Good thoughts, but I think that cooling equipment works better when the internal temperature is higher. That way the coolant can collect more heat in the evaporation phase, which can then be dumped outside from the condenser. So, by keeping the temperature warmer, the return coolant has more heat in it, but the coolant still evaporates at the same temperature, so you get a larger delta. Yes, the compressers would have to work a little harder, but overall, apperantly it is a net savings in energy.
Hardware interaction... Like maybe "[...]resetting the machine to override the pre-programmed instructions that came with the scanner when it was installed."?
I'm willing to bet that the person that modified the machine has read, at least, the relevant parts of the manual.
7 Gbits!?!? WOW, who is your provider? Do you live in the local exchange? If, so, that would definitely explain how you can make calls at the same time...
"Allocated frequencies" were key words. Yes, there are lots of other frequencies that we could use, some better than others. The problem is that they are not currently licensed for that purpose, so cannot be counted as available bandwidth.
The difference is that the internet is more scalable. We didn't run into problems back then because of increases in CPU power that allows for larger routing tables and advances in fibre that allows for more data on the same strand. This is a physical problem. There is only so much spectrum available. Once the air is saturated on the allocated frequencies, we are done. No more room, period.
Wow, that's pretty bad. At least the production quality is better though. I wouldn't necessarily say it's worse, it's actually about equally terrible, but if you consider that it is about an hour long, it does have does have terrible in much greater quantities.
I would say "keeping up with the Joneses". No apostrophe. You are not keeping up with something specific of theirs, but rather them as a group. If you were talking about your phone keeping up with the Joneses' specific phone, then that would be correct, but just keeping up with them on a status quo level, would not require an apostrophe.
Until you find a hydrogen mine, a hydrogen powered car is a terrible idea. I see some natural gas powered vans in my city. That seems to be a good idea. Low pollution, cheap fuel, and an abundant domestic supply of fuel. Plus only minor modifications are needed to a standard engine.
Hyrdogen is a great buzz word, but in practice it is hugely inefficient.
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Ironically enough, my XBOX360 crashes more than my home computer, work computer and 5 lab computers all combined.
When the Soviets launched Sputnik 2 a small dog was on board. The dog had been trained to monitor the primitive electronics on board. Unfortunately the dog was not that good at monitoring the life support equipment and died of suffocation. The idea lived on though but now we use monkeys. They tend to be a little smarter and they can turn dials in addition to pushing buttons. Most commercial satellites now launch with monkeys aboard.
I love my xbox. The games are awesome. I love playing from my recliner on my 52" LCD. I like to play split screen Halo with my friends in the same room. My xbox could go at any time, and if that happened, I would be a sad puppy. Luckly, I have a contingency plan in place for if/when it fails. It's called going to the store and buying another one. Slap the HDD on and I'm good to go. I'll send the old one in for repairs and then keep it as a backup.
Sure the console can croak at any moment, but I feel over the 2 years that I have got my money worth from it, even if they wouldn't fix it for free (which they would).
I think a lot of the people that bash consoles just have a shitty TV. If I only had a 27" CRT I wouldn't buy a console either.
BTW I NEVER sell games. You only get a small fraction back, unless you ebay the game right after release. For example, Tiger woods '09 - paid $65CDN, I could sell it now for about $10; $5 to EB games. I would rather have the game as part of my collection. Selling games is for suckers.
Wire hubs would have generators for sure, but local exchanges might not. My local exchange (which is located in a largish room at a small strip mall) did not have generators. It had a battery bank about 15 feet long along one wall. I asked the guy how long they will provide power for and he said about 24 hours.
I understand what you are saying about having everything go back to a wire anyways. What if your local loop went down? It could be quite a while until service is restored, especially if backhauls are disrupted too. Triage would fix backhauls and CO damage first, then move to smaller, lower priority stuff later. There are fewer cell towers to manage, and all of them are high priority, so if a tower goes down, someone knows about it, and are working to fix it, while your local loop is forgotten about. Cell phones eliminate the local loop, reducing the scope of outages. Plus, I don't even have a land line.
They are powered by (I assume) the same type of submarine batteries that power wired networks, just your power demands are less so you can either use fewer batteries, or offer longer power time.
Phone lines get power from the grid. You are correct that when the power goes out, the phones continue to work, and that is because they have massive banks of submarine batteries at the various exchanges to provide power for when the power is out. These batteries will not last forever, likely somewhere around 24 hours. My cell phone has a 5 day standby time (in theory)and I can charge it from my car.
I guess I am arguing that land lines aren't as robust as you might think they are. You cell phone battery will likely outlast the battery at the local exchange. Also, if there are major fiber breaks, it might take longer to restore land line service, becuase a lot of cell phone towers use wireless backhauls... Just my $.02.
Yeah, well maybe they don't know how to spell either. Nor would they bother starting a paragraph with a capital letter, let alone a simple sentance. They likely think that things like "ppl", "probally", and "costed" are words too.
I see humans evolving into a "yellow race". A merging of black, white and asian into the new human. Humans also continue to grow taller, so I expect that trend to continue. Selective breeding will weed out the "fatties" eventually. Eventually (not that long) I think we will resemble the stereotypical alien, just with smaller eyes and a normal nose.
The other option I see for the future of the human race is that it will decline. We will get fatter, poorer, and dumber. The ghetto seems to spawn new life at an incredible rate. It is a proven fact that educated people have less children then their high school drop-out counterparts... We'll have to wait and see.
You are essentially describing GST in canada (Goods and services tax). If you make under a certain amount then you are eligable for a "GST rebate" When I was in school, it was something like $75 every 3 months. It was pretty awesome getting that cheque, I really needed it then. Once you make over something like 30K/Year then you are no longer eligable.
GST is really confusing because some things are taxed where other things are not. Food generally is not taxed, unless it is prepared. So if you go to a restaurant, you pay tax, but if you buy lettice and stuff at the store, it is not taxed. I think that TP has tax on it. Doughnuts are taxed, unless you buy more than 6, then there is no tax. I think that frozen dinners are taxed, not sure about salad in a bag, it could go either way. Sins (Alchohol, tobacco) are GSTed up, even though 1/2 the price is essentially tax anyways, so you end up paying tax on a tax...
You would be better off raising the tax exempt barrier and raising taxes a couple of %.
I wonder close to the GPU you are getting here. If you can only access through a set of APIs then that seems pretty safe, but if you can run arbitrary code on the GPU, maybe you can get it to do some funky stuff. CPUs have different rings to keep programs from accessing resources that they shouldn't, but does a GPU? I doubt it.
It depends how integrated the system is. Your mac is only visible in the IP header until your packet hits a router. At that point your MAC gets stripped off and the router's MAC replaces it. I am assuming that your packet would pass through a router before hitting the web page, so it isn't as easy as reading the source address of the packet.
I guessing that when you opt-out, you give them your MAC so that they can assign you to a different IP address pool. Then they just decide if you get hijacked or not based on the source IP address.
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Good thoughts, but I think that cooling equipment works better when the internal temperature is higher. That way the coolant can collect more heat in the evaporation phase, which can then be dumped outside from the condenser. So, by keeping the temperature warmer, the return coolant has more heat in it, but the coolant still evaporates at the same temperature, so you get a larger delta. Yes, the compressers would have to work a little harder, but overall, apperantly it is a net savings in energy.
Hardware interaction... Like maybe "[...]resetting the machine to override the pre-programmed instructions that came with the scanner when it was installed."?
I'm willing to bet that the person that modified the machine has read, at least, the relevant parts of the manual.
BadAnalogyGuy is that you? Oh, wait, it is...
7 Gbits!?!? WOW, who is your provider? Do you live in the local exchange? If, so, that would definitely explain how you can make calls at the same time...
"Allocated frequencies" were key words. Yes, there are lots of other frequencies that we could use, some better than others. The problem is that they are not currently licensed for that purpose, so cannot be counted as available bandwidth.
The difference is that the internet is more scalable. We didn't run into problems back then because of increases in CPU power that allows for larger routing tables and advances in fibre that allows for more data on the same strand. This is a physical problem. There is only so much spectrum available. Once the air is saturated on the allocated frequencies, we are done. No more room, period.
Wow, that's pretty bad. At least the production quality is better though. I wouldn't necessarily say it's worse, it's actually about equally terrible, but if you consider that it is about an hour long, it does have does have terrible in much greater quantities.
***Irony alert** Title : Education. Text: "If you want to be 100% secure, higher smart people and shut off your internet pipe."
I would say "keeping up with the Joneses". No apostrophe. You are not keeping up with something specific of theirs, but rather them as a group. If you were talking about your phone keeping up with the Joneses' specific phone, then that would be correct, but just keeping up with them on a status quo level, would not require an apostrophe.
Until you find a hydrogen mine, a hydrogen powered car is a terrible idea. I see some natural gas powered vans in my city. That seems to be a good idea. Low pollution, cheap fuel, and an abundant domestic supply of fuel. Plus only minor modifications are needed to a standard engine.
Hyrdogen is a great buzz word, but in practice it is hugely inefficient.
Ironically enough, my XBOX360 crashes more than my home computer, work computer and 5 lab computers all combined.
For the uninformed:
When the Soviets launched Sputnik 2 a small dog was on board. The dog had been trained to monitor the primitive electronics on board. Unfortunately the dog was not that good at monitoring the life support equipment and died of suffocation. The idea lived on though but now we use monkeys. They tend to be a little smarter and they can turn dials in addition to pushing buttons. Most commercial satellites now launch with monkeys aboard.
I love my xbox. The games are awesome. I love playing from my recliner on my 52" LCD. I like to play split screen Halo with my friends in the same room. My xbox could go at any time, and if that happened, I would be a sad puppy. Luckly, I have a contingency plan in place for if/when it fails. It's called going to the store and buying another one. Slap the HDD on and I'm good to go. I'll send the old one in for repairs and then keep it as a backup.
Sure the console can croak at any moment, but I feel over the 2 years that I have got my money worth from it, even if they wouldn't fix it for free (which they would).
I think a lot of the people that bash consoles just have a shitty TV. If I only had a 27" CRT I wouldn't buy a console either.
BTW I NEVER sell games. You only get a small fraction back, unless you ebay the game right after release. For example, Tiger woods '09 - paid $65CDN, I could sell it now for about $10; $5 to EB games. I would rather have the game as part of my collection. Selling games is for suckers.
Wire hubs would have generators for sure, but local exchanges might not. My local exchange (which is located in a largish room at a small strip mall) did not have generators. It had a battery bank about 15 feet long along one wall. I asked the guy how long they will provide power for and he said about 24 hours.
I understand what you are saying about having everything go back to a wire anyways. What if your local loop went down? It could be quite a while until service is restored, especially if backhauls are disrupted too. Triage would fix backhauls and CO damage first, then move to smaller, lower priority stuff later. There are fewer cell towers to manage, and all of them are high priority, so if a tower goes down, someone knows about it, and are working to fix it, while your local loop is forgotten about. Cell phones eliminate the local loop, reducing the scope of outages. Plus, I don't even have a land line.
They are powered by (I assume) the same type of submarine batteries that power wired networks, just your power demands are less so you can either use fewer batteries, or offer longer power time.
Phone lines get power from the grid. You are correct that when the power goes out, the phones continue to work, and that is because they have massive banks of submarine batteries at the various exchanges to provide power for when the power is out. These batteries will not last forever, likely somewhere around 24 hours. My cell phone has a 5 day standby time (in theory)and I can charge it from my car.
I guess I am arguing that land lines aren't as robust as you might think they are. You cell phone battery will likely outlast the battery at the local exchange. Also, if there are major fiber breaks, it might take longer to restore land line service, becuase a lot of cell phone towers use wireless backhauls... Just my $.02.
Yeah, well maybe they don't know how to spell either. Nor would they bother starting a paragraph with a capital letter, let alone a simple sentance. They likely think that things like "ppl", "probally", and "costed" are words too.
Assume a temporary definition of "runs out". ie. night.
O rly?
I see humans evolving into a "yellow race". A merging of black, white and asian into the new human. Humans also continue to grow taller, so I expect that trend to continue. Selective breeding will weed out the "fatties" eventually. Eventually (not that long) I think we will resemble the stereotypical alien, just with smaller eyes and a normal nose.
The other option I see for the future of the human race is that it will decline. We will get fatter, poorer, and dumber. The ghetto seems to spawn new life at an incredible rate. It is a proven fact that educated people have less children then their high school drop-out counterparts... We'll have to wait and see.
I don't know how a crossover cable would help with GPUs, but ATI could definately promote their CrossFire product...
You are essentially describing GST in canada (Goods and services tax). If you make under a certain amount then you are eligable for a "GST rebate" When I was in school, it was something like $75 every 3 months. It was pretty awesome getting that cheque, I really needed it then. Once you make over something like 30K/Year then you are no longer eligable.
GST is really confusing because some things are taxed where other things are not. Food generally is not taxed, unless it is prepared. So if you go to a restaurant, you pay tax, but if you buy lettice and stuff at the store, it is not taxed. I think that TP has tax on it. Doughnuts are taxed, unless you buy more than 6, then there is no tax. I think that frozen dinners are taxed, not sure about salad in a bag, it could go either way. Sins (Alchohol, tobacco) are GSTed up, even though 1/2 the price is essentially tax anyways, so you end up paying tax on a tax...
You would be better off raising the tax exempt barrier and raising taxes a couple of %.
I wonder close to the GPU you are getting here. If you can only access through a set of APIs then that seems pretty safe, but if you can run arbitrary code on the GPU, maybe you can get it to do some funky stuff. CPUs have different rings to keep programs from accessing resources that they shouldn't, but does a GPU? I doubt it.
I really don't know... just thinking.
ARP only works on the same network. ARP is not usable over the internet because it operates at layer 2.
It depends how integrated the system is. Your mac is only visible in the IP header until your packet hits a router. At that point your MAC gets stripped off and the router's MAC replaces it. I am assuming that your packet would pass through a router before hitting the web page, so it isn't as easy as reading the source address of the packet.
I guessing that when you opt-out, you give them your MAC so that they can assign you to a different IP address pool. Then they just decide if you get hijacked or not based on the source IP address.
Yea, but I own the network.