You can still buy THOSE machines. It's not like all notebooks are power hungry these days. There are a range of different notebooks that are available. You can get your high battery life business machine, or you can get your mobile gaming machine. People who buy these desktop replacements 'should' be aware that they are going to use more juice. That is perfectly acceptable. There has to be trade offs someplace.
On a train? I would still take my gaming machine with. I would just bring an extra battery.
I haven't noticed the blur. I actually like playing on my notebook screen because it is cripser than a CRT moniter at the same resolution. When I look at even good CRT monitors they look slightly blurred compared to my notebook screen.
The availability of a decent GPU in a notebook computer is what sold me on a new notebook versus another desktop. I like being able to just pickup my notebook and walk into a LAN party carrying all my equipment in one hand and still have framerates that equal or best most of the people I play with. It's great.
The downside is that the GPU likes to use power. Quite a bit too. With my Dell system with just one battery I can get 2 hours playing graphics intensive games. I almost made 4 just typing documents. That's fine for me.
If I wanted to have longer battery life I wouldn't have gotten a machine that is classified as a desktop replacement.
I heard this straight out of the mouth of CEO, at a company that shall remain unnamed. The reason that they are not going to be switching from being a microsoft shop to the unix platform is because it basically involves a massive under taking in the way of reinstalling software, training, debugging, creating new apps to do task that old apps did. They actually priced out the cost for them to change over. It was insane.
On a side note, instead of making drastic changed to their systems they are going to making minor ones a little bit at a time. New users have the option of platforms. The Unix freaks get what they want and the company doesn't have to pay to retrain their personel.
Businesses may be slow to move, but the move is happening. It just takes some time.
A simple solution may to just buy lower powered WAP's. You may need more but it may help a bit. The place where I work has a WAP' set up in the steel supports for the roof. Small devices that read barcodes on the floor relay through that access point. You can take these hand helds, go out across the company parking lot. Across a four lane high way and up the ditch on the other side and still get a signal. (only if the you keep the antenae vertical though) I would say that it is a little over powered for the application at hand.
It may be a number of year before we link the gas prices with all of us buying SUV's that get 8 miles a gallon (not me!), but we will..hopefully before we melt the place.
I've always gotten a kick out of people who use the whole SUV argument. It shows that they have a single track mind. Cars and SUV's are not the only fuel burning rigs out there. There is a huge trucking industry in the states. Don't think trucks don't burn a bit of fuel!. And there is also Heavy equipment, Trains, Planes, Ocean liners, etc. Puts a few little SUV's into perspective.
Also, those 8 mpg SUV's are few and far between. Last time I checked a lot of mid sized SUV's were not that far off from most mid sized cars. Here's something for you to think about to. The 6,000 lbs pickup with it's gas guzzling V-8 engine my dad drives gets better gas mileage than the 2.3L 4 banger engine in my car. Gasp!
Having played all for of the monkey island games I would have to say that I thought the the Second one was the best. The whole spitting contest just cracks me up. I was disapointed in the last one. The whole ultimate insult thing I thought was pretty weak. The ending sucked too. It still had typical monkey island puzzles and gags though. I still enjoyed it.
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What do they want? A blank check? They were running major budget overages. I think it is a good thing for someone to tell them to keep it within what is budgeted. I as much as anyone want to see the space station thrive, but not if it is going to cost us an arm and a leg. Nasa is no different than any other government agency. They are money sucking mongrels.
There will almost always be a positive side and a negative side to just about everything. Nanotech is no different. An example is of the common #2 pencil. Positive, you can write documentation and share it, effectivly. Negatives, it hurts if you poke yourself with it. Deadly in the wrong hands. Samething for nuclear reactions. Good, power. Bad, bombs.
The same logic can be applied to nanotech. The positives that it may help us make dramatic technological leaps (it also being a major leap).But it may also
I don't want to bring back up the Sept 11 tragedy but it illustrates how common and usefull things can be turned against us. This will never change. There will always be that remote chance.
Exactly, good point. If you imagine this network as just the data center portion and then add a client base behind it. Lets say a few floors of clients in the building, maybe some more floors in the office across the street, and then maybe another office in the next city. Now, wire them suckers up.
I've seen a data center for Cargill Inc. in Minnesota. It was HUGE. Rows upon Rows of nothing but servers. The room was bigger than my highschools gymnasium. Then add a massive client base that was in the building. That's a wiring project.
I saw that too. But, they may not require that amount of bandwidth. The systems behind the uplink may only generate small and sporatic data packets. It all depends on the application.
Now, I'm not familiar with their systems or their uses but generally speaking there are client needs and server needs. Clients generally do not require fat pipes to the desktops. You can cram a lot of clients onto a single 100mb line and they will operate just fine. Server needs are a little different. Since all of the client requests are converging down to a few server systems the bandwidth needs are much more intensive. A nice fat gigabit line works very nice here.
The post submitter makes 5 miles of cable seem like a lot. Well, it isn't. Even a small office complex can burn through 50,000 ft a cabling in short work. Running two data cables effectivly doubles your cable requirements. Depending on the situation the installer may even lay a third cable for voice. (What standard was that?) Anayways, 5 miles of cable is not a lot.
Absolutely every thing I have seen or read about how the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation works has basically flat out said that is a way around the Heisenburg Uncertainity Principle. And that is coming from the people who pioneered the processes.
You take two photons and place them under circumstances that entangle them. When you measure one, the other will instantly collapse into the opposite spin. You can use the one of the photons as an encoder and the other as the decoder. By doing this you can create an exact replica of the photon in question.
I'll be the first to admit, I really don't know squat about quantum mechanics. I'm sure there are current problems keeping us from moving stuff bigger than single photons. But, I don't really see how storing positions and velocities in detail would still be a problem. You bring up Heisenberg, but Quantum Entanglement has all ready proven itself as a viable work around of the Heisenberg principle. Plus, as data technology advances, the storage and retrieval of the quantity of data that would need to be stored and retrieved may become a non-issue. It's hard to comprehend how quickly technology advances. Even when it is evolving right before your eyes.
My brother has zillions of them. They work pretty good for building large structural components. Bridges come to mind first. Along with towers.
They are about the closest thing that I can think of that comes to the erecter sets.
Every once in a while I still find a rusty erecter set piece in the basement or on the garage floor. Plus, I think half of the nuts and bolts I have came from old erecter sets.
I don't know how this stacks up as far as transporters go. But quantum entanglement has shown how transporters could be viable. It allows us to find both states of an atom. It is basically a run-around of the heisenburg uncertainty princple.
As far as I know we have trasported a light photon. And, I think someone transported a bunch of 'something'? I can't remember, but it was a bunch of it.
I guess the only thing preventing us from moving big stuff really comes down to the equipment and being able to handle the massive amount of data that would be generated in a 'timely' fashion.
Yeah, I've had that happen to me on occasion. There have even been times when my computer has even pulled a copy out of my internet cache making it go even further back in time. Freaky at times. Make you think you are starting to loose your mind.
That may be correct. a minute in the course of 8 miles really doesn't mean crap. But I frequently do 250 mile tripe. 500 miles if you count the return. That extra 10 mph results in the savings of roughly 30 minutes each way.
Besides, if you hit something going 65 mph it is really going to be a mess. The same thing happens at 75. Big mess.
I don't want to pick on Mr. Jackson but, he hasn't come out with a decent song in what seems like a decade! He hasn't had any recent songs that were worth copying to mp3. You have to go all the way back to the days of songs like 'Thriller'.
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You can still buy THOSE machines. It's not like all notebooks are power hungry these days. There are a range of different notebooks that are available. You can get your high battery life business machine, or you can get your mobile gaming machine. People who buy these desktop replacements 'should' be aware that they are going to use more juice. That is perfectly acceptable. There has to be trade offs someplace.
On a train? I would still take my gaming machine with. I would just bring an extra battery.
I haven't noticed the blur. I actually like playing on my notebook screen because it is cripser than a CRT moniter at the same resolution. When I look at even good CRT monitors they look slightly blurred compared to my notebook screen.
They do have a thirst for power, a lot of it too. My dell system uses power at twice it's normal rate when playing graphics intensive games.
The availability of a decent GPU in a notebook computer is what sold me on a new notebook versus another desktop. I like being able to just pickup my notebook and walk into a LAN party carrying all my equipment in one hand and still have framerates that equal or best most of the people I play with. It's great.
The downside is that the GPU likes to use power. Quite a bit too. With my Dell system with just one battery I can get 2 hours playing graphics intensive games. I almost made 4 just typing documents. That's fine for me.
If I wanted to have longer battery life I wouldn't have gotten a machine that is classified as a desktop replacement.
Maybe AMD has a new angle on power consumption. Maybe their proccessors extract thermal energy from the surrounding atmosphere to power the chip.
Or maybe not.
I heard this straight out of the mouth of CEO, at a company that shall remain unnamed. The reason that they are not going to be switching from being a microsoft shop to the unix platform is because it basically involves a massive under taking in the way of reinstalling software, training, debugging, creating new apps to do task that old apps did. They actually priced out the cost for them to change over. It was insane.
On a side note, instead of making drastic changed to their systems they are going to making minor ones a little bit at a time. New users have the option of platforms. The Unix freaks get what they want and the company doesn't have to pay to retrain their personel.
Businesses may be slow to move, but the move is happening. It just takes some time.
A simple solution may to just buy lower powered WAP's. You may need more but it may help a bit. The place where I work has a WAP' set up in the steel supports for the roof. Small devices that read barcodes on the floor relay through that access point. You can take these hand helds, go out across the company parking lot. Across a four lane high way and up the ditch on the other side and still get a signal. (only if the you keep the antenae vertical though) I would say that it is a little over powered for the application at hand.
It may be a number of year before we link the gas prices with all of us buying SUV's that get 8 miles a gallon (not me!), but we will..hopefully before we melt the place.
I've always gotten a kick out of people who use the whole SUV argument. It shows that they have a single track mind. Cars and SUV's are not the only fuel burning rigs out there. There is a huge trucking industry in the states. Don't think trucks don't burn a bit of fuel!. And there is also Heavy equipment, Trains, Planes, Ocean liners, etc. Puts a few little SUV's into perspective.
Also, those 8 mpg SUV's are few and far between. Last time I checked a lot of mid sized SUV's were not that far off from most mid sized cars. Here's something for you to think about to. The 6,000 lbs pickup with it's gas guzzling V-8 engine my dad drives gets better gas mileage than the 2.3L 4 banger engine in my car. Gasp!
Having played all for of the monkey island games I would have to say that I thought the the Second one was the best. The whole spitting contest just cracks me up. I was disapointed in the last one. The whole ultimate insult thing I thought was pretty weak. The ending sucked too. It still had typical monkey island puzzles and gags though. I still enjoyed it.
What do they want? A blank check? They were running major budget overages. I think it is a good thing for someone to tell them to keep it within what is budgeted. I as much as anyone want to see the space station thrive, but not if it is going to cost us an arm and a leg. Nasa is no different than any other government agency. They are money sucking mongrels.
There will almost always be a positive side and a negative side to just about everything. Nanotech is no different. An example is of the common #2 pencil. Positive, you can write documentation and share it, effectivly. Negatives, it hurts if you poke yourself with it. Deadly in the wrong hands. Samething for nuclear reactions. Good, power. Bad, bombs.
The same logic can be applied to nanotech. The positives that it may help us make dramatic technological leaps (it also being a major leap).But it may also
I don't want to bring back up the Sept 11 tragedy but it illustrates how common and usefull things can be turned against us. This will never change. There will always be that remote chance.
Exactly, good point. If you imagine this network as just the data center portion and then add a client base behind it. Lets say a few floors of clients in the building, maybe some more floors in the office across the street, and then maybe another office in the next city. Now, wire them suckers up.
I've seen a data center for Cargill Inc. in Minnesota. It was HUGE. Rows upon Rows of nothing but servers. The room was bigger than my highschools gymnasium. Then add a massive client base that was in the building. That's a wiring project.
Oh, patch cabling. That's not 'real' cabling. hehe. Okay, I'll give them a little.
I saw that too. But, they may not require that amount of bandwidth. The systems behind the uplink may only generate small and sporatic data packets. It all depends on the application.
Now, I'm not familiar with their systems or their uses but generally speaking there are client needs and server needs. Clients generally do not require fat pipes to the desktops. You can cram a lot of clients onto a single 100mb line and they will operate just fine. Server needs are a little different. Since all of the client requests are converging down to a few server systems the bandwidth needs are much more intensive. A nice fat gigabit line works very nice here.
The post submitter makes 5 miles of cable seem like a lot. Well, it isn't. Even a small office complex can burn through 50,000 ft a cabling in short work. Running two data cables effectivly doubles your cable requirements. Depending on the situation the installer may even lay a third cable for voice. (What standard was that?) Anayways, 5 miles of cable is not a lot.
Absolutely every thing I have seen or read about how the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation works has basically flat out said that is a way around the Heisenburg Uncertainity Principle. And that is coming from the people who pioneered the processes.
You take two photons and place them under circumstances that entangle them. When you measure one, the other will instantly collapse into the opposite spin. You can use the one of the photons as an encoder and the other as the decoder. By doing this you can create an exact replica of the photon in question.
I'll be the first to admit, I really don't know squat about quantum mechanics. I'm sure there are current problems keeping us from moving stuff bigger than single photons. But, I don't really see how storing positions and velocities in detail would still be a problem. You bring up Heisenberg, but Quantum Entanglement has all ready proven itself as a viable work around of the Heisenberg principle. Plus, as data technology advances, the storage and retrieval of the quantity of data that would need to be stored and retrieved may become a non-issue. It's hard to comprehend how quickly technology advances. Even when it is evolving right before your eyes.
Whoa! That was creepy.
After I read that I swear I could actually taste them. Yuck.
My brother has zillions of them. They work pretty good for building large structural components. Bridges come to mind first. Along with towers.
They are about the closest thing that I can think of that comes to the erecter sets.
Every once in a while I still find a rusty erecter set piece in the basement or on the garage floor. Plus, I think half of the nuts and bolts I have came from old erecter sets.
It will only be a matter of time before the DMCA is brought up regarding this. I am almost certain of it.
I don't know how this stacks up as far as transporters go. But quantum entanglement has shown how transporters could be viable. It allows us to find both states of an atom. It is basically a run-around of the heisenburg uncertainty princple.
As far as I know we have trasported a light photon. And, I think someone transported a bunch of 'something'? I can't remember, but it was a bunch of it.
I guess the only thing preventing us from moving big stuff really comes down to the equipment and being able to handle the massive amount of data that would be generated in a 'timely' fashion.
Yeah, I've had that happen to me on occasion. There have even been times when my computer has even pulled a copy out of my internet cache making it go even further back in time. Freaky at times. Make you think you are starting to loose your mind.
Lately the letter 'X' has been the 'in' thing to use. There are zillions of products out there that use the 'X' tagging to promote itself.
Personally, I think it has been overused already and am waiting for someone to move on. Maybe they'll move onto the letter Y.
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That may be correct. a minute in the course of 8 miles really doesn't mean crap. But I frequently do 250 mile tripe. 500 miles if you count the return. That extra 10 mph results in the savings of roughly 30 minutes each way.
Besides, if you hit something going 65 mph it is really going to be a mess. The same thing happens at 75. Big mess.
I don't want to pick on Mr. Jackson but, he hasn't come out with a decent song in what seems like a decade! He hasn't had any recent songs that were worth copying to mp3. You have to go all the way back to the days of songs like 'Thriller'.
Sorry Jackson, but you suck now.