>>>top gear, a very popular programme in the UK that tests and evaluates cars, has found that a 3 cylinder diesel (VW Polo) gets more MPG than a Prius (hybrid) does >>>
That's no surprise. I'm not familiar with the Polo, but the 3-cylinder version of the Lupo (discontinued) was able to get 88mpg on the highway. For comparison the gasoline Insight Hybrid gets 70mpg and the Prius/Civic Hybrids get around 50mpg on the highway.
The smaller you make the engine, the better the economy will be. A Prius could probably get 88mpg too if it had a 3-cylinder diesel engine.
If you read the article, they were Not pressing buttons. This was a paper-and-pen method followed by a scanning machine. The scanning machine was dropping ballots for some unknown reason.
Well I briefly owned a Hard Drive based camera which recorded in DVD resolution (720x480 x8 megabit/s). I kept it for about a week and then returned it, because the images truly were worse than my Super VHS camera. The flaw was the compression which made everything blurred. Blocking and "mosquitos" were also a major flaw.
Furthermore a few months ago I purchased one of those DTV-to-analog converter boxes. Super VHS in SP mode produces an image that is indistinguishable from the live DTV image. In the slower EP mode there's a slight blurring.
Anyway I stand by my previous comment: "Super VHS looks just as quality" as any DVD Camcorder's output.
I can certainly live without HD video. Even though I've upgraded some things (digital television, Bluray player) I'm still using the old standard definition television set(s). I think the picture looks just fine, and I'm sure SD would look just fine on my PC monitor too.
You mean like a double-D fake silicon-breasted hooker is better than the B-cup natural girl-next-door? I'm sorry but I;m not swayed by T&A. I prefer quality.
Vista is like the hooker: Just a bunch of fake eyecandy with a lot of annoying popups. XP is the reliable girl-next-door type, perhaps not as pretty but far more pleasant to be around.
After reading all this I've come to the conclusion that a Flash ROM probably is the best way for archival storage. No moving parts so lubrication is not an issue, and they are relatively compact so you can store them in a fireproof safe.
>>>MS Word users have used hard returns and a bunch of spaces on the beginning of the next line because they're too stupid to figure out how to do an indented paragraph.
Shouldn't OpenOffice be able to handle that very easily? If it can't properly decode that simple formatting, then something wrong's IMHO.
>>>I agree... it's the heavy formatting. In fact, most of the garbage people send around in Word format is completely over-formatted, people do such ridiculous things to get their document to look right, and I'd be willing to bet there's a lot of left over crappage. >>>
Can you give some examples? Most people I've met defend over-formatting because "it makes it easier to do future updates". For example my boss used Word's complicated table of contents/header system, rather than just type it in manually because he said it would make the document easier to maintain.
You know I've seen the same problems *within* Word.
I use Word 97 at home, and Word 2003 at work, and I often see formatting problems during the conversion. Sometimes even just moving from my computer to my bosses' computer causes problems (varying width of the document), even though we are running the same 2003 edition. How can we "blame" OpenOffice for compatibility problems, if even Microsoft can't keep its own suite of software compatible?
Overall I think OpenOffice does okay. Certainly better than WordPerfect's reading of Word files (which was a giant fail).
It's too bad we don't get to do these types of projects in the "real world".
I did more fun stuff in my 5 years of college than I've done in the 10 years since then. The only good news is that now my pay is better (negative $28/hour in college versus positive $50/hour at work).
Hey I don't care. Karen the teacher is one of those "attack others viciously" types. And then she tries to cry and act the victim. I hate those types of people,and I'm going to call it as I see it.
There was simply No excuse for this woman to threaten to sue anyone.
It's true Hard Drives cost a little bit more than an optical disc, but putting a few platters inside a box with a read/write head is still simpler than etching the Integrated Circuits inside flash ROM drives.
"ICs are more complex and expensive to build" is why we have 1000 gig drives, but still only have 4-8 gigs of RAM.
Oh okay. Well maybe I misunderstood then. I though the "protected media pipelines" were put in Vista for the purpose of blocking unauthorized copies of music from playing through the OS. Assuming I'm wrong, why did Microsoft put them there?
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I'm not blaming Microsoft. I'm blaming the MPAA and RIAA; they're the ones who decided, starting 2010, to make CDs/DVDs unplayable in PCs that lacked DRM security. Sure Vista will play anything now, but come 2010 that will no longer be true.
What's "striction"? I'm asking because I just switched-off my USB drive in order to save power. Maybe I should turn it back on & let it run continuously?
My suggestions:
- Home videos - nothing lasts as long as analog videotape. Twilight Zone episodes recorded in the 1960s are still viable today, whereas DVD-Rs have a nasty habit of self-erasing themselves in just 2-3 years. I think Super VHS tape is the safest way to store family memories. - For files smaller than 20 megabytes, I upload them to yahoo mail and Gmail. - For larger files I dual-duplicate them across both my c: and usb: drives. If one fails I know I'll still have the backup of the other. - For source code, printing to paper is also an option. Good quality paper will outlive you. - - And finally: Ask yourself if you really need that stuff? Do you need to save your old CSE 101 project? Probably not. I used to save that junk but then I realized it was pointless. Nowadays I save very little because most of it is not worth keeping or will never be used again.
I took a quick look at what HP is offering. The $500 PC discussed in the summary only has 512 megabytes of RAM. That won't work with Vista which runs like a snail through molasses, but is it enough to run "SUSE" Linux? Or will that be running slow too?
Well the SSD proponents ignore the trend of hard drives. I see I can buy a 1 terabyte USB HDD can be bought for $115. Time to upgrade from my 0.3 [terabyte] model which is now full.
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>>>top gear, a very popular programme in the UK that tests and evaluates cars, has found that a 3 cylinder diesel (VW Polo) gets more MPG than a Prius (hybrid) does
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That's no surprise. I'm not familiar with the Polo, but the 3-cylinder version of the Lupo (discontinued) was able to get 88mpg on the highway. For comparison the gasoline Insight Hybrid gets 70mpg and the Prius/Civic Hybrids get around 50mpg on the highway.
The smaller you make the engine, the better the economy will be. A Prius could probably get 88mpg too if it had a 3-cylinder diesel engine.
If you read the article, they were Not pressing buttons. This was a paper-and-pen method followed by a scanning machine. The scanning machine was dropping ballots for some unknown reason.
Well I briefly owned a Hard Drive based camera which recorded in DVD resolution (720x480 x8 megabit/s). I kept it for about a week and then returned it, because the images truly were worse than my Super VHS camera. The flaw was the compression which made everything blurred. Blocking and "mosquitos" were also a major flaw.
Furthermore a few months ago I purchased one of those DTV-to-analog converter boxes. Super VHS in SP mode produces an image that is indistinguishable from the live DTV image. In the slower EP mode there's a slight blurring.
Anyway I stand by my previous comment: "Super VHS looks just as quality" as any DVD Camcorder's output.
Thanks for the clarification.
I can certainly live without HD video. Even though I've upgraded some things (digital television, Bluray player) I'm still using the old standard definition television set(s). I think the picture looks just fine, and I'm sure SD would look just fine on my PC monitor too.
>>>Fact is, Vista is better than XP in many ways.
You mean like a double-D fake silicon-breasted hooker is better than the B-cup natural girl-next-door? I'm sorry but I;m not swayed by T&A. I prefer quality.
Vista is like the hooker: Just a bunch of fake eyecandy with a lot of annoying popups.
XP is the reliable girl-next-door type, perhaps not as pretty but far more pleasant to be around.
Reading your message, you seem to agree with me - a Disc is cheaper than an IC for storage.
IBM, Amiga, and other disk-based OSes can do the same thing if you go directly to a command line (which is essentially what a Commodore 64 does).
After reading all this I've come to the conclusion that a Flash ROM probably is the best way for archival storage. No moving parts so lubrication is not an issue, and they are relatively compact so you can store them in a fireproof safe.
>>>We had forgotten how much of irresponsible populists the Labor party are.
They don't sound like populists. They certainly aren't listening to the people demanding "no censorship".
>>>MS Word users have used hard returns and a bunch of spaces on the beginning of the next line because they're too stupid to figure out how to do an indented paragraph.
Shouldn't OpenOffice be able to handle that very easily? If it can't properly decode that simple formatting, then something wrong's IMHO.
>>>I agree... it's the heavy formatting. In fact, most of the garbage people send around in Word format is completely over-formatted, people do such ridiculous things to get their document to look right, and I'd be willing to bet there's a lot of left over crappage.
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Can you give some examples? Most people I've met defend over-formatting because "it makes it easier to do future updates". For example my boss used Word's complicated table of contents/header system, rather than just type it in manually because he said it would make the document easier to maintain.
What's with the designators like "OOoLatex" and "OOo_3.0" in downloaded files? I assume the OO means Open Office. What does the small o represent?
You know I've seen the same problems *within* Word.
I use Word 97 at home, and Word 2003 at work, and I often see formatting problems during the conversion. Sometimes even just moving from my computer to my bosses' computer causes problems (varying width of the document), even though we are running the same 2003 edition. How can we "blame" OpenOffice for compatibility problems, if even Microsoft can't keep its own suite of software compatible?
Overall I think OpenOffice does okay. Certainly better than WordPerfect's reading of Word files (which was a giant fail).
It's too bad we don't get to do these types of projects in the "real world".
I did more fun stuff in my 5 years of college than I've done in the 10 years since then. The only good news is that now my pay is better (negative $28/hour in college versus positive $50/hour at work).
My analogy was comparing one type of IC (ROM) with a type of disk (optical) and how ROM is more expensive.
I think it fits because we're comparing an IC (Flash) versus a type of disk (magnetic).
Hey I don't care. Karen the teacher is one of those "attack others viciously" types. And then she tries to cry and act the victim. I hate those types of people,and I'm going to call it as I see it.
There was simply No excuse for this woman to threaten to sue anyone.
It's true Hard Drives cost a little bit more than an optical disc, but putting a few platters inside a box with a read/write head is still simpler than etching the Integrated Circuits inside flash ROM drives.
"ICs are more complex and expensive to build" is why we have 1000 gig drives, but still only have 4-8 gigs of RAM.
Hmmm. Maybe Nintendo will go back to using carts for their next console.
Oh okay. Well maybe I misunderstood then. I though the "protected media pipelines" were put in Vista for the purpose of blocking unauthorized copies of music from playing through the OS. Assuming I'm wrong, why did Microsoft put them there?
ALSO:
I'm not blaming Microsoft. I'm blaming the MPAA and RIAA; they're the ones who decided, starting 2010, to make CDs/DVDs unplayable in PCs that lacked DRM security. Sure Vista will play anything now, but come 2010 that will no longer be true.
Did I get it wrong? It looks like the base model only has 512 meg RAM. Read more here: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-64287-321860-3328896-3658106.html
What's "striction"? I'm asking because I just switched-off my USB drive in order to save power. Maybe I should turn it back on & let it run continuously?
My suggestions:
- Home videos - nothing lasts as long as analog videotape. Twilight Zone episodes recorded in the 1960s are still viable today, whereas DVD-Rs have a nasty habit of self-erasing themselves in just 2-3 years. I think Super VHS tape is the safest way to store family memories.
- For files smaller than 20 megabytes, I upload them to yahoo mail and Gmail.
- For larger files I dual-duplicate them across both my c: and usb: drives. If one fails I know I'll still have the backup of the other.
- For source code, printing to paper is also an option. Good quality paper will outlive you.
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- And finally: Ask yourself if you really need that stuff? Do you need to save your old CSE 101 project? Probably not. I used to save that junk but then I realized it was pointless. Nowadays I save very little because most of it is not worth keeping or will never be used again.
I took a quick look at what HP is offering. The $500 PC discussed in the summary only has 512 megabytes of RAM. That won't work with Vista which runs like a snail through molasses, but is it enough to run "SUSE" Linux? Or will that be running slow too?
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Well the SSD proponents ignore the trend of hard drives. I see I can buy a 1 terabyte USB HDD can be bought for $115. Time to upgrade from my 0.3 [terabyte] model which is now full.
Well the SSD proponents ignore the trend of hard drives.
I see I can buy a 1 terabyte USB HDD can be bought for $115. Time to upgrade from my 0.3 gig model which is now full.
I don't understand the relevance of your statement to Solid State Drives v. Hard Disk Drives.