The Superdrive FD32MB (look it up on wikipedia) can store 32MB on a normal old 1.44MB floppy disk. That's an uncompressed figure too, so if you use a PAQer like WinRK, you can fit some serious data on a little old floppy disk.
No, but you can add 40% using the Plexwriter Premium (so long as you don't want to be able to read anything past the 100 minute mark using a normal drive).
The features are nice, I really like everything about the A9 toolbar, except that these bars appear to really bog down the web browser. I get freezes and slow response when I'm flicking between tabs or working on https sites. And not just from A9. Pretty much every toolbar or plug-in that makes parallel requests slows the web browser down noticably.
The extra electricity directly due to running the CPU at 100% is not the main issue. The main problems running a modern PC's CPU at 100% are;
Noise from the fans that have to run faster
Heat from the CPU
I tested the Distributed.Net client on a couple of student labs. I had to remove it because it was straining the air-con and making the rooms way too noisy. If I run it on my current laptop, the fan kicks in. If I run it on my old laptop it overheats.
The air-con in the server rooms is a whole different grade of product to the offices. I've already had to remove hardware from my office because the air-con can't cope. If all of our staff PCs ran at 100%, we'd have to do a very expensive air-con upgrade. (Of course, that wouldn't actually happen, we'd just all get hot more of the year and morale would fall a little more.)
Shop The States -- I use it mostly to order tech stuff from Amazon ("this item can't be shipped outside the US") and occasionally to ship something by surface to save around US$20 in shipping costs.
But recently, local stores have been able to get more and more stuff in that I want, so I haven't been buying as much stuff from Amazon. Expansys is a good source of gadgets.
Your laptop might treat the USB floppy differently from a "normal" PC, because I certainly tried to install drivers using two different USB floppy drives before I went to all the trouble of slip-streaming the drivers.
The real question is "Why does Windows XP SP2 setup still only accept SCSI and RAID drivers from a standard old floppy drive?". I know you can slipstream drivers into an install CD, because that's what I had to do the last time I built up a PC without a floppy, but the setup routine really should at least allow drivers to be installed from a USB floppy drive by now.
omgsean123: so anyway, heisenberg is speeding down the street and he gets pulled over by a cop
omgsean123: and the cop is like "do you know how fast you were going?"
omgsean123: and he says "no, but i know exactly where i am!"
I trialed Australia's Bigpond Movies and I discovered that A) The weekends burn shipping time and B) Some discs are so badly scratched that they won't play in my DVD player.
If it doesn't have massive queues, it can't be considered a legitimate game.
Re:Woah, i downloaded this like....8hrs ago
on
DivX 6.0 is Out
·
· Score: 1
I know a lot of people try to fill a CD neatly. Personally, I use 1-pass encoding and want a consistent quality, not a consistent bit-rate -- I'm also not limited to 700MB on a disc.
That said, is the quality increase enough such that a hour(-ish) program that would have previously been encoded to 350MB for two on a CD could now be perfectly watchable if encoded to 230MB to fit three on a CD?
Well, most 19" LCD screens are poor value at the moment since they typically have the same res as a 17" panel. But otherwise, no, I don't think any sort of wrap-around display system is a bad thing. Currently I have four displays on my desk. Left to right: 1024x768LCD, 1280x1024CRT, 1400x1050LCD, 800x600LCD. I have had six screens all usable as the desktop of one PC before now. After the third monitor, productivity doesn't increase as fast as it costs for all that equipment, but during peak times as many monitors as I can get my hands on really help. And as equipment costs drop I will keep increasing the number of pixels working for me.
It's not astroturf if you have one, like it and aren't being paid by Matrox. I have one, like it and I am not being paid by Matrox. That said, I don't think I'd recommend it for 3D stuff, though it might be faster for 3D than a top-of-the-line 3D card from two or three years ago.
I just wish I could afford three big, identical flat-panel displays to really show it off.
While your tone is a little strong, I agree with the sentiment. My 2G's batteries appear to only last about 2.5 hours, but that is with an FM transmitter attached. That's enough for my sub-15 minute ride to work and for the occasional 45-minute each-way to a friends place. If the battery completely dies I'll get a third-party replacement, which I believe actually has a better capacity than the original.
Apart from x86 PCs, I use my iPod (ARM), PocketPC (ARM) and N-Gage (ARM). ARM; The biggest CPU supplier most people have never heard of.
At the office I have three old computers for decoration (two actually work); Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Apple IIc and Atari 400. Remembering what CPUs they use is left as an exercise for someone who's not about to go to lunch...
if a LiPoly is every discharged below a certain voltage, the cells are ruined.
So, is that 1500mAh capacity only if you ruin the battery?
I had some rechargable alkaline AAs like this, only the pack didn't tell me that if I let the totally discharge I'd only get half a dozen cycles out of them. This did make their quoted capacity a bit of a lie.
Nothing in the article even implied that both pairs of GPUs would subsequently be merged a second time so that all for GPUs we processing the one image. Or did I miss something?
I'm not sure, but I think there are some mobile phones that support a 900MHz standard called DECT. It basically a cordless phone standard that allows mobile phones to switch to (cheaper) land-line connections where available. I think.
Slashdot Mirror
The Superdrive FD32MB (look it up on wikipedia) can store 32MB on a normal old 1.44MB floppy disk. That's an uncompressed figure too, so if you use a PAQer like WinRK, you can fit some serious data on a little old floppy disk.
No, but you can add 40% using the Plexwriter Premium (so long as you don't want to be able to read anything past the 100 minute mark using a normal drive).
The features are nice, I really like everything about the A9 toolbar, except that these bars appear to really bog down the web browser. I get freezes and slow response when I'm flicking between tabs or working on https sites. And not just from A9. Pretty much every toolbar or plug-in that makes parallel requests slows the web browser down noticably.
...with this lego Star Destroyer.
- Noise from the fans that have to run faster
- Heat from the CPU
I tested the Distributed.Net client on a couple of student labs. I had to remove it because it was straining the air-con and making the rooms way too noisy. If I run it on my current laptop, the fan kicks in. If I run it on my old laptop it overheats.The air-con in the server rooms is a whole different grade of product to the offices. I've already had to remove hardware from my office because the air-con can't cope. If all of our staff PCs ran at 100%, we'd have to do a very expensive air-con upgrade. (Of course, that wouldn't actually happen, we'd just all get hot more of the year and morale would fall a little more.)
But recently, local stores have been able to get more and more stuff in that I want, so I haven't been buying as much stuff from Amazon. Expansys is a good source of gadgets.
Your laptop might treat the USB floppy differently from a "normal" PC, because I certainly tried to install drivers using two different USB floppy drives before I went to all the trouble of slip-streaming the drivers.
The real question is "Why does Windows XP SP2 setup still only accept SCSI and RAID drivers from a standard old floppy drive?". I know you can slipstream drivers into an install CD, because that's what I had to do the last time I built up a PC without a floppy, but the setup routine really should at least allow drivers to be installed from a USB floppy drive by now.
Gah. I was asked what table I wanted at a lunch place and I said "Number nine, if nobody's camping it". I've been playing World of Warcraft too much.
omgsean123: so anyway, heisenberg is speeding down the street and he gets pulled over by a cop
omgsean123: and the cop is like "do you know how fast you were going?"
omgsean123: and he says "no, but i know exactly where i am!"
Certainly my current fav.
This added up to a waste of my subscription.
If it doesn't have massive queues, it can't be considered a legitimate game.
That said, is the quality increase enough such that a hour(-ish) program that would have previously been encoded to 350MB for two on a CD could now be perfectly watchable if encoded to 230MB to fit three on a CD?
Then act your age. This is not anyone's "lingo". This is groupthink at its worst. If ever phrases came from the shallow end of the meme pool.
"Fear Ward 4tw."? Like I'm going to take advice from someone still in primary school.
Well, most 19" LCD screens are poor value at the moment since they typically have the same res as a 17" panel. But otherwise, no, I don't think any sort of wrap-around display system is a bad thing. Currently I have four displays on my desk. Left to right: 1024x768LCD, 1280x1024CRT, 1400x1050LCD, 800x600LCD. I have had six screens all usable as the desktop of one PC before now. After the third monitor, productivity doesn't increase as fast as it costs for all that equipment, but during peak times as many monitors as I can get my hands on really help. And as equipment costs drop I will keep increasing the number of pixels working for me.
I just wish I could afford three big, identical flat-panel displays to really show it off.
While your tone is a little strong, I agree with the sentiment. My 2G's batteries appear to only last about 2.5 hours, but that is with an FM transmitter attached. That's enough for my sub-15 minute ride to work and for the occasional 45-minute each-way to a friends place. If the battery completely dies I'll get a third-party replacement, which I believe actually has a better capacity than the original.
Apart from chronology, the Newton was to the Palm as the Lynx was to the Gameboy. It was too big and the battery life was too short.
At the office I have three old computers for decoration (two actually work); Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Apple IIc and Atari 400. Remembering what CPUs they use is left as an exercise for someone who's not about to go to lunch...
I had some rechargable alkaline AAs like this, only the pack didn't tell me that if I let the totally discharge I'd only get half a dozen cycles out of them. This did make their quoted capacity a bit of a lie.
You'd think enough /.ers would be using Google Web Accelerator for a cached copy to be available to those of us that found this article a little late.
Nothing in the article even implied that both pairs of GPUs would subsequently be merged a second time so that all for GPUs we processing the one image. Or did I miss something?
I'm not sure, but I think there are some mobile phones that support a 900MHz standard called DECT. It basically a cordless phone standard that allows mobile phones to switch to (cheaper) land-line connections where available. I think.
That's what makes them special!