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I have 9 windows open right now, if you count my adium buddy list. 5 Firefox, each with 4-8 tabs, adium buddy list, and two finder windows left over from reorganizing my bit torrent DL folder last night. Usually in addition to that I have my azerus client open, a chat window open, and the VLC control box + paused video. Maybe iTunes. I'd probably have other crap open like calculator, 2-3 terminal windows, cpu monitor & image capture running in the background if my other monitor wasn't plugged in to my ubuntu box at the moment.
He might go 5 days between reboots, but typically I go 30-45 days between reboots; I just sleep the computer in the mean time. Plus it's a laptop, which consumes almost zero energy compared to a desktop.
I'd say dedicate at least 1% of avalible CPU to something like Folding@Home. Set aside 10% for mathmatica use by the physics department (someday something will happen, and you'll be glad you have friends in high places), and the rest for x11/web/email etc.
Or you could provide email forwarding for life for university alumni. That'd be fucking HUGE.
Modern flash is in the 10s of millions now; the flash in your $20 thumb drive is just old trickle down tech in the 100k write range. 30 million write cycles should last about the expected lifespan of the computer - 3 to 4 years.
Enormous amounts of power.... for an omni-directonal signal. I don't have any math to back me up, but I'm guessing you could very easily transmit across town in a single direction for.5-1 Kw.
Heck, if the phone company decided to run gigabit eithernet to a node half a mile from my house, and then transmit the last half mile over VHF/UHF at 100mbps, I'd have zero problem with that. I'm sure my neighbors wouldn't mind much, either. Of course, we already are recieving FIOS service... but if we weren't:)
Fiber is being rolled out in new developments and the richer developments all over Texas. In 10 years everyone within 20 miles of major metroplexes will have fiber optic. Those in more rural areas will probably have to deal with 10mbps.
The idea that a utility company - who deals with technology (water, electricity, sewer, telephone) that hasn't seen drastic change in the way their utility is delivered in decades - or centuries = is going to update their infrastructure in only 20 years, is fucking crazy. It took us thousands of years to upgrade from lead to copper pipes, and another couple hundred to upgrade to (mostly) toxin-free PVC. Dial up was our lead pipes, DSL our copper pipes (pun intended), and Fiber Optic will be our holy grail - so if it takes 30-40 years before it's rolled out completely, that's a fucking great rate of speed for the archaic utility industry.
While they "only" own 11% of the stations in the US, they own the lion's share of listener's ears. Of the two channels I listen to (when I forget my ipod) in the car, both are clear channel stations, which just happen to be two of the largest stations in the area. In fact, all of the largest stations in the area are owned by mega-corperations like ClearChannel. Most of the time I just drive with the radio off if I've forgotten my ipod for whatever reason. Once you get used to commercial free "radio", it's hard to go back.
Well a 120mm fan does about 112cfm. This ionic breeze jobby is about 3x the height, and 1x the width, so it's plausable that it could do 3x the cfm. Unfortunately the way computer cases are designed is that 66% of the airflow is blocked by the disc drive and hard drives, with a tiny inlet (usually 80x80mm) at the bottom for the rest of the case. The apple G5 sorta gets around that by moving the drives to the back and putting 4-5 ~60mm fans on the front (some zelot will correct me with the exact specifics), which combined, probably do about 325cfm, too.
So yeah, his system does 325cfm, but only maybe half of that is making it in to the interior of the case at a velocity worth cooling anything. Still pretty genius.
you can add DFW airport and the Miami, FL financial district to that list. The latter has been running for close to a decade now. i once saw a trolly open and close it's doors 20 times in a row due to a bug in the software, but other than that it's pretty freaking great. dfw's trolly system was just installed a year or two ago... but i've never used/seen it, despite flying from dallas to miami twice a year. maybe i'm just in the wrong parts of the terminal(s).
The cheapest CRT HDTV I was able to find was $700 (30", i believe) at Fry's, where is this $300 HDTV you speak of? Does it do 1080i/p? You can't even find widescreen CRTs here in north Texas for the most part. Hell, I'd be happy with a widescreen CRT SDTV, to get rid of those damned black bars on my movies.
Component cables aren't digital, unfortunately, so there will always be some signal loss/interference. What does the mod chip on the xbox have to do with anything?
$45 isn't even for a monster brand HDMI cable; that's what they charge at wally world, which while slightly more expensive than Fry's, is well within a standard deviation of the average.
The prices are starting to drop. 65" high end 1080p TVs are in the $2500s and many 40-60" are in the $1800-2200 range. Heck, $1200 still buys you the envy of everyone in your apartment building. BluRay players are supposed to be $1200 or so, but HDDVD is supposed to be in the $500 range, allowing you to walk out the door of Fry's for $2000 or so. Regardless, I'll probably end up with a player (PS3) long before I upgrade from my current SD TV. Probably upgrade to an HDTV in 2010 or so, if I don't go with a projector.
Side by side, yes, I can tell a huge difference between HDTV and Standard Def TV. However, when watching TV at home on a good quality SDTV, I can't tell the difference. The only time it becomes an issue is when I hook my laptop up to the TV, and the words are a little blurry @ 800x600 and font 12. I've seen an HDTV demo, and I can tell you now, the quality increase wasn't worth the purchase of the additional infrastructure ($1200 for TV, $500 for HD-DVD, $45 for an HDMI cable, $200 for a reciever that accepted optical audio in, another $24 for an optical cable... almost $2000 after taxes) for what is maybe 20% better image quality (judging by the layman's eye) than is currently avalible? No thanks.
When HD-DVD players cost $150 (mine will probably come in the form of a PS3 in 2-3 years), and you can buy a 1080p TV for under $500, I'll consider it. That'll be around 2010, I'd guess.
1999 is pretty early still for early adoption; I remember learning about Laserdisc AND DVD on the same day in 8th grade at some rich kid's house. That was back in 1997 or so, when 486 laptops still roamed the earth. I never heard of or saw another DVD player until The Matrix came out (1999), and even at that point very few of our parents had heard of the things. Probably half the kids in high school knew of DVD players at that point. My dad, an EE for intel at the time, didn't even purchase a DVD player until they were $130 or so in 2001.
I'm glad someone pointed this out. This has been known since the 30's, and many psychologists in their field will agree with this. Most people can handle their addictions on their own, discreetely, and without affecting others so long as it is cheap. Most narcotics, including Heroin, do no irriversible damage to the body that isn't comparable to smoking. Meth is another story though. It is when the addictive substance is restricted, the supply shrinks, and the price skyrockets, causeing people to turn to petty crime to feed addiction.
The price of a pack of cigarettes in NY is about $9. People are arrested for smuggling cigarettes in to NY and selling them tax free at around $3 a pack. Is it really worth it to belittle the smokers who are buying contraband cigarettes? Is it worth throwing people in jail for smoking cigarettes? Would the crime rate increase ever so slightly if we completely outlawed cigarettes? More than likely, as people would need their fix of $50/pack/day of cigarettes. Drug prohibition causes more problems than it will ever solve, because the prohibition is ultimately what caused the problem... I've never heard of reports of housewives going on killing sprees after drinking their cocaine laced tonic, just as I've never heard of someone jumping off a building from smoking pot or snorting coke.
No, it wouldn't. The problem with touchscreen is that it only can do left-clicks, no right clicks. While right-click isn't needed to master any of the LucasArts games, I find it quite important for fluid gameplay, since it removes a lot of unneeded clicking.
...introducing the double tap! Oh wait, this feature has been avalible on macs and any laptop with a touchpad for well over a decade. Seems to work pretty well, or they wouldn't have been providing it as an option for all these years. also, as someone suggested, the L or R button makes an acceptable alternate click button (hold and tap for right click). I pray you never have to interfaces with an engineering department.
Thank you. In 99.9% of cases, a 5 letter password would be enough to deter most casual users or script kiddies. The other 0.01% are determined to get in to your network and.... use your connection for free. If someone wants to hack your network for malicious reasons, they will, or simply break in to your apartment/house and steal the computer/data. WEP is about 100 times more secure than a 5 letter password, and you'll be fine so long as you don't have some 31337 haxor in your apartment complex (hint: you don't).
Interesting argument, but cars have been for sale for about a century at this point, so inflation will have a greater percieved effect on sales numbers. Video games have been around for about 25 years now, but only have recieved mass acceptance since the original playstation was released. The fact that the DS has sold 20 million units since it's release is incredibly impressive, particularly since it's both a handheld console, and also that it's competing with two other gameboy products on the market (GBA SP and GBA Micro). Why are there always so many people trying to downplay the success of others? Do the bullies beat you up after school every day, and this is your only way at shaking your fist at the world?
I don't know about you, but I'd rather chance a massive bruise than a hole going through me, , potentially puncturing a vital organ. It's incredibly difficult to get blunt trauma of such impact that it creates internal bleeding that could kill you in less than 30 min. It's a small bullet, not a Mack truck. You can run away with a bruised calf muscle; you can't even walk when a bullet just shredded your calf into hamburger. This is a stupid argument.
Well due to the lack of oxygen, it's required that anyone who goes to the Moon wears a helmet. The same would go for the possible future miners. So dust inhalation is not really a concern.
You must have never been to the beach before, have you? My friends and I went to the beach three years ago (it's a 13 hour drive for us) and there's STILL white sand in the carpet of his van. Zoom cameras eat it out there all the time from sand getting in the gears. Now imagine sand as small as dust, coating everything, scratching it all to hell. A video iPod owner's worst nightmare.
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I have 9 windows open right now, if you count my adium buddy list. 5 Firefox, each with 4-8 tabs, adium buddy list, and two finder windows left over from reorganizing my bit torrent DL folder last night. Usually in addition to that I have my azerus client open, a chat window open, and the VLC control box + paused video. Maybe iTunes. I'd probably have other crap open like calculator, 2-3 terminal windows, cpu monitor & image capture running in the background if my other monitor wasn't plugged in to my ubuntu box at the moment.
He might go 5 days between reboots, but typically I go 30-45 days between reboots; I just sleep the computer in the mean time. Plus it's a laptop, which consumes almost zero energy compared to a desktop.
My google searches usually start with "Noun Wikipedia" :)
I'd say dedicate at least 1% of avalible CPU to something like Folding@Home. Set aside 10% for mathmatica use by the physics department (someday something will happen, and you'll be glad you have friends in high places), and the rest for x11/web/email etc.
Or you could provide email forwarding for life for university alumni. That'd be fucking HUGE.
Modern flash is in the 10s of millions now; the flash in your $20 thumb drive is just old trickle down tech in the 100k write range. 30 million write cycles should last about the expected lifespan of the computer - 3 to 4 years.
Enormous amounts of power.... for an omni-directonal signal. I don't have any math to back me up, but I'm guessing you could very easily transmit across town in a single direction for .5-1 Kw.
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Heck, if the phone company decided to run gigabit eithernet to a node half a mile from my house, and then transmit the last half mile over VHF/UHF at 100mbps, I'd have zero problem with that. I'm sure my neighbors wouldn't mind much, either. Of course, we already are recieving FIOS service... but if we weren't
Fiber is being rolled out in new developments and the richer developments all over Texas. In 10 years everyone within 20 miles of major metroplexes will have fiber optic. Those in more rural areas will probably have to deal with 10mbps.
The idea that a utility company - who deals with technology (water, electricity, sewer, telephone) that hasn't seen drastic change in the way their utility is delivered in decades - or centuries = is going to update their infrastructure in only 20 years, is fucking crazy. It took us thousands of years to upgrade from lead to copper pipes, and another couple hundred to upgrade to (mostly) toxin-free PVC. Dial up was our lead pipes, DSL our copper pipes (pun intended), and Fiber Optic will be our holy grail - so if it takes 30-40 years before it's rolled out completely, that's a fucking great rate of speed for the archaic utility industry.
Where's the white paper explaining how this works? Did I miss that article on ArsTechnica?
While they "only" own 11% of the stations in the US, they own the lion's share of listener's ears. Of the two channels I listen to (when I forget my ipod) in the car, both are clear channel stations, which just happen to be two of the largest stations in the area. In fact, all of the largest stations in the area are owned by mega-corperations like ClearChannel. Most of the time I just drive with the radio off if I've forgotten my ipod for whatever reason. Once you get used to commercial free "radio", it's hard to go back.
Well a 120mm fan does about 112cfm. This ionic breeze jobby is about 3x the height, and 1x the width, so it's plausable that it could do 3x the cfm. Unfortunately the way computer cases are designed is that 66% of the airflow is blocked by the disc drive and hard drives, with a tiny inlet (usually 80x80mm) at the bottom for the rest of the case. The apple G5 sorta gets around that by moving the drives to the back and putting 4-5 ~60mm fans on the front (some zelot will correct me with the exact specifics), which combined, probably do about 325cfm, too.
So yeah, his system does 325cfm, but only maybe half of that is making it in to the interior of the case at a velocity worth cooling anything. Still pretty genius.
you can add DFW airport and the Miami, FL financial district to that list. The latter has been running for close to a decade now. i once saw a trolly open and close it's doors 20 times in a row due to a bug in the software, but other than that it's pretty freaking great. dfw's trolly system was just installed a year or two ago... but i've never used/seen it, despite flying from dallas to miami twice a year. maybe i'm just in the wrong parts of the terminal(s).
The cheapest CRT HDTV I was able to find was $700 (30", i believe) at Fry's, where is this $300 HDTV you speak of? Does it do 1080i/p? You can't even find widescreen CRTs here in north Texas for the most part. Hell, I'd be happy with a widescreen CRT SDTV, to get rid of those damned black bars on my movies.
Component cables aren't digital, unfortunately, so there will always be some signal loss/interference. What does the mod chip on the xbox have to do with anything?
$45 isn't even for a monster brand HDMI cable; that's what they charge at wally world, which while slightly more expensive than Fry's, is well within a standard deviation of the average.
The prices are starting to drop. 65" high end 1080p TVs are in the $2500s and many 40-60" are in the $1800-2200 range. Heck, $1200 still buys you the envy of everyone in your apartment building. BluRay players are supposed to be $1200 or so, but HDDVD is supposed to be in the $500 range, allowing you to walk out the door of Fry's for $2000 or so. Regardless, I'll probably end up with a player (PS3) long before I upgrade from my current SD TV. Probably upgrade to an HDTV in 2010 or so, if I don't go with a projector.
Between LCD and Plasma, DLP is the way to go.
Side by side, yes, I can tell a huge difference between HDTV and Standard Def TV. However, when watching TV at home on a good quality SDTV, I can't tell the difference. The only time it becomes an issue is when I hook my laptop up to the TV, and the words are a little blurry @ 800x600 and font 12. I've seen an HDTV demo, and I can tell you now, the quality increase wasn't worth the purchase of the additional infrastructure ($1200 for TV, $500 for HD-DVD, $45 for an HDMI cable, $200 for a reciever that accepted optical audio in, another $24 for an optical cable... almost $2000 after taxes) for what is maybe 20% better image quality (judging by the layman's eye) than is currently avalible? No thanks.
When HD-DVD players cost $150 (mine will probably come in the form of a PS3 in 2-3 years), and you can buy a 1080p TV for under $500, I'll consider it. That'll be around 2010, I'd guess.
1999 is pretty early still for early adoption; I remember learning about Laserdisc AND DVD on the same day in 8th grade at some rich kid's house. That was back in 1997 or so, when 486 laptops still roamed the earth. I never heard of or saw another DVD player until The Matrix came out (1999), and even at that point very few of our parents had heard of the things. Probably half the kids in high school knew of DVD players at that point. My dad, an EE for intel at the time, didn't even purchase a DVD player until they were $130 or so in 2001.
That's.... one word? Perhaps Camino Browser?
I'm glad someone pointed this out. This has been known since the 30's, and many psychologists in their field will agree with this. Most people can handle their addictions on their own, discreetely, and without affecting others so long as it is cheap. Most narcotics, including Heroin, do no irriversible damage to the body that isn't comparable to smoking. Meth is another story though. It is when the addictive substance is restricted, the supply shrinks, and the price skyrockets, causeing people to turn to petty crime to feed addiction.
The price of a pack of cigarettes in NY is about $9. People are arrested for smuggling cigarettes in to NY and selling them tax free at around $3 a pack. Is it really worth it to belittle the smokers who are buying contraband cigarettes? Is it worth throwing people in jail for smoking cigarettes? Would the crime rate increase ever so slightly if we completely outlawed cigarettes? More than likely, as people would need their fix of $50/pack/day of cigarettes. Drug prohibition causes more problems than it will ever solve, because the prohibition is ultimately what caused the problem... I've never heard of reports of housewives going on killing sprees after drinking their cocaine laced tonic, just as I've never heard of someone jumping off a building from smoking pot or snorting coke.
Thank you. In 99.9% of cases, a 5 letter password would be enough to deter most casual users or script kiddies. The other 0.01% are determined to get in to your network and.... use your connection for free. If someone wants to hack your network for malicious reasons, they will, or simply break in to your apartment/house and steal the computer/data. WEP is about 100 times more secure than a 5 letter password, and you'll be fine so long as you don't have some 31337 haxor in your apartment complex (hint: you don't).
As long as you've got a pusher robot, you should be protected.
Interesting argument, but cars have been for sale for about a century at this point, so inflation will have a greater percieved effect on sales numbers. Video games have been around for about 25 years now, but only have recieved mass acceptance since the original playstation was released. The fact that the DS has sold 20 million units since it's release is incredibly impressive, particularly since it's both a handheld console, and also that it's competing with two other gameboy products on the market (GBA SP and GBA Micro). Why are there always so many people trying to downplay the success of others? Do the bullies beat you up after school every day, and this is your only way at shaking your fist at the world?
1. See youtube 2. Search for DS videos 3. Find way to retract comment.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather chance a massive bruise than a hole going through me, , potentially puncturing a vital organ. It's incredibly difficult to get blunt trauma of such impact that it creates internal bleeding that could kill you in less than 30 min. It's a small bullet, not a Mack truck. You can run away with a bruised calf muscle; you can't even walk when a bullet just shredded your calf into hamburger. This is a stupid argument.
try taking the over the counter stuff for uti's; it makes your pee turn bright orange
You must have never been to the beach before, have you? My friends and I went to the beach three years ago (it's a 13 hour drive for us) and there's STILL white sand in the carpet of his van. Zoom cameras eat it out there all the time from sand getting in the gears. Now imagine sand as small as dust, coating everything, scratching it all to hell. A video iPod owner's worst nightmare.