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Random $h!t Thread - Part VI

JJW009 wrote:

Random blog on the worlds largest computer: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013 ... ver-built/

More info: http://www.f-106deltadart.com/sage_system.htm

Pretty cool. Like 386s build largely from valves inside a network of 27 Borg cubes, in the 1950s.


	Quote: Each of the 27 computers that made up the system was a dual core 32 bit CPU made of 60,000 vacuum tubes 175,000 diodes, and 12,000 of those newfangled transistors. Memory: 256k of magnetic core RAM (invented for this project) clocking in every 6 microseconds. These things weighed 300 tons, consumed 3 megawatts of electrical power and ran a blistering 75,000 operations per second.

They directed military drones in real time to their targets. In the 1950s.

Thanks for that, fascinating article about a fascinating subject I'd never even heard of!

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Martian gigapixel image:

http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-gigapixel-panorama-curiosity-solar-days-136-149#23.40,1.10,42.5

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	ProfessorF wrote: Martian gigapixel image: http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-gigapixel-panorama-curiosity-solar-days-136-149#23.40,1.10,42.5

If you scan down to the top of the Curiousity you can see how much crud lands on it.

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The Most Astonishing Cosplay at Wondercon 2013

Batgirl in the first picture is worthy of her own post in the redhead thread.

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Well, if they mean astonishingly average, then they're right on the money.
Some terrible photos there too.

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I'm not sure just wearing a UK police woman's uniform counts as cosplay, even if you are Japanese. A lot of them are pretty iffy - some of them I can't even tell which character they're supposed to be.

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	jonbwfc wrote: I'm not sure just wearing a UK police woman's uniform counts as cosplay, even if you are Japanese. A lot of them are pretty iffy - some of them I can't even tell which character they're supposed to be.

I think that is supposed to be Amy Pond's character.


	ProfessorF wrote: Well, if they mean astonishingly average, then they're right on the money. Some terrible photos there too.

Yes most were average, and the blogger did say that he was a lousy photographer. What appealed to me were the novelty of the costumes.

My favourite

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	jonbwfc wrote: I'm not sure just wearing a UK police woman's uniform counts as cosplay, even if you are Japanese. A lot of them are pretty iffy - some of them I can't even tell which character they're supposed to be.

I got most of them I think, but then I do read widely when it comes to the funny books :geek:

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Designer Easter Eggs :-

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Dalegg :-

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	jonbwfc wrote: Dalegg :-

Eggsterminate lol.

Sorry, that was an obvious one : roll:

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http://www.wimp.com/radiopresenter/

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One for Bratty

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my wife told me today that one of the IT support guys at her school does some of the computer graphic work for Doctor Who

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