So, in the meantime, everyone who is able should at least consider donating blood. It is fast, easy, and (nearly) painless.
I'll consider donating blood, when doctors and hospitals consider giving blood transfusions at cost...
Have you ever donated to a canned-food drive, so that the charity organization could SELL that donated food to the poor at REDUCED COST?
If doctors/hospitals would like to continue to make a profit on my blood donation, so would I... If they offered even a trivial amount of cash, just $5 per pint, the Red Cross would practically have lines of people outside their facilities.
If push comes to shove, does Apple consider the AppleTV a computer
If they don't, they'll end up in very deep trouble, because they aren't following the restrictions (required by law) for audio/video recording devices.
It would certainly be idiotic for things like cellphones. However, I could see the technology being incredibly popular for medical implants.
Instead of a $50,000 surgery to replace a battery, you put a little charged coil against your body for a few hours every few months to charge the battery.
Pacemakers, defibrillators, and the like require surgery to replace dead batteries. But with a built-in Powercast receiver, those batteries could last a lifetime.
There's no good to mediocre desktop PC (aside from the Mac mini, which is essentially a laptop in a different box) that consumes that little power with any kind of performance.
I said, in no uncertain terms, "you can build a desktop more efficiently."
So, what kind of power consumption can you get from a desktop?
Slightly lower than you can from even the best laptops. Mobile components work just as well in desktops as they do in laptops (eg Turion CPU). However, you can get slightly higher efficiency from the power conversion, slightly more efficient components like video. Eliminate fans, and other benefits like lower price.
If you can beat 34W while compiling the kernel and get it done quickly, you should stop whatever else you're doing and start a company assembling PC's.
I'd be happy to, if you're providing the funding. Areas like microATX systems, low-cost ($200) PC, and high quality desktops are woefully underserved and overpriced, for reasons I certainly can't explain.
Evolution isn't an explanation for the origin of the universe. It's not really an explanation for the origin of life, either. It's the scientific model that explains the history and diversity of life on Earth by means of mechanisms like random mutation and natural selection.
Actually, it includes all of that, and more.
And to the extent that a scientific model can be proven, evolution has been proven.
I fail to see how that is relevant. Many theories were proven, before they were disproven...
Specifically, their children are going to grow up to be as ignorant as their parents; even if they're much smarter than mom and dad, their ignorance will interfere with them becoming valuable contributors to the scientific community.
I guess racism is just getting worse... And people are getting more ignorant through the generations...
It's a good thing we had those magical aliens come along, that weren't exposed to ignorance (the contagious disease it is), and single-handedly make all scientific advancements in human history, while people just kept getting more ignorant.
I hate to nit-pick, but being as it was 48% of the population, it would seem entirely possible that everyone one of them has below average intelligence.
I hate to nit-pick, but he certainly never said it was impossible...
But as long as we have enough ignorant fundamentalists around to vote even a few of them into places like the whitehouse, where they can block funding for such research, we have a huge problem.
Teaching people evolution isn't going to magically stop them from being religious, so your comment is utterly off-topic.
Failing that, if we can teach a large enough percentage of the population to (accurately) view books like the Bible and Koran as "inspirational fiction", then perhaps we'll stop seeing blocks on federal funding for stem cell research.
I hate to burst your bubble, but a great many people, who are infinitely smarter than you could possibly be, were devout religious believers. Your opinions is just that, it's not "right" or wrong.
It's often four or five cables. My desktop, for example, has two printers, a scanner, speakers and a monitor, plus the CPU,
Your CRT (or even mid-large LCDs) aren't a candidate for USB power, unless USB starts requiring cables and connectors as massive as power cords... Even then, it's not likely anyone's going to want ultra-massive PSUs and motherboards to support that kind of power draw.
Printers and scanners aren't very good candidates either, as they have high power requirements, and high surge current.
Imagine being able to power your notebook off of one! That could end the different power brick for every notebook mess.
Standardizing voltages and connectors would be good... Overloading your PC's PSUs is not.
Higher speed are always nice, but I am not often limited by the bus speed.
Then you don't do anything interesting...
Personally, I would love to see a single bus for EVERYTHING. Meaning, your keyboard/mouse and your internal hard drive all having the same interface. Of course, to compete with SATA, things will have to get much faster.
You can build your own USB gizmos in your basement; no large investment is required. There are plenty of chips that support USB available in small quantities
All of these are side-effects of USB becoming popular. If firewire had, the USB chips would be expensive, and firewire chips would be dirt cheap.
I know FireWire is popular for video transfer, but isn't that what DVI is for?
No, it isn't. How many DVI-capture cards do you have in your computers?
As others have pointed out, if you can find an obsolete laptop, and just dedicate it for your 24/7 applications, that's going to be by far the most energy-efficient solution.
That's an easy way to get energy efficiency, but you can build a desktop more efficiently. 80PLUS PSU, Turion CPU, etc., and your desktop can be lower power than older notebooks, while significantly faster.
Some people say a switching PS is most efficient if you run it near its maximum capacity, and others say it's most efficient at 50%.
They're most efficient near 100%. HOWEVER, if you're buying an 80PLUS PSU like Seasonic, they have nearly the same efficiency through the whole range. That was one of the parameters for 80PLUS certification.
If you check out the PDFs on http://www.80plus.org/ they give you a clear graph of efficiency over the range of power draw of all the PSUs they tested.
For your mobo, choose something with integrated video, rather than using a video card.
That won't save you any power at all. A $20 AGP ATI Mobility card will use less power than an integrated chip, and still have better performance.
I just picked up a nice Compaq with a 15" wide screen, 512 meg of memory, 802.11 card etc.
Does it operate on 5W of power? Can it be used as an e-Book reader, basically with power entirely off? Does it work in direct sunlight?
The OLPC itself is somewhat too low-end to be used as a modern system. That said, throw in a hard drive, use a faster version of the Geode CPU, and improve the screen (color) picture quality and make it 16:9, and it'll destroy most everything out there, and not just by lower price.
Maybe new cars. But there are millions of older cars on the road that will have problems with ethanol eating seals and hoses and causing leaks.
It's been a very long time now since the government required new cars to accept 30% mixtures of Ethanol, and some companies like GM were doing so even before that. I don't remember exactly, but it's been well over a decade. I imagine the number of cars that will have problems is quite small, and the cheaper gas will more than cover cost of new hoses.
They will run too lean, which can be deadly for an aircooled motor.
10+% Ethanol is pretty common in CA, and yet 30 year-old lawnmowers continue to work just fine.
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I'll consider donating blood, when doctors and hospitals consider giving blood transfusions at cost...
Have you ever donated to a canned-food drive, so that the charity organization could SELL that donated food to the poor at REDUCED COST?
If doctors/hospitals would like to continue to make a profit on my blood donation, so would I... If they offered even a trivial amount of cash, just $5 per pint, the Red Cross would practically have lines of people outside their facilities.
Two years of biology.
Evolution doesn't quite cover the very first proteins assembling, however, it applies 100% from that point on.
I said nothing of the sort. It seems to be your own wishful thinking trying to put words in my mouth.
Obviously, but you've still provided NO facts to back up your claim.
Your assertion flies in the face of all logic.
And do you have any factual examples? Similar cases where this happened?
I fail to see how that could have made it more difficult to get labels on-board.
As many as you, and the GP combined, I'm sure...
If you already have it on CD, it would be extremely stupid to buy a lower quality version from iTMS, or anywhere else...
So what's your point?
Would you care to explain how having DRM-free indy bands' tracks on iTMS would have made such negotiation with major labels somehow more difficult?
Copying an audio/video file between devices is "recording"
If they don't, they'll end up in very deep trouble, because they aren't following the restrictions (required by law) for audio/video recording devices.
Those are INSANE numbers.
A 7600 GT (you didn't specify) would almost entirely explain the power consumption.
There's a 10W difference between a MT and ML Turions.
Your PSU isn't 80plus certified, and isn't quite as efficient as you think: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article592-page2.ht
The rest I can't check on without specific model numbers, but it should be just as easy for you to do so.
My sincere apologies...
Would "omgponies" be more to your liking?
It would certainly be idiotic for things like cellphones. However, I could see the technology being incredibly popular for medical implants.
Instead of a $50,000 surgery to replace a battery, you put a little charged coil against your body for a few hours every few months to charge the battery.
The batteries already last a lifetime!
As in: when they die, you die.
I said, in no uncertain terms, "you can build a desktop more efficiently."
Slightly lower than you can from even the best laptops. Mobile components work just as well in desktops as they do in laptops (eg Turion CPU). However, you can get slightly higher efficiency from the power conversion, slightly more efficient components like video. Eliminate fans, and other benefits like lower price.
I'd be happy to, if you're providing the funding. Areas like microATX systems, low-cost ($200) PC, and high quality desktops are woefully underserved and overpriced, for reasons I certainly can't explain.
"That's an easy way" means: that's an easy way to do okay.
That's idiotic. Just because a few people don't know how to do it, doesn't change the facts.
Actually, it includes all of that, and more.
I fail to see how that is relevant. Many theories were proven, before they were disproven...
I guess racism is just getting worse... And people are getting more ignorant through the generations...
It's a good thing we had those magical aliens come along, that weren't exposed to ignorance (the contagious disease it is), and single-handedly make all scientific advancements in human history, while people just kept getting more ignorant.
I hate to nit-pick, but he certainly never said it was impossible...
As he said, it is quite unlikely.
Teaching people evolution isn't going to magically stop them from being religious, so your comment is utterly off-topic.
I hate to burst your bubble, but a great many people, who are infinitely smarter than you could possibly be, were devout religious believers. Your opinions is just that, it's not "right" or wrong.
90% of the population have no reason to understand evolution. Knowledge of it will not affect their everyday lives.
I'm sure somewhere there is an accountant complaining that 48% of people don't understand some important facet of tax law.
I fail to see how understand evolution would help or hurt such a goal in the slightest.
Your CRT (or even mid-large LCDs) aren't a candidate for USB power, unless USB starts requiring cables and connectors as massive as power cords... Even then, it's not likely anyone's going to want ultra-massive PSUs and motherboards to support that kind of power draw.
Printers and scanners aren't very good candidates either, as they have high power requirements, and high surge current.
Standardizing voltages and connectors would be good... Overloading your PC's PSUs is not.
Then you don't do anything interesting...
Personally, I would love to see a single bus for EVERYTHING. Meaning, your keyboard/mouse and your internal hard drive all having the same interface. Of course, to compete with SATA, things will have to get much faster.
All of these are side-effects of USB becoming popular. If firewire had, the USB chips would be expensive, and firewire chips would be dirt cheap.
No, it isn't. How many DVI-capture cards do you have in your computers?
That's an easy way to get energy efficiency, but you can build a desktop more efficiently. 80PLUS PSU, Turion CPU, etc., and your desktop can be lower power than older notebooks, while significantly faster.
They're most efficient near 100%. HOWEVER, if you're buying an 80PLUS PSU like Seasonic, they have nearly the same efficiency through the whole range. That was one of the parameters for 80PLUS certification.
If you check out the PDFs on http://www.80plus.org/ they give you a clear graph of efficiency over the range of power draw of all the PSUs they tested.
That won't save you any power at all. A $20 AGP ATI Mobility card will use less power than an integrated chip, and still have better performance.
Yeah, if you just disable all functionality, Outlook is as secure as other e-mail programs, except those stay secure while actually USING them.
Does it operate on 5W of power? Can it be used as an e-Book reader, basically with power entirely off? Does it work in direct sunlight?
The OLPC itself is somewhat too low-end to be used as a modern system. That said, throw in a hard drive, use a faster version of the Geode CPU, and improve the screen (color) picture quality and make it 16:9, and it'll destroy most everything out there, and not just by lower price.
It's been a very long time now since the government required new cars to accept 30% mixtures of Ethanol, and some companies like GM were doing so even before that. I don't remember exactly, but it's been well over a decade. I imagine the number of cars that will have problems is quite small, and the cheaper gas will more than cover cost of new hoses.
10+% Ethanol is pretty common in CA, and yet 30 year-old lawnmowers continue to work just fine.