Are you serious? The laws of thermodynamics apply everywhere. This should be obvious when discussing an article about heating buildings using electricity.
Do you understand the difference between information entropy and thermodynamic entropy?
Unless the processor is somehow able to suspend the laws of thermodynamics, the energy is completely converted to heat.
Since you don't have the knowledge to know when you are out of your depth, I will help you along. The article (really more like a brochure) you cited only covers the p side (they call it "positive potential electrical charge") and doesn't cover the n side of the p-n junction.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/insi-nf.html This is a link where NOVA (the science guys) explain how solar cells work. Notice they mention boron and phosphorus. Phosphorus is typically deposited chemically, using CVD (chemical vapor disposition). I am not an expert in the field, but from what I have been told the phosphorus deposition is not clean.
Furthermore, your link doesn't seem to acknowledge that making a reasonably pure silicon wafer for the solar panels requires forming silicon crystals. Cheap methods for doing that involve some nasty processes.
Since the other guy isn't explaining how you are wrong, I will let you know that silicon transistors need both a p-type and n-type to work. The p-type is typically boron, and the n-type can be phosphorous or arsenic. The compound used to deposit the phosphorous (phosphine gas) is toxic. Arsenic is toxic.
It will be possible to enable NPAPI in Chrome for some time yet. The reason for disabling it by default is to push plugin vendors to port to better approaches that don't leave your system security at the mercy of whatever web page you happen to hit.
When it comes to laptops though, you're never going to build one yourself. Apple is the only vendor that actually sells "non-sucking" laptops if you will. HP sells nothing but the cheapest trash for laptops, and just about everyone else has gone out of business. It's incredibly painful to see people have to replace their Taiwan-brand laptop every 2 years, or watch people buy Chromebooks and then return them a month later because the build quality is rock-bottom.
You know there are laptop manufacturers besides HP and Acer, right? Asus, Samsung, and Toshiba have traditionally had good reputations for quality.
Personally I think the Moto 360 is the best looking of the current bunch. Definitely better than what I've seen so far from Apple, Samsung, LG, and Sony.
I remember working on a project where network coding was proposed for micro satellite cluster communications. If I remember correctly, network coding requires that all the nodes in the network have complete knowledge of the state of the network at any given transmission window. This requires transmission of the network state which used something like 7% overhead. The routing of a message from one end of the cluster to the other was difficult. I believe it might have been an np-complete problem. Have they solved the routing issues?
Chrome doesn't have native MNG or APNG right now. They only support APNG through a plugin. Which is a shame because I am sick of seeing 256 color animated GIFs everywhere.
Dolphins and chimps are quite intelligent, I will give you that. But I would place parrots (look up the New Zealand Kea on youtube), corvids (crows, ravens, etc), octopuses, whales, and elephants before pigs.
I don't know what genre of game the submitter plays, but for fighting games, which I play, input latency can mean the difference between winning and losing. 50ms is 3 frames of lag, which means you need to react 3 frames faster to an overhead or throw. This wouldn't be a problem if everyone used the same equipment, ie PlayStation controller, but if someone had a controller that somehow had lower latency than the regular controllers then everyone who wants to compete would flock to it.
Not only that, but it lacks the features to exploit. Which is actually an important point in security, to only have the features you need and nothing else. Less surface area to attack.
The current slowdown in PC sales started well before Windows 8 was released to the public and oems. As someone who holds a little bit of money in AMD stocks, I followed their press releases and they were claiming some slowdown in spring of 2012. If you look at Intel's financials, they were also experiencing an inventory buildup of the latest and greatest ivy bridge CPUs and had to idle more 22nm fabs than usual just to keep their margins and income up. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6378/intel-q312-earnings-3-billion-profit-on-weakening-market-intel-to-idle-some-fab-capacity
The fact is that smartphones and tablets have replaced PC notebooks for some tasks like email, calendar/scheduling, and instant messaging. If a certain percentage of the population used a PC primarily for those things then they might delay upgrading their PC and instead get a smartphone.
I appreciate the suggestion but I very much remain dubious they will get it "right". While I don't have anything against those features they are superfluous. Someone needs to get drawing and note taking right. It should work very much like writing on a paper note pad and be very easy to use. Every pen implementation I've seen so far gets carried away with handwriting recognition and other theoretically nifty features (which rarely work very well) but don't make just writing/drawing easy which is the bit that actually matters. It's more important that *I* be able to write and recognize what I wrote than the computer. I remain hopeful but so far every attempt I've seen has fallen badly short.
In fact, the note series does let you just scribble or doodle or whatever. The handwriting and formulae recognition is a feature you need to tap to activate.
You may be looking for the galaxy note series from samsung. The whole series (note 1, note 2, note 10.1, note 8) have features like formula match, which reads your handwritten equations and tries to guess what the formula was, shape match for diagrams, and handwriting recognition.
The hardware part was done by a 3rd party, but the software to do the skeleton tracking and other things was all done by Microsoft. Basically the hardware combined a regular camera with an IR camera in an intelligent way to do range imaging. To get from just the camera to what you have with Kinect takes an awful lot of intelligent algorithms. I think that qualifies as innovative.
The use cases would be:
1. People who like fitness bands, will likely appreciate the tighter integration that would come from using a smart watch and smart phone from the same manufacture.
2. People who get a lot of notifications, (texts, calls they might not answer, calendar events, etc.) will be able to determine if the notification requires immediate attention without the disruption of pulling out their phone.
3. Combined with a headset allows you to operate your phone and music without needing voice control or to take out your phone.
4. makes checking the time slightly quicker.
All of those things have already been implemented by the current crop of smartwatches, although I don't think there is one that implements all 4 points at the same time. Motoactv does (1) and (3), Sony Smartwatch does (2) and (3), and Metawatch does (2), (3), and (4).
Interestingly, smoking, but not drinking, is one of the things that insurance companies will still be allowed to discriminate on in the Affordable Care Act. So if you are a boozehound they can't increase your rates but if you are a smoker then they can charge you more. The other things that can still affect your rates are your age, whether you are married w children, and what area of the country you live.
I hope there's good privacy controls on the data as I'm sure your insurance company would like to have that data too. "We're sorry sir, but we we're canceling your policy because you are pre-diabetic and you drink too much"
Obamacare makes it illegal to refuse coverage for pre exisiting conditions as of 2014.
A majority of the games on PS1 are 320x240, however, there are a significant minority of games that use more than that. Some of these are pretty popular titles. I know that tekken 3 at least uses 320x480.
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What kind of fake news are you pushing? Hillary won the popular vote in the Democratic primary.
Are you serious? The laws of thermodynamics apply everywhere. This should be obvious when discussing an article about heating buildings using electricity.
Do you understand the difference between information entropy and thermodynamic entropy? Unless the processor is somehow able to suspend the laws of thermodynamics, the energy is completely converted to heat.
Article mention it is done clean.
Since you don't have the knowledge to know when you are out of your depth, I will help you along. The article (really more like a brochure) you cited only covers the p side (they call it "positive potential electrical charge") and doesn't cover the n side of the p-n junction.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/insi-nf.html This is a link where NOVA (the science guys) explain how solar cells work. Notice they mention boron and phosphorus. Phosphorus is typically deposited chemically, using CVD (chemical vapor disposition). I am not an expert in the field, but from what I have been told the phosphorus deposition is not clean.
Furthermore, your link doesn't seem to acknowledge that making a reasonably pure silicon wafer for the solar panels requires forming silicon crystals. Cheap methods for doing that involve some nasty processes.
Dopant is explained in the link. You should RTFA.
Since the other guy isn't explaining how you are wrong, I will let you know that silicon transistors need both a p-type and n-type to work. The p-type is typically boron, and the n-type can be phosphorous or arsenic. The compound used to deposit the phosphorous (phosphine gas) is toxic. Arsenic is toxic.
According to this https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation they plan to completely disable NPAPI by September 2015. Your workaround buys him about 4 months.
Whoops! Accidentally modded you there.
You know there are laptop manufacturers besides HP and Acer, right? Asus, Samsung, and Toshiba have traditionally had good reputations for quality.
Personally I think the Moto 360 is the best looking of the current bunch. Definitely better than what I've seen so far from Apple, Samsung, LG, and Sony.
I remember working on a project where network coding was proposed for micro satellite cluster communications. If I remember correctly, network coding requires that all the nodes in the network have complete knowledge of the state of the network at any given transmission window. This requires transmission of the network state which used something like 7% overhead. The routing of a message from one end of the cluster to the other was difficult. I believe it might have been an np-complete problem. Have they solved the routing issues?
Pearl Harbor is a base for a classified number of nuclear submarines. I don't think this map reflects that.
Chrome doesn't have native MNG or APNG right now. They only support APNG through a plugin. Which is a shame because I am sick of seeing 256 color animated GIFs everywhere.
But why have the many successors to jpg that provide better lossy compression not caught on?
Dolphins and chimps are quite intelligent, I will give you that. But I would place parrots (look up the New Zealand Kea on youtube), corvids (crows, ravens, etc), octopuses, whales, and elephants before pigs.
I don't know what genre of game the submitter plays, but for fighting games, which I play, input latency can mean the difference between winning and losing. 50ms is 3 frames of lag, which means you need to react 3 frames faster to an overhead or throw. This wouldn't be a problem if everyone used the same equipment, ie PlayStation controller, but if someone had a controller that somehow had lower latency than the regular controllers then everyone who wants to compete would flock to it.
http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/5836/Lynx.html
Pretty much any software that is sufficiently complicated will have security bugs.
The current slowdown in PC sales started well before Windows 8 was released to the public and oems. As someone who holds a little bit of money in AMD stocks, I followed their press releases and they were claiming some slowdown in spring of 2012. If you look at Intel's financials, they were also experiencing an inventory buildup of the latest and greatest ivy bridge CPUs and had to idle more 22nm fabs than usual just to keep their margins and income up. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6378/intel-q312-earnings-3-billion-profit-on-weakening-market-intel-to-idle-some-fab-capacity
The fact is that smartphones and tablets have replaced PC notebooks for some tasks like email, calendar/scheduling, and instant messaging. If a certain percentage of the population used a PC primarily for those things then they might delay upgrading their PC and instead get a smartphone.
In fact, the note series does let you just scribble or doodle or whatever. The handwriting and formulae recognition is a feature you need to tap to activate.
You may be looking for the galaxy note series from samsung. The whole series (note 1, note 2, note 10.1, note 8) have features like formula match, which reads your handwritten equations and tries to guess what the formula was, shape match for diagrams, and handwriting recognition.
The hardware part was done by a 3rd party, but the software to do the skeleton tracking and other things was all done by Microsoft. Basically the hardware combined a regular camera with an IR camera in an intelligent way to do range imaging. To get from just the camera to what you have with Kinect takes an awful lot of intelligent algorithms. I think that qualifies as innovative.
How long did the kamikaze phase of ww2 last?
All of those things have already been implemented by the current crop of smartwatches, although I don't think there is one that implements all 4 points at the same time. Motoactv does (1) and (3), Sony Smartwatch does (2) and (3), and Metawatch does (2), (3), and (4).
Interestingly, smoking, but not drinking, is one of the things that insurance companies will still be allowed to discriminate on in the Affordable Care Act. So if you are a boozehound they can't increase your rates but if you are a smoker then they can charge you more. The other things that can still affect your rates are your age, whether you are married w children, and what area of the country you live.
Obamacare makes it illegal to refuse coverage for pre exisiting conditions as of 2014.
A majority of the games on PS1 are 320x240, however, there are a significant minority of games that use more than that. Some of these are pretty popular titles. I know that tekken 3 at least uses 320x480.