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i'd personally love to see some sort of.13 micron process 486 DX100/133 chip, or maybe an arm processor hooked up to a 16 shade B&W LCD displays in one of those smaller widescreen sonly laptops. give me a gig on an IBM microdrive (or 2 512 meg compact flash memory chips, whichever uses less power) and a form-factor lithium ion battery like in the ipod.
or hell, an ipod with a keyboard and 7" 16:9 B&W high rez display. no, i don't want a widescrren palm, i want somthing that has an FPU and i can run AIM, mozilla, and 2 or 3 telnet sessions with cpu to spare.
i agree with you on your point, but i have to nit-pick. Dell, HP and whatnot, they get XP home for probably under $35 per licence, not $100(again, volume pricing, which gives them an even bigger profit margin)
so what kind of applications would this lead to? they talk about sheared aluminum having the same properties as ceramics.... making plates and cups out of sheared aluminum? or maybe a flywheel/clutch?
aluminum's low melting point seems to really hinder it's usefulness in ceramic applications, as one of ceramic's strong points is it's imperviousness to intense and prolonged heat.
i'd buy a toaster because it said lexus on it (but only if lexus actually designed the thing) - b/c lexus's mechanics seem to be top notch, and most toasters these days seem to only last for 1-2 years before letting the magic smoke out. of course i'm in college and my mom bought me the $15 variant instead of a $45 GE "classic" stainless steel toaster that would have lasted me till i'm 50, but, whatever.
yeah, but it gives you minimal (at best, some argue it actually degrades performance) improvement over standard (especially at the resolution i run at). not to mention, it'd make the laptop run hotter (yes, it does make that much of a difference). like i need that.
actually, no, i'm not kidding. i've used both, and for the most part i use my powerbook for aim, the 'net, and email, ect. the most cpu intensive application i've probably used in the last week was itunes (which runs continiously). i like the durability of the ibook more, as i'm a college student, and actually, the laptop sits next to a 17" NEC multisync @ 1600x1200 99% of the time, except when i go home about every other weekend. oh yeah, and the ibook's fan wouldn't come on nearly as often when playing music. i only have half a gig of ram in my PBG4.
besides, if i got a new ibook, it'd have more vram than my tibook (16 vs i think 32), so i'd be able to run the external display w/quartz extreme.
you looking at buying a powerbook g4 (used) by any chance?
$20 a month for basic service? that's insane. i pay $14 a month through southwestern bell. it's $25 for a "metro" line that lets you call basically anywhere from mckiney to south dallas, and from misquite to DFW, and anywhere inbetween (the greater metropolitan area,as you called it). the "toll" is about $10. i get free call waiting, and DSL. my total bill was $59.63 last month, and my roomate and i split the bill, making it about $25 a month for everything. we use phone cards for the (few) long distance calls we make (mostly to his girlfriend in austin). he goes through about 1 $10 phone card every other week. total cost? a hell of a lot less than $100 a month.
well if they let you do this originally, i would have bought a 12" ibook instead of my powerbook G4..... and i might just trade it in after this.... the ibooks have essentially every advantage over the tibooks now... including price.
well in theroy, your skin provides enough radiation shielding, but only for alpha rays. the japanese built some sort of instalation filled with heavy water inside of a mountian to catch super-high radiation, the idea was that the mass of the earth, and then the millions of gallons of heavy water would be enough (after traveling through the atmosphere) to finally stop the radiation. i forget what radiation, but a foot of water isn't going to help just a hell of a lot. not in theroy, at least.
i'll second that. until then, windows XP has TCP/IP drivers for firewire, which is 400mbps, and just around the corner, 800mbps. firewire can also go longer distances than SATA
i think the idea is savings on the hardware manufacturer's end, not the consumer.
serial cables are infintely cheaper than parelell cables. there's less chance of not connecting them properly, or breaking them as there is with parelell cables (don't tell me you've never heard of someone bending a pin on a hard drive before). USB, firewire & others don't have this problem, as they're single orientation (or at least more obvious than parelell). this increases the productivity of assembly workers and thus cheapens the process.
it's more expensive in the short term, but since the technology is inherently cheaper, the initial costs balance the long term savings. computers should start shipping with serial ATA as soon as the next chipsets come out for intel/amd. your mom (or mother in law, as your mom already has a computer) may have serial ATA before you do, and not even know about it.
IIRC, you only get one controller per port for SATA. you'd have to do software, or build your own striping solution. (with several add-in boards to support 4 more HD's)
well it doesn't seem like not having a DNS adress translating service would really hurt you once you're connected and have eachother's IP addy, but as the next poster pointed out, it's probably cashed. still doesn't explain why the connection kept dropping.
there exists an emacs version of aim (tnt on sourceforge, which is well hidden), which allows you to access aim from the terminal. does anyone know of a standalone aim client that can be accessed viat the terminal?
and yes, i know of more than a few people who would find this useful. i'm looking at learning enough to code this myself, but google doesn't seem to bring up any matches.
i had the same problem also, and my room mate (whom i share a DSL connection with via dlink router) kept getting his AIM connection dropped every 3-4 minutes. of course, aim doesn't use DNS (so far as i know), so that might have been unrelated, seeing as how i never dropped a connection.
actually, there's a space junk tracking facility somewhere in the pan handle of texas, at least, that's the radar sending station..... you'll see a flock of geese go flying past the mile long radar array and all of a sudden the whole flying V will start spiraling downwards till they nearly hit the ground, then suddenly fly upwards again, and spiral back down again until one of them finally spirals out of the radar's effective field, at which point the rest of the geese (or whatever) see one goose flying normally and follow after him. very strange.
if 120GHz band has been avalible to the public, why did we ever bother mucking about in the 2.4GHz range, when we could have had 100megabit wireless (easily) @ the 120GHz range? not to mention (i'm guessing) a hella lot more range, and let's go ahead and put 500mw-900mw (i think the legal limit is 1w?) sending capability.... this just makes 801.11b look like child's play.... or am i missing somthing here?
if you want somthing like an ibook, just get one. the only thing macs can't do as well as pc's is games, and you're not likely to play many games on an 12" ibook screen anyways.
i think the statistic was that the unibomber lived on $20 a month. of course, he didn't move around alot.
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actually popular science quoted average air speed @ 100 mph after you factor in security, time spent on the ground, taking off, travling, landing, ect... of course it skyrockets to i think 250 mph when you take a direct flight
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i'd personally love to see some sort of .13 micron process 486 DX100/133 chip, or maybe an arm processor hooked up to a 16 shade B&W LCD displays in one of those smaller widescreen sonly laptops. give me a gig on an IBM microdrive (or 2 512 meg compact flash memory chips, whichever uses less power) and a form-factor lithium ion battery like in the ipod.
or hell, an ipod with a keyboard and 7" 16:9 B&W high rez display. no, i don't want a widescrren palm, i want somthing that has an FPU and i can run AIM, mozilla, and 2 or 3 telnet sessions with cpu to spare.
i agree with you on your point, but i have to nit-pick. Dell, HP and whatnot, they get XP home for probably under $35 per licence, not $100(again, volume pricing, which gives them an even bigger profit margin)
so what kind of applications would this lead to? they talk about sheared aluminum having the same properties as ceramics.... making plates and cups out of sheared aluminum? or maybe a flywheel/clutch?
aluminum's low melting point seems to really hinder it's usefulness in ceramic applications, as one of ceramic's strong points is it's imperviousness to intense and prolonged heat.
i'd buy a toaster because it said lexus on it (but only if lexus actually designed the thing) - b/c lexus's mechanics seem to be top notch, and most toasters these days seem to only last for 1-2 years before letting the magic smoke out. of course i'm in college and my mom bought me the $15 variant instead of a $45 GE "classic" stainless steel toaster that would have lasted me till i'm 50, but, whatever.
yeah, but it gives you minimal (at best, some argue it actually degrades performance) improvement over standard (especially at the resolution i run at). not to mention, it'd make the laptop run hotter (yes, it does make that much of a difference). like i need that.
actually, no, i'm not kidding. i've used both, and for the most part i use my powerbook for aim, the 'net, and email, ect. the most cpu intensive application i've probably used in the last week was itunes (which runs continiously). i like the durability of the ibook more, as i'm a college student, and actually, the laptop sits next to a 17" NEC multisync @ 1600x1200 99% of the time, except when i go home about every other weekend. oh yeah, and the ibook's fan wouldn't come on nearly as often when playing music. i only have half a gig of ram in my PBG4.
besides, if i got a new ibook, it'd have more vram than my tibook (16 vs i think 32), so i'd be able to run the external display w/quartz extreme.
you looking at buying a powerbook g4 (used) by any chance?
$20 a month for basic service? that's insane. i pay $14 a month through southwestern bell. it's $25 for a "metro" line that lets you call basically anywhere from mckiney to south dallas, and from misquite to DFW, and anywhere inbetween (the greater metropolitan area,as you called it). the "toll" is about $10. i get free call waiting, and DSL. my total bill was $59.63 last month, and my roomate and i split the bill, making it about $25 a month for everything. we use phone cards for the (few) long distance calls we make (mostly to his girlfriend in austin). he goes through about 1 $10 phone card every other week. total cost? a hell of a lot less than $100 a month.
well if they let you do this originally, i would have bought a 12" ibook instead of my powerbook G4..... and i might just trade it in after this.... the ibooks have essentially every advantage over the tibooks now... including price.
don't forget L3 & R3! kingdom hearts & GTA3 would be a pain in the ass without them!
well in theroy, your skin provides enough radiation shielding, but only for alpha rays. the japanese built some sort of instalation filled with heavy water inside of a mountian to catch super-high radiation, the idea was that the mass of the earth, and then the millions of gallons of heavy water would be enough (after traveling through the atmosphere) to finally stop the radiation. i forget what radiation, but a foot of water isn't going to help just a hell of a lot. not in theroy, at least.
not to mention SATA cables are cheaper for the manufacturer, & they increase air flow
i'll second that. until then, windows XP has TCP/IP drivers for firewire, which is 400mbps, and just around the corner, 800mbps. firewire can also go longer distances than SATA
i think the idea is savings on the hardware manufacturer's end, not the consumer.
serial cables are infintely cheaper than parelell cables. there's less chance of not connecting them properly, or breaking them as there is with parelell cables (don't tell me you've never heard of someone bending a pin on a hard drive before). USB, firewire & others don't have this problem, as they're single orientation (or at least more obvious than parelell). this increases the productivity of assembly workers and thus cheapens the process.
it's more expensive in the short term, but since the technology is inherently cheaper, the initial costs balance the long term savings. computers should start shipping with serial ATA as soon as the next chipsets come out for intel/amd. your mom (or mother in law, as your mom already has a computer) may have serial ATA before you do, and not even know about it.
IIRC, you only get one controller per port for SATA. you'd have to do software, or build your own striping solution. (with several add-in boards to support 4 more HD's)
well it doesn't seem like not having a DNS adress translating service would really hurt you once you're connected and have eachother's IP addy, but as the next poster pointed out, it's probably cashed. still doesn't explain why the connection kept dropping.
hey, thanks! i'm suprised i didn't come across those before. i'll be sure to try these out tonight. muchos gracias!
there exists an emacs version of aim (tnt on sourceforge, which is well hidden), which allows you to access aim from the terminal. does anyone know of a standalone aim client that can be accessed viat the terminal?
and yes, i know of more than a few people who would find this useful. i'm looking at learning enough to code this myself, but google doesn't seem to bring up any matches.
i had the same problem also, and my room mate (whom i share a DSL connection with via dlink router) kept getting his AIM connection dropped every 3-4 minutes. of course, aim doesn't use DNS (so far as i know), so that might have been unrelated, seeing as how i never dropped a connection.
if i ever go through that area again, i'll be sure to. it's truly bizzare. so far the EPA hasn't tried to shut them down...yet.
actually, there's a space junk tracking facility somewhere in the pan handle of texas, at least, that's the radar sending station..... you'll see a flock of geese go flying past the mile long radar array and all of a sudden the whole flying V will start spiraling downwards till they nearly hit the ground, then suddenly fly upwards again, and spiral back down again until one of them finally spirals out of the radar's effective field, at which point the rest of the geese (or whatever) see one goose flying normally and follow after him. very strange.
if 120GHz band has been avalible to the public, why did we ever bother mucking about in the 2.4GHz range, when we could have had 100megabit wireless (easily) @ the 120GHz range? not to mention (i'm guessing) a hella lot more range, and let's go ahead and put 500mw-900mw (i think the legal limit is 1w?) sending capability.... this just makes 801.11b look like child's play.... or am i missing somthing here?
conveniently, IBM will let you use their innovations for a small price, called a royalty. i can't imagine it being more than $10/unit.
if you want somthing like an ibook, just get one. the only thing macs can't do as well as pc's is games, and you're not likely to play many games on an 12" ibook screen anyways.
i think the statistic was that the unibomber lived on $20 a month. of course, he didn't move around alot.
actually popular science quoted average air speed @ 100 mph after you factor in security, time spent on the ground, taking off, travling, landing, ect... of course it skyrockets to i think 250 mph when you take a direct flight