Because of efficiency losses, using such devices will necessarily increase total energy usage;
The more energy you're pushing through the transmission lines at once, the higher the line-losses, so that works in your favor.
so in the limit case they increase overall prices and eliminate price fluctuations.
Electricity would be cheaper if plants could be kept running at a constant level all day and night. When you have to build a couple power-plants that only need to be operated during peak demand, that's wastes a lot of money.
I'd expect the energy companies themselves to build storage systems and use them to store energy when demand was low and deliver it when it was high.
It's entirely possible that this is something which will only work in a distributed fashion, and can't be centralized very well. Again, line-losses may be a factor.
or naming anything that fuel-efficient cars DO need to become widely accepted by the public.
That's because it's already obvious to deaf, blind, dumb chimps EXACTLY what fuel-effecient cars need.
They need to be normal-sized cars, able to seat 4.5 people, trunk-space, powerful enough (or rather, geared well) to accelerate to 75MPH in a reasonably short ammount of time (interstate merging). Other details like not being a deathtrap in an accident. Not being incredibly complex and expensive to buy and maintain. Not being in-danger of being flipped over by a gust of wind while you're driving. etc.
All of those formats are less demanding than a DVD (except for DVD, of course.)
No, the data "format" uses almost no power at all. It just checks for a menu (SVCD/DVD) and subtitle info in the right place. 99% of the "demand" is playing back the audio/video.
Last I looked, they hadn't decided on a codec for blu-ray and they had decided on one for HD-DVD, and there was only one.
The last time you looked must have been YEARS ago.
Am I heading for disaster, or am I anatomically resistant to the problem?
First off, it's not going to sneak-up on you, and make you pay for all the time when you didn't have it, so don't worry about that. When you start feeling slight pains, then you should worry.
My own personal theory is that RSI is most influenced by, and has an inverse relationship to muscle mass/strength. This based on my own experience and observations, and certainly explains why women are much more likely to be affected than men.
HD-DVDs are just a minor upgrade to DVDs, so it's not a stretch to have Blu-ray drives reading them.
the data layout is different,
That means absolutely nothing. It's quite easy to handle various layouts. DVD players handle VCDs, SVCDs, JPEG/MP3/WMA CDs, and DVDs, with no problems. I've never yet seen a disc misdetected.
the codec is different...
Completely wrong. They both mandate EXACTLY the same video codecs, and of the same audio codecs as well (audio codecs are trivial next to the complex video codecs anyhow).
EVERYTHING is different.
"Everything" meaning "Almost Nothing".
Don't let ignorance stop you from spouting off, though.
Electricity doesn't have the insane levels of taxes gasolene and diesel do (this is the primary reason it costs a fortune to fill up at the pump.)
What complete bullshit. Last I heard, state and federal taxes on gasoline ammount to 50 cents, not terribly significant next to the $3.00/gallon price right now.
Toyota cars are known for their reliability (the main German automobile organization have found toyota to be the top reliable car for years in a row already), so expect them to overcome this 20.000 km barrier many, many times over.
I can only guess that has something to do with bribery...
I've had friends and family members that have owned several Toyotas, and they've all had more problems than any of the GM cars I've owned (I had one Ford that was worse). The newest of the bunch, a 2002 Camry, had repeated mechanical problems with the driver's side window, which wouldn't allow it to close, and had to be fixed, 3 times, under warranty. This same car also had to have the timing belt replaced while still under warranty.
Besides these problems, I've also looked through Consumer Reports for cars that I've owned or driven, only to see Toyotas being given great ratings on steering, noise, etc., while very closely-matched GM/Ford cars get absolutely TERRIBLE ratings in those same areas.
I can't believe Toyota is just so extremely lucky, when this happens repeatedly. The only thing I can come up with, is that Toyota is making a business out of trading money for good reviews of their vehicles.
This also makes a lot more sense of certain comments the CEO (IIRC) made about not wanting to be too successful. That kind of statement doesn't make sense if they're being successful on the up-and-up. It only makes sense if you consider they might be doing some illegal things to get that success.
Of course, this is purely educated speculation, and I'd certainly like to hear other explanations.
You got repeatedly modded up for supporting RWD, with absolutely no reasons as to WHY it could possibly be better than FWD, other than "fun". That's definately not what fuel-effecient vehicles need for wide public acceptance right now.
with some hybrids you end up with something that runs in a similar way to a diesel-electric locomotive - runs the fuel driven motor at optimum rpms and lets the electric motor handle the rapid changes of speed.
Well, that makes no sense at all... Locomotives don't have massive battery banks that can be used as accumulators (unlike hybrids) so the generators can't possibly run at a constant RPM while the train is changing speeds.
In-fact, the reason locomotives are motor-driven instead of mechanically driven is that the transmission would have to be absolutely massive to convert the incredibly massive forces involved.
Just think, they're TRYING to do something that will get EVERYONE insanely pissed-off at the major internet service providers.
If this got through, it would just about GUARANTEE independant companies would spring up to provide internet access. Likely, mostly through cheap wireless links to an antenna on the nearest hillside.
That was about 10 years ago now. When computers were $1,000, you really never saw any companies trying to save $2 by ditching the socket. The computer in question certainly did have a socketed CPU, BTW (she didn't scare me off, just gave me a good laugh).
Best Buy employees would benefit from the same advice as you-- just admit you don't know something, and nobody gets misinformed.
Actually, I think you would benefit from following that advice yourself...
This was years ago, when the cheap systems were $1,000, and nobody would be stupid enough to save a couple bucks by crippling their hardware that seriously.
I did end up buying the computer in-question, and it was most certainly a socketed CPU.
No, I wasn't saying he was wrong, at all. I was just adding a few more things to the list.
but you still don't get straight A's without putting in a fair amount of work.
Not in my experience, and I was an A/B student. I NEVER did any homework, just what I could get finished before the bell. I literally didn't show up for 1/5th of the school year. I didn't ever study for tests, and still got ~90%.
This was about a decade ago, mind you, and I sure as hell hope things have improved, but it would take a lot to convince me of that.
My experience with Best Buy is much better. I had a sales lady telling me that the cheaper computers couldn't be upgraded, because the CPUs were SOLDERED to the motherboard. No joke.
I told the Best Buy tech guys up-front that little story, and they laughed their asses off.
It's sometimes funny just how fragmented and demented a single company can be.
I don't like to be assaulted when I walk in the door. However, when I have a question, I very much like being able to find somebody nearby that isn't hiding (unlike Best Buy), who knows something about the product, other than what it says on the back of the package (unlike Best Buy), and where the products they stock are all decent, not just the cheapest thing that fell off the boat. Having reasonably short lines for checkout and returns would be quite nice as well. And maybe not forcing me to return everything as "I didn't like it, you bastard" rather than telling them it's completely defective junk, and get pushed off on somebody else for an hour while they test it.
I really just don't go there anymore. They aren't as bad as Walmart, but they aren't a big step-up either.
This video, and just quicktime is general, is pure H.264 video, with AAC audio, in an MP4 container. 100% standards compliant. Any decent video player should handle it.
It's actually quite nice that one of the 3 big commercial multimedia programs uses 100% non-propritary codecs.
Real has always been propritary, and even though they opened up their player, they've kept the codecs locked-up under strict click-through EULAs.
WMV3 (aka WMV9/VC-1) is going to be an SMTPE standard now, but that doesn't make the asf (aka wmv/wma) file format open, nor the audio codecs.
2 or 3 monopolies in an area, providing the same service, does not make for competition. It just makes for an oligopoly.
They will still each keep their prices exceptionally high, knowing that they will still have customers because of their unique positions which can't always be provided by the competition.
My cable company had a $30 512k internet service about 3 years ago, when DSL was only partly available around here, and was $50 even then. Now that DSL is cheaper, and much faster than they, instead of lowering prices, they eliminated that service, and switch to only having a $60/month plan. That lets them extort the maximum ammount of money from people that perhaps can't get DSL, and don't want to be stuck on dial-up. It's also right at the price where satellite can't compete, if cable is available.
That's nothing exceptional. That's standard operating procedure. You can expect the same to happen with telephone, TV, and other services the big monopolies provide. They wouldn't even know how to complete legitimately.
But what I find really exciting about this idea is that once the GPU is in the motherboard, I'm sure programmers would find an easy way to use all that logic to do calculations - say, media encoding.
Now I'm confused. This sounds about like someone saying: "Now that they've got hybrid technology in cars, they should put it in trucks. Then we can take the trucks and make them smaller by removing the truck bed, and put more seats in. Maybe even put a car body on it..."
What do you think this FPGA is for, exactly??? It's designed to do exactly those kinds of calculations you want to do with a repurposed GPU... Except, of course, you're raising the difficulty level significantly by doing that.
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The more energy you're pushing through the transmission lines at once, the higher the line-losses, so that works in your favor.
Electricity would be cheaper if plants could be kept running at a constant level all day and night. When you have to build a couple power-plants that only need to be operated during peak demand, that's wastes a lot of money.
It's entirely possible that this is something which will only work in a distributed fashion, and can't be centralized very well. Again, line-losses may be a factor.
That's because it's already obvious to deaf, blind, dumb chimps EXACTLY what fuel-effecient cars need.
They need to be normal-sized cars, able to seat 4.5 people, trunk-space, powerful enough (or rather, geared well) to accelerate to 75MPH in a reasonably short ammount of time (interstate merging). Other details like not being a deathtrap in an accident. Not being incredibly complex and expensive to buy and maintain. Not being in-danger of being flipped over by a gust of wind while you're driving. etc.
No, the data "format" uses almost no power at all. It just checks for a menu (SVCD/DVD) and subtitle info in the right place. 99% of the "demand" is playing back the audio/video.
The last time you looked must have been YEARS ago.
First off, it's not going to sneak-up on you, and make you pay for all the time when you didn't have it, so don't worry about that. When you start feeling slight pains, then you should worry.
My own personal theory is that RSI is most influenced by, and has an inverse relationship to muscle mass/strength. This based on my own experience and observations, and certainly explains why women are much more likely to be affected than men.
Unfortunately, you are the ONLY ONE who thinks the GAMES section looks okay... And the IT section for that matter.
That's a facility that is already (rightly) handled by your web browser. The website in-question need-not add such features.
You deserve to be modded down to -1 for the goat.cx link in your sig.
HD-DVDs are just a minor upgrade to DVDs, so it's not a stretch to have Blu-ray drives reading them.
That means absolutely nothing. It's quite easy to handle various layouts. DVD players handle VCDs, SVCDs, JPEG/MP3/WMA CDs, and DVDs, with no problems. I've never yet seen a disc misdetected.
Completely wrong. They both mandate EXACTLY the same video codecs, and of the same audio codecs as well (audio codecs are trivial next to the complex video codecs anyhow).
"Everything" meaning "Almost Nothing".
Don't let ignorance stop you from spouting off, though.
This is /. I get far worse responses on a daily basis...
NO IT DOESN'T DO THAT AT ALL... QUITE THE OPPOSITE IN FACT. AND CLEARLY THOSE MODS THAT GAVE YOU POINTS DIDN'T RTFA.
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What complete bullshit. Last I heard, state and federal taxes on gasoline ammount to 50 cents, not terribly significant next to the $3.00/gallon price right now.
I can only guess that has something to do with bribery...
I've had friends and family members that have owned several Toyotas, and they've all had more problems than any of the GM cars I've owned (I had one Ford that was worse). The newest of the bunch, a 2002 Camry, had repeated mechanical problems with the driver's side window, which wouldn't allow it to close, and had to be fixed, 3 times, under warranty. This same car also had to have the timing belt replaced while still under warranty.
Besides these problems, I've also looked through Consumer Reports for cars that I've owned or driven, only to see Toyotas being given great ratings on steering, noise, etc., while very closely-matched GM/Ford cars get absolutely TERRIBLE ratings in those same areas.
I can't believe Toyota is just so extremely lucky, when this happens repeatedly. The only thing I can come up with, is that Toyota is making a business out of trading money for good reviews of their vehicles.
This also makes a lot more sense of certain comments the CEO (IIRC) made about not wanting to be too successful. That kind of statement doesn't make sense if they're being successful on the up-and-up. It only makes sense if you consider they might be doing some illegal things to get that success.
Of course, this is purely educated speculation, and I'd certainly like to hear other explanations.
You got repeatedly modded up for supporting RWD, with absolutely no reasons as to WHY it could possibly be better than FWD, other than "fun". That's definately not what fuel-effecient vehicles need for wide public acceptance right now.
Well, that makes no sense at all... Locomotives don't have massive battery banks that can be used as accumulators (unlike hybrids) so the generators can't possibly run at a constant RPM while the train is changing speeds.
In-fact, the reason locomotives are motor-driven instead of mechanically driven is that the transmission would have to be absolutely massive to convert the incredibly massive forces involved.
Just think, they're TRYING to do something that will get EVERYONE insanely pissed-off at the major internet service providers.
If this got through, it would just about GUARANTEE independant companies would spring up to provide internet access. Likely, mostly through cheap wireless links to an antenna on the nearest hillside.
It's a shame guerrilla.net is offline now.
That was about 10 years ago now. When computers were $1,000, you really never saw any companies trying to save $2 by ditching the socket. The computer in question certainly did have a socketed CPU, BTW (she didn't scare me off, just gave me a good laugh).
And BTW, your URL is 404.
Those are all hurdles, making it harder, not impossible, and you're an idiot to act like anyone said so. Sufficent motivation can overcome them.
Actually, I think you would benefit from following that advice yourself...
This was years ago, when the cheap systems were $1,000, and nobody would be stupid enough to save a couple bucks by crippling their hardware that seriously.
I did end up buying the computer in-question, and it was most certainly a socketed CPU.
Not in my experience, and I was an A/B student. I NEVER did any homework, just what I could get finished before the bell. I literally didn't show up for 1/5th of the school year. I didn't ever study for tests, and still got ~90%.
This was about a decade ago, mind you, and I sure as hell hope things have improved, but it would take a lot to convince me of that.
My experience with Best Buy is much better. I had a sales lady telling me that the cheaper computers couldn't be upgraded, because the CPUs were SOLDERED to the motherboard. No joke.
I told the Best Buy tech guys up-front that little story, and they laughed their asses off.
It's sometimes funny just how fragmented and demented a single company can be.
I don't like to be assaulted when I walk in the door. However, when I have a question, I very much like being able to find somebody nearby that isn't hiding (unlike Best Buy), who knows something about the product, other than what it says on the back of the package (unlike Best Buy), and where the products they stock are all decent, not just the cheapest thing that fell off the boat. Having reasonably short lines for checkout and returns would be quite nice as well. And maybe not forcing me to return everything as "I didn't like it, you bastard" rather than telling them it's completely defective junk, and get pushed off on somebody else for an hour while they test it.
I really just don't go there anymore. They aren't as bad as Walmart, but they aren't a big step-up either.
How about:
4. Grade inflation, and a public-school system that rewards attendance (and effort) far, far more than actual knowledge and learning.
5. Touchy-feely political correctness which demands the elimination of all sense of competition of any kind.
6. Dumbing-down (and enlarging) classes, and brainless teachers who memorize their course, but hardly know anything else about the subject they teach.
This video, and just quicktime is general, is pure H.264 video, with AAC audio, in an MP4 container. 100% standards compliant. Any decent video player should handle it.
It's actually quite nice that one of the 3 big commercial multimedia programs uses 100% non-propritary codecs.
Real has always been propritary, and even though they opened up their player, they've kept the codecs locked-up under strict click-through EULAs.
WMV3 (aka WMV9/VC-1) is going to be an SMTPE standard now, but that doesn't make the asf (aka wmv/wma) file format open, nor the audio codecs.
2 or 3 monopolies in an area, providing the same service, does not make for competition. It just makes for an oligopoly.
They will still each keep their prices exceptionally high, knowing that they will still have customers because of their unique positions which can't always be provided by the competition.
My cable company had a $30 512k internet service about 3 years ago, when DSL was only partly available around here, and was $50 even then. Now that DSL is cheaper, and much faster than they, instead of lowering prices, they eliminated that service, and switch to only having a $60/month plan. That lets them extort the maximum ammount of money from people that perhaps can't get DSL, and don't want to be stuck on dial-up. It's also right at the price where satellite can't compete, if cable is available.
That's nothing exceptional. That's standard operating procedure. You can expect the same to happen with telephone, TV, and other services the big monopolies provide. They wouldn't even know how to complete legitimately.
Now I'm confused. This sounds about like someone saying: "Now that they've got hybrid technology in cars, they should put it in trucks. Then we can take the trucks and make them smaller by removing the truck bed, and put more seats in. Maybe even put a car body on it..."
What do you think this FPGA is for, exactly??? It's designed to do exactly those kinds of calculations you want to do with a repurposed GPU... Except, of course, you're raising the difficulty level significantly by doing that.