... is 4x1.8KW ~ 10kHP for 7k ton, or just over 1 HP per ton....
You can't omit digits, when using a thousands separator, otherwise it is really confusing.
1.8KW is 1800W.
1.800 KW could be read as 1800 KW, could be read as 1800 W.
Context (about bothe the subject of the text and cultural origins of the text) can help understand it.
I personally dislike thousands separators, because they can be confusing in cases like this.
It has an internal SATA port with power where you can directly plug-in 2.5" HDD though you will have to provide a fan or some other mean for cooling the HDD, as the convection alone is not enough. I've solved this as I powered a fan from one of the many USB ports and positioned it over the HDD. I've installed Ubuntu ARM port on the 512MB raw flash device on top of a very clever filesystem called UbiFS. You can also install it on the HDD or on USB storage.
I get around 30-40MB/s read speed over NFS (5400RPM, Seagate 500GB). I run rtorrent on the box and I get around 2.7~3.0MB/s download speed. I gues with a 7200RPM HDD and NOT using PPPoE for your Internet connection, you can get even better speeds.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, this is an honest question.
I'm not from the United States, nor I live there, but I never got why exactly is a SSN supposed to be secret, is it possible to do identity theft with only the SSN alone? Here in Mexico we have a ton of personal identification numbers (RFC, CURP, IFE number, Passport, Drivers License, Military Service, Social Security, Professional Certificate, etc) and none of them is really supposed to be secret, I don't get why people from the USA a secret number that you're not supposed to divulge, yet you need to give up for reasons like cable TV contracts and there's chaos when something like a database of SSN got leaked.
Well I'm also not from the US, but here is my understanding.
The first problem is the lack of national ID, which means that there is no way to uniquely identify a person on national scale in the US. Then comes the SSN which was designed to be PRIVATE, a side effect is that it is UNIQUE. Global businesses need to uniquely identify their customers on global scale, but because of the lack of other unique identifier (like the unique citizen number in my country), they began to use SSN as such. At the same time other businesses such as Credit Card Companies and Banks rely on the SSN to be a secret, so you can order a credit card remotely only by telling them your SSN.
This is the main problem - there are too much functions that are forced on a single identifier. If you had a national ID your national ID would be unique but not necessarily a secret so you can give it to whoever wants it. It is like a unique nick name of yours. At the same time it should not be possible to gain access to your financial info just by knowing your national ID number.
... the study could've equally found that only a small percentage of players clustered and the majority were radically different from each other.
Now that would be quite impossible with this type of game. There is a very limited number of decent strategies to reach the goal. With popular title (I guess) as Tomb Raider you would need several millions "radically different" strategies.
The Volt's engine is not running at full power all the time. Beside that a large part of the energy consumed by the engine during acceleration is reclaimed via the regenerative braking. According to this http://www.chevy-volt.net/chevrolet-volt-specs.htm it will have 16kWh battery which means a 1.5 kW heater will draw 10% of the battery life every hour. Unlike the engine it will have to work at full power all the time, because although smaller than a room cars have very poor thermal insulation and it will get cold the moment you stop the heater.
Converting electricity directly to heat is extremely inefficient, so during winter it will actually make more sense to run the gasoline engine, because the "waste heat" would be actually used then.
I would love to see a future where rich libertarians build floating cities free of the governmental restraints and constraints of the pandering politicians. Live free on the water! No taxes. Everything accomplished by contract. It's like a paradise *sigh*
First the government issues personal private crypto keys to everyone tied to their personal ID, fingerprints or whatever. After a while they ban crypted traffic without registered keys. If you are caught using cryptography with self-generated keys you are jailed because you must be "criminal" and "hide something" if you are not using your government provided private crypto key. They even don't need the ability to constantly monitor the whole traffic. If they have the slight interest in your traffic and are unable to decipher it, you go to jail.
This certainly will make things safer... safe like in prison.
... I'm using the proprietary ATI drivers on Linux, which should be pretty fast...
Wrong! The proprietary ATI driver sucks donkey balls! Two months ago I went from Nvidia 8600GT to ATI 4850HD (both pci-e) and I was astonished how bad were the drivers from ATI(with the nvidia card I used the proprietary driver too).
- no proper xv output. it doesn't sync the frames to vsync and there is horrible video tearing. The only solution to this was to enable vsync for OpenGL and use -vo gl with specific mplayer build 1.0_rc2_p28058-r1. Later builds were horribly slow with -vo gl and were unable to play even 720p video.
- horrible x11 performance. try some x11perf tests and compare the results. My card was 10-20 times slower than a low-end nvidia card.
- no support for the linux driver. End of discussion. You can "make suggestions how to improve it", but that's all.
As I only occasionally boot to windows to play games, choosing ati card was a huge mistake. On the next upgrade I'll go with nvidia again.
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... it is carcinogenic.
... is 4x1.8KW ~ 10kHP for 7k ton, or just over 1 HP per ton. ...
You can't omit digits, when using a thousands separator, otherwise it is really confusing. 1.8KW is 1800W. 1.800 KW could be read as 1800 KW, could be read as 1800 W. Context (about bothe the subject of the text and cultural origins of the text) can help understand it. I personally dislike thousands separators, because they can be confusing in cases like this.
It is going to have a big impact if either or both of them get open sourced or reverse engineered.
Surely if they are going to have multiple data channels then this is a Universal Parallel Bus
More like Universal Serial Buses
My name is Painter, Corel Painter.
I have this and it is absolutely wonderful.
It has an internal SATA port with power where you can directly plug-in 2.5" HDD though you will have to provide a fan or some other mean for cooling the HDD, as the convection alone is not enough. I've solved this as I powered a fan from one of the many USB ports and positioned it over the HDD. I've installed Ubuntu ARM port on the 512MB raw flash device on top of a very clever filesystem called UbiFS. You can also install it on the HDD or on USB storage.
I get around 30-40MB/s read speed over NFS (5400RPM, Seagate 500GB). I run rtorrent on the box and I get around 2.7~3.0MB/s download speed. I gues with a 7200RPM HDD and NOT using PPPoE for your Internet connection, you can get even better speeds.
Just a week ago: http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2009-10-13/
These options are for the IO scheduler called "Deadline". TFA is about CPU scheduler.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, this is an honest question. I'm not from the United States, nor I live there, but I never got why exactly is a SSN supposed to be secret, is it possible to do identity theft with only the SSN alone? Here in Mexico we have a ton of personal identification numbers (RFC, CURP, IFE number, Passport, Drivers License, Military Service, Social Security, Professional Certificate, etc) and none of them is really supposed to be secret, I don't get why people from the USA a secret number that you're not supposed to divulge, yet you need to give up for reasons like cable TV contracts and there's chaos when something like a database of SSN got leaked .
Well I'm also not from the US, but here is my understanding.
The first problem is the lack of national ID, which means that there is no way to uniquely identify a person on national scale in the US. Then comes the SSN which was designed to be PRIVATE, a side effect is that it is UNIQUE. Global businesses need to uniquely identify their customers on global scale, but because of the lack of other unique identifier (like the unique citizen number in my country), they began to use SSN as such. At the same time other businesses such as Credit Card Companies and Banks rely on the SSN to be a secret, so you can order a credit card remotely only by telling them your SSN.
This is the main problem - there are too much functions that are forced on a single identifier. If you had a national ID your national ID would be unique but not necessarily a secret so you can give it to whoever wants it. It is like a unique nick name of yours. At the same time it should not be possible to gain access to your financial info just by knowing your national ID number.
... the study could've equally found that only a small percentage of players clustered and the majority were radically different from each other.
Now that would be quite impossible with this type of game. There is a very limited number of decent strategies to reach the goal. With popular title (I guess) as Tomb Raider you would need several millions "radically different" strategies.
Converting electricity directly to heat is extremely inefficient, so during winter it will actually make more sense to run the gasoline engine, because the "waste heat" would be actually used then.
I've found a great money-saving approach to buying games that doesn't involve "used" games. ...
I no longer jump on a brand new game, and instead wait until the price comes down...
http://xkcd.com/606/
I want to see a flight simulator, which uses this data to simulate the whole world.
when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets.
That's a bit harsh for just typing a password...
It's already done http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prypiat,_Ukraine
My buzz-o-meter just got off the scale...
... run a tiny GPS, an insert in my shoe. ... and I always know where I am.
"They" will know too...
I would love to see a future where rich libertarians build floating cities free of the governmental restraints and constraints of the pandering politicians. Live free on the water! No taxes. Everything accomplished by contract. It's like a paradise *sigh*
... and we can call it Rapture!
Very small part of your tax money, I would say. The bulk of your taxes goes to Iraq and Afghanistan... yeah and for saving greedy bankers. Cheers!
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2009-03-16/
... they could put a server in their server to withstand a /. tsunami!
An oxymoron ?
First the government issues personal private crypto keys to everyone tied to their personal ID, fingerprints or whatever. After a while they ban crypted traffic without registered keys. If you are caught using cryptography with self-generated keys you are jailed because you must be "criminal" and "hide something" if you are not using your government provided private crypto key. They even don't need the ability to constantly monitor the whole traffic. If they have the slight interest in your traffic and are unable to decipher it, you go to jail.
This certainly will make things safer... safe like in prison.
Have you tried the open source ati drivers? I understand the opengl support is not as complete, but perhaps 2d stuff will work better?
No, I haven't since according to http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature most of the basic features are not implemented yet for R700 HD.
... I'm using the proprietary ATI drivers on Linux, which should be pretty fast...
Wrong! The proprietary ATI driver sucks donkey balls! Two months ago I went from Nvidia 8600GT to ATI 4850HD (both pci-e) and I was astonished how bad were the drivers from ATI(with the nvidia card I used the proprietary driver too).
- no proper xv output. it doesn't sync the frames to vsync and there is horrible video tearing. The only solution to this was to enable vsync for OpenGL and use -vo gl with specific mplayer build 1.0_rc2_p28058-r1. Later builds were horribly slow with -vo gl and were unable to play even 720p video.
- horrible x11 performance. try some x11perf tests and compare the results. My card was 10-20 times slower than a low-end nvidia card.
- no support for the linux driver. End of discussion. You can "make suggestions how to improve it", but that's all.
As I only occasionally boot to windows to play games, choosing ati card was a huge mistake. On the next upgrade I'll go with nvidia again.