do you have a laptop? i do. $35 to be able to go down to starbucks, the park, girlfriend's parent's house, etc etc and turn on and be plugged in to the net would be a huge advantage to right now, where at best I can use wireless internet in a) my house, b) my dorm and c) the student union. if you don't have a laptop, there's no advantage. if you do, there's plenty of reasons.
I don't think there's much to learn about venus. Rocks, sulphuric acid, hot. Yes, submarines go to 3000ft. They're made of steel, which starts to deform around 900F. Submarines are also unbelivably heavy. Mars is the first stop. The only time Venus will ever be studied/inhabited is if it is economically feasible to mine it for materials (uranium, maybe?).
On shorter flights the plane doesn't get 100% refueled. A trip from say, London to Paris might fill the tanks 15%. This translates to a significantly lighter aircraft which in turn requires less fuel for takeoff, meaning the fuel economy skyrockets (no pun intended) to somthing closer to 0.200mpg.
most mac owners keep their macs a lot longer than 2 years (the number i hear being thrown around most is 5), PCs are upgraded every 2 years or so. if the 5 year number is at all correct, then half of all mac users are below the "respectible gaming performance" curve.
I have a powerbook. I have zero games loaded on my computer. Why? the video card in laptops (about half the computers apple sells) are significantly less powerful than their desktop counterparts. Unless you've bought a mac in the last two years, you can't really play any modern games on it. I own Q1,2,3A, civ 3, & tropico for the mac. All but the last play just fine, but I wouldn't call any of them modern. Most of the computers capable of playing modern games at acceptable speeds/resolution are the pro machines, which are largely bought for professional shops.
yes, there are games, but most people don't have the horsepower to take advantage of the ones out there.
The only applications for mac that aren't free is photoshop and office. There aren't any games for mac; it's a pretty cheap conversion. Most people just download open office or neo office until they're forced to purchase a copy of MS office for whatever reason (file compatibility, whatever), but we all have to upgrade at some point.
I've googled and wikipediaed and whatnot and cannot find a definition for "MM". Multi-million? Mega-million? MM doesn't seem to fit when you're talking about "One" million subscribers. Maybe you can clear this up for me; I've seen it in other publications and forums before.
Well your first "paragraph" says (basically) that over the air media produces higher image quality than you can purchase and you're dissapointed with the quality of DVDs. I understand that much. I don't understand why you're stating the obvious in the second "paragraph", which maybe you can clear up for me, because it sounds like you're trying to say somthing more than the obvious, just that it came out that way, and I'm trying to understand.
To awnser your question (I guess), since there is no "is" in the sentence I quoted, I didn't understand the "the".
Hunh, that must be a new feature. I was reading an article about a device that allows you to transfer your pics on the camera to your iPod or thumb drive without the use of a computer. The reviewer said somthing along the lines of "all modern digital cameras but Canons will work with this, as they support ____ usb thumbdrive standard". Also, my Powershot A80 (half a generation behind your sister's, released in early 2004 I think) doesn't act as one.
Well his username is "blue mustang", which would imply he owns (or wants to own) an american made car. nobody outside of the US would consider purchasing a live axle car; I don't think they're even offered outside of the US (and maybe Canada), so he's more than likely American.... unfortunately. I'm not saying I have perfect grammar, but honestly...There's a girl in my girlfriend's Junior level buisness class, they had to write a paper together; I'm not really sure how she passed freshman english, and she's a native born American also... sigh...
The film is sort of similar. The book and the film are both true to the concept, but how they're actually, uh, played out is very different. It's like if you had a pair of twins, one wrote a book about 9/11, the other did a film documentary, and they both used the same eye witnesses, news reports, etc. Hard to explain. The film does an excellent job of portraying the events that occured in the book, but it's a lot more light hearted than the book, and takes some artistic liberty to better flesh out some scenes, while leaving out some of the "fluff" from the book. Hopefully that'll make some sense. I read the book after seeing the movie 9 or 10 times, and wasn't dissapointed one bit. I highly suggest it if you have the chance.
I want to watch my movies with more definition and I realize that's not 100% reliant on the media but they will release higher def video on this new media.
what? did you even read what you wrote? Either you're stating the obvious (higher definition video on new media formats that were designed with the inherent purpose of having higher definition video), or you completely and utterly failed to make your point (although you seem both stoic and steadfast in your crusade). Maybe you'll rephrase this for the english speaking netizens of slashdot like I that can't decipher your grammar?
WTF? I'm calling bullshit. A regular dual layer DVD like LOTR you can buy at walmart is alreay 9.5gigs; HD-DVD is much closer to 25 gigs, while Blu-Ray is 49, with 80somthing when using dual layer, and 300gig discs in a couple years (But still playable on first gen Blu-Ray disc players). The only difference is that HD-DVDs are more physically similar, meaning less retooling will have to occur. Blu-Ray is almost a completely different animal.
I think memory sticks are a moot point; the non volitile memory card market has been fragmented for a couple of years now, with many standards. The readers are unbelivably cheap ($25 for a 8 or 9 in one reader) that it doesn't really matter. Most digital cameras (sans Canons) act as a USB keychain drive when attached via a usb cable anyways, and ( i think ) that's how most people transfer their files. My guess is that every major camera company could come up with their own memory stick standard and nobody would balk at it. CF seems to be the standard in high end cameras due to the 4-12GB options for professionals, but everyone else uses various options without much infighting between companies over standards. Compare that to a roughly divided video tape market with only two competing standards that aren't limited by physical size, and you're really comparing apples to oranges.
So it is starting to be really important for me that a computer doesn't use a lot of power. I don't know if it affects my electric bill in a noticeable way, but it feels wrong.
well a quick google says it's about five cents per kWh... assume your server spins down the disk drives when idling, and your monitor turns off when not in use; you're probably averaging 200watts an hour. That comes out to be abour $6.72/month in electricity, or $80 per year.
If you're looking for power savings, an old laptop with an external hard drive only consumes about 15W at idle... or about $6 per year. In what you spend in two years running you "server" you could have a decent laptop + gianormous 120 gig external drive as your server, and look things up "instantly" from your bedside.
no shit you picked a good user name! play the retail game - politely ask form some pen and paper, and when they give it to you, ask to see the manager so you can get his or her boss's name and number + corperate. at which point they'll bend over backwards and give you the cash you should have recieved.
on the other hand i have zero sympathy for you risking your credit rating over a stupid hard drive - you should never make impulse buys over $50, especially if you have to budget your money as closely as you apparently do.
OS XI - 30th anniversary, fully 64 bit, tuned IPv6, new filesystem, complete reworking of emulation of OS9 technologies, completely rewritten kernel, GCC 5.0, new developer tools/GUI builder, The Son of Dock... it's going to be a very different animal (pun intended)... think somewhere along the lines of the jump from System 7.0 to 8.5 in terms of functionality and revision.
I think he was trying to say that the original poster's regen braking idea was way cooler than your stating that electric cars with regen braking aren't perpetual motion machines (duh):)
road friction & minimal drivetrain friction aside, on flat roads, I'd bet you could get close to reclaiming 60% of the energy required to accelerate in city driving conditions. This would be the perfect car for places like the metroplex (Dallas/Fort Worth), Houston, and probably places like kansas city, salt lake city, etc.
on a side note, did slashdot just update their colors to a motherboard graphic?
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do you have a laptop? i do. $35 to be able to go down to starbucks, the park, girlfriend's parent's house, etc etc and turn on and be plugged in to the net would be a huge advantage to right now, where at best I can use wireless internet in a) my house, b) my dorm and c) the student union. if you don't have a laptop, there's no advantage. if you do, there's plenty of reasons.
what dial up service are you using that gives you 300Kbaud? or is this through your cell provider?
I wouldn't be at all suprised to see dual core G4s in the 17 and 15" powerbooks to help differentiate them from the ibooks (other than color)
I don't think there's much to learn about venus. Rocks, sulphuric acid, hot. Yes, submarines go to 3000ft. They're made of steel, which starts to deform around 900F. Submarines are also unbelivably heavy. Mars is the first stop. The only time Venus will ever be studied/inhabited is if it is economically feasible to mine it for materials (uranium, maybe?).
On shorter flights the plane doesn't get 100% refueled. A trip from say, London to Paris might fill the tanks 15%. This translates to a significantly lighter aircraft which in turn requires less fuel for takeoff, meaning the fuel economy skyrockets (no pun intended) to somthing closer to 0.200mpg.
most mac owners keep their macs a lot longer than 2 years (the number i hear being thrown around most is 5), PCs are upgraded every 2 years or so. if the 5 year number is at all correct, then half of all mac users are below the "respectible gaming performance" curve.
I have a powerbook. I have zero games loaded on my computer. Why? the video card in laptops (about half the computers apple sells) are significantly less powerful than their desktop counterparts. Unless you've bought a mac in the last two years, you can't really play any modern games on it. I own Q1,2,3A, civ 3, & tropico for the mac. All but the last play just fine, but I wouldn't call any of them modern. Most of the computers capable of playing modern games at acceptable speeds/resolution are the pro machines, which are largely bought for professional shops.
yes, there are games, but most people don't have the horsepower to take advantage of the ones out there.
The only applications for mac that aren't free is photoshop and office. There aren't any games for mac; it's a pretty cheap conversion. Most people just download open office or neo office until they're forced to purchase a copy of MS office for whatever reason (file compatibility, whatever), but we all have to upgrade at some point.
I've googled and wikipediaed and whatnot and cannot find a definition for "MM". Multi-million? Mega-million? MM doesn't seem to fit when you're talking about "One" million subscribers. Maybe you can clear this up for me; I've seen it in other publications and forums before.
Haven't read the LoTR series yet, but probably.
Well your first "paragraph" says (basically) that over the air media produces higher image quality than you can purchase and you're dissapointed with the quality of DVDs. I understand that much. I don't understand why you're stating the obvious in the second "paragraph", which maybe you can clear up for me, because it sounds like you're trying to say somthing more than the obvious, just that it came out that way, and I'm trying to understand.
To awnser your question (I guess), since there is no "is" in the sentence I quoted, I didn't understand the "the".
Hunh, that must be a new feature. I was reading an article about a device that allows you to transfer your pics on the camera to your iPod or thumb drive without the use of a computer. The reviewer said somthing along the lines of "all modern digital cameras but Canons will work with this, as they support ____ usb thumbdrive standard". Also, my Powershot A80 (half a generation behind your sister's, released in early 2004 I think) doesn't act as one.
Well his username is "blue mustang", which would imply he owns (or wants to own) an american made car. nobody outside of the US would consider purchasing a live axle car; I don't think they're even offered outside of the US (and maybe Canada), so he's more than likely American.... unfortunately. I'm not saying I have perfect grammar, but honestly...There's a girl in my girlfriend's Junior level buisness class, they had to write a paper together; I'm not really sure how she passed freshman english, and she's a native born American also... sigh...
The film is sort of similar. The book and the film are both true to the concept, but how they're actually, uh, played out is very different. It's like if you had a pair of twins, one wrote a book about 9/11, the other did a film documentary, and they both used the same eye witnesses, news reports, etc. Hard to explain. The film does an excellent job of portraying the events that occured in the book, but it's a lot more light hearted than the book, and takes some artistic liberty to better flesh out some scenes, while leaving out some of the "fluff" from the book. Hopefully that'll make some sense. I read the book after seeing the movie 9 or 10 times, and wasn't dissapointed one bit. I highly suggest it if you have the chance.
what? did you even read what you wrote? Either you're stating the obvious (higher definition video on new media formats that were designed with the inherent purpose of having higher definition video), or you completely and utterly failed to make your point (although you seem both stoic and steadfast in your crusade). Maybe you'll rephrase this for the english speaking netizens of slashdot like I that can't decipher your grammar?
WTF? I'm calling bullshit. A regular dual layer DVD like LOTR you can buy at walmart is alreay 9.5gigs; HD-DVD is much closer to 25 gigs, while Blu-Ray is 49, with 80somthing when using dual layer, and 300gig discs in a couple years (But still playable on first gen Blu-Ray disc players). The only difference is that HD-DVDs are more physically similar, meaning less retooling will have to occur. Blu-Ray is almost a completely different animal.
I think memory sticks are a moot point; the non volitile memory card market has been fragmented for a couple of years now, with many standards. The readers are unbelivably cheap ($25 for a 8 or 9 in one reader) that it doesn't really matter. Most digital cameras (sans Canons) act as a USB keychain drive when attached via a usb cable anyways, and ( i think ) that's how most people transfer their files. My guess is that every major camera company could come up with their own memory stick standard and nobody would balk at it. CF seems to be the standard in high end cameras due to the 4-12GB options for professionals, but everyone else uses various options without much infighting between companies over standards. Compare that to a roughly divided video tape market with only two competing standards that aren't limited by physical size, and you're really comparing apples to oranges.
well a quick google says it's about five cents per kWh... assume your server spins down the disk drives when idling, and your monitor turns off when not in use; you're probably averaging 200watts an hour. That comes out to be abour $6.72/month in electricity, or $80 per year.
If you're looking for power savings, an old laptop with an external hard drive only consumes about 15W at idle... or about $6 per year. In what you spend in two years running you "server" you could have a decent laptop + gianormous 120 gig external drive as your server, and look things up "instantly" from your bedside.
the search engine works, it's just called "wikiwax.com" :)
ok it's more of a hybrid index/search engine, but it works better in this case than a straight out search engine
Some sort of fractal generator, which is avalible on knoppix.
no shit you picked a good user name! play the retail game - politely ask form some pen and paper, and when they give it to you, ask to see the manager so you can get his or her boss's name and number + corperate. at which point they'll bend over backwards and give you the cash you should have recieved.
on the other hand i have zero sympathy for you risking your credit rating over a stupid hard drive - you should never make impulse buys over $50, especially if you have to budget your money as closely as you apparently do.
OS XI - 30th anniversary, fully 64 bit, tuned IPv6, new filesystem, complete reworking of emulation of OS9 technologies, completely rewritten kernel, GCC 5.0, new developer tools/GUI builder, The Son of Dock... it's going to be a very different animal (pun intended)... think somewhere along the lines of the jump from System 7.0 to 8.5 in terms of functionality and revision.
American Airlines has 12v cigarette lighter power adapters in coach on their 777's and 757's, at least on the DFW/MIA route.
I think he was trying to say that the original poster's regen braking idea was way cooler than your stating that electric cars with regen braking aren't perpetual motion machines (duh) :)
road friction & minimal drivetrain friction aside, on flat roads, I'd bet you could get close to reclaiming 60% of the energy required to accelerate in city driving conditions. This would be the perfect car for places like the metroplex (Dallas/Fort Worth), Houston, and probably places like kansas city, salt lake city, etc.
on a side note, did slashdot just update their colors to a motherboard graphic?
not sure if you're referring to current events, but if you're not, you may be waiting a long time; IBM recently sold off their laptop buisness.