Yes, if you don't wash the acid off your skin within a couple days, that might pose a bit of a problem...
gasoline will not unless something else ignites it.
Cars are very hot. You only need a small bit of the gasoline fumes to waft down to the catalytic converter, or to the exhaust header, and you're in big trouble. Hell, even a little spark of static electricity will do it.
Besides, the event which caused the gasoline to spray all over you is more than likely to have other, much nastier effects than a minor chemical burn.
I'm pretty sure that's wrong--why would a CPU use more power stopped than when processing at any speed?
A powered-on CPU is never stopped... HLT just tells it there's no work to do for this cycle, and so it uses slightly less power. It still has to continue to operate at 2GHz (or whatever speed), service interrupts, refresh RAM, etc. All of which takes power. In fact, the very reason we have dual-core CPUs now, is that higher clock-speeds would just require far too much power. The converse is true as well.
HLT and CnQ work in combination, of course, so you have a lower-clocked CPU, which is also idled...
and idle power usage still bottomed out at 55W.
Certainly a significant improvement.
(did you know that an SBLive PCI card pulls 3W even when you're not using it?),
I never checked to find an exact number, but that is pretty close to what I would have guessed.
but I think it's pretty clear you're not going to get a dual-core Athlon system into the 20-30W range.
The one piece you're missing, is that seemingly identical chips can be VERY different. It's extremely hard to tell, before you buy it, whether you're getting the 35watt 2GHz CPU, or the 90watt 2GHz CPU. AMD is only making this easier for laptops with their Turion line, but Desktop builders don't have any such luck.
They're getting a bit behind the times, but looking through the CPUs on this site will give you a better understanding of my point: http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm
While you're assuming your CPU is typical, others with seemingly identical chips may be getting dramatically lower power consumption.
And in any case, the OP's point about VIA chips still holds, even if his numbers are somewhat skewed.
It would be a violation for you to redistribute what the author makes available to you, unless the author specifically states that it is okay.
I would be happy to look through any case histories or precidents you can list on this topic.
Every artist I know photocopies the work of other artists to send to each other and we don't give it a second thought, even though we know it is technically wrong.
The quickest way to a police state is to enact laws that are only selectively enforced.
Give all the roads ridiculously low speed limits, then the cops can arrest anyone they happen to dislike for any reason.
It looks really great! Then you try to get in the house, but the doorway is bricked up. You look for an easy way to open the door but it just isn't going to happen.
Linux, now, is perfect for brain-dead users (Ubuntu and kin), and advanced users (Slackware), but there's a very dark spot in-between...
You can install a distro trivially easily, and install all the packages you want. But if you decide you want to compile one program from scratch, or need to edit a config file, God help you... You've got no -dev headers so you can't compile anything that depends on anything. The program on the menu allows you to configure the network card, but you'd like to do something a bit more advanced, but the network config file is burried in/etc/r1957xc/master/kernel/sound/3/8.cf
So you go out and you buy a sink for your new kitchen, it's a really popular sink and everyone in the Windows rental houses has one. You try to install your new sink and the pipes are all wrong!
You know, it's funny how we NEVER hear Mac owners comming out in a rash saying: "I went out and bought the cheapest piece of hardware that had a Windows logo on it, but it doesn't work. Damn Apple, I'm switching back to Windows."
But your neighbour has a linux house and he had a similar sink, it's easy, all you have to do is get a metal pipe and an oxy-acetaline torch...
It's pretty miraculous, really, that you can get it to work at all. Perhaps it would be better for Linux, though, if people's search just turned up advice that it's not possible, and you should go out and buy XYZ brand that will work out-of-the-box. It's people spending days on crap like this, to save $5, that gives it a bad image. I guess people have no self control.
Not if you want to play any new PC games that use DX10.
Can you blame 2K for restrictions Microsoft has imposed on it?
IF people had a little backbone and stuck with it, Microsoft would actively develop software for it for much longer. We saw this senario very clearly with past versions of Windows.
If they didn't then produce DX10 for 2K, game developers would see lower sales on DX10 games, and stick to DX9.
Besides that, 3rd-party hacks are always forthcomming... Some developer sees that the latest version of DX won't install on a certain version of Windows simply because of some string check, disables it, and distributes the files... It happened with DX on NT4.
There is no such thing as implicit permission to redistribute copyrighted material. There is Fair Use, and there is explicit permission, but nothing in-between.
So you're saying in no uncertain terms, is that it is absolutely, positively illegal for anyone to download absolutely anything (not public domain) from Bittorrent, even if the AUTHOR of the work is making it available?
All current existing methods to make hydrogen available start with upstream in-the-ground based energy sources (methane, propane, gasoline, etc.) and involve dumping the CO2 that results from extracting the hydrogen into the atmosphere.
I think the issues that should be discussed is how terribly ineffecient such conversions are, plus the ineffeciencies in the fuel cells, etc. It would be far more effecient to burn the propane/gasoline in a power plant, and charge a battery-powered car from the grid, and batteries are improving more quickly than fuel cells...
Li-ion batteries start degrading as soon as they're manufactured due to stresses in the crystal matrix. It does not matter much, therefore, how the batteries are used, for they will only last up to three years before cells will break.
The LiIon battery from my MZR30 portable Sony Minidisc Recorder, would like to have a little discussion with you...
I bought it in 1996 and used it more heavily over that time than you would imagine, and I still continue to use it on a daily basis. Not only does the battery work, but I haven't even noticed decreased battery life.
Explosions are quite common to high-capacity batteries. It's the energy, you see.
I've never seen NiCD, NiMH, or LeadAcid batteries explode, despite my abuse. Only LiIons.
Batteries are devices that concentrate chemical energy in a form that can be easily (and quickly, for high current applications) released as useful work.
Laptops aren't high current applications, as they only draw some 30watts or so. High current is only desirable for fast-charging, and I think most people would be willing to wait 15 minutes longer...
Why do you think the control electronics are so important to a laptop battery?
Because all laptops these days use LiIon, which is so terribly unstable.
The highest current batteries are NiCD, and they need practically NO control circuitry, and are without a doubt the safest types of common rechargable batteries.
Claiming danger is inherent with high current or batteries in general, is utter nonsense.
So, here are a few numbers I quickly grabbed from the Wikipedia.
BAD/.er! Bad!
Try some real-world tests... Grab your newest LiIon laptop battery, and a bunch of rechargable NiMH batteries (ie. AAs).
Now, lay-out the NiMH batteries in an arrangement that would easily fit inside the LiIon plastic case. Then compare the V and mAH rating on the LiIon battery pack, to the voltage you'd get from wiring that many NiMH batteries in series, and the mAH rating on the batteries.
You'll find things are a lot closer than the Wikipedia numbers would indicate.
Next thing you'll try and tell me Ford made exploding cars...
The Pinto was no more dangerous than other cars of the era. Frankly, I'd prefer my gas tank be in the very back of the car, where an explosion wouldn't harm the occupants in the front-half...
Ford's sin is giving competing car companies an issue that looked scary on camera, that they could hype beyond belief.
since everything is copyrighted by default wouldn't even sharing junk pseudo-song files be an infringement?
No. The people who own the copyright on those files, are explicitly making them available for free download on P2P networks. That precludes them suing others for doing the same, since you have at least implicit permission from the copyright holder.
Hmmm, I'd always thought the major problem with matter-annihilation drives was the lack of antimatter deposits in the Earth's crust from which the fuel could be mined...
That's the kind of problem I'm happy to have...
Kinda like the problem with solar powered cars is that the sun needs to be much closer...
Yet it is precisely the friction between the wheels and road which make a car go forward. Friction with the car wheels is not bad, you need it.
Wheel friction is a huge waste of power. Yes, cars are currently designed to propel themselves via their wheels, but only because wheels were necessary at the time, and nothing much better has come along.
If you have a method to allow cars to float, you can change the propulsion method, and have MUCH more effecient cars all-around. See maglevs vs trains for a good example.
Actually, OpenSSH, along with Sendmail, tends to be one of the first things I make a point of disabling on any new installation that I make. Every time I read a security alert, they're either talking about one or the other.
OpenBSD enables OpenSSH and (a heavily patched) Sendmail, by default, and has had: "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years!"
It seems the Govenor is doing some political posturing on this issue, knowing full-well it isn't possible to switch everything over in such a short ammount of time. So the Govenor is acting like a little kid, making a fuss, and the Democrats in question are being the adults, realizing 1 month isn't enough time to switch the whole election system over.
From the end of TFA: "The board feels it would be catastrophic to try to do that for another system between now and the general election,"
If he was just asking for them to be replaced AFTER the next election, that would be entirely different.
I'm utterly confused. What is the brand and model of this card? Why is it capturing NTSC (which absolutely maxes out at 720x480) at 800x600? And why is it capturing 29.97fps NTSC material, at 25fps?
runs 2gig an hour with compression off.
AFAIK, there is no such thing as "uncompressed" MPEG-4. MPEG-4 is a compression format, so "uncompressed" makes no sense. Uncompressed video is RAW, and takes on the order of a hundred GBs per hour at these resolutions.
have you seen the size of a movie in MPEG4 @ 800x600 D1 quality? it is in the range of 2gig an hour.
D1 is broadcast resolution 720x480.
MPEG-4 (AKA. Divx) is nowhere near 2GBs/hour, unless you're using seriously crappy software for the encoding. At very good quality, you're only talking 0.5GBs per hour. My old, crappy MPEG-2 capture card can do better than 2GBs/hour.
But if a stranger says: "Hi, I'm your bank. We forgot all your account information and PIN number, please remind us" and the customer does, that's the bank's fault?
Yes. The bank doesn't provide any way for the CUSTOMER to verify they are indeed talking to the bank. Meanwhile, the methods the bank uses to do business with their customers, makes it trivially easy for a 3rd party to masquerade as the bank.
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Yes, if you don't wash the acid off your skin within a couple days, that might pose a bit of a problem...
Cars are very hot. You only need a small bit of the gasoline fumes to waft down to the catalytic converter, or to the exhaust header, and you're in big trouble. Hell, even a little spark of static electricity will do it.
Besides, the event which caused the gasoline to spray all over you is more than likely to have other, much nastier effects than a minor chemical burn.
A powered-on CPU is never stopped... HLT just tells it there's no work to do for this cycle, and so it uses slightly less power. It still has to continue to operate at 2GHz (or whatever speed), service interrupts, refresh RAM, etc. All of which takes power. In fact, the very reason we have dual-core CPUs now, is that higher clock-speeds would just require far too much power. The converse is true as well.
HLT and CnQ work in combination, of course, so you have a lower-clocked CPU, which is also idled...
Certainly a significant improvement.
I never checked to find an exact number, but that is pretty close to what I would have guessed.
The one piece you're missing, is that seemingly identical chips can be VERY different. It's extremely hard to tell, before you buy it, whether you're getting the 35watt 2GHz CPU, or the 90watt 2GHz CPU. AMD is only making this easier for laptops with their Turion line, but Desktop builders don't have any such luck.
They're getting a bit behind the times, but looking through the CPUs on this site will give you a better understanding of my point: http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm
While you're assuming your CPU is typical, others with seemingly identical chips may be getting dramatically lower power consumption.
And in any case, the OP's point about VIA chips still holds, even if his numbers are somewhat skewed.
I would be happy to look through any case histories or precidents you can list on this topic.
The quickest way to a police state is to enact laws that are only selectively enforced.
Give all the roads ridiculously low speed limits, then the cops can arrest anyone they happen to dislike for any reason.
Linux, now, is perfect for brain-dead users (Ubuntu and kin), and advanced users (Slackware), but there's a very dark spot in-between...
You can install a distro trivially easily, and install all the packages you want. But if you decide you want to compile one program from scratch, or need to edit a config file, God help you... You've got no -dev headers so you can't compile anything that depends on anything. The program on the menu allows you to configure the network card, but you'd like to do something a bit more advanced, but the network config file is burried in
You know, it's funny how we NEVER hear Mac owners comming out in a rash saying: "I went out and bought the cheapest piece of hardware that had a Windows logo on it, but it doesn't work. Damn Apple, I'm switching back to Windows."
It's pretty miraculous, really, that you can get it to work at all. Perhaps it would be better for Linux, though, if people's search just turned up advice that it's not possible, and you should go out and buy XYZ brand that will work out-of-the-box. It's people spending days on crap like this, to save $5, that gives it a bad image. I guess people have no self control.
Can you blame 2K for restrictions Microsoft has imposed on it?
IF people had a little backbone and stuck with it, Microsoft would actively develop software for it for much longer. We saw this senario very clearly with past versions of Windows.
If they didn't then produce DX10 for 2K, game developers would see lower sales on DX10 games, and stick to DX9.
Besides that, 3rd-party hacks are always forthcomming... Some developer sees that the latest version of DX won't install on a certain version of Windows simply because of some string check, disables it, and distributes the files... It happened with DX on NT4.
So you're saying in no uncertain terms, is that it is absolutely, positively illegal for anyone to download absolutely anything (not public domain) from Bittorrent, even if the AUTHOR of the work is making it available?
That was precisely my point.
You're apparently not a lawyer.
(not that I am, either, I've just studied the issue)
I think the issues that should be discussed is how terribly ineffecient such conversions are, plus the ineffeciencies in the fuel cells, etc. It would be far more effecient to burn the propane/gasoline in a power plant, and charge a battery-powered car from the grid, and batteries are improving more quickly than fuel cells...
The LiIon battery from my MZR30 portable Sony Minidisc Recorder, would like to have a little discussion with you...
I bought it in 1996 and used it more heavily over that time than you would imagine, and I still continue to use it on a daily basis. Not only does the battery work, but I haven't even noticed decreased battery life.
I've never seen NiCD, NiMH, or LeadAcid batteries explode, despite my abuse. Only LiIons.
Laptops aren't high current applications, as they only draw some 30watts or so. High current is only desirable for fast-charging, and I think most people would be willing to wait 15 minutes longer...
Because all laptops these days use LiIon, which is so terribly unstable.
The highest current batteries are NiCD, and they need practically NO control circuitry, and are without a doubt the safest types of common rechargable batteries.
Claiming danger is inherent with high current or batteries in general, is utter nonsense.
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Try some real-world tests... Grab your newest LiIon laptop battery, and a bunch of rechargable NiMH batteries (ie. AAs).
Now, lay-out the NiMH batteries in an arrangement that would easily fit inside the LiIon plastic case. Then compare the V and mAH rating on the LiIon battery pack, to the voltage you'd get from wiring that many NiMH batteries in series, and the mAH rating on the batteries.
You'll find things are a lot closer than the Wikipedia numbers would indicate.
The Pinto was no more dangerous than other cars of the era. Frankly, I'd prefer my gas tank be in the very back of the car, where an explosion wouldn't harm the occupants in the front-half...
Ford's sin is giving competing car companies an issue that looked scary on camera, that they could hype beyond belief.
"we are not yet sure if the battery is genuine IBM. The remaining bits of the label I dug out of the remains seem to indicate it may be."
No. The people who own the copyright on those files, are explicitly making them available for free download on P2P networks. That precludes them suing others for doing the same, since you have at least implicit permission from the copyright holder.
So several seconds of complete silence is a "creative element"?
That's the kind of problem I'm happy to have...
Kinda like the problem with solar powered cars is that the sun needs to be much closer...
Wheel friction is a huge waste of power. Yes, cars are currently designed to propel themselves via their wheels, but only because wheels were necessary at the time, and nothing much better has come along.
If you have a method to allow cars to float, you can change the propulsion method, and have MUCH more effecient cars all-around. See maglevs vs trains for a good example.
OpenBSD enables OpenSSH and (a heavily patched) Sendmail, by default, and has had: "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years!"
So, your claim is pure bullshit.
It seems the Govenor is doing some political posturing on this issue, knowing full-well it isn't possible to switch everything over in such a short ammount of time. So the Govenor is acting like a little kid, making a fuss, and the Democrats in question are being the adults, realizing 1 month isn't enough time to switch the whole election system over.
From the end of TFA: "The board feels it would be catastrophic to try to do that for another system between now and the general election,"
If he was just asking for them to be replaced AFTER the next election, that would be entirely different.
I'm utterly confused. What is the brand and model of this card? Why is it capturing NTSC (which absolutely maxes out at 720x480) at 800x600? And why is it capturing 29.97fps NTSC material, at 25fps?
AFAIK, there is no such thing as "uncompressed" MPEG-4. MPEG-4 is a compression format, so "uncompressed" makes no sense. Uncompressed video is RAW, and takes on the order of a hundred GBs per hour at these resolutions.
D1 is broadcast resolution 720x480.
MPEG-4 (AKA. Divx) is nowhere near 2GBs/hour, unless you're using seriously crappy software for the encoding. At very good quality, you're only talking 0.5GBs per hour. My old, crappy MPEG-2 capture card can do better than 2GBs/hour.
Yeah, MPEG-4 DVRs were EVERYWHERE in 1996... 3 years before the first Tivo.
Yes. The bank doesn't provide any way for the CUSTOMER to verify they are indeed talking to the bank. Meanwhile, the methods the bank uses to do business with their customers, makes it trivially easy for a 3rd party to masquerade as the bank.
Yes, that's acceptable, though you also have to take into account the difference in taxes between the two fuels.
No you can't compare them, any more than you can compare gallons of gasoline to gallons of red wine.