Which brings me to something I've been meaning to ask other/.ers... A while ago there was an article about a miniITX project to make a case out of LEGO bricks and one of the more interesting (but sadly unanswered:() question was asking what about shielding, heat dissipation, "and all that other good stuff"...
Does this relate to electromagnetic fields? Or in that case is it still a good idea to protect it with metal? Because plenty of miniITX projects, and normal case modding projects, call for wood, or plexiglass, some people leaving their parts out on a sheet of plexiglass and one person using a milk cart... I've always thought that'd be bad for you, and one person told me a long time ago it could stop pacemakers.
eSATA ports are very cheap to make, especially on external enclosures, which is why they often come with eSATA and USB and no firewire; FireWire would require an actual controller, USB just requires a change of plugs, and eSATA is SATA with a different connector.
And that is why I am not a scientist but a human with faith in other humans. I have forgiveness for anyone who has a false theory. It's not like forgiveness for somebody who commited a crime, but it's forgiveness in the sense that you won't be labelled a lunatic.
However, more telling, is that the last 9 years are all in the top 25 warmest years.
... When compared with 1970s temperatures.
I would like an autographed copy of your book - the one where you rewrite physics and chemistry. The visible light from the sun can travel through CO2 quite well, the infrared radiation from the Earth cooling at night can't. As CO2 increases, less energy can radiate off the planet into space, resulting in more energy in the system. More energy = higher temperature. It's the same idea as an x-ray, visible light can't go through your body, but a higher frequency wave can.
Oh sure right after you explain why CO2 doesn't deflect an equal amount of light right out and that CO2 by-products (ie tag alongs like soot) don't do it either. Because from what you're telling me it goes both ways. Which would mean global warming is a lie and a scam.
Isn't skeptical for something that has yet to happen, and denial for things that have happened?
Holocaust denial is definately different than skepticism about John Titor or about Nuclear Winter or about the Big Crunch or the Large Hadron Collider.
Whereas denial is outright "This did not happen." book-shut style, skepticism is "I don't believe this happened." with some wiggle room.
It's not less than 1%. And if it is that does not bode well for the field.
Because if we're warming up, why is 1938 was the hotest year on record? Why is it after WW2 we entered the coldest non-ice age period, ever recorded?
I don't think CO2 production is bad. I know it is. But for the right reasons. It causes acidic water. But that's where it ends. It does not warm. It probably does not cool.
I'm pretty sure the record rainfalls the Ottawa Valley totally has to do with "global warming". Face it, you started off like idiots, you're going to end like idiots. Stupid blunts like the hockey stick projection by a UN official cannot be forgiven. You made mistakes. Sure, we forgive you because you're human. But march right out if you think we'll keep buying your peddled crap when you change the meaning a bit to keep in line with what's happening.
A) What's a product that doesn't work for its designated task? It's defective. B) What's a A) that now works? Two lies and counting.
And let me leave you with a final thought. Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
ISPs need to turn off access to the computers they think have a botnet, but first send a polite letter, once a day, for three days, asking them to please fix it, to let the cableco fix it for free (look at it this way, room for more bw or a 30$ technician?), or at least take it off the 'net, and if nothing is done access is cut (and of course billing is stopped, cut for that month (IE if you get ut on the 15th you only pay 50%)).
Then if they ignore the letters then something is up and it's probably a good idea to shut them down. You need to put phone numbers for them to contact you to at least show you're willing to fix it. And call them on the 3rd day to warn them incase they've missed the letters. Because the last thing you want to do is cut somebody off and they don't know what happened.
I wonder how Russia is reacting to Iran getting nuclear weapons? Right in their backyard...
But I wonder if they think that two threats cancel each other out. Russia has been ignoring or quietly helping the iranians. Maybe it's to spite the chinese?
It's like a bunch of lions on one side of a river, and at the other side there's monkeys throwing shit at them all day, who ran there when the lions found them.
Of course what the monkeys don't know is that the lions can swim.
I would not be surprised if some of them start showing up in Western China.
And who wouldn't?
You'd liberate East Turkistan, Tibet, from those "murderous godless chinks".
Then the US funding Iran makes sense. Iran makes peace with its arab neighbours, one way or another, to fight off the new imperialist forces, the Chinese. The US pulling out of Iraq makes this perfect timing, Iraq is destabilised and falls to Al Qaeda or Iran's hands. US gets a pretext to occupy Saudi soil.
Now Iran is the US's proxy. Just in time to fight the chinese and the russians.
At the same time we'll be seeing the rebirth of the soviet union / russian empire. One country is already there. Next will be the other Turkic states, and then Ukraine, mother russia will teach them a lesson. Belrussia wants to come back, the baltics are an easy gain, and who's going to protect them, really? And even if NATO can keep the russians at bay (I'm sure they will, I doubt russia has the balls even now to challenge NATO for just a few eastern european states) it doesn't matter because now they've reconstructed the southern front. They no longer will have NATO in their backyard.
And then world is watching Iran, Russia, and Israel. Just as, hm, how many people now? 3 people predicted and have been saying for a long time.
Asus eee 700 series didn't have optical drivers, neither did its sucessors. (I don't know about thinkpad X series) XO-1 didn't. Classmate PC didn't.
Oh, and Compaq Armada and such 90's cd-less laptops.
Asus is hardly a small player. They were the biggest name in motherboards just a few years ago, and they're still by far #2, behind Gigabyte.
Apple is hardly the first to drop the optical drive. And the macbook air is the most terrible notebook I've ever seen. It's thin. Wow. Now find me a laptop bag for it. Yeah, not exactly thin, and can't exactly fold it.
I'll take a 299$ Dell e, or a 499$ HP 2133, even if it's a half-inch thicker.
It's too bad we can't get ourselves something like this but for movies.
For some reason "the industry" is fine giving away its music, but movies?!?!? NO WAY!!! (and yes I know nothing was really done after DVD was cracked in a month or so's span, but upscalers seem to only do 1080p with hdmi, and bluray only does 1080p with hdmi, I don't even know if it does component)
It's too bad Toshiba/DVD Forum couldn't "donate" the HD DVD specs. It would have made it useful for people wanting to make their own movies and archive them. Sure, not many people could play them, but can't all HDDVDs be played in normal DVD players? And of course a close-to DRM-free format would be a big hit.
But the problem is all of nvidia's current cards are total crap.
You're not honestly saying it's better to go for a GTX260/280 or an older 8800 over the HD4850? One is old, the other is extremely expensive, the other gets 95%-99% of the performance of #2 and costs ~200$... My what a decision!
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But look at it this way, wireless power could heat me up during our long, cold, boring winters. :)
Which brings me to something I've been meaning to ask other /.ers... A while ago there was an article about a miniITX project to make a case out of LEGO bricks and one of the more interesting (but sadly unanswered :() question was asking what about shielding, heat dissipation, "and all that other good stuff"...
Does this relate to electromagnetic fields? Or in that case is it still a good idea to protect it with metal? Because plenty of miniITX projects, and normal case modding projects, call for wood, or plexiglass, some people leaving their parts out on a sheet of plexiglass and one person using a milk cart... I've always thought that'd be bad for you, and one person told me a long time ago it could stop pacemakers.
it's more expensive than esata (or so I heard
eSATA ports are very cheap to make, especially on external enclosures, which is why they often come with eSATA and USB and no firewire; FireWire would require an actual controller, USB just requires a change of plugs, and eSATA is SATA with a different connector.
HDV [wikipedia.org] is MPEG-2 at up to 25Mbps...I'd hardly call that "low grade"
Compared to h.264 at 25mbps it's definately low grade.
Given enough bitrate any shitty codec will look ok.
Mind listing other ones?
It's important that your fellow /.ers don't get scammed. =(
We are currently at a more or less neutral stage; the cooling of the early 20th century offsets the middle-ages warming period.
http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/1998_no_longer_the_hottest_yea.html
Yes, I do. Namely RTFA. And do some research.
I for one didn't even realise how cold it was in the early 20th century. That just disproves your worthless theory even more.
We started off cold, we warmed up to more or less stabilise, and now we're dropping back. How is this warming, exactly?
Actually, forgiveness has no place in science.
And that is why I am not a scientist but a human with faith in other humans. I have forgiveness for anyone who has a false theory. It's not like forgiveness for somebody who commited a crime, but it's forgiveness in the sense that you won't be labelled a lunatic.
However, more telling, is that the last 9 years are all in the top 25 warmest years.
... When compared with 1970s temperatures.
I would like an autographed copy of your book - the one where you rewrite physics and chemistry. The visible light from the sun can travel through CO2 quite well, the infrared radiation from the Earth cooling at night can't. As CO2 increases, less energy can radiate off the planet into space, resulting in more energy in the system. More energy = higher temperature. It's the same idea as an x-ray, visible light can't go through your body, but a higher frequency wave can.
Oh sure right after you explain why CO2 doesn't deflect an equal amount of light right out and that CO2 by-products (ie tag alongs like soot) don't do it either. Because from what you're telling me it goes both ways. Which would mean global warming is a lie and a scam.
And wikipedia data is old data.
1998 was not hot at all. The idiots at NASA stuck the thermometer next to an air conditionning unit.
1938 is also missing. Again, hottest year recorded.
Finally, what the hell is up with NASA? All their data is stacked on 70s stuff for the most part, or the other "global cooling!!111!" years.
It means a lot when you look back and see last year (or was it 2006?) Europe and the old soviet states froze to death.
Today's scientists are the media.
Isn't skeptical for something that has yet to happen, and denial for things that have happened?
Holocaust denial is definately different than skepticism about John Titor or about Nuclear Winter or about the Big Crunch or the Large Hadron Collider.
Whereas denial is outright "This did not happen." book-shut style, skepticism is "I don't believe this happened." with some wiggle room.
Plenty of people rejected theories.
It's not less than 1%. And if it is that does not bode well for the field.
Because if we're warming up, why is 1938 was the hotest year on record? Why is it after WW2 we entered the coldest non-ice age period, ever recorded?
I don't think CO2 production is bad. I know it is. But for the right reasons. It causes acidic water. But that's where it ends. It does not warm. It probably does not cool.
I'm pretty sure the record rainfalls the Ottawa Valley totally has to do with "global warming". Face it, you started off like idiots, you're going to end like idiots. Stupid blunts like the hockey stick projection by a UN official cannot be forgiven. You made mistakes. Sure, we forgive you because you're human. But march right out if you think we'll keep buying your peddled crap when you change the meaning a bit to keep in line with what's happening.
A) What's a product that doesn't work for its designated task? It's defective.
B) What's a A) that now works? Two lies and counting.
And let me leave you with a final thought. Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Haha! Now watch as your house of cards falls! One domino at a time! Checkmate good sirs!
ISPs need to turn off access to the computers they think have a botnet, but first send a polite letter, once a day, for three days, asking them to please fix it, to let the cableco fix it for free (look at it this way, room for more bw or a 30$ technician?), or at least take it off the 'net, and if nothing is done access is cut (and of course billing is stopped, cut for that month (IE if you get ut on the 15th you only pay 50%)).
Then if they ignore the letters then something is up and it's probably a good idea to shut them down. You need to put phone numbers for them to contact you to at least show you're willing to fix it. And call them on the 3rd day to warn them incase they've missed the letters. Because the last thing you want to do is cut somebody off and they don't know what happened.
That should solve your botnet problem.
25cents a gig is way too much.
We should be seeing 10cents a gig.
Or 5 cents a gig in off-peak times, 25 cents a gig in peak times.
And the prices should remain flat or drop as the usage goes up.
It wouldn't be the first time.
I wonder how Russia is reacting to Iran getting nuclear weapons? Right in their backyard...
But I wonder if they think that two threats cancel each other out. Russia has been ignoring or quietly helping the iranians. Maybe it's to spite the chinese?
It makes on interesting image.
It's like a bunch of lions on one side of a river, and at the other side there's monkeys throwing shit at them all day, who ran there when the lions found them.
Of course what the monkeys don't know is that the lions can swim.
I would not be surprised if some of them start showing up in Western China.
And who wouldn't?
You'd liberate East Turkistan, Tibet, from those "murderous godless chinks".
Then the US funding Iran makes sense. Iran makes peace with its arab neighbours, one way or another, to fight off the new imperialist forces, the Chinese. The US pulling out of Iraq makes this perfect timing, Iraq is destabilised and falls to Al Qaeda or Iran's hands. US gets a pretext to occupy Saudi soil.
Now Iran is the US's proxy. Just in time to fight the chinese and the russians.
At the same time we'll be seeing the rebirth of the soviet union / russian empire. One country is already there. Next will be the other Turkic states, and then Ukraine, mother russia will teach them a lesson. Belrussia wants to come back, the baltics are an easy gain, and who's going to protect them, really? And even if NATO can keep the russians at bay (I'm sure they will, I doubt russia has the balls even now to challenge NATO for just a few eastern european states) it doesn't matter because now they've reconstructed the southern front. They no longer will have NATO in their backyard.
And then world is watching Iran, Russia, and Israel. Just as, hm, how many people now? 3 people predicted and have been saying for a long time.
tl;dr: Good night sweet prince.
No, you're wrong.
Asus eee 700 series didn't have optical drivers, neither did its sucessors. (I don't know about thinkpad X series) XO-1 didn't. Classmate PC didn't.
Oh, and Compaq Armada and such 90's cd-less laptops.
Asus is hardly a small player. They were the biggest name in motherboards just a few years ago, and they're still by far #2, behind Gigabyte.
Apple is hardly the first to drop the optical drive. And the macbook air is the most terrible notebook I've ever seen. It's thin. Wow. Now find me a laptop bag for it. Yeah, not exactly thin, and can't exactly fold it.
I'll take a 299$ Dell e, or a 499$ HP 2133, even if it's a half-inch thicker.
Can't boot my computers with USB (I admit they're fairly old, ~1999-2001).
So for me CDs win. Plus I can burn games on them and distribute them across the LAN like that.
Nail meet head.
DVDs and CDs are disposable, especially since they're effectively worthless to the distributor after they're made.
What am I going to do with a disc full of songs that I already have? As opposed to a flash drive that I can reuse...
It's too bad we can't get ourselves something like this but for movies.
For some reason "the industry" is fine giving away its music, but movies?!?!? NO WAY!!! (and yes I know nothing was really done after DVD was cracked in a month or so's span, but upscalers seem to only do 1080p with hdmi, and bluray only does 1080p with hdmi, I don't even know if it does component)
It's too bad Toshiba/DVD Forum couldn't "donate" the HD DVD specs. It would have made it useful for people wanting to make their own movies and archive them. Sure, not many people could play them, but can't all HDDVDs be played in normal DVD players? And of course a close-to DRM-free format would be a big hit.
But the problem is all of nvidia's current cards are total crap.
You're not honestly saying it's better to go for a GTX260/280 or an older 8800 over the HD4850? One is old, the other is extremely expensive, the other gets 95%-99% of the performance of #2 and costs ~200$... My what a decision!
Wait, CrossFire between the 780G and HD4850 is supported? I thought that was CrossFireX related. =/