It always bothers me when people complain about government programs that should have been used to help the economy. My argument is that when we spend money on NASA, or the military that money is being used to pay, for the most part, Americans for something useful thereby helping the economy. CARS on the other hand was paying Americans to throw away perfectly good cars. It is one of the few examples of government spending where the "Well they don't just take the money out into the desert and burn it argument" doesn't really work.
I agree, 10 years ago no one was going to try and sell a all-electric car, it wasn't commercially viable. So they designed hybrids instead. The hybrid technology is what has allowed us to build electric cars today. Many "environmentalists" would argue that hybrids are evil because they still emit CO2 but without them we probably wouldn't have the battery tech, regenerative braking, and weight reduction techniques required for all-electrics today. This plant is the same deal. If continuing to burn some coal develops the solar-thermal tech so that it is commercially viable then it is a win-win.
Most people with computers do not have 1TB drives.
If they have a new computer they are probably close to that. Out of all of walmart's midrange Pc's 4 are less than 400GB and 9 are over 400GB. Most are 64bit and have over 4GB of memory, half have 8GB.
With the ubiquity of 10+ Megapixel cameras, HD camcorders, downloaded music collections, etc I think you are underestimating the amount of storage the average user is using. 22GB of photos is nothing. Like I said, I have almost 9 GB of photos just from my wedding, anyone else that hires a photographer for a few hundred bucks is going to get the same thing. Between the photographer and friends/family with cameras I have 2216 photos from my wedding day. Are all of them great shots, of course not, but who goes through all their photos and deletes ones that aren't perfect? What would be the point? I could buy a 1TB drive for $99 instead of a 1.5TB drive for $109. Big deal.
All of this is not to mention the size of programs and OSs. My windows folder is 12GB, Program Files and Program Files(x86) take up another 4GB. Good thing I don't have any games. Call of Duty 4 requires 8GB just to install.
it would take quite a long time to fill up this 120GB hard drive
I would have a hard time getting drunk enough to install Gentoo if all you brought was a keg of beer. A keg of whiskey might do the trick. Of course we would run out before it was done compiling so maybe you should bring the keg of beer too, you know as a back-up.
Sorry but 100GB of user files is ridiculous. My parents have more than that. Shit, my grandparents have more than that. I have 22GB of photos alone. My wedding photos came on 2 DVD's and there wasn't any video. Or raws. I also have some friends and family member's photos. I also have 23GB of music. So half of your 100GB is gone. Now lets look at video, 308GB. That's just some downloaded movies and old home movie Super 8 and VHS ripped to.avi. When I pickup a HD based camcorder when my kid is born I'm sure that will double in the first year. Then you add the little stuff like documents 2.5GB, software 28GB, etc and my WHS with 1.82TB of storage is about halfway full.
"Imagine finding out you got rejected from community college, then finding out that your alcoholic father got arrested for domestic abuse, you lost all your life savings in a Ponzi scheme, and all of this happens to you while you're on the space shuttle Challenger. Then you wake up and it's all a bad dream, except you realize that you're at work without clothes on, and work is NASA and you're really on the space shuttle Challenger. That's what this movie is like, only infinitely worse. Everything about this movie pissed me off, save for the lesbian finger bang scene. Except even that sucked because it wasn't in the movie."
I totally know what your talking about. Imagine how happy I was when the Mayo Clinic interviewed me for their open Neurosurgeon position by handing me a laptop and a multiple choice test.
Unlimited = Use the internet 24/7. Always on. Example - Cable, DSL, FIOS.
Limited = Pay per Min. Example - AOL Dial-up.
Unlimited != Uncapped downloads.
Unfortunately, most ISPs in the US have a download cap. Some are in the ToS, some aren't. Some are enforced, some aren't. I live in AZ, have Cox Com., pay for the 13Mbps plan (they have 1.5, 13, 20, and 28Mbps tiers) and have an official cap of 40GB down/15GB up a month. Luckily Cox doesn't seem to enforce their caps because I have exceeded this many times, both down and up. FYI, even though I have the 13Mbps plan I routinely see over 18Mbps and rarely get under 10Mbps.
The Earth's surface area is 510,072,000 km^2. Aproximately half of that is illuminated by the Sun at any given time, so 255,036,000 km^2. This array is 4 km^2. Sure it will be in the sun almost all the time but do you real think that getting an extra.0000008% of energy we already receive from the Sun is going to make any appreciable difference? That is at 100% efficiency by the way.
According to wikipedia, the American living in "abject poverty" has "...good condition housing. Most have at least two rooms per person and more space than middle-class people in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. Over three quarters have a car and a third of poor Americans have two cars. Poor Americans have air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave oven, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo.[15][16] Most poor Americans report zero financial or material problems.[15]
From Apple; A quad core 2.93 GHz Nehalem with 8GB of Ram, 4TB of storage, an ATI Radeon 4870 512mb Graphics card, and a DVD/CD burner is $4,500.
From newegg; a quad core 2.93GHz Nehalem with 12GB of Ram, 4TB of storage, an ATI Radeon 4870 1GB Graphics card, and a A CD/DVD/Bluray burner is $2700.
I think I can get a pretty bad ass case and power supply with that $1800 difference. Plus I get 4GB more ram, twice the video ram and a bluray burner. Oh wait, sorry, $1,700 after the OEM Win7 license.
Actually, Social Security is the biggest chunk of the national budget at 21.05%. The Department of Defense is 16.85%. Actually if you add SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services you get 49.72% for social programs. Also, interest on the National Debt is budgeted at 8.5%. That leaves 25% left for things like Education, NASA, DOE, DHS, DOJ, EPA, NSF, Federal LE, etc.
Yeah, because a cell phone that explodes under too much pressure is the fault of the owner. It's not like these things ever get sat on or dropped. Exploding is a perfectly reasonable failure mode for these rare, 1-in-a-brazillion scenarios.
Slashdot Mirror
70% of the netbook market is not a minority.
So you think a country should experiment with LSD and try to take over the world? Sorry, that didn't work out to well for the last guy.
Only if they explicitly turn on Remote Access.
$3000 in 31 seconds is $351,000 an hour. But you do have to deal with the ass rapings. You know, from using the Macs.
It always bothers me when people complain about government programs that should have been used to help the economy. My argument is that when we spend money on NASA, or the military that money is being used to pay, for the most part, Americans for something useful thereby helping the economy. CARS on the other hand was paying Americans to throw away perfectly good cars. It is one of the few examples of government spending where the "Well they don't just take the money out into the desert and burn it argument" doesn't really work.
What is gdiya(Google Down In Your Area). YPB (You Poor Bastard). Good thing others were able to gtfy (Google That For You). HAND.
I agree, 10 years ago no one was going to try and sell a all-electric car, it wasn't commercially viable. So they designed hybrids instead. The hybrid technology is what has allowed us to build electric cars today. Many "environmentalists" would argue that hybrids are evil because they still emit CO2 but without them we probably wouldn't have the battery tech, regenerative braking, and weight reduction techniques required for all-electrics today. This plant is the same deal. If continuing to burn some coal develops the solar-thermal tech so that it is commercially viable then it is a win-win.
Most people with computers do not have 1TB drives.
If they have a new computer they are probably close to that. Out of all of walmart's midrange Pc's 4 are less than 400GB and 9 are over 400GB. Most are 64bit and have over 4GB of memory, half have 8GB.
With the ubiquity of 10+ Megapixel cameras, HD camcorders, downloaded music collections, etc I think you are underestimating the amount of storage the average user is using. 22GB of photos is nothing. Like I said, I have almost 9 GB of photos just from my wedding, anyone else that hires a photographer for a few hundred bucks is going to get the same thing. Between the photographer and friends/family with cameras I have 2216 photos from my wedding day. Are all of them great shots, of course not, but who goes through all their photos and deletes ones that aren't perfect? What would be the point? I could buy a 1TB drive for $99 instead of a 1.5TB drive for $109. Big deal.
All of this is not to mention the size of programs and OSs. My windows folder is 12GB, Program Files and Program Files(x86) take up another 4GB. Good thing I don't have any games. Call of Duty 4 requires 8GB just to install.
it would take quite a long time to fill up this 120GB hard drive
About one school play in HD.
I would have a hard time getting drunk enough to install Gentoo if all you brought was a keg of beer. A keg of whiskey might do the trick. Of course we would run out before it was done compiling so maybe you should bring the keg of beer too, you know as a back-up.
Just use what I use to archive my G-Mail.
You have to be pretty nerdy to consider installing windows on 15-20 of your closest friends laptops a "party."
You do know it isn't an actual cyrstal ball right???
Sorry but 100GB of user files is ridiculous. My parents have more than that. Shit, my grandparents have more than that. I have 22GB of photos alone. My wedding photos came on 2 DVD's and there wasn't any video. Or raws. I also have some friends and family member's photos. I also have 23GB of music. So half of your 100GB is gone. Now lets look at video, 308GB. That's just some downloaded movies and old home movie Super 8 and VHS ripped to .avi. When I pickup a HD based camcorder when my kid is born I'm sure that will double in the first year. Then you add the little stuff like documents 2.5GB, software 28GB, etc and my WHS with 1.82TB of storage is about halfway full.
"Imagine finding out you got rejected from community college, then finding out that your alcoholic father got arrested for domestic abuse, you lost all your life savings in a Ponzi scheme, and all of this happens to you while you're on the space shuttle Challenger. Then you wake up and it's all a bad dream, except you realize that you're at work without clothes on, and work is NASA and you're really on the space shuttle Challenger. That's what this movie is like, only infinitely worse. Everything about this movie pissed me off, save for the lesbian finger bang scene. Except even that sucked because it wasn't in the movie."
QoS Review
Construction worker 1: Hey, my son got into DeVry.
Construction Worker 2: That's great, what did he have to do, walk through the door?
I totally know what your talking about. Imagine how happy I was when the Mayo Clinic interviewed me for their open Neurosurgeon position by handing me a laptop and a multiple choice test.
Unlimited = Use the internet 24/7. Always on. Example - Cable, DSL, FIOS.
Limited = Pay per Min. Example - AOL Dial-up.
Unlimited != Uncapped downloads.
Unfortunately, most ISPs in the US have a download cap. Some are in the ToS, some aren't. Some are enforced, some aren't. I live in AZ, have Cox Com., pay for the 13Mbps plan (they have 1.5, 13, 20, and 28Mbps tiers) and have an official cap of 40GB down/15GB up a month. Luckily Cox doesn't seem to enforce their caps because I have exceeded this many times, both down and up. FYI, even though I have the 13Mbps plan I routinely see over 18Mbps and rarely get under 10Mbps.
Cox TOS
The same way your thumb can block your view of the moon when it is a foot from your face but not when it is about 35,786 kilometers away.
The Earth's surface area is 510,072,000 km^2. Aproximately half of that is illuminated by the Sun at any given time, so 255,036,000 km^2. This array is 4 km^2. Sure it will be in the sun almost all the time but do you real think that getting an extra .0000008% of energy we already receive from the Sun is going to make any appreciable difference? That is at 100% efficiency by the way.
No, it was a Xeon. It was also a Mainboard with space for 2, like the mac.
According to wikipedia, the American living in "abject poverty" has "...good condition housing. Most have at least two rooms per person and more space than middle-class people in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. Over three quarters have a car and a third of poor Americans have two cars. Poor Americans have air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave oven, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo.[15][16] Most poor Americans report zero financial or material problems.[15]
From Apple; A quad core 2.93 GHz Nehalem with 8GB of Ram, 4TB of storage, an ATI Radeon 4870 512mb Graphics card, and a DVD/CD burner is $4,500.
From newegg; a quad core 2.93GHz Nehalem with 12GB of Ram, 4TB of storage, an ATI Radeon 4870 1GB Graphics card, and a A CD/DVD/Bluray burner is $2700.
I think I can get a pretty bad ass case and power supply with that $1800 difference. Plus I get 4GB more ram, twice the video ram and a bluray burner. Oh wait, sorry, $1,700 after the OEM Win7 license.
Actually, Social Security is the biggest chunk of the national budget at 21.05%. The Department of Defense is 16.85%. Actually if you add SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services you get 49.72% for social programs. Also, interest on the National Debt is budgeted at 8.5%. That leaves 25% left for things like Education, NASA, DOE, DHS, DOJ, EPA, NSF, Federal LE, etc.
mmmmm pie
Why doesn't anyone make a monitor that could support that resolution.
Yeah, because a cell phone that explodes under too much pressure is the fault of the owner. It's not like these things ever get sat on or dropped. Exploding is a perfectly reasonable failure mode for these rare, 1-in-a-brazillion scenarios.