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Comment Re:I'm 30 and I already want out. (Score 1) 360

By the time you get into your fifties you have more answers, less problems, some entrenched bad habits that are nearly impossible to break, a whole lot of dreams that you know you'll never achieve, someone who looks like your parent looking back at you in the mirror, and the search for sex is no longer an overarching need - but inside you'll still feel young.

At thirty you probably feel as old as you'll ever feel. You always feel young inside but at thirty the world stops looking new. That soon passes though once you realise that you haven't been paying close enough attention. The world will always be new and that you'll always feel young even if you live to be a hundred.

Damn, that was beautiful.

Micro-Pump is Cool Idea for Future Computer Chips 96

core plexus writes to tell us that Engineers at Purdue University have designed a tiny 'micro-pump' cooling device that can be used to circulate coolant through the channels etched on an individual chip. From the article: "The prototype chip contains numerous water-filled micro-channels, grooves about 100 microns wide, or about the width of a human hair. The channels are covered with a series of hundreds of electrodes, electronic devices that receive varying voltage pulses in such a way that a traveling electric field is created in each channel. The traveling field creates ions, or electrically charged atoms and molecules, which are dragged along by the moving field."

Comment It screwed up my computer (Score 1) 422

Installed it, was happily browsing the web for about 5 minutes. Thought I'd give it a bit of java to test it, browsed through java.com for a few minutes - then my entire computer froze. Went to make a cup of coffee, came back and the screen was in 640x480 in 16 colours! Error box up saying "The nv4_disp driver has stopped working normally." All my other windows had vanished (couple of explorer, couple of the new IE). A reboot seemed to restore me to full res, full colour glory though. Methinks I'll disable java in it now though...

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