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LOL. on my old 1GHz/512ram/pata hdd i have 22 seconds from ntldr to busy cursor gone. windows 7 doesn't even install on that

Yes, actually it does:

http://www.dailytech.com/Tinkerer+Squeezes+Windows+7+Onto+Pentium+II+System/article15509.htm

According to this article on DailyTech, it says that they are banned from selling MS Word across the entire US. I'm pretty sure you can still buy it, but how long until it gets taken off the shelves.

I think it is possible that one of the first "brain hacking" technologies will actually be to do with the voicebox as this will likely be simpler than working out different peoples brain structures.
Everyones voicebox works essentially the same and when thinking words signals are sent to the voicebox that are the same as but not as strong as the sigtnals used to cause speech.
Nasa already have this working for astronauts for speechless communication in space. See here
I think technologies to be able to monitor human thought to be quite scarey and quite useful at the same time. A device that could be placed inside someones throat and self powered somehow may be a deffinate big brother style thing, but it would be great to see this used for good purposes such as monitoring what politicians think when creating laws in parliment.
It just depends on the application.

http://www.dailytech.com/Students+Use+Speed+Cameras+to+Frame+Innocent+Drivers+Prank+Teachers/article13749.htm

A group of kids were makign false plates of teachers and then blasting through stop light cameras in Maryland and innocent people were getting the $40 tickets in the mail even though it wasn't even their car much less them driving it. But the assumption was the plate matched the guilty party.

Matthew Weigman? Or how about Joe Engressia?

Both legally blind (so no interest in the shiny shiny) and fireworks without the shiny are just annoying to listen to.

You are of course right in theory; But this is a typical case that "in theory theory is the same as practice; in practice things are different". HTML has somehow managed to get the right balance to be much better than other applications. Primarily, there are no viruses written in HTML and HTML+Java(ECMA)script has almost no practical viruses.

The key advantages of HTML / ECMAscript / HTTP include

• not blocked at the corporate firewall
• has a subset which is pure data and easy to be sure is safe
• has a subset which is compatible across many different platforms for many different years
• is not controlled directly by a company with criminal tendancies

Every other option has serious drawbacks

• Java / .Net - too heavy; the minimal application requires loads of extra stuff
• Java / .Net / C++ - non trivial to package.
• C++ / .exe - too much history with trojans / too much incompatibility e.g. try developing one for Windows 200 working on Vista; compare with
• Anything which doesn't go over ports 80 or 443 - blocked by the firewall
• Anything containing executable content - blocked by the corporate mail filter
• .Net stuff - doesn't run on out of the box Ubuntu or Macintosh / not cross platform.

Disclosure: I'm currently interning at MS.

your honesty is appreciated. When you are just starting in the job market, any good job seems like a good idea. Please remember you have years and years of work, ahead. Taking ethical choices is a seriously good idea. When your CEO is threatening your president with firing you then you seriously should consider if that's a company you want to work for.

No, it isn't. It's a theory. You can debate how well supported the theory is, but to claim it is a fact is a sign of religion seeping into science.

You might look up the difference between "causality" and "correlation".

and it's generally accepted that this warming will continue until 2100.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175

However, that's no reason to continue the behaviors that caused the warming. Any steps we can take will slow the warming and contribute to an eventual slow reversal.

Taking low-cost steps that reduce energy use is quite practical. Demanding that the US cut energy use by 80% is not.

and gestures that look like a drop in the sand to us are necessary to eventually reverse the tide.

I wonder, when the tide "reverses" because of the Maunder Minimum, will those who cried wolf admit they cried wolf, or will they use the reversal as proof that they were right? And do those who talk about "reversing tides" recognize the name Xerxes?

It was a Level III Cache bug in their Phenom and Barcelona quad-core processors. We got some at work, a nifty little kernel patch got us running again.

I found an article about it here:
http://www.dailytech.com/Understanding++AMDs+TLB+Processor+Bug/article9915.htm

There's a fine line between [citation needed] and wanting someone else to do your homework for you...

http://www.greenlightnc.com/about/faq/

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14934

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/twc-without-data-caps-internet-upgrades-now-in-doubt.ars

This isn't an exhaustive background on the subject, but it's enough to point you in the right direction. Most of these links are available by googling "greenlight isp". Most of these links, and more like them, have been posted either in this /. article's comments or in the article that ran a few days ago on basically the same subject.


((Googling "Hetch Hetchy" or "Raker Act scandal" also makes for some interesting reading along the same lines))

Seems the big ISPs don't really want your kind in the broadband business. Watch what happens when good ideas meet greed - i.e. Greenlight providing competition to the greedy last mile ISPs.

All I have to say is - good luck!

Interesting? How did that help the person or answer any questions at all? What an extremely shitty defeatist attitude.

Seems the big ISPs don't really want your kind in the broadband business. Watch what happens when good ideas meet greed - i.e. Greenlight providing competition to the greedy last mile ISPs.

All I have to say is - good luck!

The article also mentions that: "Not only are people overwhelmingly buying Windows, but those that try Linux are often returning it," wrote Leblanc, noting that the United Kingdom's Car phone Warehouse dropped Linux-based netbooks after seeing return rates as high as 20%."

Dell netbooks with Linux has the same rate of return as netbooks with Windows.

Falcon

I didn't read the hothardware article. Did they specify at which resolutions which card wins? Did they test with the newest 185 Nvidia drivers? They're moderately slower than the 182's.

Anandtech, my personal favorite reviewer (none of that 1 paragraph/page + 100 page article nonsense *cough tomshardware cough*) tells a different story.

In case you don't feel like clicking-- 4890 takes the cake hands down on 24" and sub 24" displays (1920x1200 resolution and lower). At 2560x1200, it's a tossup.

Considering you can buy the 4890 right now and the GTX275 won't be available for 2 more weeks, I think it's pretty clear which card to get.

No, he didn't. This is getting ridiculous.

"science will not intrude on public policy"

Whom are you quoting? Or are you misquoting Happer? The use of "will not" infers that someone explicitly stated this to him.

"I was told that science was not going to intrude on public policy", he said. "I did not need the job that badly".

That's from the article. It's been published elsewhere as well. If it is the only quote, and you're paraphrasing, don't put quotes around it. You're changing the context of the statement from a summation from Happer into a quoted direct statement from a Gore rep, or Gore himself.

If it is a direct quote, excellent. I'd love to know who said this to Happer.

If not, and you are paraphrasing, it's trashy journalism.

You know he actually was quoted saying "I am not going to let science get in the way"

So after much googling and reading other slashdot posts I finally found this DailyTech article about Dr. William Happer from 2008:

In 1993, he testified before Congress that the scientific data didn't support widespread fears about the dangers of the ozone hole and global warming, remarks that caused then-Vice President Al Gore to fire him. "I was told that science was not going to intrude on public policy", he said.

So a scientist with an axe to grind with Al Gore "remembers" something Al Gore said to him 15 years later. What does Al Gore have to say about this episode? If their versions differ, would you automatically believe Dr. Happer's version over all Gore's? Why? Do you have a bias?

And as for the content of what Dr. Happer testified about, ozone depletion? Do you really not think that was/is a problem? From the wikipedia article on ozone depletion:

On October 2008 the Ecuadorian Space Agency published a report called HIPERION, an study of the last 28 years data from 10 satellites and dozens of ground instruments around the world among them their own, and found that the UV radiation reaching equatorial latitudes was far greater than expected, climbing in some very populated cities up to 24 UVI, the WHO UV Index standard considers 11 as an extreme index and a great risk to health. The report concluded that the ozone depletion around mid latitudes on the planet is already endangering large populations in this areas. Later, the CONIDA, the Peruvian Space Agency, made its own study, which found almost the same facts as the Ecuadorian study.

Maybe you and Dr. Happer are just among those who don't believe CFSs and such had anything to do with ozone depletion... from the same wikipedia article:

[after banning CFCs] A 2005 IPCC summary of ozone issues observed that observations and model calculations suggest that the global average amount of ozone depletion has now approximately stabilized. Although considerable variability in ozone is expected from year to year, including in polar regions where depletion is largest, the ozone layer is expected to begin to recover in coming decades due to declining ozone-depleting substance concentrations, assuming full compliance with the Montreal Protocol.

Actual Quote:
"science will not intrude on public policy"

Though, it is just a second-hand quote.

Following a few links from googling 'gore "not going to let science get in the way"' led me to this: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13773. Seems he did say something of the sort, anyway.

1. [strike]Global warming[/strike] Climate change is not a fact. It's a theory. A bad one at that since it does not predict the current climate much less the near and far future and is not consistent with the data.

2. Climate change is now the fad since earth is not warming globally anymore. In fact, the ocean has been cooling since 2003 and the ice in the Arctic sea is now back at the same level as in 1979 and Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years. Hey, those AGW fanatics are now shifting the goal post and make those facts proof of a climate change.

3. Bushes and forests have been burning since the dawn of time. The Australian fire was more fierce due to the idiots who "protected the environment" by banning clearing of vegetation.

Sydney Mornding Herald:
Last week angry fire survivors in Victoria pointed the finger at local authorities who prevented clearing of vegetation. At a public meeting in Arthurs Creek, Warwick Spooner, who lost his mother and brother in the Strathewen fire, stood up criticise the Nillumbik council.

"We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down." Then of course, there is Liam Sheahan, the Reedy Creek home owner whose house is the only one in a two-kilometre area which survived the fires. In 2004 he was fined $50,000 for removing 247 trees around his hilltop house to protect it from fire. His two-year court battle against the Mitchell Shire Council cost him $50,000 in legal fees.

Nope, you can't

I would just like to point out this article:

Microsoft Says It Has Fixes for 2,000 Windows 7 Bugs Thanks to Testers.

So I guess the answer is no, Windows 7 testers are not going unheard.

Is this a flaw in the Operating System or a flaw in the application like the Adobe one and who is to blame this time ...

Fixed that for ya.

I might be too late with my comment considering that the earth is cooling now, and perhaps not as hot as once though, but I think I have a solution:
I propose that the use of several large planet-sized magnets inside the orbit of Mercury would create a field to alter the incidence of sunspot activity. We could do that if the giant space mirrors or global stratosphere aerosols don't work. (Didn't I see that in the Animatrix?)

754 lasted longer.

Also as Nevarre points out. The 939 was suppose to be THE AMD socket.

Aww, I apologize. It was the site that works with techreport, dailytech. why do I trust techreport? Because they also tried to bribe their own company secretly in this process as well to ensure honesty. They also have a much more up to date system building guid3e (monthly) with straight newegg links.Here are two of the related links:
http://www.dailytech.com/PR+Firm+Owner+in+Hot+Water+Over+Game+Review+Site+Ownership/article13085.htm

and also

http://www.dailytech.com/Pay+to+Play+Uncovering+Online+Payola/article7510.htm
is the bribe/payola one. Read carefully about tomshardware in there. It's been well known that they are in the payola category and aren't afraid to use outdated drivers in tests or refuse to test outright certain products that would bash certain competitors, such as the HD4870x2.

Aww, I apologize. It was the site that works with techreport, dailytech. why do I trust techreport? Because they also tried to bribe their own company secretly in this process as well to ensure honesty. They also have a much more up to date system building guid3e (monthly) with straight newegg links.Here are two of the related links:
http://www.dailytech.com/PR+Firm+Owner+in+Hot+Water+Over+Game+Review+Site+Ownership/article13085.htm

and also

http://www.dailytech.com/Pay+to+Play+Uncovering+Online+Payola/article7510.htm
is the bribe/payola one. Read carefully about tomshardware in there. It's been well known that they are in the payola category and aren't afraid to use outdated drivers in tests or refuse to test outright certain products that would bash certain competitors, such as the HD4870x2.

You'll never hear an Al Gore follower mention it but the Earth has actually been on a cooling cycle for the last two years. Maybe we should be starting to look at schemes to increase planetary warming. This could be especially worrisome if sunspot cycle 24 continues to be unusually weak.

make sure global warming exists first, before we go messing with our planet. The consequences could be fatal. http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

No, but this might:
http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century/article12823.htm

BTW: I found the answer to my original question (no thanks to you), the misinformation seems to have originated from Asher's blog on DailyTech. If you buy into his opinions then I have a very nice bridge you might be interested in.

So, in light of this ... what role does the Sun play in climate change? ... OBVIOUSLY it plays a role. Without the sun, we would cease to exist.

Just a few articles about the recent LACK of sunspots:

• Sun : One Month Without Sunspot
• First month without sunspots in a century
• What's Wrong with the Sun?
• Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century

If you read these articles, you'll realize that the sun plays a larger part in our climate than we do. In addition, check out the "mini-ice ages" after each of the periods ... from the NASA article ... The longest minimum on record, the Maunder Minimum of 1645-1715, lasted an incredible 70 years. Sunspots were rarely observed and the solar cycle seemed to have broken down completely. The period of quiet coincided with the Little Ice Age, a series of extraordinarily bitter winters in Earth's northern hemisphere. ...

It may appear that the whole "global warming" hysteria is about to come to an end ... and just like the 70's, the next big scare will be "global cooling" ... check out:

• Time Mag Flashback: 1974 Issue Warns of Man-Made 'Global Cooling'
• Another Ice Age?

I'm NOT saying that man doesn't play a trival part, but realistically, we don't matter that much on a global scale.

Just listen to George Carlin ... he DOES make some sense.

Howsabout a broad spectrum of data points covering 11 centuries that points to the last 100 years being a distinct and anomalously warm one(for the sun)?

http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century/article12823.htm

Solar physicist Ilya Usoskin of the University of Oulu, Finland, tells DailyTech the correlation between cosmic rays and terrestrial cloud cover is more complex than "more rays equals more clouds". Usoskin, who notes the sun has been more active since 1940 than at any point in the past 11 centuries, says the effects are most important at certain latitudes and altitudes which control climate. He says the relationship needs more study before we can understand it fully.

Actually, the Earth has been cooling recently. This cooling has changed our 100 year average to the point that it can no longer be said that the Earth has been warming for the past 100 years. In fact, many are warning of the threat of the coming cooling. Therefore, even the theory that the Earth is warming is still up for debate. Regardless, I was speaking primarily to the "scientific consensus" that Global Warming is man-made. Any "moron" would have been able to gather that. Although, I guess you have proven to be an exception.

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

By the way, instead of repeating the rhetoric fed to you by others, try thinking for yourself for a change. There are many scientists and other interested parties that dispute the "consensus" and have nothing to do with the big, bad oil companies. Again, don't fool yourself into believing a "consensus" is the same as scientific fact. Let's not forget that they wouldn't need to call it a "consensus" if it could be scientifically proven.

List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming (link truncated)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global...

Is this before or after the discovery of the y2k bug that threw everything off? I would bet it doesnt since the wiki chart stops at 2001 and the discovery didnt happen until last year.

http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+Y2K+bug+in+NASA+Climate+Data/article8383.htm

In related news, there are rumours, just recently denied, that Nvidia is exiting the chipset business.

The article doesn't mention what happens to the data on legal plates. Suppose the DHS decides it wants a permanent archive of who was where, when?

Think about all the cameras that are going up in cities and semi-urban areas in the name of "public safety". London is completely blanketed is cameras and New York is aiming to do the same. Then, consider that in most cities, you're driving under at least one red-light camera every half-mile and more are going up all the time because they're essentially pole-mounted money machines. Now they also have these cameras that can read your license plate when you're in shopping for groceries.

So, you're being watched when you're walking around town, driving around town, and even when you're parked in a private lot. Now that we have facial recognition software, license plate readers, cell phone tracking, and even gait recognition, we know for a _fact_ that we can definitely be tracked whilst going about our daily business as well.

The only question is whether or not somebody is putting all of these pieces together into one system that not only makes permanent records of our movements, but can infer personal and business relationships based on who we're with or near. And I think you already know the answer.

It is. (1 Aug 2008)

However, earlier today, reports began to spring up stating that NVIDIA would drop its 790i motherboards and leave the chipset business altogether. The reports cited "sources" close to top Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers.

NVIDIA recently contacted DailyTech to squash the information regarding it leaving the chipset business. NVIDIA's Brian Burke made it clear that NVIDIA's chipset business is stronger than ever and touched on these three points:

        * Mercury Research has reported that the NVIDIA market share of AMD platforms in Q2 08 was 60%. We have been steady in this range for over two years.
        * SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability.
        * nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI.

Burke went on to say that "we're looking forward to bringing new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms."

Isn't there some means of validating this shit before it lands on /. ??

It is quite true that SanDisk's SSD are woefully subpar in performance when running Windows Vista. Numerous benchmarks from around the web have shown SanDisk SSDs getting outpaced by the competition.

While Vista may be a performance inhibitor compared to Windows XP for SSDs, it appears that most new, current-generation SSDs are having no problems performing well with the operating system. The problem appears to be SanDisk's low reads and writes (67 MB/sec and 50 MB/sec respectively).

Sandisk SSD drives are poorly made and perform poorly (much worse than others..). This is just Sandisk trying to shift the blame elsewhere..

DailyTech's article (and others) have also added opinions similar to yours. From the DT article:

• "It is quite true that SanDisk's SSD are woefully subpar in performance when running Windows Vista. Numerous benchmarks from around the web have shown SanDisk SSDs getting outpaced by the competition.

  In fact, it's not uncommon to see SanDisk SSDs rank last in testing in almost every benchmark and by a large margin -- even in Windows XP. Recent testing showed that MSI's Wind netbook was no faster with a SanDisk SATA 5000 SSD than with the standard 80GB HDD -- an Eee PC 1000h featuring similar specifications was significantly faster with a competing SSD from Samsung.

  While Vista may be a performance inhibitor compared to Windows XP for SSDs, it appears that most new, current-generation SSDs are having no problems performing well with the operating system. The problem appears to be SanDisk's low reads and writes (67 MB/sec and 50 MB/sec respectively) compared to the competition (i.e., OCZ's new Core Series SSDs which clock in at 120 to 143 MB/sec for reads and 80 to 93 MB/sec for writes)."

Sandisk SSD drives are poorly made and perform poorly (much worse than others..). This is just Sandisk trying to shift the blame elsewhere..

DailyTech's article (and others) have also added opinions similar to yours. From the DT article:

• "It is quite true that SanDisk's SSD are woefully subpar in performance when running Windows Vista. Numerous benchmarks from around the web have shown SanDisk SSDs getting outpaced by the competition.

  In fact, it's not uncommon to see SanDisk SSDs rank last in testing in almost every benchmark and by a large margin -- even in Windows XP. Recent testing showed that MSI's Wind netbook was no faster with a SanDisk SATA 5000 SSD than with the standard 80GB HDD -- an Eee PC 1000h featuring similar specifications was significantly faster with a competing SSD from Samsung.

  While Vista may be a performance inhibitor compared to Windows XP for SSDs, it appears that most new, current-generation SSDs are having no problems performing well with the operating system. The problem appears to be SanDisk's low reads and writes (67 MB/sec and 50 MB/sec respectively) compared to the competition (i.e., OCZ's new Core Series SSDs which clock in at 120 to 143 MB/sec for reads and 80 to 93 MB/sec for writes)."

"Imagine a beowulf cluster of those..." has a better ring to it.

I'll settle for two of 'em. Because the picture in the article looks like boob.

I have quite a few, many of which have someredundancies, but I just don't want to miss out on information :)

They are also cathegorized:

1.) Games
- www.areagames.de - quite decent german gaming site, especially important for local releases
- www.gametrailers.com - a lot of junk I don't care about, but every now and then very good HD vids
- http://news.filefront.com/ (Gaming Today) - Great gaming Feed
- http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp - Often funny, and good comments on things
- http://www.thelastboss.com/ - Was my favorite, giving lots of Vids and stuff, but it seems to be dead since over a year

2.) General Tech
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News - A little too ITish at times, but great comments and opinions
- http://www.dailytech.com/ - Most of the time the right amout of ITism, but few opinions and trivia
- http://www.chip.de/rss/rss_tests.xml - A lot of reviews on different produkts
- http://slashdot.org/ - Could be more ITish at times, but good general articles make up for that

3.) Handy Stuff (in German mobile = handy, so this is a wordplay)
- http://www.areamobile.de/ - Not so good on the hardware part, but great for knowing releases and new contracts in Germany
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Handhelds/News - Again good comments and opinions
- http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ - Very good for hardware and some trivia
- http://news.google.com/news?q=i-mate+7150&output=rss - Was looking forward to that device is it looks dead to me...
- http://www.slashphone.com/ - Kind of redundant with Engadget mobile, might get the axe, but still a good feed.

4.) Hardware
- http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ - Good MP3-Player feed, updated seldomely, but is still good
- http://aqua-computer.de/newsfeed_de.rss - A RSS feed of a watercooling company
- http://www.notebookcheck.com/ - Good reviews on new models, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_news_feed.xml - Notebook news, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_tests_feed.xml - Notebook reviews, very good, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Great page for getting first looks on the new or upcoming top notebooks
- http://www.themp3players.com/ - Also on MP3 player, updated very seldomely
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/ - Good on general hardware (graphics cards and stuff)

5.) Science
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm - Good articles but sometimes too much on legislation and stuff
- http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Science.xml - Also great with some good long interesting articles
- http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/ - A very good quick view on what has been discovered or researched

6.) Stuff
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These two links seem to contradict that.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/

Interesting in that the both quote GISS, yet say two different things. Maybe one is an aggregate, where the other is comparing the same month, two years apart...

Um...

You do realize that there is a difference between Cosmic Rays and Solar Radiation. Right?

As far as the article goes, More sunspots mean more solar radiation, less sunspots mean less solar radiation.

If the sun has been going through a period of low activity as of recent years, that would certainly explain the cooling trends seen by scientists in recent years. Of course, some refuse to talk about it, and continue to hyperventilate about "Anthropogenic Global Warming" as if it was some kind of gospel, rather than just another scientific hypothesis that has yet to be proved even enough to garner "theory" status.

Of course, this is why real scientists continue to collect data, and to test the hypothesis. Many scientists are beginning to see serious cracks in AGW thought, and are beginning to question it's legitimacy. Unfortunately, AGW seems to have garnered quite a few political opportunists and quasi-religious acolytes who continue to insist there is a consensus where none exists.

Personally, I've not bought into the AGW hysteria, and am continuing to gather data. But the more I gather, the more I see that our Earth's climate has been fluctuating between warm and cool for eons, well before Man arrived on the scene, and will continue to do so until the death of the Sun. We are just a passing fancy for our planet, soon to be forgotten. How arrogant of us to think we could affect the deep and wide forces that move and shape our world.

There is an article on DailyTech about a line of site solution for up to 5 miles. Look at http://www.dailytech.com/Inexpensive+80211bg+WiFi+Bridge+Connects+Locations+Five+Miles+Apart/article11859.htm for information.

I just read this and may do exactly what you want. http://www.dailytech.com/Inexpensive+80211bg+WiFi+Bridge+Connects+Locations+Five+Miles+Apart/article11859.htm Mike

I do understand but there was record cold all over the place. I say that we don't have enough understanding of climate to say that it is or is not happening.
Here is one post http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
that seems to have valid data.
And another
http://www.dailytech.com/Researcher+Basic+Greenhouse+Equations+Totally+Wrong/article10973.htm

But I will also state that I am not 100% confident in those stories or data. I am afraid that they outside my areas of knowledge.

I do understand but there was record cold all over the place. I say that we don't have enough understanding of climate to say that it is or is not happening.
Here is one post http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
that seems to have valid data.
And another
http://www.dailytech.com/Researcher+Basic+Greenhouse+Equations+Totally+Wrong/article10973.htm

But I will also state that I am not 100% confident in those stories or data. I am afraid that they outside my areas of knowledge.

Apple has already forced Psystar to stop selling Mac-compatibles. Apple cited the EULA, which licenses installation on one "Apple-labeled computer."

Nvidia already makes IGPs that are pretty low power; they don't even need fans.

For ultimate low power, there's the future VIA/Nvidia hookup: http://www.dailytech.com/NVIDIA%20Promises%20Powerful%20Sub45%20Processing%20Platform%20to%20Counter%20Intel/article11452.htm