Probably because they're multiplexing most of that data (TV) on their internal network. 6GB/hr of unique data requires a connection to the outside internet.
John Carmack gives a talk every year after the keynote at quakecon about what's going on at Armadillo Aerospace. His annual talks are on youtube, and if I run out of things to do at work later, I'll find you the link.
John Carmack (id software, armadillo aerospace) was pointing out that NASA was shipping their rocket scientists out to Armadillo Aerospace's test lab* to see what rockets actually look like, because NASA hasn't actually done any research or construction of their own in so long, they have nothing to train their incoming scientists with.
*by test lab, I mean a hangar in the middle of a grassy field, but hey, it has rockets in there, so call it what you will
8 will likely be a disaster, but 9 will probably be worth looking in to, as they fix/refine the formula quite a bit. I haven't played around with 8 since the developer preview, but I suspect they've learned a lot since last year, and the RTM is probably head and shoulders above that version.Give them two more years for 9 and they might have a usable product that power users don't completely hate (see also: vista vs 7)
There's a guy, he has his own website called "Orion's Hammer" that details how he made an AR15 lower receiver out of a blue plastic cutting board he bought from Target/Walmart that had been laminated and heat welded using a heat gun, then hand-machined in his garage. This was more of a "hey, they machine these out of solid blocks of aluminum, but it doesn't actually take much stress, I wonder if...." kind of situation. Full write up is on his website, which you can google for.
Yep. My brand new 12.5", x230 Thinkpad pulls 65w - that is, 20V @ 3.25A. Or at least that's what's printed on my power brick.
It's the same brick they use for the T530 with a 15" screen, i7 and discreet video chipset, so I suspect my machine uses considerably less than what the brick is actually rated for.
My 2009 era netbook has a 20w adapter, and my 2012 "nettop" with the new intel N10 atom chipset pulls something like 7.1w at idle (makes for a great home file server).
So that's three machines that - combined - pull less than 90 watts
It may depend on what city you live in. Different cities' departments are recruiting different personality types by various means. Certain personality types clash with others, this is a fact of life. You can't just make baseless claims that someone isn't "nationalist" enough just because they don't have a favorable opinion of the police based on a single post.
They're getting very, very close to that price point. The VIA mini/micro ATX boards have run about $75 for about five years now. There's a number of $45 motherboards that with processor and ram clock in around $65. I really don't think you can get a whole lot cheaper than that and still reliably run windows.
Most of those machines I described will run Quake 3 at 60-120fps.
I remember putting together an intel system long ago, the "thermal paste" was roughly equivalent to a piece of double sided sticky tape. I guess whatever was contained in the tape would melt and fill in the cracks similar to paste. This was during the Celeron 300 or Pentium 4 era, if I recall correctly.
I imagine that they're hoping to take a total of $100 total revenue per person from the game. That's a rough average of the people who pay $70 vs the people who pay $70 + the cost of all the DLC (another $50) over the course of the year.
The typically positioned the space shuttle so that debris would impact the tiles rather than the windshield after a micrometeorite left a pinprick in the 1"+ thick windshield and embedded itself in the pilot's headrest durring a mission. Shit happens. Stuff is flying everywhere at absolutely insane speeds. Luckily, once you get beyond the asteroid belt, you're generally good to go. We've had a couple of probes die randomly in transit, about half of them are chalked up to human error, the other are suspected to have been hit by something nasty that we didn't see ahead of time. Still jumping up and down to get that one way ticket to mars?;)
To clarify, high temperatures, low humidty. Dallas and Houston can get away with 112F takeoff temps because you can cut our air with a knife. DFW is only at 650ft above sea level. Phoenix is twice as high, with half as much water in the air (humidity).
We already have technology to extract oil from plants, and with little refinement, turn it in to bio diesel. There's already a process to turn solid plant matter in to crude oil - but it's only price competitive at $120/gallon. Lots and lots of alternative energy options are available - it's just that they aren't as cheap or cheaper than oil until oil hits the $120-200/barrel range. The "argument" against wind energy relies on the same principle.
Also, the US has something like 300 years worth of coal. We're the Saudi Arabia of coal.
Exactly. Our mighty air network in the south (DFW in particular) is paved with concrete. As are most of our roads. Concrete has a much higher lifespan, and in our soft gooey Dallas clay soil, doesn't warp over time.
Most of our roads - particularly major roads and intersections - are made of concrete for this same reason. Old country asphalt roads without a proper bed underneath them end up with huge humps and bumps as cars drive over them in hot weather. We learned our lessons years ago.
We ordered new "god machines", as my manager called them. Really high end, dual quad core xenons, 16gb ram (back when ram cost something), the whole nine yards. CEO did not like Win 7 for some reason. Looked different, or something. Personal preference. Fear of the unknown. Who knows. All the machines got wiped upon arrival, installed XP. The smaller the company is, the more direct power some people can exert in situations like that.
Currently our machines are having to bridge a legacy system (and a backup legacy system that's even older) and we're having teething issues with Win 2008, as the company standardized on 2000 sometime in 2004 or so, before UAC was baked in to the OS.
Lots of weird reasons. Some of them have to do with people's personalities, others have to do with bizzare technical requirements where it's easier to just install XP in the short term rather than finding out wether or not XP compatibility mode really will work with your software. Especially if they're headless devices.
I'm going to miss Don Pettit's videos. 1lb instruction booklet on how to use legos for static electricity science video that cost $10,000 to put in space? Toss it off screen, because legos were meant to be built with creativity, not instructions! Gotta love that guy. Never too serious, always "holy shit! I'm in space!". Really brings some excitement and interest to spaceflight, which the rest of NASA seems to smother.
My ye olde Blackberry Curve 8300 predated widespread GPS in phones, but was still able to fix my position in cities within 300ft or so (good enough to get "directions from my location to ____") based on signal strength from nearby towers. This is a known technology.
Granted, position on the highway is terrible (usually within 2 miles on the interstate out in the country) but as long as your mapping program can figure out which interstate you're on, it can generally give useful directions. Augmented reality apps are less useful outside of urban cores (unless you write a cow-spotting app...)
He has several patents to his name in the field of radar technology and still works in retirement with Raytheon as a consultant. I have no reason to question his experiences on the matter.
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Probably because they're multiplexing most of that data (TV) on their internal network. 6GB/hr of unique data requires a connection to the outside internet.
John Carmack gives a talk every year after the keynote at quakecon about what's going on at Armadillo Aerospace. His annual talks are on youtube, and if I run out of things to do at work later, I'll find you the link.
John Carmack (id software, armadillo aerospace) was pointing out that NASA was shipping their rocket scientists out to Armadillo Aerospace's test lab* to see what rockets actually look like, because NASA hasn't actually done any research or construction of their own in so long, they have nothing to train their incoming scientists with.
*by test lab, I mean a hangar in the middle of a grassy field, but hey, it has rockets in there, so call it what you will
8 will likely be a disaster, but 9 will probably be worth looking in to, as they fix/refine the formula quite a bit. I haven't played around with 8 since the developer preview, but I suspect they've learned a lot since last year, and the RTM is probably head and shoulders above that version.Give them two more years for 9 and they might have a usable product that power users don't completely hate (see also: vista vs 7)
Hanging my post off yours.
There's a guy, he has his own website called "Orion's Hammer" that details how he made an AR15 lower receiver out of a blue plastic cutting board he bought from Target/Walmart that had been laminated and heat welded using a heat gun, then hand-machined in his garage. This was more of a "hey, they machine these out of solid blocks of aluminum, but it doesn't actually take much stress, I wonder if...." kind of situation. Full write up is on his website, which you can google for.
Video of him firing the gun with plastic receiver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3chSzLxPuzU
Yep. My brand new 12.5", x230 Thinkpad pulls 65w - that is, 20V @ 3.25A. Or at least that's what's printed on my power brick.
It's the same brick they use for the T530 with a 15" screen, i7 and discreet video chipset, so I suspect my machine uses considerably less than what the brick is actually rated for.
My 2009 era netbook has a 20w adapter, and my 2012 "nettop" with the new intel N10 atom chipset pulls something like 7.1w at idle (makes for a great home file server).
So that's three machines that - combined - pull less than 90 watts
It may depend on what city you live in. Different cities' departments are recruiting different personality types by various means. Certain personality types clash with others, this is a fact of life. You can't just make baseless claims that someone isn't "nationalist" enough just because they don't have a favorable opinion of the police based on a single post.
Came here to post this. Submitter got his spelling all wrong.
They're getting very, very close to that price point. The VIA mini/micro ATX boards have run about $75 for about five years now. There's a number of $45 motherboards that with processor and ram clock in around $65. I really don't think you can get a whole lot cheaper than that and still reliably run windows.
Most of those machines I described will run Quake 3 at 60-120fps.
Good luck getting your $0 reimbursement check from Canonical. You think it's difficult to get in touch with a US company... try a South African one!
Since you're a constitutional scholar, can you tell us why the federal wiretap law wouldn't apply here?
Thanks for the tip.
Slashdot has really gone uphill since CmdrTaco left.
I remember putting together an intel system long ago, the "thermal paste" was roughly equivalent to a piece of double sided sticky tape. I guess whatever was contained in the tape would melt and fill in the cracks similar to paste. This was during the Celeron 300 or Pentium 4 era, if I recall correctly.
I imagine that they're hoping to take a total of $100 total revenue per person from the game. That's a rough average of the people who pay $70 vs the people who pay $70 + the cost of all the DLC (another $50) over the course of the year.
The typically positioned the space shuttle so that debris would impact the tiles rather than the windshield after a micrometeorite left a pinprick in the 1"+ thick windshield and embedded itself in the pilot's headrest durring a mission. Shit happens. Stuff is flying everywhere at absolutely insane speeds. Luckily, once you get beyond the asteroid belt, you're generally good to go. We've had a couple of probes die randomly in transit, about half of them are chalked up to human error, the other are suspected to have been hit by something nasty that we didn't see ahead of time. Still jumping up and down to get that one way ticket to mars? ;)
To clarify, high temperatures, low humidty. Dallas and Houston can get away with 112F takeoff temps because you can cut our air with a knife. DFW is only at 650ft above sea level. Phoenix is twice as high, with half as much water in the air (humidity).
We already have technology to extract oil from plants, and with little refinement, turn it in to bio diesel. There's already a process to turn solid plant matter in to crude oil - but it's only price competitive at $120/gallon. Lots and lots of alternative energy options are available - it's just that they aren't as cheap or cheaper than oil until oil hits the $120-200/barrel range. The "argument" against wind energy relies on the same principle.
Also, the US has something like 300 years worth of coal. We're the Saudi Arabia of coal.
Exactly. Our mighty air network in the south (DFW in particular) is paved with concrete. As are most of our roads. Concrete has a much higher lifespan, and in our soft gooey Dallas clay soil, doesn't warp over time.
Most of our roads - particularly major roads and intersections - are made of concrete for this same reason. Old country asphalt roads without a proper bed underneath them end up with huge humps and bumps as cars drive over them in hot weather. We learned our lessons years ago.
We ordered new "god machines", as my manager called them. Really high end, dual quad core xenons, 16gb ram (back when ram cost something), the whole nine yards. CEO did not like Win 7 for some reason. Looked different, or something. Personal preference. Fear of the unknown. Who knows. All the machines got wiped upon arrival, installed XP. The smaller the company is, the more direct power some people can exert in situations like that.
Currently our machines are having to bridge a legacy system (and a backup legacy system that's even older) and we're having teething issues with Win 2008, as the company standardized on 2000 sometime in 2004 or so, before UAC was baked in to the OS.
Lots of weird reasons. Some of them have to do with people's personalities, others have to do with bizzare technical requirements where it's easier to just install XP in the short term rather than finding out wether or not XP compatibility mode really will work with your software. Especially if they're headless devices.
As an Agent of Chaos, as you call it, this is some of the best advice I've read here in quite some time (years). Cheers.
You misspelt "I probably read it on Reddit once"
I'm going to miss Don Pettit's videos. 1lb instruction booklet on how to use legos for static electricity science video that cost $10,000 to put in space? Toss it off screen, because legos were meant to be built with creativity, not instructions! Gotta love that guy. Never too serious, always "holy shit! I'm in space!". Really brings some excitement and interest to spaceflight, which the rest of NASA seems to smother.
In case you missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Ei6h3LVb0
My ye olde Blackberry Curve 8300 predated widespread GPS in phones, but was still able to fix my position in cities within 300ft or so (good enough to get "directions from my location to ____") based on signal strength from nearby towers. This is a known technology.
Granted, position on the highway is terrible (usually within 2 miles on the interstate out in the country) but as long as your mapping program can figure out which interstate you're on, it can generally give useful directions. Augmented reality apps are less useful outside of urban cores (unless you write a cow-spotting app...)
He has several patents to his name in the field of radar technology and still works in retirement with Raytheon as a consultant. I have no reason to question his experiences on the matter.
I've heard about politicians pissing away money on public projects, but this is really a watershed moment.