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I think this design works well only in the context of computer casing or similar. The warm air coming from Sandia doesn't seem to get very far away? So it would eventually disrupt the cooling process if it's not blown away by the regular fans of the computer housing.

Isn't there a problem in fluid cooling that you can't really get the fluid as cool as the air where heat ends up eventually? My professor told that cars usually use fluid cooling because it makes engine temperatures more predictable, and therefore slight loss in efficiency is acceptable.

It has to get that air moving at comparable speeds to be as efficient as the traditional way. The trick here is to get the air move faster with less sound. It's possible because of larger airfoils, so they can get more laminar flow and with more laminar flow comes less sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flow

Air bearing is not unique solution. It's been done for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_bearing#Air_bearings

I can't really say that I would have deep knowledge of this stuff. I do know however that Golf current does not come to the Baltic sea. It cannot, as it would just rise to water-level, no way to run through.

But usually wind and weather comes from west. So as golf current warms up the coast of Norway, some of that warmth comes here. It's a weather pattern, but I don't seem to find a good picture now, sorry. http://www.weatherwise.org/sebin/x/a/russian-inferno-photo6....

I remember from geography class that we are in this climate zone and it's called a Hadley cell. And inside that cell air circulates, but it cannot really break away. So kind of Golf course breaks into that cell from below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell

EDIT: sorry, lost in translation, I meant a Ferrel cell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_circulation#Ferrel_... Ans that's not very accurate as Finland seems to be in polar front.

Heard of Viking crusades? It happened partly because there was too many people living in Scandinavia. That happened because Scandinavian farming had gotten the population to get too big. You run out of reliable fishing sources long before you hit the grains maximum. You don't have to replace fish with grains, just introducing grains to the diet can increase risk of malnutrition.

On the contrary this explains nicely how Sami people can be darker than Germans. They lived of reindeer, bird trapping and fishing, even like hundred years ago. It explains why Finnish are somewhat darker than swedes, we relied on hunting and fishing far longer than Swedes did.

I'm from small town called Liminka, it's next to Oulu in Finland. The sea freezes in the winter but that doesn't keep Liminka from being a legendary farming area because of high crop yield. It's just warm enough to have good crops in the summer.

The crops are of course not nearly as good as in Germany, but you cant find similar area from the same latitude in Russia or Canada.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Liminka....

People have used protective clothing for a long time now. Farmers used to use big hats. I can't prove anything from 5000 years ago, but there was a kind of cowboy hat in Finnish farmer culture about hundred years back.

http://rautu.fi/Tallenne/EntinenRautu/Maanviljely/Jurtin-har...

Then how come not every Scandinavian girl have c-cup tits? I thought sexual selection yields wildly variating features. And Scandinavian skin pigment was some time ago strikingly uniform.

Japanese have beauty standard to be pale. Scandinavians have the opposite here.

And do you know anyone from japan who is not albino and virtually could not get a tan. I myself and loads of Finnish people I know are really sensitive to sunlight.

Baltic sea is much less salty than ocean. And there are less waves to keep the water moving. Both help a lot to get some ice-fishing conditions.

Sources please? I live in Finland and find that very hard to believe.

EDIT: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Sea_ice....

Before I read this I thought it was just some design and people going "WHOA" or "wtf" about it. But your comment made me understand. Sad that it's bottom of the list. There should have been something about the thickness consideration in the link description.

nah, I'm wating for the drum and bass remix...

edit: googled "dubstep tablet", first link http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-surface-tablet-on-video...

That's completely true. HN is about curiosity however and that's why nothing should be educated to HNers by simple repetition.

For some reason, stuff that takes less than three years for five guys to make, is usually the stuff that gets done. If it takes only one year by one guy, it's probably done already.

Our whole society is defined by that. Bigger projects just don't work out because big companies are so inefficient and small don't have the money.

This rant seems somehow familiar.

This kind of "girls not accepted in tech" was something "that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" at first. Now it's just repeating the same stuff, and I don't think it's gratifying anyones curiosity.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Could you at least point out some good modern philosophy? Otherwise your comment is not worth much.

I have one depressed friend. Anytime I visit him, it eventually turn into a Youtube party. This tendency is by far worse than with any of my other friends.

I'd love to track my personal wellbeing, right now my only metrics are "am I hooked to some flash game or not" and "did I go jogging this week or not". Tracking my web surfing could give something in like "it seems you're having a lousy afternoon" which would be more handy because I might snap out of it.

This one time I saw a mother and a child maybe three years old entering a bus I was riding. The child behaved nicely until the bus took of, and then he begun crying and fooling around. The mother tried to invent every kind of amusement for the boy, so that he would not bother other passengers.

I so don't want this when I have kids. The boy was so obviously using the situation to get attention. I thought that the best way is to ignore him. But maybe the best way would have been to tell him why it's so annoying that he cries in a bus. So this text definitely had something to consider.

This is old news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1456632

My reaction exactly. Just installed it like always before and no fuss about anything.

There was a time when everybody thought that Japanese could not do widespread high quality manufacturing. Now they are known for the high quality. There was quality considerations of Finnish ship building, that changed too.

It's very common trend to shift from cheap country into a quality country. The industry will be seeking the next cheap place in the mean time.

This might mean that manufacture is not going to shift to Africa as Chinese might not need that cheap labor because of robotics.

I really don't get the down-voting here. Did I say something that is no true?

Parry with a sword was actually really uncommon last resort for the most of history. Viking blades for example dented really bad if they clashed. There is a saga about combatants beating several wooden shields to splinters until the blades clashed and both swords broke.

For samurai, the same is true. For heavily armored knight's, well they tried to poke each other in the eye mostly.

Me and my little brother with boffer-swords? Same story again. I found first hand experience that usually it's lot more usable to dodge the blow while simultaneously trying a counter blow than to parry. And the more you need footwork the more you have opponents.

I was thinking about the Doppler too, but the Doppler shift of the bullet while in flight doesn't really do it. And the time-frame to do it while inside gun is really really small.

They actually made "floating floors" from concrete panels. I was wondering if it's still possible with wood. Question is what will happen if some water gets below the concrete. I guess it's self drying as there is void between ceiling and wood structure.

The point is that in typical apartment fire, the temperature rises to at least to 800C. Steel has good thermal conductivity, and therefore steel structures start to bend greatly when temperature hits 600C in a single floor. This usually causes a collapse. It's very important to quickly evacuate steel building if it's on fire.

With massive wood structures the situation is different. The wood is very good heat insulator, so if the skin gets to 1000C the inside might still be lot less than 250C. Wood doesn't burn that quickly as it has to evaporate first (we usually call this smoke) before it can burn.

Of course this is all dependent of scale. If you try this out at your fireplace with something that fit's there, the story is completely different.

My info comes from Helsinki university of technology construction material lectures. So I can't really paste sources here.

Apology accepted. I'm sorry I didn't find a more mature way to respond.

Given weight of wood against same weight of steel have equal strength. Large wood structures do not collapse in temperatures over 600C like steel. Wood is not as brittle as concrete, which greatly reduces dangers of earthquakes.

Problems come from large fires, where wood can act as a fuel. Western world hasn't seen a city burning for a long time and even then it was because of napalm. That might change if wood takes on.

Second big problem is moisture, wood can change it's shape greatly with moisture.

Hello from Finland. Our country produces more wood than we cut. With paper industry going down, I'm sure we are happy to export.