I have to second the 4 foot power strip. I do video editing, so between dual monitors, cheap 13" CRT TV (to make sure it still looks good on the worst possible screen), speakers, video interface, dvd player, external hard drive, VoIP phone, and network switch - almost everything's a power brick and not a plug. And they're actually spaced out across the width of the desk anyway.
And that payment processing would probably not work if you're without power and data and only have the POTS line. What then? One of the main points of the discussion is for emergency situations.
Not everywhere. I had dry loop DSL, and the phone line did not even provide power to light up the buttons on my phone. The landline was physically disconnected from the voice port at the CO.
Yeah - I'm not sure who in Hollywood thinks people will buy DVD's for a movie they've never seen. Even if it's $5 and I could rent it for $2, I'll go for the rental. I only buy the ones I absolutely want to have available at any point in the future. This, unsurprisingly, depends on me having watched it and liked it - and that rarely happens in the theater.
Batteries drain in storage, and I believe are usually shipped at 50% charge due to other issues with the stability of the batteries under shipping conditions.
Although since the Apple store has power, they could take half of them out and pre-charge them to 100% and give the buyers a choice. Or the buyer could probably charge in the store.
And then gets sued by the Illinois Department of Transportation because of brand confusion. I mean, half the state may be mispronouncing their abbreviation already, and introducing a product with that actual name will be confusing to consumers.
Well that sounds unnecessarily complex. I have this setup at home via Asterisk: 1) Call comes in 2) Prompt whether they are calling for me (press 1) or my wife (press 2). 3) Caller ID on phones show who the call is for and I don't have to answer my wife's calls. And we get ZERO robo calls. Those calls get hung up on after 3 repeats of the prompt and no button press.
Really, the robocall blocking was just a bonus. This is how we survived when I was working from home and routed all calls to all phones in the apartment.
Please, no - that will break Google Voice. And I'll lose my multiple lines of VoIP coming from the same number at home. Each line would have to have its own phone number.
Personally, I'm fine with laws that enforce seatbelt usage, but there is a line to be drawn. The potential for abuse for such a system is just too great.
Losing human life is tragic, but losing a part of your own life due to the liberties taken away by surveillance can potentially add up to more than a single human life lost. Quality of life is important when considering that a life was saved. On the extreme end, saving a life only to have them in a persistent vegetative state is not a net gain. Being constantly surveilled is way further down on the spectrum, but it does reduce quality of life. I'd rather be free and lose a couple years of my life than to live long as a slave.
By the way, if you watch TV, there's a show on now called Person of Interest that follows the story of a computer system equivalent of an all-seeing eye. The number of safeguards it had to have in order to be ethical were unbelievable. In this story, the computer basically doesn't allow root access to anyone - it's a locked black box that processes the data and makes decisions from that.
OK. Flash can have its own core and the rest are on another. Rendering and compositing are not the same thing. They are two separate steps on modern browsers. Apparently Chrome uses a completely separate thread for compositing already - so that the page scrolls smoothly no matter what's going on.
Rendering a DOM tree is a rather complex task - a breeze for a modern CPU, but can still drag on with poorly designed sites using nested tables. Would be nice if all of your pictures were already decompressed by the time the DOM is fully rendered.
Trust me, on my connection I don't lose a lot of time on downloads. DNS latency is a factor, but even just 3 simultaneous HTTP connections are enough to finish that job very fast. And most sites use subdomains for image and CSS assets to get around HTTP connection limits.
And as the site loads, you are sometimes completely re-rendering and re-compositing a page several times, especially if some content is loaded via AJAX after the main page loads.
I don't know - web browsing probably could benefit even more from multicore than they do already. 1 entire core for flash, because it just performs so badly. 1 thread for rendering, 1 thread for executing javascript. Chrome puts each tab in its own process.
With even the cheap desktops coming with mobile CPU's now, we're just seeing a widening gap between power users and the mainstream computer owner. I upgraded my wife's computer to a wimpy Sempron 145 and she couldn't be happier with finally having 8GB of RAM (not to mention it being DDR3) and not really needing more CPU power. While I on the other hand am upgrading to an Ivy Bridge i7 this week and am not totally sure if I went high enough.
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I have to second the 4 foot power strip. I do video editing, so between dual monitors, cheap 13" CRT TV (to make sure it still looks good on the worst possible screen), speakers, video interface, dvd player, external hard drive, VoIP phone, and network switch - almost everything's a power brick and not a plug. And they're actually spaced out across the width of the desk anyway.
Well it doesn't have to be kept with the computer. For a desktop computer, Ethernet's the way to go anyway - even if you're trying to tidy up.
Please don't just vote by party name. Do a little research into the individual.
A prepaid cell phone purchased with cash.
And that payment processing would probably not work if you're without power and data and only have the POTS line. What then? One of the main points of the discussion is for emergency situations.
Not everywhere. I had dry loop DSL, and the phone line did not even provide power to light up the buttons on my phone. The landline was physically disconnected from the voice port at the CO.
Just saying, she would have to turn and face the TV before the channel would change.
I'm Naked. No camera-enabled DVR for me.
Yeah - I'm not sure who in Hollywood thinks people will buy DVD's for a movie they've never seen. Even if it's $5 and I could rent it for $2, I'll go for the rental. I only buy the ones I absolutely want to have available at any point in the future. This, unsurprisingly, depends on me having watched it and liked it - and that rarely happens in the theater.
So....wait until it sees your wife's face and then changes channels. I can see a flaw with this.
Well - with VT-d, you could have a PCI add-in card with a stable clock for each VM. Of course that's more like having half VM and half physical.
Batteries drain in storage, and I believe are usually shipped at 50% charge due to other issues with the stability of the batteries under shipping conditions.
Although since the Apple store has power, they could take half of them out and pre-charge them to 100% and give the buyers a choice. Or the buyer could probably charge in the store.
On standard time, sunset happens 1 clock hour earlier than on daylight time. If the sun sets at 5:00 on Saturday, then it sets at 4:00 on Sunday.
Intel used to? I have an Intel Core i7 right now. I don't think there's any correlation at all.
And then gets sued by the Illinois Department of Transportation because of brand confusion. I mean, half the state may be mispronouncing their abbreviation already, and introducing a product with that actual name will be confusing to consumers.
Well that sounds unnecessarily complex. I have this setup at home via Asterisk: 1) Call comes in 2) Prompt whether they are calling for me (press 1) or my wife (press 2). 3) Caller ID on phones show who the call is for and I don't have to answer my wife's calls. And we get ZERO robo calls. Those calls get hung up on after 3 repeats of the prompt and no button press.
Really, the robocall blocking was just a bonus. This is how we survived when I was working from home and routed all calls to all phones in the apartment.
Please, no - that will break Google Voice. And I'll lose my multiple lines of VoIP coming from the same number at home. Each line would have to have its own phone number.
I assure you that there are far more than .01 hours in 7 years.
I'm not sure it matters whose property it is - it doesn't make less of a violation.
And even on top of that, in the case of the war on drugs, what's so hard about getting a warrant for those cameras?
Personally, I'm fine with laws that enforce seatbelt usage, but there is a line to be drawn. The potential for abuse for such a system is just too great.
Losing human life is tragic, but losing a part of your own life due to the liberties taken away by surveillance can potentially add up to more than a single human life lost. Quality of life is important when considering that a life was saved. On the extreme end, saving a life only to have them in a persistent vegetative state is not a net gain. Being constantly surveilled is way further down on the spectrum, but it does reduce quality of life. I'd rather be free and lose a couple years of my life than to live long as a slave.
By the way, if you watch TV, there's a show on now called Person of Interest that follows the story of a computer system equivalent of an all-seeing eye. The number of safeguards it had to have in order to be ethical were unbelievable. In this story, the computer basically doesn't allow root access to anyone - it's a locked black box that processes the data and makes decisions from that.
OK. Flash can have its own core and the rest are on another. Rendering and compositing are not the same thing. They are two separate steps on modern browsers. Apparently Chrome uses a completely separate thread for compositing already - so that the page scrolls smoothly no matter what's going on.
Rendering a DOM tree is a rather complex task - a breeze for a modern CPU, but can still drag on with poorly designed sites using nested tables. Would be nice if all of your pictures were already decompressed by the time the DOM is fully rendered.
Trust me, on my connection I don't lose a lot of time on downloads. DNS latency is a factor, but even just 3 simultaneous HTTP connections are enough to finish that job very fast. And most sites use subdomains for image and CSS assets to get around HTTP connection limits.
And as the site loads, you are sometimes completely re-rendering and re-compositing a page several times, especially if some content is loaded via AJAX after the main page loads.
I don't know - web browsing probably could benefit even more from multicore than they do already. 1 entire core for flash, because it just performs so badly. 1 thread for rendering, 1 thread for executing javascript. Chrome puts each tab in its own process.
With even the cheap desktops coming with mobile CPU's now, we're just seeing a widening gap between power users and the mainstream computer owner. I upgraded my wife's computer to a wimpy Sempron 145 and she couldn't be happier with finally having 8GB of RAM (not to mention it being DDR3) and not really needing more CPU power. While I on the other hand am upgrading to an Ivy Bridge i7 this week and am not totally sure if I went high enough.
The same reason they're stuck at 3-4GHz. Heat and power usage. They have to shrink to an even smaller manufacturing process to avoid those issues.