The xkcd blog had an entry about this a while back. it showed that in combination with a large mirror to reflect the beam several times, you get several orders of magnitude in efficiency improvement.
Summary: certain uses require certain tradeoffs. Ogg tries to balance many different uses, and mostly succeeds. The original rant often cherry-picked which container formats it would compare Ogg against in a given context. Even so, Ogg often ends up comparing favorably to that container under real world conditions. The other FOSS Swiss Army Knife of container formats, Matroska, often does things the same way or comes out with similar performance in the end.
Overseas bases are expensive and sometimes piss off the locals. If these missiles aren't some pie-in-the-sky thing like the SDI, and it's combined with reducing the number of worldwide bases, it could be a huge money saver with little change in effectiveness.
You can do it, you just have to be picky about the hardware. Only a handful of wireless-N cards on Linux can work as an AP, and a lot of them are a bit older and harder to find. Though your options open up a bit if you're willing to settle for ad-hoc mode.
Personally, I went with the WNR3500L. Despite the problems noted in the summary, DD-WRT has worked very well for me on it.
Most internet-connected systems have absolutely no need for a public address.
That's not because people wouldn't have a use for a public address. It's because every application that needs a public address either doesn't penetrate the home market, has some wicked hack, or just doesn't get built in the first place.
DOS didn't have a single library, like DirectX, which abstracted away the specifics of the sound hardware. Game developers had to program for each specific card. Creative Labs was the most popular, so smaller manufacturers always tried to be compatible with it. They claimed "100% Sound Blaster Compatibility", but some were more successful than others.
To this day, I still get nervous buying a non-Creative Labs sound card, even though the reason for it is long past.
In many busy areas, you would never be able to make a left if you couldn't do that maneuver. Without a left turn signal, there will never be an opening in traffic big enough to get through.
If you're worried about safety, then picture yourself in a sedan with a big truck in the left turn lane on the opposite side. You won't be able to look around the truck to see oncoming traffic in the closer lanes without pulling out at least a little.
I they don't, they will eat all the repair costs and liability, and you will usually survive the collision with nothing worse than a stiff neck.
And time lost in bureaucratic runaround. Lots and lots of runaround. Unless you're deliberately looking for a really big settlement, it ain't worth it. I once swerved to avoid a Pepsi truck that ran a stop sign--a potential accident that could have set me up for life without major injury (wasn't going that fast), and I'm still not sure it would have been worth it.
Most states have a provision for "can stop safely", so you're well within the law to avoid slamming on the breaks on a yellow.
CO2 isn't the direct effect here. You can get higher crop yields because the climate of the region has improved for certain crops.
Over time, plants will adapt to the higher CO2 levels, using strategies that were previously limited by available carbon. But that will take a very long time.
What other architecture are you talking about, BSD and Solaris? Both supported [nvidia.com] by NV but ATI only does Linux.
AMD has released full documentation for ATI cards. If other OSen want to have drivers, AMD has provided everything they need to do it.
Freedom for who, why should a company that spent 100's of millions of dollars in RD give away the keys to kingdom?
Because it increases their customer base. The products are graphics cards, not drivers. Both companies are just going to reverse engineer each other's products, anyway, so what's the documentation going to hurt any?
Both companies are pushing GPGPU, and that means there's a good reason to have high quality Linux drivers, preferably open source ones that can be tweaked specifically for the task. It's not just games anymore.
Thanks, I came in here looking for some idiot to post that overused phrase. Now I'm happy to find out that the only post to mention it so far was satire.
The next hottest down would be the closely-related Dorset Naga, which is around 900k - 1M scovilles.
But that's if you believe the Scoville scale, which is a subjective measurement of capsaicin content. I've had sauces that advertise a 250k rating that don't seem as hot as some 50k stuff. Makers seem to artifically inflate their ratings all the time, and how the heat hits you can change a lot, too. I've never had the oppertunity to try a Dorset Naga myself, but I've heard they don't have much heat until about 20 minutes later (at which time you might have already had quite a few, popping them like candy).
Yes, not the really high end ones. More like these. 1W Luxeons are advertised as 45 lm, whereas these are 10 and I can spread a bunch around the room. They take 0.02A * 3.4V = 0.068W each, or about a third of a watt for 5. Plus AC/DC conversion loss, of course.
I have a single enclosed fixture in the office. CFLs overheat in there very easily, but I'm loathe to put an incandescent in there. This is probably the most used light in the house, since I work at home. The only light I have right now is a 10W halogen reading lamp that covers my desk somewhat adequately.
An experiment I'm planning for my office space is to spread 5-10 ultrabright white LEDs around the room and bounce them off the walls. Even with conversion losses, it should take less than 1W and be quite bright. The main problem I'm seeing is line losses from using low voltage power from a single AC/DC converter. I could add two or three, but then there's more conversion losses and more plugs used up.
The newer electric ballasts are much, much better than the old magnetic style. IIRC, the magnetic ones ran at the frequency of your house current (60Hz in the US), while electrics go up around 50,000Hz.
The thing about lighting is that it only accounts for about 11% of home energy use. Over 50% comes from some form of heating or cooling (be it refrigerators or water heaters or central heating or whatever), and space heating alone accounts for 31%. The trick is that it's a big one-time expense to swap your water heater out, but switching to CFLs is relatively cheap, and you can spread the cost out over the year (e.g., buy a 5 pack once a month).
Of course, going to more efficient heating or cooling will get you further, but the cost/benefit ratio of CFLs is still pretty good.
Slashdot Mirror
"Why won't electric cars significantly reduce our carbon output?" -- "Because they're still recharged by coal power plants."
"Why won't replacing coal power plants significantly reduce our carbon output?" -- "Because cars are still powered by oil."
Focus on any one solution and of course you'll find that it's not the entirety of the problem. That's why you don't focus on only one solution.
The xkcd blog had an entry about this a while back. it showed that in combination with a large mirror to reflect the beam several times, you get several orders of magnitude in efficiency improvement.
Summary: certain uses require certain tradeoffs. Ogg tries to balance many different uses, and mostly succeeds. The original rant often cherry-picked which container formats it would compare Ogg against in a given context. Even so, Ogg often ends up comparing favorably to that container under real world conditions. The other FOSS Swiss Army Knife of container formats, Matroska, often does things the same way or comes out with similar performance in the end.
Overseas bases are expensive and sometimes piss off the locals. If these missiles aren't some pie-in-the-sky thing like the SDI, and it's combined with reducing the number of worldwide bases, it could be a huge money saver with little change in effectiveness.
That protocol exists as part of UPnP. It has security problems of its own, and it only serves to continue the hack that is NAT.
You can do it, you just have to be picky about the hardware. Only a handful of wireless-N cards on Linux can work as an AP, and a lot of them are a bit older and harder to find. Though your options open up a bit if you're willing to settle for ad-hoc mode.
Personally, I went with the WNR3500L. Despite the problems noted in the summary, DD-WRT has worked very well for me on it.
Most internet-connected systems have absolutely no need for a public address.
That's not because people wouldn't have a use for a public address. It's because every application that needs a public address either doesn't penetrate the home market, has some wicked hack, or just doesn't get built in the first place.
DOS didn't have a single library, like DirectX, which abstracted away the specifics of the sound hardware. Game developers had to program for each specific card. Creative Labs was the most popular, so smaller manufacturers always tried to be compatible with it. They claimed "100% Sound Blaster Compatibility", but some were more successful than others.
To this day, I still get nervous buying a non-Creative Labs sound card, even though the reason for it is long past.
That's not true. We're also really good at beer and fireworks.
When does English get to become inflected again like all the cool languages?
On the upside, getting a speeding ticket in NC is just doing your duty for education.
"I know I was doing 30 over, officer, and that my pipes are 20db over the limit, but I was doing it for the children.
In many busy areas, you would never be able to make a left if you couldn't do that maneuver. Without a left turn signal, there will never be an opening in traffic big enough to get through.
If you're worried about safety, then picture yourself in a sedan with a big truck in the left turn lane on the opposite side. You won't be able to look around the truck to see oncoming traffic in the closer lanes without pulling out at least a little.
I they don't, they will eat all the repair costs and liability, and you will usually survive the collision with nothing worse than a stiff neck.
And time lost in bureaucratic runaround. Lots and lots of runaround. Unless you're deliberately looking for a really big settlement, it ain't worth it. I once swerved to avoid a Pepsi truck that ran a stop sign--a potential accident that could have set me up for life without major injury (wasn't going that fast), and I'm still not sure it would have been worth it.
Most states have a provision for "can stop safely", so you're well within the law to avoid slamming on the breaks on a yellow.
She had a yield sign, the other car had a stop sign so the lady contested the ticket.
What simpleton city council member thought it was a good idea to make intersections like that in the first place?
"It is akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then instructing them on how to make mixed alcoholic drinks."
While we're at it, can we do that, too? I don't want anyone to leave the 9th grade without knowing how to mix a Fuzzy Navel.
Really? The Battle of Midway was won with nukes?
CO2 isn't the direct effect here. You can get higher crop yields because the climate of the region has improved for certain crops.
Over time, plants will adapt to the higher CO2 levels, using strategies that were previously limited by available carbon. But that will take a very long time.
What other architecture are you talking about, BSD and Solaris? Both supported [nvidia.com] by NV but ATI only does Linux.
AMD has released full documentation for ATI cards. If other OSen want to have drivers, AMD has provided everything they need to do it.
Freedom for who, why should a company that spent 100's of millions of dollars in RD give away the keys to kingdom?
Because it increases their customer base. The products are graphics cards, not drivers. Both companies are just going to reverse engineer each other's products, anyway, so what's the documentation going to hurt any?
Both companies are pushing GPGPU, and that means there's a good reason to have high quality Linux drivers, preferably open source ones that can be tweaked specifically for the task. It's not just games anymore.
Thanks, I came in here looking for some idiot to post that overused phrase. Now I'm happy to find out that the only post to mention it so far was satire.
The next hottest down would be the closely-related Dorset Naga, which is around 900k - 1M scovilles.
But that's if you believe the Scoville scale, which is a subjective measurement of capsaicin content. I've had sauces that advertise a 250k rating that don't seem as hot as some 50k stuff. Makers seem to artifically inflate their ratings all the time, and how the heat hits you can change a lot, too. I've never had the oppertunity to try a Dorset Naga myself, but I've heard they don't have much heat until about 20 minutes later (at which time you might have already had quite a few, popping them like candy).
Why should systems of government at large be applied to software projects?
Open Source is neither democratic or communist, because Open Source is not a government.
Yes, not the really high end ones. More like these. 1W Luxeons are advertised as 45 lm, whereas these are 10 and I can spread a bunch around the room. They take 0.02A * 3.4V = 0.068W each, or about a third of a watt for 5. Plus AC/DC conversion loss, of course.
I have a single enclosed fixture in the office. CFLs overheat in there very easily, but I'm loathe to put an incandescent in there. This is probably the most used light in the house, since I work at home. The only light I have right now is a 10W halogen reading lamp that covers my desk somewhat adequately.
An experiment I'm planning for my office space is to spread 5-10 ultrabright white LEDs around the room and bounce them off the walls. Even with conversion losses, it should take less than 1W and be quite bright. The main problem I'm seeing is line losses from using low voltage power from a single AC/DC converter. I could add two or three, but then there's more conversion losses and more plugs used up.
The newer electric ballasts are much, much better than the old magnetic style. IIRC, the magnetic ones ran at the frequency of your house current (60Hz in the US), while electrics go up around 50,000Hz.
The thing about lighting is that it only accounts for about 11% of home energy use. Over 50% comes from some form of heating or cooling (be it refrigerators or water heaters or central heating or whatever), and space heating alone accounts for 31%. The trick is that it's a big one-time expense to swap your water heater out, but switching to CFLs is relatively cheap, and you can spread the cost out over the year (e.g., buy a 5 pack once a month).
Of course, going to more efficient heating or cooling will get you further, but the cost/benefit ratio of CFLs is still pretty good.