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Share the coolest hardware out there. What's the coolest thing you own? Or what do you drool over? Pin-ups of the latest graphics card? Secret purchasing plans for the latest subnotebook that your significant other refuses to let you buy?
Come share the Coolest of the Cool.
I was recently very impressed with this vaio. Official page here.
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OK, Dabbler, I want, but do not have, one of those beaming notepads for a teaching tool. I can walk around and take notes and then beam it right on to the computer.
Best dream: all students have them, and we beam each other back and forth, TNG style.
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quote:Computer-controlled waterjet and abrasivejet cutting are used today in industry to cut many soft and hard materials. The plain water-abrasive mixture leaves the nozzle at more than 900 mph. The latest machines can cut to within two thousandths of an inch, and have jet speeds around Mach 3.
A water jet can cut a "sandwich" of different materials up to four inches thick. This odorless, dust-free and relatively heat-free process can also cut something as thin as five thousandths of an inch. The tiny jet stream permits the first cut to also be the final finished surface. This single cutting process saves material costs and machining costs. For example, the engineer merely gives a gear drawing to the cutting shop via a diskette or e-mail and gets the finished gear back!
There's the robotic exoskeleton, coupled with a head up display painted on my retina by this, and of course an invisibility cloak to go over the whole thing. Oh, and of course, a pair of gloves whose palms are coated in this material.
Oh, and I'd like to have a little fleet of these once they get all the kinks worked out of them, and they don't have to be connected to an external power source by a wire. I figure their data could be fed in through the head up display.
There's more, of course, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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It curdles my stomach to think how much gouda he's done for Hatrack, and here you are spoiling his day.
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Oh, come on Scott--you know perfectly well that puns are something of a cottage industry around Hatrack. I think you're whey off base here.
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You guys are barely skimming the surface. Take a look at the whole picture, not just one or two percent of it. I mean, REALly.
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On the plus side, Teshi, it's much more active now that it's veered off course. I think we've done cheese based puns fairly recently, though, so while I'm sure we'll milk this for all it's worth, I don't expect it to last for very long. So, there are positives and negatives to the derailment. It's kind of half and half, you might say.
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