tecmec - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The best solution? (Score 0) 155

by tecmec on Friday November 27, 2009 @02:42PM (#30247504) Attached to: Facebook Putting Batteries On-Board Its Servers

One power supply for the whole rack may very well work, but not for the whole datacenter. If you start trying to send that much power to all those servers at 12V DC, you're going to be pushing a LOT of amps and require very thick wires to avoid transmission losses. And if you're not useing low voltage DC, you're going to need some sort of PSU at the server level anyway.

Comment Re:purell (Score 0) 524

by tecmec on Friday February 27, 2009 @10:38AM (#27011397) Attached to: Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million

Not true, we have health care! :D

Comment Re:What to do next? (Score 0) 596

by tecmec on Thursday July 24, 2008 @05:28PM (#24325949) Attached to: Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison

In his next prison sentence, his inbox will be stuffed and it will probably be unsolicited.

What used to be his outbox will now be his inbox...

How The THX Noise Was Created 243

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 21, 2006 @07:13PM from the audience-is-listening dept.

devilsbrigade writes "The blog MusicThing is running an interesting interview with Andy Moorer. Mr. Moorer is the man who created the sound called Deep Note, now heard in every THX-enabled movie theatre. The interview is originally from last year, but the tech-heavy discussion is still a timeless analysis of a great sound." From the article: "The score consists of a C program of about 20,000 lines of code. The output of this program is not the sound itself, but is the sequence of parameters that drives the oscillators on the ASP. That 20,000 lines of code produce about 250,000 lines of statements of the form "set frequency of oscillator X to Y Hertz. The oscillators were not simple - they had 1-pole smoothers on both amplitude and frequency. At the beginning, they form a cluster from 200 to 400 Hz. I randomly assigned and poked the frequencies so they drifted up and down in that range."

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