I don't give a damn if they even match the current efficiency of high performance multi-junction cells so long as they meet the goal of 1/10th the cost for comparable output. $400 for a 120-160 watt panel would then be $40 - 100, which makes them entirely viable for my needs. The only other issue is how durable will these panels be? 20yr warranties are common on the High End Panels with the Amorphous being in the 10-20 yr range. Cheaper panels can be in the 10yr range but if they get them up to a 20+ lifespan, then I'd be quite willing to invest in an (12) 100 watt panel array as that fully meets my current needs.
This would be at least a Category 8 Flare - meaning No the ISS is not sheilded sufficiently to protect the astronauts from it. Keep in mind that some of the shielding that the ISS uses is provided by the Earth's Magetic field as the station is in LEO (low earth orbit) which is the reason it completes its orbit is 91 minutes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
Choosing to abstain from Voting is simply giving up the right to have your opinion heard. Sure voting doesn't mean much today but everyone who doesn't vote is already a slave and has accepted that as fact. So Shut up and get to work slave before I break out the whip for your lazy ass.
Many might think I'm incorrect about the slavery issue but until you vote even against something, you have absolutely no say in how this country is being run into the ground by Corporate America and until enough people get pissed off enough to vote the entire batch of idiots and sycophants out of office and change the damn rules on the f'tards to prevent the shit that's happened, things wont change for the better. All that will happen is the Corps/Ogliarchs/Rich will continue getting richer while we die off even faster w/o proper healthcare.
A $500 RC plane isn't going to be carrying any kind of load that can do any real damage.
They can carry a useful Terror Payload such as Sarin (poison gas) or Anthrax (bio-weapon). The main point is that it's not used in the traditional military sense like the current predators. Hell the entire purpose is to create terror not kill. As an example, take a small RC drone and fly it over a large Stadium (baseball/football) and drop Anthrax on everyone. In this case, getting something that can be controlled from any kind of distance is almost moot. You just need to be able to control it well enough to get over the target and don't forget that most RC larger RC planes can carry a 1+KD payload, making them quite effective for little more then $1,000.
There is a single symbol for Zoom that is intuitive and readily understood by almost everyone - the Magnifier Glass.
A Plus sign designates Increase (add) and is understood by anyone with any mathematical education. Due to this, using a + (plus) sign is idiocy of the highest level and inconsistent with worldwide educational practices. Please correct the inconsistency in your thinking as the Reality Distortion Field has affected it.
In the event of Firefox, when it is downloading, it leaves a window open (the download window) and does not run as a hidden background process. iTunes is integrated so deeply into OS-X that the Windows equivilent is Internet Explorer. The reason it runs as a hidden background process is due to it being the Sound Subsystem since without it you have no sound available. (not being a Mac Dev, I don't know if this is correct)
In Windows, Linux and BSD, the purpose of the filesystem cache is to retain the last used files (programs/docs) until the memory is needed by an active process. What it sounds like is that OS-X is flushing this cache too quickly or the app isn't properly integrated with the OS. In my case I do this several times a day on Win7-64/8GB and have noticed no start up delays after the first instance due to the cache, over time even that decreases because not only does Windows cache frequentyly used files, it relocates them to a faster part of the disk to speed initial loading time during system boots.
and Business Inteligence software. Things that large corps use to help make decisions (Goldman-Sachs?) and manipulate the banks/markets even faster today so Yea! This is a big deal to corps. Not so big a deal to individuals other then the damn corps can make idiot decisions even faster now.
Anyhow, the thing that surprised my prof- a computer ethics professor (might be getting a bit specific here. oh well!) - is that his granddaughter was completely in defense of it an ("I'm not doing anything wrong, so I have nothing to worry about"). I was completely flabbergasted when I first read about this. I can't believe the students aren't up in arms.
And that is exactly what is wrong with our Kids today. They don't get it and don't care about it until it bites them in the ass. By that time, it's to late to correct and so they'll simply keep givingtheir right to privacy and Habeas Corpus Away to any and everyone who wants it.
I guess it's time to reinstitute slavery and give these idiots a chance to experience exactly what the American Civil War was all about.
Did Not Inform Parents/Teachers of Ability to Remote Access Webcams
Remotely Accessed Webcam w/o Court oversight of Investigation
The last one is why the parents are up in arms. To many folks believe because they have the ability that it gives them not only the right but the responsibility to act as police when the only ones who have the authority to act as police are actually sworn in as Police Officers and we American's feel that because we have the damn ability to act as we want around the damn world, that we have the "God Given Right" to do so.
Bullshit!! Easiest would be to simply have included a damn GPS reciever chip and have the units phone home regularly. If reported stollen, have the damn thing report its position and send tell the police. They might even get lucky and recover more stollen goods that way while busting a ring.
There's a lot of difference between satisfactory and properly. First off, properly means working right. Satisfactory means working the Way I expect it to instead of your idiotness thought it should.
I think you're missing *my* point. The PCI-e standard is for expansion slots. You know, for... expansion. There already are 1TB SSD PCI-E cards, and you can plug at least 4 into most motherboards, and 6-8 into most dual-socket server or workstation boards. Just how much expandability do you *need*?
I think you've missed the boat entirely. I'm a small business owner and as a business owner, I buy the cheapest computers that allow my employees to get their work done. This means they're MATX form factor and as you stated earlier, everything is on the board (Video, Sound, Networking) and are lucky to have even a PCIe-16 slot for a video card upgrade. So where are all the business desktops with four or more PCIe slots? I've never seen one in a MATX business class board but I have seen plenty of boards with 5 SATA ports.
Even if the PCIe based card offered me 100x the throughput of a SATA drive, if it cost 2x and was harder to get, I still wouldn't buy it simply because of support issues. Sure standard drives can and do fail w/o warning but you know what, I can walk into almost any store and buy a replacement right now for that paperweight unlike having to go to the single store who even offers the PCIe based drives and that probably doesn't have them in stock when I need the damn thing. Sorry but from the business standpoint, that's an EPIC FAIL.
Why is it that ever damn gear head/gamer insists that performance is the one and only metric to judge a car/computer by? I prefer handling and ecomony myself along with some luxury like A/C and Stereo's. Then my business judges any computer purchase by how much money does it save me in the long run? That means my upgrade cycles for soft/hard-ware are extended simply due to the If it aint broke, don't fix it methodology that many companies subscribe to.
Resistance is Futile. You will Self Assimulate into the Google.
So they aint quite "The Borg" but to my mind, they are getting to damn close to it and there's an old saying that "Knowledge(information) is Power", which looks like exactly what Google wants.
If the idiots are looking at pagefile usage then I know they couldn't find their asses with a clue stick, map and a guide. On my system, my pagefile is constantly at 99 percent consumption because
it's a dedicated partition
it's set to the max size of the partition
According to Task Manager, I'm using just over 4GB of my 8GB of system ram (Win7-64) ad that's with Supreme Commander paused, uTorrent running, Word 2007, One Note and Outlook Open plus 30 tabs in Chrome.
ALL of this makes me wonder what their game is because none of it impacts me. I've yet to see my system hit the page file and I've been using WIn7 since the RC was released (now upgraded).
Seriously, it's this kind of work that proivdes the foundation for Stelar/Astro Cartography maps that we'll need if we're ever going to start expanding out of the Sol System.
The problem is though, that very few apps should need admin privs to run. The only ones I know of that actually need admin privs are AV scanners and system tools/utils such as registry tools and defraggers and yes I do know what I'm talking about. As an example, I have two games that absolutely will not run w/o admin privs (not just install) and both apps require at least XP to even run. Why? How about bad coding practices - especially in light of MS having recommended for years that Admin Privs not be used by default as part of "Best Practices" yet then they go out and violate their on "Best Practices" for lots of their apps. Why does Office and Works both need Admin Privs?
Cheap lead-based solder could be used with the RoHS label.
That's actually a better solution then the damn ROHs compliant crap that's being used. No end of problems from Tin Whiskers causing shorts and failures. Hell I think the ROHs issue was dreamed up just to ensure the damn hardware would fail in less time then it used to. Engineered Obsolescence so people have to replace it more frequently (Buy Buy Buy) is the name of the game nowday instead of selling a quality product that will last for 10 years.
Buzz!!! That's the damn Limey's you idiot. I will agree that the United States is getting bad but it aint as bad as the crap the poor brits have to put up with.
You've got at least 2 additional full images (anytime upgrades) if you installed Home Premium - Pro and Ultimate - taking up at least 2GB of space
Hibernate is useful but you have to tell windows not to use the SSD - you do have a spinning disk don't you?
WinUpdates quickly eat up lots of space in the Windows Folder - you can safely delete them but wont be able to roll back updates gone bad afterwards
You did create a seperate Admin Account didn't you? If so, you can move all but that and the Public Folders from the SSD (relocate/home to another drive or partition)
Finally, turn off System Restore if you aint bothered by having to reinstall when something pukes/blows up on you (gives you lots of space back right away)
Screw Slipstreaming SP2 onto the disk. The best solution is to simply grab the SP3 ISO image and burn a disk from it. This will install all of the updates after SP1 along with SP2 onto the system and it saves you valuable time futzing around trying to slipstream the updates onto the disk.
Hell according to the caluclators, my 512Kbps download equals 165GB per month.
It's damn easy to refute your argument that 50GB is a lot of bandwidth per month as I've got over 3x that though it's not very fast.
I'm in the states and although I have a slow connection, it's 24/7 (supposedly) though according to a speed test this morning, I'm getting 6x down with 1.9x up speeds. Not bad when nobody is online.
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I don't give a damn if they even match the current efficiency of high performance multi-junction cells so long as they meet the goal of 1/10th the cost for comparable output. $400 for a 120-160 watt panel would then be $40 - 100, which makes them entirely viable for my needs. The only other issue is how durable will these panels be? 20yr warranties are common on the High End Panels with the Amorphous being in the 10-20 yr range. Cheaper panels can be in the 10yr range but if they get them up to a 20+ lifespan, then I'd be quite willing to invest in an (12) 100 watt panel array as that fully meets my current needs.
This would be at least a Category 8 Flare - meaning No the ISS is not sheilded sufficiently to protect the astronauts from it. Keep in mind that some of the shielding that the ISS uses is provided by the Earth's Magetic field as the station is in LEO (low earth orbit) which is the reason it completes its orbit is 91 minutes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
Choosing to abstain from Voting is simply giving up the right to have your opinion heard. Sure voting doesn't mean much today but everyone who doesn't vote is already a slave and has accepted that as fact. So Shut up and get to work slave before I break out the whip for your lazy ass.
Many might think I'm incorrect about the slavery issue but until you vote even against something, you have absolutely no say in how this country is being run into the ground by Corporate America and until enough people get pissed off enough to vote the entire batch of idiots and sycophants out of office and change the damn rules on the f'tards to prevent the shit that's happened, things wont change for the better. All that will happen is the Corps/Ogliarchs/Rich will continue getting richer while we die off even faster w/o proper healthcare.
A $500 RC plane isn't going to be carrying any kind of load that can do any real damage.
They can carry a useful Terror Payload such as Sarin (poison gas) or Anthrax (bio-weapon). The main point is that it's not used in the traditional military sense like the current predators. Hell the entire purpose is to create terror not kill. As an example, take a small RC drone and fly it over a large Stadium (baseball/football) and drop Anthrax on everyone. In this case, getting something that can be controlled from any kind of distance is almost moot. You just need to be able to control it well enough to get over the target and don't forget that most RC larger RC planes can carry a 1+KD payload, making them quite effective for little more then $1,000.
There is a single symbol for Zoom that is intuitive and readily understood by almost everyone - the Magnifier Glass.
A Plus sign designates Increase (add) and is understood by anyone with any mathematical education. Due to this, using a + (plus) sign is idiocy of the highest level and inconsistent with worldwide educational practices. Please correct the inconsistency in your thinking as the Reality Distortion Field has affected it.
In the event of Firefox, when it is downloading, it leaves a window open (the download window) and does not run as a hidden background process. iTunes is integrated so deeply into OS-X that the Windows equivilent is Internet Explorer. The reason it runs as a hidden background process is due to it being the Sound Subsystem since without it you have no sound available. (not being a Mac Dev, I don't know if this is correct)
In Windows, Linux and BSD, the purpose of the filesystem cache is to retain the last used files (programs/docs) until the memory is needed by an active process. What it sounds like is that OS-X is flushing this cache too quickly or the app isn't properly integrated with the OS. In my case I do this several times a day on Win7-64/8GB and have noticed no start up delays after the first instance due to the cache, over time even that decreases because not only does Windows cache frequentyly used files, it relocates them to a faster part of the disk to speed initial loading time during system boots.
and Business Inteligence software. Things that large corps use to help make decisions (Goldman-Sachs?) and manipulate the banks/markets even faster today so Yea! This is a big deal to corps. Not so big a deal to individuals other then the damn corps can make idiot decisions even faster now.
Hey!! I like living in a Cave. It's got Stable Temps year round and I don't hear the damn neighbors playing their stereo at 2am while trying to sleep.
Anyhow, the thing that surprised my prof- a computer ethics professor (might be getting a bit specific here. oh well!) - is that his granddaughter was completely in defense of it an ("I'm not doing anything wrong, so I have nothing to worry about"). I was completely flabbergasted when I first read about this. I can't believe the students aren't up in arms.
And that is exactly what is wrong with our Kids today. They don't get it and don't care about it until it bites them in the ass. By that time, it's to late to correct and so they'll simply keep givingtheir right to privacy and Habeas Corpus Away to any and everyone who wants it.
I guess it's time to reinstitute slavery and give these idiots a chance to experience exactly what the American Civil War was all about.
That's why I don't have Credit/Debit Cards and only pay cash. Sure it's a PITA at times but I don't have to worry about this issue at all.
who want's to run lots of google pages that only earn money from adwords.
To those posting about Quality Hosts. "Thank You
I've now got something to think about should I decide to get a host for my domain other then Google Docs/Apps
The last one is why the parents are up in arms. To many folks believe because they have the ability that it gives them not only the right but the responsibility to act as police when the only ones who have the authority to act as police are actually sworn in as Police Officers and we American's feel that because we have the damn ability to act as we want around the damn world, that we have the "God Given Right" to do so.
Bullshit!! Easiest would be to simply have included a damn GPS reciever chip and have the units phone home regularly. If reported stollen, have the damn thing report its position and send tell the police. They might even get lucky and recover more stollen goods that way while busting a ring.
There's a lot of difference between satisfactory and properly. First off, properly means working right. Satisfactory means working the Way I expect it to instead of your idiotness thought it should.
I think you're missing *my* point. The PCI-e standard is for expansion slots. You know, for... expansion. There already are 1TB SSD PCI-E cards, and you can plug at least 4 into most motherboards, and 6-8 into most dual-socket server or workstation boards. Just how much expandability do you *need*?
I think you've missed the boat entirely. I'm a small business owner and as a business owner, I buy the cheapest computers that allow my employees to get their work done. This means they're MATX form factor and as you stated earlier, everything is on the board (Video, Sound, Networking) and are lucky to have even a PCIe-16 slot for a video card upgrade. So where are all the business desktops with four or more PCIe slots? I've never seen one in a MATX business class board but I have seen plenty of boards with 5 SATA ports.
Even if the PCIe based card offered me 100x the throughput of a SATA drive, if it cost 2x and was harder to get, I still wouldn't buy it simply because of support issues. Sure standard drives can and do fail w/o warning but you know what, I can walk into almost any store and buy a replacement right now for that paperweight unlike having to go to the single store who even offers the PCIe based drives and that probably doesn't have them in stock when I need the damn thing. Sorry but from the business standpoint, that's an EPIC FAIL.
Why is it that ever damn gear head/gamer insists that performance is the one and only metric to judge a car/computer by? I prefer handling and ecomony myself along with some luxury like A/C and Stereo's. Then my business judges any computer purchase by how much money does it save me in the long run? That means my upgrade cycles for soft/hard-ware are extended simply due to the If it aint broke, don't fix it methodology that many companies subscribe to.
Resistance is Futile. You will Self Assimulate into the Google.
So they aint quite "The Borg" but to my mind, they are getting to damn close to it and there's an old saying that "Knowledge(information) is Power", which looks like exactly what Google wants.
If the idiots are looking at pagefile usage then I know they couldn't find their asses with a clue stick, map and a guide. On my system, my pagefile is constantly at 99 percent consumption because
According to Task Manager, I'm using just over 4GB of my 8GB of system ram (Win7-64) ad that's with Supreme Commander paused, uTorrent running, Word 2007, One Note and Outlook Open plus 30 tabs in Chrome.
ALL of this makes me wonder what their game is because none of it impacts me. I've yet to see my system hit the page file and I've been using WIn7 since the RC was released (now upgraded).
on Voyager.
Seriously, it's this kind of work that proivdes the foundation for Stelar/Astro Cartography maps that we'll need if we're ever going to start expanding out of the Sol System.
The problem is though, that very few apps should need admin privs to run. The only ones I know of that actually need admin privs are AV scanners and system tools/utils such as registry tools and defraggers and yes I do know what I'm talking about. As an example, I have two games that absolutely will not run w/o admin privs (not just install) and both apps require at least XP to even run. Why? How about bad coding practices - especially in light of MS having recommended for years that Admin Privs not be used by default as part of "Best Practices" yet then they go out and violate their on "Best Practices" for lots of their apps. Why does Office and Works both need Admin Privs?
Cheap lead-based solder could be used with the RoHS label.
That's actually a better solution then the damn ROHs compliant crap that's being used. No end of problems from Tin Whiskers causing shorts and failures. Hell I think the ROHs issue was dreamed up just to ensure the damn hardware would fail in less time then it used to. Engineered Obsolescence so people have to replace it more frequently (Buy Buy Buy) is the name of the game nowday instead of selling a quality product that will last for 10 years.
Buzz!!! That's the damn Limey's you idiot. I will agree that the United States is getting bad but it aint as bad as the crap the poor brits have to put up with.
They've already got it, just need to bring the cost per sq.cm down to pratical levels.
Screw Slipstreaming SP2 onto the disk. The best solution is to simply grab the SP3 ISO image and burn a disk from it. This will install all of the updates after SP1 along with SP2 onto the system and it saves you valuable time futzing around trying to slipstream the updates onto the disk.
Sub Zero for you dingbats using the metric measurement isn't cold. Bitch when it's -12 below Zero f
Then you might have something to complain about.
Hell according to the caluclators, my 512Kbps download equals 165GB per month.
It's damn easy to refute your argument that 50GB is a lot of bandwidth per month as I've got over 3x that though it's not very fast.
I'm in the states and although I have a slow connection, it's 24/7 (supposedly) though according to a speed test this morning, I'm getting 6x down with 1.9x up speeds. Not bad when nobody is online.