The entire Montreal subway system is designed this way. On top of providing some measure of breaking power, it also helps with water flooding by draining it all towards specific locations that can then be connected to the rest of the city's water system.
I've done some digging and it'd appear that the figure is actually correct. This thread about the NYC subway system seems to say that the trains actually draw at maximum 10,000 amps, or 6 MW at 600 V. The 3-4MW figure would then be a good estimate.
I'm going to guess that feeding the energy in flywheels causes less power loss than going back and forth the lines, though it may very well be that they just want to keep the city dependent on their flywheels to use the regenerative breaking system they'd implement.
It's a fine computer, just fairly barebones. I got it with XP, but Linux is more suitable overall, Flash issues or not. XP would struggle to boot and Firefox took ages to start up (this was before Chrome started picking up extensions and other such desirable features, it'd probably be a better fit nowadays). Both LibreOffice and plain old MS Office (2007) also took ages to load.
My hacked-together #! Linux with X turned off works just fine as a FTP/BitTorrent box though.
Selling games and peripherals on which you turn a profit is not what I'd call inflating. It's just business sense. The music game fad is dying out, but there was still mad profit made in there. Is that inflation or just taking advantage of a popular product?
Also, the PS3 is actually 250 now, not 400, and Microsoft's sales disregard RRODs because they were all covered by the extended warranty. In fact, the RROD affair hindered Microsoft by giving them huge losses for replacing faulty hardware, it didn't boost their sales numbers or install base.
Wait, what? At least Sony's hard drives are user-replaceable out of the box, whereas Microsoft's are housed in special cases and arguably much more expensive. Sony also includes a wireless adapter within the console that Microsoft charges you 100 bucks for as a dongle.
Also, Sony might've made the headlines for removing Other OS functionality, but comparing that to other consoles is disingenuous considering they all never offered the option at all. Sony's console might still be the most open of the lot, all things considered (not saying they're a shining beacon of openness, but they're sure better than the other two).
As for your last point, it is well known that Nintendo broke the partnership, not Sony. They couldn't agree on profit distribution and just dropped Sony for Philips instead. Sony did the only logical thing and used all the effort they'd put in the partnership into a console of their own. If there had been any doubts about intellectual property or patents within this joint R&D, you can be sure Nintendo would've sued Sony and the legal battle would've made the headlines.
Actually, 343 has done nothing so far. They're a dev that formed up when Microsoft lost Bungie to keep milking out Halo, but they've yet to release a game and have only announced Halo Anniversary, a 360 upgrade of Halo CE.
Lionhead and Turn 10 are the sole good first party developers (and even that is open to interpretation, with Lionhead mostly looking like they're not sure what they want to do) that Microsoft has specifically because they've been shutting down all the others. ACES, Digital Anvil, Ensemble and FASA were all first party devs that got shut down for no apparent reason despite all making exceptional releases.
Microsoft tends more to publish third party games like they've done with Epic and Bungie.
My experience dates back to second-generation Atoms (I had a first-generation 10" EEE PC) and I'll say they were barely functional. It's certainly able to do most common tasks, just bog slow with it.
Bear in mind your D410 is a dual-core CPU, whereas I'm fairly certain a $199 EEE PC won't be (looking at Amazon, even $250 doesn't net you that). They did get multithreading in with say the N455, though, which is a step forward I guess.
My entire point was just to say that even the best Atom gets blown away by the Athlon in the setup presented here.
Yeah, but to be fair, a netbook can't really compare. An Atom's cool for low-power uses, but it's such a slow, dated design you can barely run a functioning computer off it. Even the integrated 6100 GPU on this build is better than Intel's crappy offering on there.
You have to compromise somewhere considering you get a screen, wireless, keyboard and trackpad/mouse (none of which are otherwise covered in this buildup) for that price.
So? Does your computer suffer from that? Do other programs crash or run out of memory?
Free RAM is useless, Firefox is just addressing it and leaving it addressed for future uses. If the computer needs more RAM for other applications, it just releases it THEN, instead of leaving RAM unused.
And yet people praised Deus Ex's stealth (and still do, in fact), in which guards are even dumber, even more myopic and horrible shots if they do discover you.
Looking for the aether (and failing to do so with the Michelson-Morley experiment) is a hallmark of science and ended up with the acceptance of the theory of relativity.
Just not finding the Higgs boson where we expect it to be could already lead to many discoveries or changes. This is not useless science, it WILL have impacts one way or another. There is also a relatively high probability that a definitive result will arise, either by finding it or concluding it does not exist (always within reasonable doubt).
Unlike religion, science isn't about absolutes; never has there been "proof" in science, merely elements leading to believe one theory is more true than the other... Until contradictory evidence appears to shatter it or force us to improve it.
No need. Unless you're focused on a text field (or the page is JS-encumbered and intercepts key inputs), just start typing and you'll get directly in the search box.
Ctrl+Alt+V - Select "Unicode text" (at least in Word). Otherwise, you can also change the default behavior to paste just the text, not the formatting, and use the drop-down if you want to keep formatting instead.
Preferences/Options panes are mighty powerful things!
Doesn't that work on GMail? I never really used the Undo feature on there, but I'd presume that they'd bind it to Ctrl+Z if the browser doesn't disallow that.
I won't disagree on the version inflation, but I've no idea how you manage to pull off the rest.
At this point, I only need to type "a" to get Wolfram|Alpha as my first link, which is exactly what I want it to do. The bar works perfectly well for all other links I might need. Likewise, I've never had trouble with restoring and FF only very rarely crashes, 99% of the time because of Flash.
I had a teacher that was reviled by just about the entire campus such was her utter lack of competence. I had initially thought it would be possible to go through her exams by bullshitting, but then I stumbled on something that made me understand some of it.
I had an appointment with her for reasons I do not recall and she was grading exams still. As I waited, she started discussing with another teacher, careless about me and many other students listening in. After the discussion ended, she decided to raise some grades by nearly 10%! Thing is, she did not back up to recalculate exams she had already evaluated, she just changed the grades of a few students and moved on...
Considering her evaluation was based off a handful of vague keywords with grades written besides them (little to no useful margin notes or anything of the sort), you'd think she just rolled some dice and picked the grades from there.
And that's notwithstanding errors made by teachers that, if you don't press, can hurt a lot. I won as much as 20% on an exam due to faulty evaluation from careless teachers.
What's wrong is that the US is scared shitless and nuclear isn't "cool" anymore. Laws blockade breeders from working efficiently, government would rather help their friends in the coal industry get another premium, and eco-nuts are doing their best to discredit any and all source of power, with nuclear getting a spectacular amount of flak for some reason.
The data has already been confirmed by experts in the field that used the full scientific method, including having a prior hypothesis and then making experiments to attempt to confirm or deny it.
Unfortunately, most climate skeptics tend to hold the dogma that there is no climate change. This is not compatible with the scientific method.
What better reason to stay indoors with the windows shut and covered while participating in minimal social interaction? To make noise at any hour of day or night? To speak of military weaponry and tactics?
I was quite stupefied when my elementary school's director told my mom (and I was there!) that I could've basically not come to school for the entire year without really missing anything for the final exams. It saddens me to think how many children we waste in this race to the bottom.
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The entire Montreal subway system is designed this way. On top of providing some measure of breaking power, it also helps with water flooding by draining it all towards specific locations that can then be connected to the rest of the city's water system.
I've done some digging and it'd appear that the figure is actually correct. This thread about the NYC subway system seems to say that the trains actually draw at maximum 10,000 amps, or 6 MW at 600 V. The 3-4MW figure would then be a good estimate.
I'm going to guess that feeding the energy in flywheels causes less power loss than going back and forth the lines, though it may very well be that they just want to keep the city dependent on their flywheels to use the regenerative breaking system they'd implement.
I actually am using my old EEE as a home server ;)
It's a fine computer, just fairly barebones. I got it with XP, but Linux is more suitable overall, Flash issues or not. XP would struggle to boot and Firefox took ages to start up (this was before Chrome started picking up extensions and other such desirable features, it'd probably be a better fit nowadays). Both LibreOffice and plain old MS Office (2007) also took ages to load.
My hacked-together #! Linux with X turned off works just fine as a FTP/BitTorrent box though.
Selling games and peripherals on which you turn a profit is not what I'd call inflating. It's just business sense. The music game fad is dying out, but there was still mad profit made in there. Is that inflation or just taking advantage of a popular product?
Also, the PS3 is actually 250 now, not 400, and Microsoft's sales disregard RRODs because they were all covered by the extended warranty. In fact, the RROD affair hindered Microsoft by giving them huge losses for replacing faulty hardware, it didn't boost their sales numbers or install base.
Wait, what? At least Sony's hard drives are user-replaceable out of the box, whereas Microsoft's are housed in special cases and arguably much more expensive. Sony also includes a wireless adapter within the console that Microsoft charges you 100 bucks for as a dongle.
Also, Sony might've made the headlines for removing Other OS functionality, but comparing that to other consoles is disingenuous considering they all never offered the option at all. Sony's console might still be the most open of the lot, all things considered (not saying they're a shining beacon of openness, but they're sure better than the other two).
As for your last point, it is well known that Nintendo broke the partnership, not Sony. They couldn't agree on profit distribution and just dropped Sony for Philips instead. Sony did the only logical thing and used all the effort they'd put in the partnership into a console of their own. If there had been any doubts about intellectual property or patents within this joint R&D, you can be sure Nintendo would've sued Sony and the legal battle would've made the headlines.
But nice try anyways.
Actually, 343 has done nothing so far. They're a dev that formed up when Microsoft lost Bungie to keep milking out Halo, but they've yet to release a game and have only announced Halo Anniversary, a 360 upgrade of Halo CE.
Lionhead and Turn 10 are the sole good first party developers (and even that is open to interpretation, with Lionhead mostly looking like they're not sure what they want to do) that Microsoft has specifically because they've been shutting down all the others. ACES, Digital Anvil, Ensemble and FASA were all first party devs that got shut down for no apparent reason despite all making exceptional releases.
Microsoft tends more to publish third party games like they've done with Epic and Bungie.
Since spam appears to have value to those guys, just pay them in spam emails.
My experience dates back to second-generation Atoms (I had a first-generation 10" EEE PC) and I'll say they were barely functional. It's certainly able to do most common tasks, just bog slow with it.
Bear in mind your D410 is a dual-core CPU, whereas I'm fairly certain a $199 EEE PC won't be (looking at Amazon, even $250 doesn't net you that). They did get multithreading in with say the N455, though, which is a step forward I guess.
My entire point was just to say that even the best Atom gets blown away by the Athlon in the setup presented here.
Yeah, but to be fair, a netbook can't really compare. An Atom's cool for low-power uses, but it's such a slow, dated design you can barely run a functioning computer off it. Even the integrated 6100 GPU on this build is better than Intel's crappy offering on there.
You have to compromise somewhere considering you get a screen, wireless, keyboard and trackpad/mouse (none of which are otherwise covered in this buildup) for that price.
So? Does your computer suffer from that? Do other programs crash or run out of memory?
Free RAM is useless, Firefox is just addressing it and leaving it addressed for future uses. If the computer needs more RAM for other applications, it just releases it THEN, instead of leaving RAM unused.
It only comes in turtleneck versions.
I wanted to do that so I could remote to my home PC from university... The firewall there blocks all ports except 3389 and a few others like 21 or 80.
Security impeding security, wee!
And yet people praised Deus Ex's stealth (and still do, in fact), in which guards are even dumber, even more myopic and horrible shots if they do discover you.
Looking for the aether (and failing to do so with the Michelson-Morley experiment) is a hallmark of science and ended up with the acceptance of the theory of relativity.
Just not finding the Higgs boson where we expect it to be could already lead to many discoveries or changes. This is not useless science, it WILL have impacts one way or another. There is also a relatively high probability that a definitive result will arise, either by finding it or concluding it does not exist (always within reasonable doubt).
Unlike religion, science isn't about absolutes; never has there been "proof" in science, merely elements leading to believe one theory is more true than the other... Until contradictory evidence appears to shatter it or force us to improve it.
No need. Unless you're focused on a text field (or the page is JS-encumbered and intercepts key inputs), just start typing and you'll get directly in the search box.
Ctrl+Alt+V - Select "Unicode text" (at least in Word). Otherwise, you can also change the default behavior to paste just the text, not the formatting, and use the drop-down if you want to keep formatting instead.
Preferences/Options panes are mighty powerful things!
Doesn't that work on GMail? I never really used the Undo feature on there, but I'd presume that they'd bind it to Ctrl+Z if the browser doesn't disallow that.
You mean "unlike the Kindle", right? My ereader has a single owner, and that is me.
Out of curiosity, I've tried rearranging the interface mostly as it was in 3.6.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/597/ff5.png
It is visually different, but that's what themes are for. You have no reason to stick to an old browser like 3.6.
I won't disagree on the version inflation, but I've no idea how you manage to pull off the rest.
At this point, I only need to type "a" to get Wolfram|Alpha as my first link, which is exactly what I want it to do. The bar works perfectly well for all other links I might need. Likewise, I've never had trouble with restoring and FF only very rarely crashes, 99% of the time because of Flash.
I had a teacher that was reviled by just about the entire campus such was her utter lack of competence. I had initially thought it would be possible to go through her exams by bullshitting, but then I stumbled on something that made me understand some of it.
I had an appointment with her for reasons I do not recall and she was grading exams still. As I waited, she started discussing with another teacher, careless about me and many other students listening in. After the discussion ended, she decided to raise some grades by nearly 10%! Thing is, she did not back up to recalculate exams she had already evaluated, she just changed the grades of a few students and moved on...
Considering her evaluation was based off a handful of vague keywords with grades written besides them (little to no useful margin notes or anything of the sort), you'd think she just rolled some dice and picked the grades from there.
And that's notwithstanding errors made by teachers that, if you don't press, can hurt a lot. I won as much as 20% on an exam due to faulty evaluation from careless teachers.
What's wrong is that the US is scared shitless and nuclear isn't "cool" anymore. Laws blockade breeders from working efficiently, government would rather help their friends in the coal industry get another premium, and eco-nuts are doing their best to discredit any and all source of power, with nuclear getting a spectacular amount of flak for some reason.
The data has already been confirmed by experts in the field that used the full scientific method, including having a prior hypothesis and then making experiments to attempt to confirm or deny it.
Unfortunately, most climate skeptics tend to hold the dogma that there is no climate change. This is not compatible with the scientific method.
What better reason to stay indoors with the windows shut and covered while participating in minimal social interaction? To make noise at any hour of day or night? To speak of military weaponry and tactics?
I was quite stupefied when my elementary school's director told my mom (and I was there!) that I could've basically not come to school for the entire year without really missing anything for the final exams. It saddens me to think how many children we waste in this race to the bottom.