the ages (Digression - why, oh, why do you spell it pr0n? )
Professors or other state employees must get written permission from their agency heads before accessing sexually explicit material.
There ya go. No longer a problem, and its in the article that is linked from slashdot.
I can't see a hospital DENYING permission for a doctor to look up penile dysfunction on the web.
And while I can see a university refusing to let a professor look up porn, its probably because he's being contraversial. And then he can look it up From Home. Just like the rest of us.
I don't see the tech industry, or ANY large industry as being racist in and of itself.
One person can be racist -- but is that the fault of the company? No. Its the fault of the managers.
On another note.
Yes, many people of the previous generation aren't pushing minorities (blacks, women, hispanics, gays, what-EVER) into the tech field.
It happened to me, I was told "Women don't DO that. Its not proper" (Ah, Catholic school. Ah. Nuns. And they wonder why I don't do the God thing anymore)
However, I was smart and strong enough to get PAST it. To tell them "Bugger off, I'll do what I like, see if I don't!" -- And because of it, I have the chance to encourage younger girls to get into the tech field.
We don't need lawsuits. We don't need court-crap and quotas, because ALL they do is make the rest of us think "Well, you were too pathetic to see the train before it hit you and get out and find someplace that WOULD promote you."
This isn't the 1800's. Or the 1900's for that matter. We aren't seeing people get lynched for hiring a black man, or a woman. We don't have Jim Crow laws.
Yes, we have subvertive means of the same things. But we're a DAMN Sight better off than we were 50, 100 years ago.
What we need now is for the people in the industry to speak up, to tell the kids, teenagers today that they CAN do it if they want to. That its not wrong, or bad, or 'unfeminine' or 'white' or "Not keeping it real".
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A new thermoelectric material is 2.4X as efficient as best existing materials. The new solid state heat pumps can provide 700 watts of cooling (nearly one horsepower) with just one square centimeter. These new materials have the potential to replace current heat sinks, thermoelectric generators and mechanical heat pumps. Just means more overclocking potential. ;)
Hrm. One superconductor, plus a heat sink the size of my car, plus that liquid nitrogen pump, and I might just get Win2k to load in under a minute. Wow.
Ah, I love it when people read one thing, and assume the worst.
Or just totally are morons, like yourself.
I don't have a single problem with Air marshalls, security checks at airports, background checks on people entering the country, long customs lines, fuck-all annoying immigration checks or anything like that.
I have a SIGNIFICANT problem with invasion of my privacy.
I don't have a problem with Carnivore -- provided that its used WITH a warrant.
I don't have a problem with face recogniztion -- as long as I don't get mistaken for anyone. Simply the fact that someone DID get mistaken for the test face (and he was detained, as I recall, but released) proves that invasion of this kind is a Bad Thing.
Freedom of speech was meant to regard speaking about the government in a uncomplimentary manner. Well, dammit, I don't want to get fucking arrested, or even questioned -- not because it violates my rights, but because it bloody well violates my paycheck!
Uh-huh.
This is what we call trolling. Get a login, stop hiding behind AC, and say who you are so this can be debated properly.
To be honest? Your friend probably did something STUPID. Or, fit MORE than just a physical profile. Was he evasive? Beligerant? Making bomb jokes?
(not to mention that I sincerly doubt that even the Israeli government blindfolds and handcuffs random innocent people without provaction just based on appearance. That is what generally provokes other governments to raise great big nasty stinks.)
Um.. you are aware that a great many citizens of Isreal share the same physical characteristics as citizens of Palestine.
They -cannot- physically profile there because half their population looks middle eastern.
And what if you LOOK like someone who has committed a crime?
And what if someone steals your license plate, and YOU Get the fine?
Both have happened already. The 'test' face used for the face-recogniztion software pinged on a man in Florida -- who wasn't a criminal. He just happened to look like a test face.
And license plates get stolen ALL THE TIME.
Untrue. There are many classes in flying commerical airliners in existance.
Well, it's far harder when you just don't give a damn. ;)
The email program I use has two types of return reciepts. One for 'mail has arrived in this person's mailbox' and one for "Hey, the person you sent this to actually bothered to open it/read it"
Most of the people I email aren't techs, and so aren't naturally paranoid. Techs require an entirely totally different set of skills if you're inclined to track one down who doesn't want to be found.
I'm on .. probably 9 or 10 email lists, plus my work email forwards to my home email addy, plus I, like everyone else, get a metric assload of spam, plus I'm in a very active online community.
and I get probably.. 50-60 emails a day at work if I'm testing something.
I learned a long, long time ago that it was filters or nothing. So all my mailing lists get filtered twice -- once for which list they're on, and once for Content that I'm actually interested in.
Work email gets filtered by various criteria, personal email gets dumped into a few folders "Family" "Stupid forwards from friends" "Mail from the Significant Ogre, respond Immediatly".
Yeah, some email goes unread for a week or more -- but its generally unimportant foo that can WAIT.
Subordinates who refuse to make decisions on their own -- they get FIRED. Putting up with it isn't a sign of email taking over the world, its the sign that you're a crappy manager.
And, -everything- has an away message in one form or another. Voicemail, answering machine, auto-responders for email, away message for IM. Technology hasn't become more intrusive, people just don't bother using the options they've been given. AS USUAL.
--
I admit freely that I'll IM my roommate rather than shout across the house to get his attention, or get up and get him. It's not only easier, but its less intrusive.
I'll use email over the phone sometimes, because I know that email is 24/7, and I've got friends on weird schedules because of work. Far less intrusive.
And as for the "I never got you email' excuse - hey, that's what return reciepts are for.
Uh-huh. You may want to send that to www.snopes.com then, since THEY insist that it doens't happen, and they're leading source for debunking Urban Legends.
Send them your ticket, and proof that you got it FROM the toll operator at the turnpike, and they'll happily recinde their statement that it has not ever happened.
Poor little no puppy toe!
No, they aren't. Urban Legend.
Its NEVER happened. Not yet anyway.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Yeah, but you're AC, and I'm not. ;) I browse at Level 2, didn't see your post.
Which again, proves why it is bad to be AC.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Um, no, cluephone. The Story of Icarus is a GREEK MYTH. It has shit-all to do with the Christian Mythos, and everything to do with the Greek/Roman Mythos.
Icarus was the son of an inventor named Daedalus who invented those wings so that they could escape being imprisoned by the King of Minos, who had Daedalus build and design the Great Labryinth to house the Minotaur.
Daudalus built the wings of feathers and wax, and warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun, or the water. Icarus, being a typical teenage boy, ignored his dad, the wax on his wings melted and he fell into the sea and drowned.
No Jesus. NO Christian God, no Yahweh, no Allah. ZEUS, Posiedon, and the bloody minotaur.
Sheesh, preach all you like, but get your damn stories straight.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Hey, they can only track you if you leave the microchip IN your skull.
;)
Remove it and you're home free.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Okay, point well and truly made.
... for some bizarre reason, always got the attention of my teachers and other adults figures. We heard about the Evils of Pot, and the Evils of Acid -- but never "Look, if you take crack, you'll end up a jobless prostitite ho inside a year.") -- anyawy, I digress... less addictive drugs that the dealers may very well have other reasons for selling.
Pot, LSD, some of the less harmful, less addictive drugs (which
And because I generally consider them harmless but not to my taste (done pot, didn't really like it. Not doin' acid, I'v got lack of sleep if I want to see weird stuff), I didn't lump them in with the folks selling crack cocaine and heroin
Poor little no puppy toe!
Does "having the really good luck to have a staff that gave me +3 to my Lightening Bolt" and "Insane cold resistance out the wazoo due to armor AND a ring" count as a strategy?
;)
If so, that's what I did.
I died once or twice trying to kill him, got annoyed, ran around, leveled a few times, and managed to get some armor and a weapon that was good in whacking his sorry annoying ass.
And IMO, he's the MOST annoying boss. I had an easier time with Diablo himself than Duriel, although that may have been due to the character I was playing.
've got a barbarian now that's just awesome who's about to go take him on though.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Okay, I ride Amtrak pretty often. I buy my tickets online about half the time with my ever-so-handy-Mister Visa.
My boyfriend does the same. (Rides, buys online, yadda, yadda).
I'm working for a company that sends people to New York on a DAMNED regular basis. And up until a week ago, none of those folks even tried to buy the tickets online, and it only took a mandate fron on high by the Human Relations people to make them start doing it.
When you buy a ticket online, they get your name, address, phone number, all that great info.
But they don't know when you'll be on the train, unless you buy a reserved ticket.
And unless you go to the counter with your photo ID to pick it up, they have no idea of knowing where you might be to pick up yout ticket.
Union Station, in Washington DC has about 10 of those little ATM-type machines where you stick in the credit card, and *poof* out pops your ticket.
And I suppose they could watch them easily. Very easily.
I also suppose it would be extremly easy for a suspected drug dealer to have his cronie or 'bitch' go get the ticket FOR him. All you need is that little plastic card and the pin number, and if your drug dealer is smart enough to know how to get tickets online, he's most likely smart enough to send a cronie (or "bitch") to go get his ticket FOR him.
--
Which brings me to my second conclusion.
How many drug dealers do you know who have computers, internet accounts, and credit cards in their name -- and who are STUPID enough to think they can't be traced?
How many drug dealers realistically buy things WITH A credit card? Cash, baby. And if its cash, they can't trace you.
All this will do -- is weed out the STUPID drug dealers, and leave the smart ones still around to sell more drugs and make a larger amount of money off the morons who get hooked on crack.
--
Poor little no puppy toe!
I got D2 about 2 weeks ago.
I have a boyfriend, and a career.
I beat it last night.
(Sorceress, 30th level, ice path, for those who case)
Am I just a mad D2 machine? Did I fall into some bizarre time warp?
Poor little no puppy toe!
Look, you dolt. The ORINGAL post, and subsequent OTHERS said that the companies were demanding rights to *EVERYTHING* the employee produced, inclusing developments OFF company time.
Learn to read and then get in tune with the rest of us.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Um... no.
I've had two kids. (they are not 3 and 5) -- BOTH with complications. (Premature labor, and lung problems with the first, induced labor b/c of water breaking with the second) -- my son (teh first) required a 3 day stay in the NeoNatal ICU.
My total bill for each was less than 5,000 -- and I had NO insurance at the time.
IF you're going to present an arguement, get correct information, please.
Poor little no puppy toe!
I don't know if any of you have read the book "Cyteen", but it goes into some of the issues mentioned in comments.
the idea of a set of 'twins' 30 years apart, and clones having seperate identities.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Its nice to know that I and my friends aren't the only ones who used to do this.
:)
Up until about2 years ago, friends of mine and I would skulk around the old Beta properties in Abderdeen, Maryland.
Old, abandoned hotel -- it'd probably been closed for close to 25 years when we were poking around it.
Several rowhome-style houses - Some that had been closed no more than 2 years previous, some that had been abandoned for over 10 years.
And a old large (5 or 6 bedroom) house that was owned by the Beta family.
We ended up finding all kinds of interesting stuff -- old magazines, scraps of note paper (never anything really interesting on them though)
The buildings were torn down about, I think a year or two ago, but before they tore them down, we mamanged to get in with a video camera and a large flashlight (It helped that the one friend who did this with us was a member of the local volunteer firefighters, so we had a badge to show if the police arrived) (They didn't, but it was nice to have that 'safety net')
Now I live near Quantico, Virginia, and I've ALWAYS wanted to go skulking around there, there HAD To be some good exploration type stuff - but the Marines don't take kindly to that sort of thing.
Poor little no puppy toe!
The point of free speech is free speech.
Its so you can disagree with ANYONE, espically the government.
Contraversy has shit-all to do with it.
I can saw that G.W. Bush is a thumb-in-his-ass, puppet governor who will be a thumb-in-his-ass, puppet president -- without getting arrested.
No contraversy there. But lots of free speech.
Barring that, you conviently ignored the 2nd half of my statement.
If the prof wants to download porn for use in class, *AND* his administration disallows it -- he can Get It From Home.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Contraversial is ALL well and good.
But the professor can download porn from HOME, provided his admuinistration are being dicks and refuse to let him download it For A Good Reason from work.
that's my entire point.
Poor little no puppy toe!
Sexually explicit is defined as any depiction or description of ``sexual excitement,'' ``sexual conduct,'' or ``a lewd exhibition of nudity.''
Sexual excitement,conduct or a LEWD exhibition of nudity.
I don't really see proctology being exciting, sexual or lewd.
Nor are STD's, pregnancy, or any of the other countless legitmate things we can look up on the 'net that have some minor connection to sex.
Be realistic, guys. PLEASE.
Now, as for, oh, the study of adult art, or porn through the ages (Digression - why, oh, why do you spell it pr0n? )
Professors or other state employees must get written permission from their agency heads before accessing sexually explicit material.
There ya go. No longer a problem, and its in the article that is linked from slashdot.
I can't see a hospital DENYING permission for a doctor to look up penile dysfunction on the web. And while I can see a university refusing to let a professor look up porn, its probably because he's being contraversial. And then he can look it up From Home. Just like the rest of us.
Poor little no puppy toe!
I don't see the tech industry, or ANY large industry as being racist in and of itself.
One person can be racist -- but is that the fault of the company? No. Its the fault of the managers.
On another note.
Yes, many people of the previous generation aren't pushing minorities (blacks, women, hispanics, gays, what-EVER) into the tech field.
It happened to me, I was told "Women don't DO that. Its not proper" (Ah, Catholic school. Ah. Nuns. And they wonder why I don't do the God thing anymore)
However, I was smart and strong enough to get PAST it. To tell them "Bugger off, I'll do what I like, see if I don't!" -- And because of it, I have the chance to encourage younger girls to get into the tech field.
We don't need lawsuits. We don't need court-crap and quotas, because ALL they do is make the rest of us think "Well, you were too pathetic to see the train before it hit you and get out and find someplace that WOULD promote you."
This isn't the 1800's. Or the 1900's for that matter. We aren't seeing people get lynched for hiring a black man, or a woman. We don't have Jim Crow laws.
Yes, we have subvertive means of the same things. But we're a DAMN Sight better off than we were 50, 100 years ago.
What we need now is for the people in the industry to speak up, to tell the kids, teenagers today that they CAN do it if they want to. That its not wrong, or bad, or 'unfeminine' or 'white' or "Not keeping it real".
Become the change you want to see.
Poor little no puppy toe!