And also a solar storm can knock out the entire internet and power grid. And at any time we can be hit by a gamma ray burst or a black hole from the LHC can suck us all up. Yeah, internet security is never going to be 100%, DUH! Is it really even worth mentioning?
First of all I've been saying for years, just screw the motherboard into the back of your mini-fridge and keep installing from there. You just open the door to put in a CD lol. But also, not all components can handle active cooling. My old laptop got really hot playing games. So I used ice packs under it to cool it. It got the temp way down but the hard drive died after about a month from the extreme hot-cold difference. I assume some external parts contracted while internal ones remained hot and expanded and some parts rubbed against other parts and it got damaged. I was able to get the data off after like 10 blue screens. So the moral of the story is, active cooling that can cool it lower than the surrounding air temperature is REALLY, REALLY BAD for some internal parts.
I was talking about in 2010, obviously. Why would someone buy a solar recharge station for their house for a Chevy Volt now? I figure in 2 years solar panel markets will have at least 10x the volume they do now if not 100x or 1000x with so many plugin hybrids and greenish people and stuff. So I figure with mass production and cheaper parts and less materials used because of more effective solar cells requiring a smaller panel overall, it couldn't be more than $1000 if like 50,000 people buy one. All it needs is a voltage regulating system and a panel and something to sense when the battery is full if the car can't do that itself and I think that's it. No inverter necessary cuz the whole thing is obviously DC. Pretty cheap parts really.
we'd have to blow China off the map for that to happen. I think more realistically people are just going to buy $1000 solar rigs that can recharge their car for free instead of driving to the nearest station 100 miles away like this article says.
There goes my giant vacuum cleaner idea. But seriously, maybe I'm remembering it wrong but doesn't lime burn people's skin? So wouldn't it kill sea creatures?
You should have seen what my USB drive from newegg came in. It was enough packing peanuts to feed a packing elephant for days! Anyway, if you think someone at HP thought "hey, let's send licenses out like that!" it's probably more like they put all licenses in those boxes to go with packages and failed to consider that someone might order them seperately and it would have taken a lot of labor to unbox them all and put them in envelopes instead.
You forgot the biggest factor. The Apple crowd (if you know what I mean) will love fancy new futuristic stuff that's all flash and no function so of course new technology will come out but it won't stay. The biggest thing is speed. I'm very sure that the only way someone can beat me is some sort of dual hypersensitive gloves with axis duplicated over two fingered pairs cuz that'd be 2 fingers on each hand that could control left and right acceleration. But keeping your fingers so straight all the time so the mouse doesn't move would cause an injury after like an hour. As for touchscreens, oh yeah just try and move 20 files 1 at a time faster than I and probably most of us can with a freakin touchscreen. Even if someone was that fast, they'd burn their fingers from the friction lol.
Windows ME all the way! My ME laptop is an 850MHz P3 with 128 MB of ram and it boots from completely off to all services and processes running in about 10-15 seconds. It shuts off from being ran for 4 hours to completely off in 4 seconds! Standby is even fsater.
Wouldn't it be better to just install those auto-sprinklers and alarms in every forest instead of just an aircraft that can say "Yep, it's on fire." I mean yeah it's nice to know where the fire is and where it's gonna spread and stuff but putting it out would be a little better. Yeah I was kidding about putting corporate building sprinklers on the tree trunks but if someone were to invent an automatic fire supression system for forests, that would make every other method pointless and completely solve the problem.
Well yes and no the way you said it. Stupid turkish credit card scammers got the whole payment system for SRO shut down like very other week cuz they had so many chargebacks. The same happened with too many stolen paypal accounts being paid to the same company (SRO's company) But basically it just shut down pending investigation after hitting the limit, they told them to be more careful and try to stop it, and then re-enabled their credit card/paypal system.
if your product wasn't delivered/provided as promised, you can fill out a chargeback form with your credit card company. A couple dozen of those from different people and the credit card company will look into what happened, see they're all valid, and immediately approve all chargebacks against that company. Cancelling your card is a lot more of a pain, though a good way for the retention department to increase your credit limit lol.
That's kinda unsafe in general. Aren't at least some of your neighbors dumb/crazy enough that they should not be trusted with kilowatts of localized power in their backyard?
So now they can blackout even faster lol. Remember the 1976 blackout or whatever? Yeah, they still haven't fixed the system's logic that caused that. If anything this makes it worse, although more efficient transmission is always good. But that of course makes me wanna wonder how much energy it takes to keep it cooled that low indefinitely. It is cooled by some sort of energy like a compressor or something, right?
amen to that! This has got to be the 10th unique solar panel breakthrough article this year. They must be up to what like 110% efficiency by now? lol. But seriously, a 4x improvement?! This should be for sale to consumers and being built into power plants in about 3 months. I mean it's free, unlimited power FFS! And yet still nothing. Is it all the government's fault for slowing it all down? Is it patent squatters? Is it oil compant patent buyouts? Whatever it is, they should quit it so I can buy a decent solar panel!
When I was 12-ish I read the book Virtual War and loved it. It's a couple decades in the future where everyone lives in bubbles cuz there's too deadly of bacteria existing in the outside world. Instead of the traditional wars that would kinda crack everyone's bubbles and drain already stretched resources, they have a virtual war with a giant war simulation video game. And the 3 super powers raise up genetically enhanced teams of 3 kids to fight in it. The winner gets control of a newly discovered island that's deadly bacteria free. It's awesome and interesting enough for a kid and not overly geeky and just perfect for kids!
yeah or maybe it just costs too much to run cabling and equipment out to rural areas...like more than they'd make selling internet connections so they don't do it. Consipiracy theorists tend to really leave logic behind. The whole suing thing is just because telecom companies know the cost per person will be so low, it's crazy. I mean a 100 megabit connections could cover a decent sized small town and that's relatively cheap when you divide it out per person. So then everyone's gonna want it and drop the traditional ISPs in favor of probably free municipal internet and their business will collapse.
Well gee, with 2 events potentially being held at the same time or at 3:00 in the morning in a US time zone, obviously on demand is going to beat everything else because then people can watch it whenever they want. Plus, people without DVRs can't just pause and re-watch anything so they'll double up with on demand also. Here's another prediciton too: all the traffic is going to melt the freakin internet!
You got that right. Ever notice how on CNN they put a giant, 90 degree rotated plasma or LCD right next to the real people who are sitting there and show someone who's far away on it like they're there too. It's like freakin star wars! If they can do it, everyone can soon enough. Ooh speaking of that, I gotta get me one of those million dollar multitouch magic screens too:D
You know, people might have said this was a ridiculous waste of time a couple years ago cuz you might as well just do it all in real life. But these days if you can have a Stargate convention in a virtual world without having to spend $700 on travel or having to leave your house or having to put on clothes, that's a good idea:D
Okay let's pull some CSI crap and go back in time. I can hear it now! "Naw, just code it in a GET, that's easier. Nobody will ever just type something" (except in German obviously:P)
Road Runner, which is a cable internet provider for Time Warner if you didn't know, uses a perfect system. My e-mail is at new.rr.com and the NEW is northeast wisconsin (even though it covers all of Wisconsin except Milwaukee). I've seen other acronyms for different areas too. Nobody seems to forget 3 simple letters around here. So I dunno much about networking but I think you set up the subdomains and point each one to each server and you're set.
You know what'd be really sweet is to start a section on there for stock photos. They could have people just take a picture of whatever and do whatever they want to it in photoshop (or Gimp:P) and throw it up there with no copyright. It's not that hard to go take a picture of an apple with your 3 MP camera and throw it up on the site. Then keyword it and tada, you've got a searchable, open photo library! Way better than paying like $30 per full res image at rip off stock photo libraries.
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or better yet they said it was an electric plug in, not a plug in hybrid so what liquid are they talking about? Does it run on cheetah blood?
And also a solar storm can knock out the entire internet and power grid. And at any time we can be hit by a gamma ray burst or a black hole from the LHC can suck us all up. Yeah, internet security is never going to be 100%, DUH! Is it really even worth mentioning?
First of all I've been saying for years, just screw the motherboard into the back of your mini-fridge and keep installing from there. You just open the door to put in a CD lol. But also, not all components can handle active cooling. My old laptop got really hot playing games. So I used ice packs under it to cool it. It got the temp way down but the hard drive died after about a month from the extreme hot-cold difference. I assume some external parts contracted while internal ones remained hot and expanded and some parts rubbed against other parts and it got damaged. I was able to get the data off after like 10 blue screens. So the moral of the story is, active cooling that can cool it lower than the surrounding air temperature is REALLY, REALLY BAD for some internal parts.
I was talking about in 2010, obviously. Why would someone buy a solar recharge station for their house for a Chevy Volt now? I figure in 2 years solar panel markets will have at least 10x the volume they do now if not 100x or 1000x with so many plugin hybrids and greenish people and stuff. So I figure with mass production and cheaper parts and less materials used because of more effective solar cells requiring a smaller panel overall, it couldn't be more than $1000 if like 50,000 people buy one. All it needs is a voltage regulating system and a panel and something to sense when the battery is full if the car can't do that itself and I think that's it. No inverter necessary cuz the whole thing is obviously DC. Pretty cheap parts really.
we'd have to blow China off the map for that to happen. I think more realistically people are just going to buy $1000 solar rigs that can recharge their car for free instead of driving to the nearest station 100 miles away like this article says.
There goes my giant vacuum cleaner idea. But seriously, maybe I'm remembering it wrong but doesn't lime burn people's skin? So wouldn't it kill sea creatures?
You should have seen what my USB drive from newegg came in. It was enough packing peanuts to feed a packing elephant for days! Anyway, if you think someone at HP thought "hey, let's send licenses out like that!" it's probably more like they put all licenses in those boxes to go with packages and failed to consider that someone might order them seperately and it would have taken a lot of labor to unbox them all and put them in envelopes instead.
You forgot the biggest factor. The Apple crowd (if you know what I mean) will love fancy new futuristic stuff that's all flash and no function so of course new technology will come out but it won't stay. The biggest thing is speed. I'm very sure that the only way someone can beat me is some sort of dual hypersensitive gloves with axis duplicated over two fingered pairs cuz that'd be 2 fingers on each hand that could control left and right acceleration. But keeping your fingers so straight all the time so the mouse doesn't move would cause an injury after like an hour. As for touchscreens, oh yeah just try and move 20 files 1 at a time faster than I and probably most of us can with a freakin touchscreen. Even if someone was that fast, they'd burn their fingers from the friction lol.
Windows ME all the way! My ME laptop is an 850MHz P3 with 128 MB of ram and it boots from completely off to all services and processes running in about 10-15 seconds. It shuts off from being ran for 4 hours to completely off in 4 seconds! Standby is even fsater.
nor can they stand up to the awesome might of wordpad. Seriously, I tell anyone over 40 to use wordpad lol.
Wouldn't it be better to just install those auto-sprinklers and alarms in every forest instead of just an aircraft that can say "Yep, it's on fire." I mean yeah it's nice to know where the fire is and where it's gonna spread and stuff but putting it out would be a little better. Yeah I was kidding about putting corporate building sprinklers on the tree trunks but if someone were to invent an automatic fire supression system for forests, that would make every other method pointless and completely solve the problem.
Well yes and no the way you said it. Stupid turkish credit card scammers got the whole payment system for SRO shut down like very other week cuz they had so many chargebacks. The same happened with too many stolen paypal accounts being paid to the same company (SRO's company) But basically it just shut down pending investigation after hitting the limit, they told them to be more careful and try to stop it, and then re-enabled their credit card/paypal system.
if your product wasn't delivered/provided as promised, you can fill out a chargeback form with your credit card company. A couple dozen of those from different people and the credit card company will look into what happened, see they're all valid, and immediately approve all chargebacks against that company. Cancelling your card is a lot more of a pain, though a good way for the retention department to increase your credit limit lol.
That's kinda unsafe in general. Aren't at least some of your neighbors dumb/crazy enough that they should not be trusted with kilowatts of localized power in their backyard?
So now they can blackout even faster lol. Remember the 1976 blackout or whatever? Yeah, they still haven't fixed the system's logic that caused that. If anything this makes it worse, although more efficient transmission is always good. But that of course makes me wanna wonder how much energy it takes to keep it cooled that low indefinitely. It is cooled by some sort of energy like a compressor or something, right?
amen to that! This has got to be the 10th unique solar panel breakthrough article this year. They must be up to what like 110% efficiency by now? lol. But seriously, a 4x improvement?! This should be for sale to consumers and being built into power plants in about 3 months. I mean it's free, unlimited power FFS! And yet still nothing. Is it all the government's fault for slowing it all down? Is it patent squatters? Is it oil compant patent buyouts? Whatever it is, they should quit it so I can buy a decent solar panel!
When I was 12-ish I read the book Virtual War and loved it. It's a couple decades in the future where everyone lives in bubbles cuz there's too deadly of bacteria existing in the outside world. Instead of the traditional wars that would kinda crack everyone's bubbles and drain already stretched resources, they have a virtual war with a giant war simulation video game. And the 3 super powers raise up genetically enhanced teams of 3 kids to fight in it. The winner gets control of a newly discovered island that's deadly bacteria free. It's awesome and interesting enough for a kid and not overly geeky and just perfect for kids!
Too bad InPhase already has had a holographic disk of that capacity for a while now plus a write speed that blows this media away.
yeah or maybe it just costs too much to run cabling and equipment out to rural areas...like more than they'd make selling internet connections so they don't do it. Consipiracy theorists tend to really leave logic behind. The whole suing thing is just because telecom companies know the cost per person will be so low, it's crazy. I mean a 100 megabit connections could cover a decent sized small town and that's relatively cheap when you divide it out per person. So then everyone's gonna want it and drop the traditional ISPs in favor of probably free municipal internet and their business will collapse.
Well gee, with 2 events potentially being held at the same time or at 3:00 in the morning in a US time zone, obviously on demand is going to beat everything else because then people can watch it whenever they want. Plus, people without DVRs can't just pause and re-watch anything so they'll double up with on demand also. Here's another prediciton too: all the traffic is going to melt the freakin internet!
You got that right. Ever notice how on CNN they put a giant, 90 degree rotated plasma or LCD right next to the real people who are sitting there and show someone who's far away on it like they're there too. It's like freakin star wars! If they can do it, everyone can soon enough. Ooh speaking of that, I gotta get me one of those million dollar multitouch magic screens too :D
You know, people might have said this was a ridiculous waste of time a couple years ago cuz you might as well just do it all in real life. But these days if you can have a Stargate convention in a virtual world without having to spend $700 on travel or having to leave your house or having to put on clothes, that's a good idea :D
Okay let's pull some CSI crap and go back in time. I can hear it now! "Naw, just code it in a GET, that's easier. Nobody will ever just type something" (except in German obviously :P)
Road Runner, which is a cable internet provider for Time Warner if you didn't know, uses a perfect system. My e-mail is at new.rr.com and the NEW is northeast wisconsin (even though it covers all of Wisconsin except Milwaukee). I've seen other acronyms for different areas too. Nobody seems to forget 3 simple letters around here. So I dunno much about networking but I think you set up the subdomains and point each one to each server and you're set.
You know what'd be really sweet is to start a section on there for stock photos. They could have people just take a picture of whatever and do whatever they want to it in photoshop (or Gimp :P) and throw it up there with no copyright. It's not that hard to go take a picture of an apple with your 3 MP camera and throw it up on the site. Then keyword it and tada, you've got a searchable, open photo library! Way better than paying like $30 per full res image at rip off stock photo libraries.