You'll note the race started in Dallas (wish this was publicized more, I would have attended) - the Amtrak "Texas Eagle" is a full 2 day trip, plus some from Dallas to Chicago. These guys not only went past chicago, they went into another country. That's not bad, even if their little solar moped doesn't have a bathroom of full service cafe.
Probably just that people order one or two at a time, and the certificates sit on a shelf somewhere prepackaged in the boxes. Add to that the shipping guy isn't going to go out of his way to open the customer's package to save the company $5 in shipping, and potentially lose his job because THESE entitlement certificates didn't come packaged like all the others, and obviously must have been tampered with. Just easier to look the other way and package them all in a large box. It probably happens so infrequently that there's not a procedure to resolve the issue, or managers and efficiency experts have much bigger fish to fry.
experts believe that there is abundant amounts of 'dark fibre' lying unused in oceans across the world
Excuse me, but if they don't know and are guessing, what part of that makes them an expert? I guess techincally they could be paid for their opinion, but a more proper term here would be "soothsayer" or "mystic". There are people who know these things; I think the author was just too lazy to write a real article. Fluff piece? Yes.
That's what I'm curious about. Having 2 cores is enough for most consumers, one for the OS and background tasks and one for the application you're using. And that's overkill for most users.
I typically run firefox, bit torrent, and then folding@home + World community grid at the same time. I close none of these to play TF2 and see no difference in FPS with the CPU hogging programs on or off. My friend was debating between a quad core AMD or a dual core intel and finally bought the dual core after realizing OS technology and the software that runs on it hasn't progressed enough to even take advantage of two cores, let alone four or more. I think there are some particle effects that are done in TF2 now with dual core optimization, but for the most part dual cores is enough for even heavy users.
Haha yeah well you can excuse poor grammar, some people grasp it and others just don't get it, but apostrophe use you learn in 2nd grade and are marked down for improper use all the way through college, and mocked by managers and coworkers after that. If you haven't mastered use of the apostrophe by 5th grade, you deserve to be openly mocked:P
I think this was the case in my elementary school in Washington State as well (white on green).
I think the red sign has more to do with the pairing of certian phosphors and tritium gas (slightly radioactive, causes phosphors to...well, phosphoresce) than Green=go, red=stop. We want to breed out the folks who unconsiously stop fleeing a burning building due to the wrong color exit signs anyways. Burning builder stoppers; breathin' up all our air >:(
I think it has more to do with the fact that the general color palette is reddish orange, and one team wears reddish orange, while the other wears blueish black. This is a pretty good study on how well camouflage actually works. They do make it a little easier to see the snipahs than in real life (TF2 snipahs wear a black vest and black pants) vs. real life snipers who are usually wearing a blanket covered in shrubbery. But overall it looks like camouflage grants you a 5% increase in Win.
I guess the rate of advance has actually slowed a bit and 5 year old cards are not so terribly different from more recent cards
This is where I post This post and get modded +5 interesting yet again. People keep forgetting relatively new games like Team Fortress 2 will run on five year old hardware (With the settings turned down a bit) running on Windows ME. A $600 "gaming rig" will play any game out there at 1280x1024 at 30fps with all the settings set to high. Why so cheap? Because not a whole lot has changed since the bleeding edge technology of 2003. We've gotten PCI-e and SATA cables.... that's about it. Innovate or slash prices.
Does anyone remember when TI released a calculator with a red LED display? Back in 1979 or so? Cost what, $2000? When $2,000 was real money. My dad used to make the comparison, that calculators used to cost half of what a car cost, "now they give them away at gas stations with a full tank of gas". Interesting to see a internet laptop being given away with the opening of a new bank account. Now if they can just resolve the northbridge energy consumption problem, with an SSD, and a solar panel on the lid, you might not be able to ever top off the battery, but certianly go a week between charges with on and off use 1-2 hours a day. Amazing that we're getting to the point of 'free' computers.
Educational market? Markup is 30-50% for commodities, closer to 70% for electronics. I doubt this cost them $180 to make/market back in 2004 or so when this was last week's cutting edge tech. Price is probably still $125 due to low avalibility of Palm OS parts, whereas the atom sells in the 10s of thousands.
For most of the tasks people do on computers, we have had CPU enough for the last 15 years or more.
We're using core2 duos at my work to run Office 97 and a foxpro database app that's been warmed over once since 1996. I use the remaining 99% of CPU power for F@H and World Community Grid clients.
Hell my desktop doesn't have an optical drive. I scavanged an old 16x CD-Rom to install XP, used IE to download firefox, firefox to download everything else, including all my games off of Steam. I'll admit i've plugged in the CDROM drive once since then, for a Wubi install of Ubuntu. The internet is my disk drive.
Me? Intel. Plain ole' vanilla intel Mobos. All my friends swear by Asus, have weird glitches, broken motherboards, and will swear up and down it's only happened this one time. I've seen more Asus boards broken out of the box than any other. My old (OLD) Sony Vaio had an intel motherboard, 200mhz and still running strong; current computer has one, and several inbetween have had them as well. Never, ever had one break or heard of anyone having one break. And they're as cheap if not cheaper than comparable Asus boards.
Good lord how old were you when Win95 came out? Win95 needed special drivers for everything be it a mouse wheel or sound card, Win95 still needed a form of DOS to boot from, there was NO USB SUPPORT in the initial Win95, keep in mind. Windows XP is a very, very mature OS that has a lot of things built into it that were simply hacked or patched onto the Win95 kernel. The XP Kernel has an almost entirely different (NT) code base. Yes they both have animated boot screens, but other than that they're generations apart in OS design. XP has a ton of UI tweaks, especially at the driver level that you don't really notice until you start working with W2K and XP boxes side by side. Microsoft may be a HUGE company, but it takes years to go back and tweak litterally every part of the OS from basic functionality to help menus and 3rd party driver installs. I'd say XP is what 95 became, after seven years of hard work.
I was thinking fifteen 10,000 watt microgenerators, each attached to one or two 1 farad capacitors. Maybe taking up the space of a 10 liter V-12 engine, or fitting in the back of a Delorian.
Speaking of which, how small can you make these? Screw hydrogen fueled cars - I want my internal plasma engine! 150,000 watts continious sounds just fine to me.
Not to mention, they put a clay cap over the landfill so that rainwater won't filter through the garbage and into the water supply. So you've got very dry trash with no oxygen supply. I've read studies where they dig up landfills from the 1960's with clay caps and most everything looks like it's aged 3-5 years.
He have a red tailed hawk fly into our building (our particular floor(6th), within about 10 ft or so of my desk each time) about once a month. He seems to do ok. I can't imagine what other floors he smashes into but it must be a lot. I think it's mostly small finch-sized birds that have the hit-skyscraper instant-death problem.
Prove this. I love your FUD without anything to back this up. Shit posters like you are why people don't read the comments. At least provide examples for people to discuss; what you posted did nothing for the discussion. This is a prime example of thread shitting. Good job.
My personal observation says approximately the same amount as a small oil well - about 80'x80', fenced in with or without barb wire around the top, maybe a tool shed, and some sort of transformer. Probably half an acre total once you count the packed soil/gravel around the outside of the fence plus the road leading up to it. Of course when you own 7,000 acres and 10 acres is producing $150,000 a year with zero maintanence fees, that's an acceptable tradeoff. At that point I'd sell the farm, keep the wind (money mill) tracts, and buy a yacht and take up sailing full time. But that's just me.
Err - so what if they catch on fire? These things are literally in the middle of nowhere, made (mostly) of steel, and maybe some carbon fiber. Once all the grease and carbon fiber burn off (in what? 3, 4 hours, tops?), you've got a bunch of steel just sitting there, inflammable. You could literally walk around and stop out fires in your field as burning debris ignites stuff if you so desired. It's a field, for god's sake. I guess if it's a free range cow pasture, it might ignite some cow pies, but those are carbon neutral anyhow. I seriously doubt there's $20,000 worth of crop within the acre of land the turbine occupies anyways.
Most of these things are so remote, I be nobody even finds out they've "crashed and burnt" until they've been off the grid for a week and go investigate, or a farmer happens to roll by in his tractor a month later and notices some thing's amiss.
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You'll note the race started in Dallas (wish this was publicized more, I would have attended) - the Amtrak "Texas Eagle" is a full 2 day trip, plus some from Dallas to Chicago. These guys not only went past chicago, they went into another country. That's not bad, even if their little solar moped doesn't have a bathroom of full service cafe.
I'm just sayin'.
Probably just that people order one or two at a time, and the certificates sit on a shelf somewhere prepackaged in the boxes. Add to that the shipping guy isn't going to go out of his way to open the customer's package to save the company $5 in shipping, and potentially lose his job because THESE entitlement certificates didn't come packaged like all the others, and obviously must have been tampered with. Just easier to look the other way and package them all in a large box. It probably happens so infrequently that there's not a procedure to resolve the issue, or managers and efficiency experts have much bigger fish to fry.
experts believe that there is abundant amounts of 'dark fibre' lying unused in oceans across the world
Excuse me, but if they don't know and are guessing, what part of that makes them an expert? I guess techincally they could be paid for their opinion, but a more proper term here would be "soothsayer" or "mystic". There are people who know these things; I think the author was just too lazy to write a real article. Fluff piece? Yes.
That's what I'm curious about. Having 2 cores is enough for most consumers, one for the OS and background tasks and one for the application you're using. And that's overkill for most users.
I typically run firefox, bit torrent, and then folding@home + World community grid at the same time. I close none of these to play TF2 and see no difference in FPS with the CPU hogging programs on or off. My friend was debating between a quad core AMD or a dual core intel and finally bought the dual core after realizing OS technology and the software that runs on it hasn't progressed enough to even take advantage of two cores, let alone four or more. I think there are some particle effects that are done in TF2 now with dual core optimization, but for the most part dual cores is enough for even heavy users.
Haha yeah well you can excuse poor grammar, some people grasp it and others just don't get it, but apostrophe use you learn in 2nd grade and are marked down for improper use all the way through college, and mocked by managers and coworkers after that. If you haven't mastered use of the apostrophe by 5th grade, you deserve to be openly mocked :P
Omg how old are you? No apostrophe in plurals!!!!!!! Possessive and contractions only!
I think this was the case in my elementary school in Washington State as well (white on green).
I think the red sign has more to do with the pairing of certian phosphors and tritium gas (slightly radioactive, causes phosphors to...well, phosphoresce) than Green=go, red=stop. We want to breed out the folks who unconsiously stop fleeing a burning building due to the wrong color exit signs anyways. Burning builder stoppers; breathin' up all our air >:(
I think it has more to do with the fact that the general color palette is reddish orange, and one team wears reddish orange, while the other wears blueish black. This is a pretty good study on how well camouflage actually works. They do make it a little easier to see the snipahs than in real life (TF2 snipahs wear a black vest and black pants) vs. real life snipers who are usually wearing a blanket covered in shrubbery. But overall it looks like camouflage grants you a 5% increase in Win.
I guess the rate of advance has actually slowed a bit and 5 year old cards are not so terribly different from more recent cards
This is where I post This post and get modded +5 interesting yet again. People keep forgetting relatively new games like Team Fortress 2 will run on five year old hardware (With the settings turned down a bit) running on Windows ME. A $600 "gaming rig" will play any game out there at 1280x1024 at 30fps with all the settings set to high. Why so cheap? Because not a whole lot has changed since the bleeding edge technology of 2003. We've gotten PCI-e and SATA cables.... that's about it. Innovate or slash prices.
Does anyone remember when TI released a calculator with a red LED display? Back in 1979 or so? Cost what, $2000? When $2,000 was real money. My dad used to make the comparison, that calculators used to cost half of what a car cost, "now they give them away at gas stations with a full tank of gas". Interesting to see a internet laptop being given away with the opening of a new bank account. Now if they can just resolve the northbridge energy consumption problem, with an SSD, and a solar panel on the lid, you might not be able to ever top off the battery, but certianly go a week between charges with on and off use 1-2 hours a day. Amazing that we're getting to the point of 'free' computers.
Educational market? Markup is 30-50% for commodities, closer to 70% for electronics. I doubt this cost them $180 to make/market back in 2004 or so when this was last week's cutting edge tech. Price is probably still $125 due to low avalibility of Palm OS parts, whereas the atom sells in the 10s of thousands.
For most of the tasks people do on computers, we have had CPU enough for the last 15 years or more.
We're using core2 duos at my work to run Office 97 and a foxpro database app that's been warmed over once since 1996. I use the remaining 99% of CPU power for F@H and World Community Grid clients.
Hell my desktop doesn't have an optical drive. I scavanged an old 16x CD-Rom to install XP, used IE to download firefox, firefox to download everything else, including all my games off of Steam. I'll admit i've plugged in the CDROM drive once since then, for a Wubi install of Ubuntu. The internet is my disk drive.
Me? Intel. Plain ole' vanilla intel Mobos. All my friends swear by Asus, have weird glitches, broken motherboards, and will swear up and down it's only happened this one time. I've seen more Asus boards broken out of the box than any other. My old (OLD) Sony Vaio had an intel motherboard, 200mhz and still running strong; current computer has one, and several inbetween have had them as well. Never, ever had one break or heard of anyone having one break. And they're as cheap if not cheaper than comparable Asus boards.
Good lord how old were you when Win95 came out? Win95 needed special drivers for everything be it a mouse wheel or sound card, Win95 still needed a form of DOS to boot from, there was NO USB SUPPORT in the initial Win95, keep in mind. Windows XP is a very, very mature OS that has a lot of things built into it that were simply hacked or patched onto the Win95 kernel. The XP Kernel has an almost entirely different (NT) code base. Yes they both have animated boot screens, but other than that they're generations apart in OS design. XP has a ton of UI tweaks, especially at the driver level that you don't really notice until you start working with W2K and XP boxes side by side. Microsoft may be a HUGE company, but it takes years to go back and tweak litterally every part of the OS from basic functionality to help menus and 3rd party driver installs. I'd say XP is what 95 became, after seven years of hard work.
I was thinking fifteen 10,000 watt microgenerators, each attached to one or two 1 farad capacitors. Maybe taking up the space of a 10 liter V-12 engine, or fitting in the back of a Delorian.
Speaking of which, how small can you make these? Screw hydrogen fueled cars - I want my internal plasma engine! 150,000 watts continious sounds just fine to me.
Where can I send my check to fund this buttered toast and cat turbine project of yours?
Cool! Aliens on mars!:
What's this strangely bipedal alien looking white speck?...has it been photoshopped out of the original? from here.
Check out http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/lg_334.jpg
Upper right by the horizon, you can clearly see a white, bipedal alien looking at the lander. Zoomed image at www.nearlydeaf.com
Not to mention, they put a clay cap over the landfill so that rainwater won't filter through the garbage and into the water supply. So you've got very dry trash with no oxygen supply. I've read studies where they dig up landfills from the 1960's with clay caps and most everything looks like it's aged 3-5 years.
He have a red tailed hawk fly into our building (our particular floor(6th), within about 10 ft or so of my desk each time) about once a month. He seems to do ok. I can't imagine what other floors he smashes into but it must be a lot. I think it's mostly small finch-sized birds that have the hit-skyscraper instant-death problem.
Prove this. I love your FUD without anything to back this up. Shit posters like you are why people don't read the comments. At least provide examples for people to discuss; what you posted did nothing for the discussion. This is a prime example of thread shitting. Good job.
My personal observation says approximately the same amount as a small oil well - about 80'x80', fenced in with or without barb wire around the top, maybe a tool shed, and some sort of transformer. Probably half an acre total once you count the packed soil/gravel around the outside of the fence plus the road leading up to it. Of course when you own 7,000 acres and 10 acres is producing $150,000 a year with zero maintanence fees, that's an acceptable tradeoff. At that point I'd sell the farm, keep the wind (money mill) tracts, and buy a yacht and take up sailing full time. But that's just me.
Err - so what if they catch on fire? These things are literally in the middle of nowhere, made (mostly) of steel, and maybe some carbon fiber. Once all the grease and carbon fiber burn off (in what? 3, 4 hours, tops?), you've got a bunch of steel just sitting there, inflammable. You could literally walk around and stop out fires in your field as burning debris ignites stuff if you so desired. It's a field, for god's sake. I guess if it's a free range cow pasture, it might ignite some cow pies, but those are carbon neutral anyhow. I seriously doubt there's $20,000 worth of crop within the acre of land the turbine occupies anyways.
Most of these things are so remote, I be nobody even finds out they've "crashed and burnt" until they've been off the grid for a week and go investigate, or a farmer happens to roll by in his tractor a month later and notices some thing's amiss.