timothy

Alright then go EK 
they have all the parts available to switch as you like and I LOVE mine 
https://www.ekwb.com/shop/water-blocks/cpu-blocks/supremacy-evo
Get what you like from the looks they do all perform the same and very well compared to other bards 
In therms of waterblocks EK is just the king 
here is my Acryl top with some red fluid in it 
 
I love it  and it's as far as I know the only block with such a huge parts availability 

try using some black nailpolish or just black marker, my girlfriend fixes the heels on her black shoes that way lmao, 

you can make one with this from a old molex fan  connect
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Male-Connector-5-5mm-Adapter/dp/B00P3IRKWU/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1425257950&sr=1-3&keywords=12v+connectors

It was really awesome that he had it as a perk
here's my own

Hi guys,
So, as some of you are aware, I've been a regular creator of Doctor Who threads on this forum because I'm a big fan of the show. It's one of THE BEST shows EVER created and it'll be definitely sad if it finally ends one day. But, never fear because all of you Doctor Who fans, like myself, finally have a place where we can continually discuss our Doctor Who passion without clogging up this forum with various Doctor Who related threads.

This place is in the form of a Steam group called, as you'd guess, "Doctor Who Enthusiasts" and every single Doctor Who fan on this forum can join and be apart of this group by following the link below.

Doctor Who Enthusiasts Steam group:
[REMOVED DUE TO INACTIVITY AND NOBODY JOINING]

I look forward to seeing all of my fellow Whovians on there!

that looks really sick thx

I cant believe that Motorola was sold again.
So who next are going to buy them 

Google wants to flood your body with tiny magnets to search for disease
Google X's latest moonshot: trying to develop nanoparticles that can identify cancer and other illnesses
 
Google's ambition to cure death is beginning to take shape in a new product from its Google X division. Andrew Conrad, the head of the company's life sciences division, today announced the details of an effort that would use nanotechnology to identify signs of disease. The project would employ tiny magnetic nanoparticles, said to be one-thousandth the width of a red blood cell, to bind themselves to various molecules and identify them as trouble spots.
 
 
Google's nanotechnology project, which would also involve a wearable magnetic device that tracks the particles, is said to be at least five years off, according to an accompanying report in the Wall Street Journal. The company is still figuring out how many nanoparticles are necessary to identify markers of disease, and scientists will have to develop coatings for the particles that will let them bind to targeted cells. One idea is to deliver the nanoparticles via a pill that you would swallow.
 
"FUNDAMENTALLY, OUR FOE IS DEATH."
More than 100 Googlers are now working on the project. "We're trying to stave off death by preventing disease," Conrad said on stage at WSJD Live. "Fundamentally, our foe is death. Our foe is unnecessary death. Because we have the technology to intervene, and we should expend more energy and effort on it."
 
 
 
Nanoparticles inside the body will be subject to heavier regulation than a device that uses them outside the body. Google will have to prove to the FDA that their method is safe and effective in large, controlled clinical trials. To do that, they will first have to determine a dose of nanoparticles for use, which the company has not yet done.
 
 
 
The idea behind using nanoparticles to catch cancer and other illnesses is pretty simple. Cancer cells often express proteins or sugars not found on healthy cells; a nanoparticle with a coating that binds cancer-only cells could be a useful tool for diagnosing the disease. There are two barriers here: the first is our knowledge of cancer-specific proteins or sugars; the second is finding out what coatings they would bind to.
 
 
Original post http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/28/7085023/google-wants-to-flood-your-body-with-tiny-magnets-to-search-for

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg aren't the only Silicon Valley heavyweights fighting Ebola: IBM is using its tech know-how to help curb the spread of the disease in West Africa.
 
The company is teaming up with Sierra Leone's Open Government Initiative, Cambridge University's Africa's Voices project, telco firm Airtel, and Kenya's Echo Mobile for various efforts aimed at fighting the deadly disease.
 
Internet connections are not easy to come by in many areas of the affected region, hampering citizen reporting efforts. So IBM and the Open Government Initiative developed a system that lets people report Ebola-related issues and concerns via SMS or voice calls.
"For us to tackle Ebola, it is crucial to maintain an open dialogue between the government and the people of Sierra Leone," Khadija Sesay, director the Open Government Initiative, said in a statement. "IBM has enhanced our work on citizen engagement through the use of innovative technology, and opened up an effective communication channel with the general public so that we can learn from their input and create actionable policies in the fight against Ebola."
IBM can then take that info and - via the power of supercomputing and cloud-based analytics - identify emerging issues before they get out of hand. "As the SMS and voice data are location specific, IBM is able to create opinion-based heat-maps which correlate public sentiment to location information," IBM said.
More importantly, the technology has already highlighted regions with growing numbers of suspected Ebola cases, so officials know where supplies and other assistance is most needed.
"We are uniquely positioned to use innovation to help tackle some of the continent's biggest challenges," IBM Research chief scientist Dr. Uyi Stewart said of the company's first research lab in Africa. "We saw the need to quickly develop a system to enable communities directly affected by Ebola to provide valuable insight about how to fight it. Using mobile technology, we have given them a voice and a channel to communicate their experiences directly to the government."
Nigeria, meanwhile, has recently been declared free of the disease, and it now working with IBM to help support the country's preparedness for future outbreaks. With a technology donation from IBM, the Lagos State Government has opened an Ebola Operations Center, which coordinates disease containment efforts on behalf of the Nigerian government and other organizations.
But this disease is not contained in Africa, and neither are the people fighting it. IBM has volunteers around the globe identifying, cataloguing, and classifying all open data sources related to the outbreak. The goal, according to IBM, is to create a cloud-based Ebola Open Data Repository, which provides governments, aid agencies, and researchers with free and open access to data related to the sickness.
"Data can be a powerful resource for managing and mitigating epidemics," Jeanne Holm, evangelist for Data.gov, said in a statement. "Governments and other organizations have valuable open data that could help in relief efforts—about roads, airports, schools, medical facilities, and populations.
"Such information can help to drive data-driven decisions during times of uncertainty," Holm continued. "IBM is playing a key role in this initiative by helping to identify and gather more open data sources that might inform decisions around Ebola."
Learn more about IBM's Africa research centre in the video below.
Meanwhile, another Microsoft co-founder has pledged a nice chunk of change to help fight the outbreak. Paul Allen has set up tackleebola.com and committed to donate $100 million to the effort.
Original post link http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2471044,00.asp?mailingID=DE6E289618A9A0DD155C29D596570905?mailing_id=1065113
I'm sorry for the mistakes but I have now edited it i hope thats its ok 

Google wants to flood your body with tiny magnets to search for disease
Google X's latest moonshot: trying to develop nanoparticles that can identify cancer and other illnesses
 
Google's ambition to cure death is beginning to take shape in a new product from its Google X division. Andrew Conrad, the head of the company's life sciences division, today announced the details of an effort that would use nanotechnology to identify signs of disease. The project would employ tiny magnetic nanoparticles, said to be one-thousandth the width of a red blood cell, to bind themselves to various molecules and identify them as trouble spots.
 
 
Google's nanotechnology project, which would also involve a wearable magnetic device that tracks the particles, is said to be at least five years off, according to an accompanying report in the Wall Street Journal. The company is still figuring out how many nanoparticles are necessary to identify markers of disease, and scientists will have to develop coatings for the particles that will let them bind to targeted cells. One idea is to deliver the nanoparticles via a pill that you would swallow.
 
"FUNDAMENTALLY, OUR FOE IS DEATH."
More than 100 Googlers are now working on the project. "We're trying to stave off death by preventing disease," Conrad said on stage at WSJD Live. "Fundamentally, our foe is death. Our foe is unnecessary death. Because we have the technology to intervene, and we should expend more energy and effort on it."
 
 
 
Nanoparticles inside the body will be subject to heavier regulation than a device that uses them outside the body. Google will have to prove to the FDA that their method is safe and effective in large, controlled clinical trials. To do that, they will first have to determine a dose of nanoparticles for use, which the company has not yet done.
 
 
 
The idea behind using nanoparticles to catch cancer and other illnesses is pretty simple. Cancer cells often express proteins or sugars not found on healthy cells; a nanoparticle with a coating that binds cancer-only cells could be a useful tool for diagnosing the disease. There are two barriers here: the first is our knowledge of cancer-specific proteins or sugars; the second is finding out what coatings they would bind to.
 
 
Original post http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/28/7085023/google-wants-to-flood-your-body-with-tiny-magnets-to-search-for

The original link is http://gizmodo.com/why-a-chunk-of-cardboard-might-be-the-biggest-thing-at-1596545955

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I've been showing friends something I picked up at Google's developers conference yesterday, and it's been inspiring ooohs, and wows, and squeals of joy and delight. No, it isn't a smartwatch. It isn't even a gadget. It's a cheap piece of cardboard, and it's getting even the tech-jaded people here excited.





Google Cardboard Turns Your Android Into a DIY Virtual Reality Headset
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The premise is simple. A cardboard contraption you can assemble in about 45 seconds. Just drop your phone into the little cardboard viewfinder you wind up with, hold it up to your face, and you're immersed in a virtual reality world comparable in resolution to the first version of the Oculus Rift, if not better (depending on your phone). Turn your head to scroll through a row of apps, and on the left side there's a metal washer that's held on by a magnet. Flick it down to click on something. It's incredibly intuitive, and equally impactful.

Facebook has Oculus. Sony has Project Morpheus. Reports have Samsung making a VR headset as well. So why, it was fair to wonder, wasn't Google getting into the VR game? Well, it just did, and the way it's going about it is absolutely genius. Rather than relying on an expensive piece of equipment (a headset with dedicated screens) Google Cardboard essentially gives virtual reality to everyone who has an Android phone. For free. The implications of that are tremendous. It's the first time that virtual reality—good virtual reality—has ever been so ubiquitous, cheap, and readily available.

 
Google gave out a kit yesterday, but it's easy to make one of your own at home. Less than 24 hours after it was announced, Dodocase is already making and selling pre-made kits online for $20. You can expect to see more (many more) soon. They'll be made from different materials (3D printed?), some will surely allow you to comfortably strap them to your face, just like an Oculus. Essentially, it can instantly be as ubiquitous as Android phones. You just have to install the Cardboard app on your phone, and be running a recent-ish version of Android.



 
This isn't the first time we've seen something like this, actually. Back in March, when we visited USC's Institute for Creative Technologies and tried the Navy's version of the Oculus Rift, we also saw some open-source prototypes that were, essentially just like this. Some were made of cheap foam-core, some were 3D printed, but basically they were holders for a couple cheap lenses with a divider between them, and they held a phone.

So anybody could have made something like this at home, provided they had a bit of coding knowledge. The difference is that Google had the wherewithal to make an easy-to-use app that already has a bunch of great examples of how Cardboard can be used, and, of course, they're making the development platform open so that anybody can make awesome apps that leverage this technology. It's the instant democratization of virtual reality, made dirt cheap and readily available to literally hundreds of millions of people.

Yeah, viewer setups like these have been around for forever (including some really weird, terrible ones). Obviously, the physical cardboard isn't the truly exciting part of Cardboard. What's special here is the software platform, the instant spread, and of course Google's considerable leverage behind it.





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What can you do already? You can fly through space, or over cities in Google Earth. You can use Tour Guide to get more information about a place you're visiting. You can see what it looks like to climb up Mount Everest. You can find yourself in a room full of YouTube videos, where you flick the washer to pick the one you want to watch. You can find yourself inside the Pixar-like world of Windy Day, watching the story unfold around you. You can play games where you run around to collect coins and physically jump to reach the ones above you.

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Many Android phones allow you to take Photospheres—full 360 degree panoramic images. With Cardboard you'll be able to go back to those locations and experience them like you're standing there again. It's legitimately incredible. And that's before app and game developers have even gotten their hands on it.

Sure, there are a handful of very good developers working on stuff for Oculus—and there will be plenty more now that Facebook is driving the bus—but there are orders of magnitude more people who are already actively developing for Android, trying to reach a much wider audience. That's going to equal rapid deployment of some very cool stuff.

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Today at an I/O session, we saw an example of how it can work with the phone's camera, for not only virtual reality, but augmented reality type scenarios. You will be able to have virtual objects overlaid over the real world. Using the phone's camera, you may be able to manipulate them with your hands.

We also got to hear a little more about how Cardboard works. For example, the washer makes for an effective clicker because these phones have a magnetometer that serves as a compass. When you flick the washer it disrupts the magnetic field slightly, which your phone can sense. The downside is that it renders the phone's compass effectively useless while you're using it, which is too bad, because this could have some cool navigation applications. Maybe they'll figure out a way around that in the future, like voice-based commands, or a motion something that uses the accelerometer. The Cardboard we were given also has an NFC tag in it, which tells the phone when it's in the viewer.

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What might we see next? Probably Google's Spotlight Stories added to the Cardboard catalog. There is a ton of stereoscopic 3D content on YouTube already, so we wouldn't be surprised to see YouTube work to make Cardboard a viewer for all that great content that most of us don't get to check out at home. Imaging how much more terrifying all those crazy GoPro videos will be when they become super immersive.

Cardboard was started as a 20-percent project of Googlers David Coz, Christian Plagemann, and Boris Smus, and it's very much in its nascent stages of development, but because it's already available to consumers, it has all the potential to become the most widely-adopted virtual reality platform in history, practically overnight. All that from a bit of corrugated paper.

Here it is 
 

Yes, thank you! This was the link I was talking about.

Sorry for the re-post. This forum section kinda died when we migrated and this post was lost, but I link people here a lot when they ask me this question.
 
I get a lot of questions on YouTube, but some of the ones that come up a lot are

"How do I get companies to sponsor me with products?"
"How do I get more subscribers on YouTube like you?"
"What do I need to study in school to do a job like yours?"

Hopefully this story of my journey serves as both an encouraging and cautionary one.

I was in high school when I really got into computer hardware. In Grade 11/12 and in my first couple of years at the University of British Columbia I spent most of my time tinkering with my computer, hanging out on hardware forums and playing video games. Honestly that's a big part of why school didn't really go well for me at the post-secondary level. I didn't devote enough time to my studies and I was on academic probation after having failed first year calculus twice when I made the decision to drop out and switch from working part time at my local computer store to a full time position.

I started at NCIX by working just weekends, then I moved my school schedule to Monday/Wednesday/Friday, and I was working Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday at NCIX. When I left school I switched to being a full time sales representative at the Langley store. I worked like that for a few months, then I had to leave NCIX due to a contractual obligation that I had to work for a different employer during the summer that year. I went to the President of NCIX with a request that once I was finished my other contract that I be allowed to have my job back, and instead of giving me my job back he explained that I was selling more high end gaming systems than any other sales person in the company and offered me a position at head office taking care of the system configurations on the website. I was thrilled.

I finished my other job and went back to NCIX to build high end systems and make sure that the computers on the website were compatible and up to date. I wanted to do more than just buckets of parts for our systems though and at that point one of the best ways to differentiate was liquid cooling. In order to achieve my goal of building liquid cooled systems, I had to have access to the right components. That was when I asked my boss why the heck NCIX didn't have any selection of custom water cooling parts. He basically said "I dunno. If you want them, you source them." So I did.

In a span of about a year NCIX went from selling no water cooling components at all to being #1 in Canada with every significant water cooling manufacturer (Swiftech, CoolIt, Thermochill, EK Water Blocks, D-TEK, Danger Den, Koolance, you name it). Once I'd demonstrated that success it was time for me to graduate to managing some real lines. I went from taking care of random widgets to core business components like SSDs, RAM, motherboards, and networking. Over time my responsibilities shifted and instead of being the one placing orders daily for everything, I was given support from other team members to focus on marketing and promotional campaigns.

Times changed, people changed... I glanced at the calendar and realized a few years had passed me by and all of a sudden I was a Category Manager rather than a Product Manager, with a team of Product Managers reporting to me, and I was heavily involved in strategy and marketing for key categories like CPUs, notebooks, video cards, SSDs. I was also still product managing some lines, and I was still overseeing the PC system configurations & marketing as well. I was overloaded and it was time to delegate and step back a bit. I also knew that my baby was coming soon.

When the baby was born, my pace didn't really slow down. That's what happens at a vibrant, fast-growing company. There is always some exciting new project to work on, or a new stretch target that you're motivated to hit.

That long story (hopefully not TLDR) leads me to the answer to all of those questions above: GET A REAL JOB. What you may or may not have noticed is that nowhere in the blurb above did I say anything about making videos. YouTube videos are not a real job unless you are incredibly talented, incredibly hard working, or incredibly lucky (usually some combination of the three) and honestly it's not that lucrative.

If you have fun making videos and you're passionate about it, do it as a hobby, but don't expect to get any free products or money for doing it. That way if you break out and gather a huge following, then that's awesome, but if you don't then you hopefully enjoyed every minute of that too. The audience isn't stupid. They know who is doing it for $$ and who is doing it out of passion, so ask yourself if you have the passion to make videos even if no one watched them. If the answer is no, then it's like that no one will be passionate about watching your videos either.

I don't have any relevant pictures or videos to link to, so instead I'll post a link to the first video I ever uploaded to YouTube about the Sunbeam Tuniq Tower. It should give you some inspiration because if THAT guy can build one of the largest tech channels on the YouTubez by working hard, being passionate, and having some good luck, then maybe you can too!
 

Thanks everyone you guys are awesome 
P.S linustechtips forum rules

This? http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/wasd-sampler-kit.html

Yes, there is a testing kit sold by one of the manufacturers, but I can't seem to find a link ATM>