As far as "significantly below $1 a watt", do you simply mean the solar panels themselves? Not installation and the support electronics too, right?
Because it sure seems a lot more than that.. Plus, I can currently get $2/watt rebate through my municipal power supply.. But at a solar/green event I went to, I use so little electricity that only after mentioning that was it *maybe* worthwhile for me. I will get an electric car, but I have a relatively short commute, so that won't increase my usage by orders of magnitude or anything.
Well, I was mostly joking, but "having" to bail out one of them, and iirc almost bailing out another, isn't very good. (I put having in quotes since I think they should have gone under.)
Though I may look at the Spark and Ford Focus EV when I look at cars.
I suspect there are very few people who would pay for FB without ads. (I'd pay for TV shows without ads, but not at the kinds of prices various video services charge per individual episode. So instead I use a Tivo to avoid ads. I'd prefer no ads, no bugs, no shrunk credits instead.)
since Steve Jobs once said there would never be a low end iPhone.
Apparently you disagree, but many people have said this *isn't* a low end iPhone, which is apparently part of the reason the stock went down yesterday.
Your car will eventually die if you don't change the oil. (even if you keep adding new oil, due to the sludge.)
Your hard drive will NOT stop working (at least with some OSes) if you don't defragment it. (The UCSD Pascal disk format did require all files to be contiguous, so you had to Krunch the disk all the time, which defragmented it.. I actually thought it was nice at the time, since it made things really fast.. That is orthogonal to current filesystems requiring or not requiring defragmentation.)
All filesystems running on magnetic media require defragmentation.
Why do they "require" defragmentation?
It sounds to me like you're saying they require it *for performance reasons*. Not for technical reasons. As long as random access is as fast as you need it to be, who cares how fragmented things get?
Here me out. Now that they are up to 1TB per platter with current tech on 3.5 inch drives just imagine what they could fit into a 5 1/4 inch drive now!!
Umm, around 9.1 TB? ((Simply did 5.25" drive area / 3.5" drive area) * 4 TB)
For something like DVR recordings, I don't need the speed, and just want the space.. So it could be a reasonable tradeoff.. I didn't see how much of a difference it would make in cost.
Serious question, what is "a reasonable price"? 4 TB *external* drives are about $160 now (amazon price), and internal drives a tiny bit more.. (but if one really wanted to, one could rip out the drive from one of these externals and use it internally).
Aren't they legally prohibited from doing so? If I'm correct, then are you suggesting they should blatantly break the law, and thus presumably be fined?
Is it really as little as every second or two? I thought typically it was at least 2/second, at least for MPEG 2. (The wikipedia page mentions every 15th frame, then shows a shorter sequence in its IBP example.)
Also, is it really "how the current frame is different than the last key-frame"? Isn't it "how the current frame is different than the PREVIOUS frame"? (and the previous frame of course would require decoding from the previous I-frame up through that frame). Basically I-frame, diff1, diff-from-1, diff-from-diff-from-1, etc..?
Check out this episode from the CNET First Look series, for a 24" Android all in one!! Sure, not really what you're asking for.. but I think it's funny. (It is a touch screen big Android screen!)
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As far as "significantly below $1 a watt", do you simply mean the solar panels themselves? Not installation and the support electronics too, right?
Because it sure seems a lot more than that.. Plus, I can currently get $2/watt rebate through my municipal power supply.. But at a solar/green event I went to, I use so little electricity that only after mentioning that was it *maybe* worthwhile for me. I will get an electric car, but I have a relatively short commute, so that won't increase my usage by orders of magnitude or anything.
Well, I was mostly joking, but "having" to bail out one of them, and iirc almost bailing out another, isn't very good.
(I put having in quotes since I think they should have gone under.)
Though I may look at the Spark and Ford Focus EV when I look at cars.
Type control-V before you hit delete, and it will appear (or at least a visual representation of it).
(This is mostly a joke.)
I suspect there are very few people who would pay for FB without ads. (I'd pay for TV shows without ads, but not at the kinds of prices various video services charge per individual episode. So instead I use a Tivo to avoid ads. I'd prefer no ads, no bugs, no shrunk credits instead.)
So you *do* care.
Apparently you disagree, but many people have said this *isn't* a low end iPhone, which is apparently part of the reason the stock went down yesterday.
Well, the undead couldn't do much worse with a U.S. (big 3) car company.
He's not shutting it down, but he *IS* buying out existing shareholders and taking it private...
Your car will eventually die if you don't change the oil. (even if you keep adding new oil, due to the sludge.)
Your hard drive will NOT stop working (at least with some OSes) if you don't defragment it. (The UCSD Pascal disk format did require all files to be contiguous, so you had to Krunch the disk all the time, which defragmented it.. I actually thought it was nice at the time, since it made things really fast.. That is orthogonal to current filesystems requiring or not requiring defragmentation.)
Yes, as I originally said, FOR PERFORMANCE. Not for ACTUAL USAGE, IF THE RANDOM ACCESS TIME is within someone's needs.
Since you obviously know that a *file* can be fragmented, obviously you already know that a file doesn't have to be contiguously written.
Thus, you don't need to defragment it. The directory structure knows that the 'file' is in blocks 1-5, 8, 14.
No. Where is he?
Why do they "require" defragmentation?
It sounds to me like you're saying they require it *for performance reasons*. Not for technical reasons. As long as random access is as fast as you need it to be, who cares how fragmented things get?
Umm, around 9.1 TB? ((Simply did 5.25" drive area / 3.5" drive area) * 4 TB)
For something like DVR recordings, I don't need the speed, and just want the space.. So it could be a reasonable tradeoff.. I didn't see how much of a difference it would make in cost.
Because Teslas would cost even more than they already do?
What did you say? I was too busy playing poker.
Yeah.. and nobody can build a new successful electric car company... and nobody can build commercial space vehicles that are successful.
Serious question, what is "a reasonable price"? 4 TB *external* drives are about $160 now (amazon price), and internal drives a tiny bit more.. (but if one really wanted to, one could rip out the drive from one of these externals and use it internally).
That seems like a reasonable price to me.
Actually, according to imdb, AMC isn't the *sole* production company either. It's listed as produced *for* AMC.
High Bridge Productions (as High Bridge)
Gran Via Productions
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American Movie Classics (AMC) (for)
I was joking, I meant the bacteria *in* the yogurt, not necessarily after you eat it.
Buy some yogurt?
Aren't they legally prohibited from doing so? If I'm correct, then are you suggesting they should blatantly break the law, and thus presumably be fined?
The Osborne Effect is at least partially myth.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20050616_000856.html
(The Wikipedia article gives more citations.)
I'm admittedly totally nitpicking.
Is it really as little as every second or two? I thought typically it was at least 2/second, at least for MPEG 2. (The wikipedia page mentions every 15th frame, then shows a shorter sequence in its IBP example.)
Also, is it really "how the current frame is different than the last key-frame"? Isn't it "how the current frame is different than the PREVIOUS frame"? (and the previous frame of course would require decoding from the previous I-frame up through that frame). Basically I-frame, diff1, diff-from-1, diff-from-diff-from-1, etc..?
How about 24"?
Check out this episode from the CNET First Look series, for a 24" Android all in one!! Sure, not really what you're asking for.. but I think it's funny. (It is a touch screen big Android screen!)
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