Re: Tyler's Education

2004-07-03 Thread Yeoh Yiu 
Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  And boxes need ventilation slots.
 
 Not necessarily. There are other ways of heat transfer. A good way could 
 be water cooling for transport of the heat from the CPU and other parts to 
 a massive metal heatsink that's the part of the case, with an optional fan 
 on its outside. Voila, water cooling is not only for case mod freakz 
 anymore.
 
  Any questions?
 
 I expect much bigger problem in the attached cables and connectors. How to 
 solve this?

Optic fibre.

Re: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread Yeoh Yiu 
Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  Exactly at which point does a war (any war) stop being defensive
  because according to the history books the US has never fought an
  aggressive war.
 
  I prefer to think about the McDonald's paradox: No country that has a
  McDonald's has attacked another. :-).
 
 Then either the paradox is dead wrong, or there is something unclear on
 the definition of what counts as attack, as Clinton would say.

Attacks before the McDonald's opened don't count.

Re: voting

2004-04-18 Thread Yeoh Yiu 
Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 David Jablon wrote:
  

 The 'second law' also takes precedence: ballots are always secret, only
 vote totals are known and are known only after the election ends.
 
  What I see in serious
  voting system research efforts are attempts to build systems that
  provide both accountability and privacy, with minimal tradeoffs.
 
 There is no tradeoff prossible for voter privacy and ballot secrecy.
 Take away one of them and the voting process is no longer a valid
 measure. Serious voting system research efforts do not begin by
 denying the requirements.

You get totals per nation, per state, per county, per riding,
per precinct, per polling stion and maybe per ballot box.
So there's a need to design the system to have more voters
than ballot boxes to conform to your second law.

Re: Return of the homebrew coder

2004-03-14 Thread Yeoh Yiu 
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Life in the 21st century feels like being a proto-mammal 65Mya, do not
 get squashed by the monster lizards nor noticed by the hungry others.
 Small, quick, furry, that's us.  Sometimes it gets cold, the lizards
 can't move
 fast enough, so we eat them.  Last two sentences sound like something Al
 Q
 could say :-)

May you start to sound like John Young.