but then I don't see an advantage of the laser over a chain gun.
How about no ammo rack explosions? OK I pulled that term from a game but ammo does explode no matter how it is stored (rack or otherwise). Assuming the power for the laser is deep within the ship and wires transmit power I'd wager it'll be safer than having ammo at various points on the ship.
I was with you until you said kitchen. Buy a scale that isn't digital and try to measure flour, water, sugar, salt, yeast, oil in grams or ounces as needed. Sure you can get a analog scale to do that but it'll likely have a dial readout that is inaccurate or nearly impossible to read to the level of accuracy you need to bake with.
For example a 14" Pizza with
325g water 435g whole wheat flour 23g oil 18g sugar 7g salt 0.42g yeast.
OK, even my digital scale won't do the yeast. I have to measure that with partial teaspoons like 1/8th because the scale only goes down to 1g. But you'd have to have a scale that would be very large to get the accuracy I need for dough making and not be digital or it'd just have a very low upper limit. It's rather easy for a digital scale to show small and large numbers accurately.
I guess ovens ride the line as the elements on top have analog dials but the oven has digital controls. I can't imagine having to use digital controls for the burners/elements on a stove but I much prefer digital controls for baking.
hmm my can opener isn't electric. I crank the knob just like anyone else but even an electric can opener isn't digital unless you want to count on = 1 and off = 0 and start sending Morse code with a can opener. Maybe if you said you avoid electric tools instead of digital technology I would agree on the can opener at least.
+1 mod parent up (AC that mentioned selecting a language to enable spell checking, the help specifies that selecting "none" as the language disables spell checking so it's a good general tip)
Oh @c.r.o.c.o (123083)
I'm using Libre Office 3.3 and spell check works perfectly. I'm using XP SP3 32 bit so it's a different OS but it does work.
Tell me about it. I was intermittently losing connectivity with a docsis 1.1 modem that was giving me 4+ mbit most of the time. The tech I called recommended I get a Docsis 3 modem so I did. I no longer have connectivity issues so it was a good call by the tech but I'm still seeing 2.x to 4.x mbit downloads and getting 0.3 Mbit uploads at best.
I called back after getting the new modem to get it provisioned, then called the next day after running speedtests. They said I should expect closer to 7mbit down instead of the 2 to 4 I'm getting but DOCSIS 3 would hit my area in the next few weeks taking the advertised to 12 Mbit down. So if I'm getting half the advertised speed I'll still see my download speed double if all they do is bond 2 channels for me.
The Summary is misleading but the problem didn't end in 2005.
Replacement parts were just as faulty as the original parts and continued to be shipped to customers at least 4 years after they started selling new PCs with those parts and a least a year or two after warranties expired. Worse for people that didn't have warranty coverage and paid hundreds of dollars for a replacement motherboard. It's bad enough when you get your replacement part for "free" and it works worse than what you had before, it's even worse when you pay hundreds of dollars for a replacement part that doesn't work properly.
Now you can talk about how stupid it is to buy a replacement motherboard from Dell when a new PC is only a few dollars more but we are talking about businesses here. Full of stupid procedures that waste money on a regular basis.
I'll add to the trivia here by mentioning the there is a revision of the GX270 that has the same motherboard as a revision of the GX280. I wouldn't know except I worked for a corporation that had hundreds of PCs in the GX260, GX270, GX280 models and management made the bad decision of replacing all motherboards "proactively" (the catch being this was a reactionary way of going proactive, any other time I'd ask them to be proactive they'd avoid it). So we literally sent away working motherboards with no observed issue only to receive replacement motherboards with even worse bad caps on them and got into situations where Dell had already taken away the good motherboard couldn't replace the bad replacement motherboard due to shortage of parts.
I'm at a different company now but even here we have a handful of those bad cap Dells in daily use. If we keep up the pace of PC replacements the last of the 2005 bad caps PCs will be replaced here some time in 2011. I wouldn't have to assume there are millions of these junky PCs still in use in businesses of all sizes, homes, churches, and schools across the US. Think about how many companies provide PCs for telecommuting or donate PCs to schools/churches/employees. These things are like the PC equivalent of a cockroach.
A phone which is able to broadcast your real-time location. A phone which has all your mails, all your texts and logs of all your calls, and a few private photoes to boot. A phone with verified contact information for all your friends, and sellable information on yours and their preferences. A phone that can call any number, including premium-rated ones owned by shady organizations.
Yeah. Who cares is someone else gains control of that?
On top of calling pay phone numbers (900 numbers and such) if it copies all your data to a server somewhere you may go over your data plan and have to pay $15 per 200MB transferred or $10 per 1GB transferred depending on your plan.
DataPlus - 200 MB of data for $15 per month
* Designed for people who primarily surf the Web, send email, and use social networking apps.
* On average, 65% of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 200 MB per month
* If you use more than 200 MB, you'll receive an additional 200 MB of data usage for $15, replenished as often as necessary during the billing cycle.
DataPro - 2 GB of data for $25 per month
* Designed for people who regularly download or stream music and video, or use other high bandwidth applications
* 98% of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 2 GB in a month on average
* If you exceed 2 GB, you'll get an additional 1 GB of data for only $10. Each time an additional 1 GB is used up during a cycle, you will automatically receive another 1 GB at the same low price.
You cant do this in windows either, not with partitions. Thats why their solution is called shadow VOLUME. Cause it need VOLUMES to work.
Our solution is called LVM Snapshots cause it needs LVM VOLUMES to work.
Now is that so hard to understand?
Well it's obvious you have never used Volume Shadow Copy because in the windows world there is no practical difference between a partition and a volume. No I'm not joking, no I'm not being a Troll.
Find a Windows server with a single drive (basic disk) and a raid Array (Dynamic Disk) Right Click on My Computer and choose Manage Click on disk management right click on a unallocated portion of a "basic disk" to "create a new partition" right click on a unallocated portion of a "dynamic disk" to "create a new volume" Give them both drive letters Go to the properties for each volume/partition and marvel at how you can turn Volume Shadow Copies on for a Volume and a Partition.
OMG, Microsoft doesn't care if it's a volume or a partition. Oh well, at least it works like the end user would want it to in this case.
Yes Windows uses the terminology differently than hard core linux users do but unless you understand how Windows labels things saying something like "You cant do this in windows either, not with partitions." makes you sound like you don't know what you are talking about to anyone that has seen the process it actually takes to manage disks on a windows server.
You left something out. I didn't say 640GB = 596.13GB, what I said was
BOX.....Windows 640GB = 596.13GB
as in the Box says 640GB and Windows says 596.13GB
I didn't put an i in the GB after 596.13 because Windows doesn't put an i in GB. As important as the i in GiB is Windows doesn't put it there so the comparison for an average user is
640GB = 596.13GB not 640GB = 596.13GiB
Windows just doesn't use the labeling you want it to use.
Oh and as to 596.05, not 596.13 you are again stuck on math not a real world example. I told you I was using the example of the WD6400AAKS. So I didn't do math. I simply looked at what Windows told me the size was. When will you understand it isn't about the math it's about the difference between what the consumer is told it will be before he buys it vs what Windows tells him it is after he starts using it?
You can argue about GiB and 596.05 all you want but that won't change what it says in Windows when I go to look at disk management. In the default view the drive shows as 596.13 GB Online. If I get properties and go the Volumes tab the capacity is listed as 610438 MB. Again don't bother telling me how many MiB it should be from 640GB to MiB. Windows doesn't label it that way and we are dealing with an actual drive not just arbitrary math.
To any average user the GB on the box is one thing and the GB Windows shows is another. They look at it just like they do CRT diagonal size of advertised vs visible.
Yes both measurements of the CRT are just measurements. One matters to the manufacturer one matters to the consumer.
Take the WD6400AAKS BOX Windows 640GB = 596.13GB*
Yes 1000/1024 conversion takes me from 640GB advertised to 596GB usable. In your case you mentioned 3TB on the box is about 2,794GB in Windows.
I know this is/. and MacOS/Ubuntu are changing to Base10 file size nomenclature but Windows is still 80+% of the market and 90+% of the installed OSes including older versions of linux/MacOS will still report file sizes in base2.
Until the advertised disk capacity is in the same format as the OS reports for the majority of users I think it's fair to say that the average user considers this misleading.
Call it crap if you want but I didn't create the divide I'm just straddling it.
Sorry VLM you seem to be confused. In no way will 750GB x 4 ever end up being 6TB. That would be a 3TB drive in marketing speak and 2.x TB in usable capacity. The industry terminology calls it a 750GB platter if there is 375GB per side. Very few people care how many sides a platter has or how many heads/actuator arms are involved in making a 3TB drive.
When krnpimpsta correctly said the common platter sizes are 500GB, 375GB, 333G, 250GB and the common consumer hard drives have 1 to 4 platters there is no need to dissect that further. Just multiply 500GB x 4 platters to get 2TB drives.
Yeah, interesting concept but the fear would be that the botnet owner would respond by saying knock, knock, the FBI is here (substitute the agency you think applies if the FBI isn't your cup of tea).
If you do something yourself you know all the players. If you pay someone to do it you don't know if you are walking into a trap.
disclaimer: I'm not too worried about this as I don't plan on taking either route.
No. It blocks mostly in the non visible wavelengths. You won't have any trouble seeing through the car windows.
Solar radiation, or solar energy, is made up of three components: ultraviolet radiation, visible light and near-infrared radiation. Near-infrared radiation makes up 53 percent of the solar spectrum, visible light 44 percent, and ultraviolet 3 percent.
So if you block 80% of the infrared and you are blocking 60% of the total energy you are only blocking something like 20% of the visible light.
It's possible that the interaction between the two causes particles to either collect in that region or direct those particles from that region toward Earth
Other than it's where you live what is your fixation with the Earth? I'm assuming you should have said towards the SUN since it happens to be the center point of the system as a whole. Or am I missing something technical that somehow shows that the earth is specifically effecting this interaction?
If you can lift it and carry it out (with or without help) with nothing more than disconnecting it from utilities (or something like a dryer vent) then it not part of the real property. You can take your fridge and washer/dryer.
It's rude and a violation of contract to remove anything "secured" to the grounds, and you have to unscrew them to take them, so they are part of the real property.
If you have to unscrew a light bulb it's not OK but if you have to get a friggen forklift to haul out an oversized side by side fridge it is OK?
You have some really weird attitudes about what is permanent.
I can unscrew a light bulb with no tools, no ladder, no forethought or planning.
You can't get a Washer/Dryer/Refrigerator out of the house without multiple people doing hard labor or one person with specialized equipment and lots of planning.
And what about the disconnect between saying "disconnecting it from utilities" and unscrewing a light bulb? Is not the AC power coming through a light socket the "utilities" and isn't unscrewing a light bulb the same as "disconnecting it from utilities"?
"Don't get me wrong, I like Ubuntu and have it running on a home system. But unless a major manufacturer starts preinstalling it it's going to be confined to the Linux enthusiast and the hobbyist market."
Dell.
From wikipedia... Total assets US$ 27.561 billion (2008)[1]
Not major enough?
Not preinstalled enough.
1. Dell doesn't preinstall anything in the sense that they build to order. How many times do you read about something like the Dell mini 9 for $99 that people won't see for 6 months after they paid for it before you realize they aren't "just in time" they are "after they should have done it".
2. The statement about "a major manufacturer starts preinstalling it" implies that they do so for the majority of their products or do so in a way that it is the default choice when ordering a system. Until Joe sixpack orders a Dell without thinking "Hey, I want Ubuntu on that" and actually gets Ubuntu on it you can't call it preinstalled as though it has any significance
3. You can't even get Ubuntu from Dell on most systems. Take the Optiplex 740. Say I want to support AMD and still get Ubuntu preloaded. My choices when I buy that PC today are
Genuine Windows Vista® Business Service Pack 1, with media, 32, ENG [add $99 $38]
Dell Recommended - Includes Windows Vista Business Assurance
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Service Pack 1, With media, 32, ENG [Included in Price]
Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate Service Pack 1, with media, 32, ENG [add $115]
Genuine Windows Vista Business Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade [add $99 $38]
Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade [add $115]
I'm not seeing a lot of love for Ubuntu in those choices. Given it's a business PC I'm not happy they are charging extra for the XP downgrade that was/is supposed to be free downgrade for Corporate users. I'm not happy they are playing bait and switch with a professional line of PCs that defaults to a home OS. Sure I can take whichever silly choice is in the list and format the drive. I have CD-Rs laying in plain site in my office with the last 3 major Ubuntu releases but anything I do with those ISO downloads I got from http://www.ubuntu.com/ is way far removed from the concept of "preinstalled".
Yeah with fan it'll be a 3 slot solution and yeah it only weighs half the weight of a high end CPU heatsink but then again that is not their biggest GPU heatsink.
I'd say its more of an issue that pure clock speed only covers some GPU problems. Memory bandwidth/latency, number of GPU cores, design of the cores, programming issues are all more difficult to balance than just ramping up the clock. They could cool these chips better but would it really be worth the cost/effort if the rest of the design and supporting software can't take advantage of it?
or since you had to reboot after a crash anyway you could just hold the mouse button down during the reboot and the floppy disk would eject automagically.
Paper clips were nice for when the OS thought it ejected the disk but physically it was still in the drive. Then a paper clip saved you from rebooting.
It's more commonly known as "the Firefox downloading tool".
Oh please. I used IE to download Netscape navigator/communicator back in the day.
Netscape Navigator/Communicator was my Firefox downloading tool.
Now I use USB drives or network shares to get Firefox on a PC other than my primary. I'm not going to use IE over and over to download Firefox. What are you a masochist?
parent (644bd346996) mentioned it was far from cheap.
grandparent (edmudama) mentioned Intel SSD used MLC.
grandgrandparent (Joce640k) used the phrase "cheapest possible MLC"
MLC does not equal "cheapest possible MLC".
Not using enough words or quoted material to make it clear doesn't make what he said false.
I'd say the grandgrandparent was right with his entire post and deserves a 3 or 4 insightful and the so called trolling parent was modded down incorrectly. At worst his post should get a +1 or +2 and be ignored by most but it sure shouldn't be a -1 and marked troll.
Somebody needs to check the logs and metamod the moderator that marked that post as trolling.
Yet just as importantly if they exploit the patent with a company he isn't part of he still gets 30%.
While it is true they could just sit on it until he is dead if they made the 70% too high they are likely to want 70% of something more than 70% of nothing so they have an incentive not to sit on it if it is a truly marketable idea.
I doubt they are going the RIAA route of saying you get 30% of the income but have to pay for all the up front costs. 30% of the profit is much better than 30% of the income.
I suppose the real danger there is them letting the government use the patent for "free" and the government supporting the school with more funds as an "unrelated" matter. That'd be the best way for them to profit from your idea and keep you from getting 30% short of RIAA style math.
But lets face it once anyone has the knowledge they can screw you even if there is no legal backing. People do illegal activities for money all the time.
I'd rather have the agreement up front that legal use would give me profit than to have nothing in writing and have to hope the courts agree with common sense.
One of these days I'll learn to preview on slashdot. Any other site I post <3 and it is treated as text. Slashdot treats it as code.
Anyway
If:) is a smile then the bottom is to the right. <3 would be a ball sack then.
Why would people assume that all the other emoticons have the bottom on the right then switch it up for 3? Is there any other emoticon that the bottom is on the left?
If:) is a smile then the bottom is to the right. 3 would be a ball sack then.
Why would people assume that all the other emoticons have the bottom on the right then switch it up for 3? Is there any other emoticon that the bottom is on the left?
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but then I don't see an advantage of the laser over a chain gun.
How about no ammo rack explosions? OK I pulled that term from a game but ammo does explode no matter how it is stored (rack or otherwise). Assuming the power for the laser is deep within the ship and wires transmit power I'd wager it'll be safer than having ammo at various points on the ship.
Bad managers. Inflexible policies.
If your boss won't let you buy anything but Dell and you know there are better options you will want Dell to start offering them.
Yes, but the site I linked to doesn't just sell evergreen panels and they often have items below $1/watt.
http://www.sunelec.com/blog/
$0.59 laminates and $.78 panels.
oops, forgot to sign in before posting.
I was with you until you said kitchen. Buy a scale that isn't digital and try to measure flour, water, sugar, salt, yeast, oil in grams or ounces as needed. Sure you can get a analog scale to do that but it'll likely have a dial readout that is inaccurate or nearly impossible to read to the level of accuracy you need to bake with.
For example a 14" Pizza with
325g water
435g whole wheat flour
23g oil
18g sugar
7g salt
0.42g yeast.
OK, even my digital scale won't do the yeast. I have to measure that with partial teaspoons like 1/8th because the scale only goes down to 1g. But you'd have to have a scale that would be very large to get the accuracy I need for dough making and not be digital or it'd just have a very low upper limit. It's rather easy for a digital scale to show small and large numbers accurately.
I guess ovens ride the line as the elements on top have analog dials but the oven has digital controls. I can't imagine having to use digital controls for the burners/elements on a stove but I much prefer digital controls for baking.
hmm my can opener isn't electric. I crank the knob just like anyone else but even an electric can opener isn't digital unless you want to count on = 1 and off = 0 and start sending Morse code with a can opener. Maybe if you said you avoid electric tools instead of digital technology I would agree on the can opener at least.
+1 mod parent up (AC that mentioned selecting a language to enable spell checking, the help specifies that selecting "none" as the language disables spell checking so it's a good general tip)
Oh @c.r.o.c.o (123083)
I'm using Libre Office 3.3 and spell check works perfectly. I'm using XP SP3 32 bit so it's a different OS but it does work.
Tell me about it. I was intermittently losing connectivity with a docsis 1.1 modem that was giving me 4+ mbit most of the time. The tech I called recommended I get a Docsis 3 modem so I did. I no longer have connectivity issues so it was a good call by the tech but I'm still seeing 2.x to 4.x mbit downloads and getting 0.3 Mbit uploads at best.
I called back after getting the new modem to get it provisioned, then called the next day after running speedtests. They said I should expect closer to 7mbit down instead of the 2 to 4 I'm getting but DOCSIS 3 would hit my area in the next few weeks taking the advertised to 12 Mbit down. So if I'm getting half the advertised speed I'll still see my download speed double if all they do is bond 2 channels for me.
The Summary is misleading but the problem didn't end in 2005.
Replacement parts were just as faulty as the original parts and continued to be shipped to customers at least 4 years after they started selling new PCs with those parts and a least a year or two after warranties expired. Worse for people that didn't have warranty coverage and paid hundreds of dollars for a replacement motherboard. It's bad enough when you get your replacement part for "free" and it works worse than what you had before, it's even worse when you pay hundreds of dollars for a replacement part that doesn't work properly.
Now you can talk about how stupid it is to buy a replacement motherboard from Dell when a new PC is only a few dollars more but we are talking about businesses here. Full of stupid procedures that waste money on a regular basis.
I'll add to the trivia here by mentioning the there is a revision of the GX270 that has the same motherboard as a revision of the GX280. I wouldn't know except I worked for a corporation that had hundreds of PCs in the GX260, GX270, GX280 models and management made the bad decision of replacing all motherboards "proactively" (the catch being this was a reactionary way of going proactive, any other time I'd ask them to be proactive they'd avoid it). So we literally sent away working motherboards with no observed issue only to receive replacement motherboards with even worse bad caps on them and got into situations where Dell had already taken away the good motherboard couldn't replace the bad replacement motherboard due to shortage of parts.
I'm at a different company now but even here we have a handful of those bad cap Dells in daily use. If we keep up the pace of PC replacements the last of the 2005 bad caps PCs will be replaced here some time in 2011. I wouldn't have to assume there are millions of these junky PCs still in use in businesses of all sizes, homes, churches, and schools across the US. Think about how many companies provide PCs for telecommuting or donate PCs to schools/churches/employees. These things are like the PC equivalent of a cockroach.
A phone which is able to broadcast your real-time location.
A phone which has all your mails, all your texts and logs of all your calls, and a few private photoes to boot.
A phone with verified contact information for all your friends, and sellable information on yours and their preferences.
A phone that can call any number, including premium-rated ones owned by shady organizations.
Yeah. Who cares is someone else gains control of that?
On top of calling pay phone numbers (900 numbers and such) if it copies all your data to a server somewhere you may go over your data plan and have to pay $15 per 200MB transferred or $10 per 1GB transferred depending on your plan.
DataPlus - 200 MB of data for $15 per month
* Designed for people who primarily surf the Web, send email, and use social networking apps.
* On average, 65% of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 200 MB per month
* If you use more than 200 MB, you'll receive an additional 200 MB of data usage for $15, replenished as often as necessary during the billing cycle.
DataPro - 2 GB of data for $25 per month
* Designed for people who regularly download or stream music and video, or use other high bandwidth applications
* 98% of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 2 GB in a month on average
* If you exceed 2 GB, you'll get an additional 1 GB of data for only $10. Each time an additional 1 GB is used up during a cycle, you will automatically receive another 1 GB at the same low price.
You cant do this in windows either, not with partitions. Thats why their solution is called shadow VOLUME. Cause it need VOLUMES to work.
Our solution is called LVM Snapshots cause it needs LVM VOLUMES to work.
Now is that so hard to understand?
Well it's obvious you have never used Volume Shadow Copy because in the windows world there is no practical difference between a partition and a volume. No I'm not joking, no I'm not being a Troll.
Find a Windows server with a single drive (basic disk) and a raid Array (Dynamic Disk)
Right Click on My Computer and choose Manage
Click on disk management
right click on a unallocated portion of a "basic disk" to "create a new partition"
right click on a unallocated portion of a "dynamic disk" to "create a new volume"
Give them both drive letters
Go to the properties for each volume/partition and marvel at how you can turn Volume Shadow Copies on for a Volume and a Partition.
OMG, Microsoft doesn't care if it's a volume or a partition. Oh well, at least it works like the end user would want it to in this case.
Yes Windows uses the terminology differently than hard core linux users do but unless you understand how Windows labels things saying something like "You cant do this in windows either, not with partitions." makes you sound like you don't know what you are talking about to anyone that has seen the process it actually takes to manage disks on a windows server.
You left something out. I didn't say 640GB = 596.13GB, what I said was
BOX.....Windows
640GB = 596.13GB
as in the Box says 640GB and Windows says 596.13GB
I didn't put an i in the GB after 596.13 because Windows doesn't put an i in GB. As important as the i in GiB is Windows doesn't put it there so the comparison for an average user is
640GB = 596.13GB not
640GB = 596.13GiB
Windows just doesn't use the labeling you want it to use.
Oh and as to 596.05, not 596.13 you are again stuck on math not a real world example. I told you I was using the example of the WD6400AAKS. So I didn't do math. I simply looked at what Windows told me the size was. When will you understand it isn't about the math it's about the difference between what the consumer is told it will be before he buys it vs what Windows tells him it is after he starts using it?
You can argue about GiB and 596.05 all you want but that won't change what it says in Windows when I go to look at disk management. In the default view the drive shows as 596.13 GB Online. If I get properties and go the Volumes tab the capacity is listed as 610438 MB. Again don't bother telling me how many MiB it should be from 640GB to MiB. Windows doesn't label it that way and we are dealing with an actual drive not just arbitrary math.
To any average user the GB on the box is one thing and the GB Windows shows is another. They look at it just like they do CRT diagonal size of advertised vs visible.
Yes both measurements of the CRT are just measurements. One matters to the manufacturer one matters to the consumer.
Take the WD6400AAKS
BOX Windows
640GB = 596.13GB*
Yes 1000/1024 conversion takes me from 640GB advertised to 596GB usable. In your case you mentioned 3TB on the box is about 2,794GB in Windows.
I know this is /. and MacOS/Ubuntu are changing to Base10 file size nomenclature but Windows is still 80+% of the market and 90+% of the installed OSes including older versions of linux/MacOS will still report file sizes in base2.
Until the advertised disk capacity is in the same format as the OS reports for the majority of users I think it's fair to say that the average user considers this misleading.
Call it crap if you want but I didn't create the divide I'm just straddling it.
Sorry VLM you seem to be confused. In no way will 750GB x 4 ever end up being 6TB. That would be a 3TB drive in marketing speak and 2.x TB in usable capacity. The industry terminology calls it a 750GB platter if there is 375GB per side. Very few people care how many sides a platter has or how many heads/actuator arms are involved in making a 3TB drive.
When krnpimpsta correctly said the common platter sizes are 500GB, 375GB, 333G, 250GB and the common consumer hard drives have 1 to 4 platters there is no need to dissect that further. Just multiply 500GB x 4 platters to get 2TB drives.
Yeah, interesting concept but the fear would be that the botnet owner would respond by saying knock, knock, the FBI is here (substitute the agency you think applies if the FBI isn't your cup of tea).
If you do something yourself you know all the players. If you pay someone to do it you don't know if you are walking into a trap.
disclaimer: I'm not too worried about this as I don't plan on taking either route.
No. It blocks mostly in the non visible wavelengths. You won't have any trouble seeing through the car windows.
Solar radiation, or solar energy, is made up of three components: ultraviolet radiation, visible light and near-infrared radiation. Near-infrared radiation makes up 53 percent of the solar spectrum, visible light 44 percent, and ultraviolet 3 percent.
So if you block 80% of the infrared and you are blocking 60% of the total energy you are only blocking something like 20% of the visible light.
It's possible that the interaction between the two causes particles to either collect in that region or direct those particles from that region toward Earth
Other than it's where you live what is your fixation with the Earth? I'm assuming you should have said towards the SUN since it happens to be the center point of the system as a whole. Or am I missing something technical that somehow shows that the earth is specifically effecting this interaction?
If you can lift it and carry it out (with or without help) with nothing more than disconnecting it from utilities (or something like a dryer vent) then it not part of the real property. You can take your fridge and washer/dryer.
It's rude and a violation of contract to remove anything "secured" to the grounds, and you have to unscrew them to take them, so they are part of the real property.
If you have to unscrew a light bulb it's not OK but if you have to get a friggen forklift to haul out an oversized side by side fridge it is OK?
You have some really weird attitudes about what is permanent.
I can unscrew a light bulb with no tools, no ladder, no forethought or planning.
You can't get a Washer/Dryer/Refrigerator out of the house without multiple people doing hard labor or one person with specialized equipment and lots of planning.
And what about the disconnect between saying "disconnecting it from utilities" and unscrewing a light bulb? Is not the AC power coming through a light socket the "utilities" and isn't unscrewing a light bulb the same as "disconnecting it from utilities"?
"Don't get me wrong, I like Ubuntu and have it running on a home system. But unless a major manufacturer starts preinstalling it it's going to be confined to the Linux enthusiast and the hobbyist market."
Dell.
From wikipedia...
Total assets US$ 27.561 billion (2008)[1]
Not major enough?
Not preinstalled enough.
1. Dell doesn't preinstall anything in the sense that they build to order. How many times do you read about something like the Dell mini 9 for $99 that people won't see for 6 months after they paid for it before you realize they aren't "just in time" they are "after they should have done it".
2. The statement about "a major manufacturer starts preinstalling it" implies that they do so for the majority of their products or do so in a way that it is the default choice when ordering a system. Until Joe sixpack orders a Dell without thinking "Hey, I want Ubuntu on that" and actually gets Ubuntu on it you can't call it preinstalled as though it has any significance
3. You can't even get Ubuntu from Dell on most systems. Take the Optiplex 740. Say I want to support AMD and still get Ubuntu preloaded. My choices when I buy that PC today are
Genuine Windows Vista® Business Service Pack 1, with media, 32, ENG [add $99 $38]
Dell Recommended - Includes Windows Vista Business Assurance
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Service Pack 1, With media, 32, ENG [Included in Price]
Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate Service Pack 1, with media, 32, ENG [add $115]
Genuine Windows Vista Business Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade [add $99 $38]
Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade [add $115]
I'm not seeing a lot of love for Ubuntu in those choices. Given it's a business PC I'm not happy they are charging extra for the XP downgrade that was/is supposed to be free downgrade for Corporate users. I'm not happy they are playing bait and switch with a professional line of PCs that defaults to a home OS. Sure I can take whichever silly choice is in the list and format the drive. I have CD-Rs laying in plain site in my office with the last 3 major Ubuntu releases but anything I do with those ISO downloads I got from http://www.ubuntu.com/ is way far removed from the concept of "preinstalled".
Yeah you can't put the exact same heatsink on them but take a look at the Accelero S1 Rev. 2 at http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_&mID=105&language=en
You even putting a 120mm fan on it doesn't cover the entire fin area. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article793-page5.html
Yeah with fan it'll be a 3 slot solution and yeah it only weighs half the weight of a high end CPU heatsink but then again that is not their biggest GPU heatsink.
The heaviest solution on AC's site is the Accelero XTREME 4870X2 at 680g which is getting up there for weight on a graphics heatsink. http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_0&mID=244&page=spec
I'd say its more of an issue that pure clock speed only covers some GPU problems. Memory bandwidth/latency, number of GPU cores, design of the cores, programming issues are all more difficult to balance than just ramping up the clock. They could cool these chips better but would it really be worth the cost/effort if the rest of the design and supporting software can't take advantage of it?
or since you had to reboot after a crash anyway you could just hold the mouse button down during the reboot and the floppy disk would eject automagically.
Paper clips were nice for when the OS thought it ejected the disk but physically it was still in the drive. Then a paper clip saved you from rebooting.
It's more commonly known as "the Firefox downloading tool".
Oh please. I used IE to download Netscape navigator/communicator back in the day.
Netscape Navigator/Communicator was my Firefox downloading tool.
Now I use USB drives or network shares to get Firefox on a PC other than my primary. I'm not going to use IE over and over to download Firefox. What are you a masochist?
Troll?
parent (644bd346996) mentioned it was far from cheap.
grandparent (edmudama) mentioned Intel SSD used MLC.
grandgrandparent (Joce640k) used the phrase "cheapest possible MLC"
MLC does not equal "cheapest possible MLC".
Not using enough words or quoted material to make it clear doesn't make what he said false.
I'd say the grandgrandparent was right with his entire post and deserves a 3 or 4 insightful and the so called trolling parent was modded down incorrectly. At worst his post should get a +1 or +2 and be ignored by most but it sure shouldn't be a -1 and marked troll.
Somebody needs to check the logs and metamod the moderator that marked that post as trolling.
Yet just as importantly if they exploit the patent with a company he isn't part of he still gets 30%.
While it is true they could just sit on it until he is dead if they made the 70% too high they are likely to want 70% of something more than 70% of nothing so they have an incentive not to sit on it if it is a truly marketable idea.
I doubt they are going the RIAA route of saying you get 30% of the income but have to pay for all the up front costs. 30% of the profit is much better than 30% of the income.
I suppose the real danger there is them letting the government use the patent for "free" and the government supporting the school with more funds as an "unrelated" matter. That'd be the best way for them to profit from your idea and keep you from getting 30% short of RIAA style math.
But lets face it once anyone has the knowledge they can screw you even if there is no legal backing. People do illegal activities for money all the time.
I'd rather have the agreement up front that legal use would give me profit than to have nothing in writing and have to hope the courts agree with common sense.
One of these days I'll learn to preview on slashdot. Any other site I post <3 and it is treated as text. Slashdot treats it as code.
:) is a smile then the bottom is to the right. <3 would be a ball sack then.
Anyway
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Why would people assume that all the other emoticons have the bottom on the right then switch it up for 3? Is there any other emoticon that the bottom is on the left?
If :) is a smile then the bottom is to the right. 3 would be a ball sack then.
Why would people assume that all the other emoticons have the bottom on the right then switch it up for 3? Is there any other emoticon that the bottom is on the left?