you could probably do this with xeroradiography, just set the power setting to high, and come up with a system that allows you to focus accurately per page. xeroradiography uses much simpler and readily avalible processes/materials than a modern MRI. just depends on the density of the ink they use relative to the paper.
I looked awfully hard at getting an ipod touch instead of a netbook for my month long trip in south america. I ended up going with the netbook, but I looked over my options between the two devices long and hard before ending up going with the netbook. I'm sort of glad I got the netbook, I ran into some kiwis (new zealanders) who had ipod touches and one had a bricked touch, and the other had his bricked earlier in the trip. A bricked internet device is no fun when you're using it to book hostels in the next city on your trip. Had the touch included some sort of slide out physical keyboard, I might have just overlooked the bricking problem and bought one anyways.
Pretty much this. If you can cook the books so you're showing a net loss, you're paying a whole lot less in taxes. If MS wasn't making money hand over fist with the Xbox product line, they would have abandoned it years ago like Sega did with the dreamcast. Just a quick glance at their marketing budget should give you an idea of how well they're doing.
That might be true, but in a country of 300+ million, netflix killed the brick and mortar video rental industry. It's gotten to the point where driving by a still-open blockbuster elicits remarks like "look! a blockbuster!" usually followed by comments like "i haven't seen one of those in ages. i guess netflix really DID kill blockbuster". From what I can tell, in other first world countries, many companies have used their business model to great success as well. Places like Brazil and Uruguay still have video rental shops, but in ten years time I think streaming video will have significant market penetration to the point that it begins to hurt 2nd/3rd world country video rental shops as well.
I think the HP Mini 111 has an upgrade screen with a broadcom video accelerator to push 720p content fullscreen. They exist, but they're about 50% more expensive than your regular, run of the mill HP Mini 110, which is already 300-350 depending on price and features. I think for the most part they're only avalible online. I've never seen one retail.
ATI's new cards are incredible for their bang for the buck; it's no suprise ATI is having trouble keeping their 5-series cards in stock. My computer uses a 380w power supply which will power my 8600gt, but I'd have to upgrade my power supply (Which probably means a new case as well) to get a modern 150w+ video card to run in there with no problem. I doubt I'd buy a new Nvidia until they release a new core that isn't just a variation of the 8800gts core. $150 buys you a lot of video card these days from ATI. Nvidia, not so much.
It's supposed to compete with the 100s of 7 and 10" netbook sized tablets that will be coming on the market here in the next 3-8 months by other manufacturers that have already been announced to some degree. Nobody will confirm exact specifics until apple announces theirs, since they want to be able to buy the B and C quality parts at a discount that don't pass the test to be included in the apple tablet. Once they have the parts, they buy time in the production schedule of factories set up on contract for overflow production of the iTablet, so they don't have to pay full price for tooling costs. It's official, tablets are coming on the market; the main thing is that nobody knows what you'll use them for, or if anyone will buy them.
Probably about double or triple the size of an iPhone's battery. I fully expect this to be a glorified 10" ipod touch/iphone running the same/a variant of the iPhone OS. They don't use a whole lot of power in standby mode.
am... am I reading this in 2010? does intel even sell core 1 anything anymore? Core 1 came and went in about six months. Back in 2006 or so. You can buy a core 2 solo on the budget end, but nowadays you can buy something like a Dell Zino for $350 in basically a mac mini formfactor that will push 1080p no problem. Where have you been the last two years? Core 1 Solos had no problem pushing 1080p with a proper video card, a Core2 solo (when you can find them) shouldn't have any problem either with a more midrange card. Your post is the most bizzare piece of FUD I've read in a long time.
The largest segment is technically 1280x1024 @ 21.2%, typically the highest resolution available on consumer CRTs. The next largest is 1680x1050 @ 19.98%, which is most definitely an LCD display. Technically it's not 1080p, but it's damn close for most applications. If you include all the resolutions from 1680x1050 all the way up to 1900x1200, HD, or "damn close HD" makes up a full third (36.69%) of the displays being used. The 8800 is no doubt a stellar card (I wish I'd bought one two years ago, instead of a "hold me over" 8600 until the next gen was released) but with a modern display, the 8800 is only mediocre at best for most people's gaming use.
I'm sort of the opinion that swap files are a sort of vegistal device left over from the pre-2004 days where >512mb or RAM was relatively uncommon. Nowadays most people's computers come with their motherboards maxed out at 2gb, and power users hunt for motherboards that will support north of 12GB (yeah 64 bit means a theroretical max of umpteen terabytes^64, but most motherboards still only do 2-4gb, some will do 8, and your options drop exponentially as you go above 12GB). For even the power user (Excluding graphic designers and physicists), 16 gb is difficult to fill in this day and age.
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I think most of the FWD maintenance horror stories of saabs and other cars from that era is simply the auto industry cutting it's teeth on FWD designs. My neon required some specialized tool to just change the timing belt, which also powered the water pump and required a lot of what you mention. I think they would have changed it if they could have, but it takes a lot of money to redesign, retool, and then still support the previous design with replacement parts. In the last 15 years the newer designs show drastic improvements in serviceability. 1975-1987 or so were the dark ages for FWD engineering (unless you were the japanese for some reason).
HP makes the mini with a pci-e mini hardware acceleration card built in. It only works with some particular software, but it meets all your requirements, including manufacturer point of origin.
If swearing on nationally broadcast (i.e. not cable, sattelite, private networks) is the worst thing you can think of in terms of hindering free speech, I think we're doing pretty good. I'm proud that if you want to, you can walk to any intersection, hop on a soap box, crate, what have you, and rant about Obama is a secret muslim crypto-nazi sent by aliens from mars to destroy the USA or what have you, and the police will simply listen and laugh. After voting in the last presidential election and listening to both sides rant continuously, freely, seeing the Iranian elections hijacked and dissenters sacked, I am both proud of and appreciate what we have here.
If you disagree with the current politician's policies, run on your own platform. Simple as that. If the population agrees with you, change occurs and problem solved. If you're actively censored, you can retaliate with force, and you should ultimately be supported by the courts if your efforts fail. Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and all that. Bitching about being put down by the man is worthless. i.e. Put Up or Shut Up:)
Having subtitles appear in the foreground near where the actor is on screen, and then slowly "sinking" to the back of the depth of field before disappearing would be pretty damn cool. I'm sure if there was some sort of standardized system, the anime folk would have a hay-day with that technology (especially if you could separate the subtitles from the 2D animation).
I don't think you can resolve 3D space particularly well beyond 20 feet or so (you can, but it's much less effective, and your eyes would need to be much further apart to do so). I imagine it would be pretty disorienting to go from a closeup of a football game where the linebackers hiking to the QB, and then suddenly a wide angle shot (Which is basically 2D), and then zoom in on the 3D shot of the wide receiver catching the football in 3D, then to a 2D shot of the crowd going wild and so on. 3D sportscasting might be effectively limited to sports like boxing, or pool where the camera is only 10 feet or so (perceived) from the action, with lots of closeups. 120hz, 1080p fencing would be pretty cool to watch.
I'm from the US, and I was under the assumption that this was the case already, with Australia following closely behind the UK with their banning of various games and censoring of the internet. It's that sort of nanny state mentality that has me looking at places like New Zealand and Canada for studying abroad, rather than AUS or the UK. Your government's totalitarian censorship isn't just hurting your citizens; it's actively creating mental roadblocks in future businessmen/women who might consider doing business with your country in the future.
So then Viking 1 and 2 were just built by Chuck Norris, so they'd be able to rocket through space and land on Mars with zero deacceleration and function perfectly and do good science. Back in the 1970s. Before the "airbag" invention used on the pathfinder mission.
p.s. you're a fucking idiot, i hope your account gets banned and you die a horrible death. at least reference random wikipedia articles so it looks like you know what you're BSing about. even a cursory glance at previous mars missions would have told you your assumptions are completely wrong. eat shit and die, and don't come back until you're willing to backup your shitty posts without at least negligible proof that you're not talking out of your ass.
here's your proof that you're wrong btw (note both parachute and thrusters were used, successfully, almost forty years ago) http://www.solarviews.com/eng/viking.htm
What are you talking about we have more trees now than we did 100 years ago. We have so many trees here we're chopping them up for fill material and shipping that off to asia in big giant boats because it's worthless (in price) here as lumber to build houses -- have you been to home depot recently to price out a 2x4???. We're a net positive tree exporting country. Of course we're in a position to bitch about the rainforest.
For a fairly accurate back of the napkin guesstimate, you could google for an illegal outdoor marijuana growing operation article in CA, figure out what the acreage was, the total product confiscated, and then double that amount (they only sell the flowers and leaves, right?). I'd wager that a hemp plant bred for fiber could produce the same amount of weight of fibrous material as the pot plants are bred for flowering material.
Typically the exchange rate is 1 family (two adults, two 12 year old kids, a dog) == 1 adult tree (30ft high). Most every house (not including AZ, NV, UT) seems to have at least one or two trees, so that covers your biological processes; anything after that presumably would count towards offsetting your morning commute (but probably no where near all of it)
So then why are trees still growing in Washington state after 3-5 clearcut cycles in the past century? How is it even possible for new trees to grow at all in clearcut old growth forests? Aren't all the nutrients "used up"? How come forestry companies don't fertilize their forest crops every year? Where have you ever read this be the case?
Most "farmed forests" are full of wildlife. It's not like they burn everything to the ground after they clearcut an area, and they don't clearcut areas right next to each other. I'm not sure what kind of clearcut operations they're doing in Gainesville, FL but I can promise you I've driven through the "Farmed" areas in Washington State, and it's not uncommon to see deer and yes, even bald eagles from the road. Animals in the forested area migrate about a mile from the clearcut area, and after a year or so new animals relocate to the land they used to call home. The forest (both plant and animial) grows back incredibly fast. Every spring and summer we'd spend three days cutting back the forest that kept encroaching upon our back yard... there was about a 10' boundary where our yard met the forest, and every spring we'd clear it out, and by the end of summer it'd need clearing again. Wyerhauser (the main logging company in WA) is in the business of making money, and they've been foresting the area for probably 100 years with negligible problems with wildlife. Most wildlife problems in forest come from overhunting/fishing, not logging.
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you could probably do this with xeroradiography, just set the power setting to high, and come up with a system that allows you to focus accurately per page. xeroradiography uses much simpler and readily avalible processes/materials than a modern MRI. just depends on the density of the ink they use relative to the paper.
I looked awfully hard at getting an ipod touch instead of a netbook for my month long trip in south america. I ended up going with the netbook, but I looked over my options between the two devices long and hard before ending up going with the netbook. I'm sort of glad I got the netbook, I ran into some kiwis (new zealanders) who had ipod touches and one had a bricked touch, and the other had his bricked earlier in the trip. A bricked internet device is no fun when you're using it to book hostels in the next city on your trip. Had the touch included some sort of slide out physical keyboard, I might have just overlooked the bricking problem and bought one anyways.
Pretty much this. If you can cook the books so you're showing a net loss, you're paying a whole lot less in taxes. If MS wasn't making money hand over fist with the Xbox product line, they would have abandoned it years ago like Sega did with the dreamcast. Just a quick glance at their marketing budget should give you an idea of how well they're doing.
That might be true, but in a country of 300+ million, netflix killed the brick and mortar video rental industry. It's gotten to the point where driving by a still-open blockbuster elicits remarks like "look! a blockbuster!" usually followed by comments like "i haven't seen one of those in ages. i guess netflix really DID kill blockbuster". From what I can tell, in other first world countries, many companies have used their business model to great success as well. Places like Brazil and Uruguay still have video rental shops, but in ten years time I think streaming video will have significant market penetration to the point that it begins to hurt 2nd/3rd world country video rental shops as well.
I think the HP Mini 111 has an upgrade screen with a broadcom video accelerator to push 720p content fullscreen. They exist, but they're about 50% more expensive than your regular, run of the mill HP Mini 110, which is already 300-350 depending on price and features. I think for the most part they're only avalible online. I've never seen one retail.
Yep, it's an ipod touch DX, maybe with 3G.
ATI's new cards are incredible for their bang for the buck; it's no suprise ATI is having trouble keeping their 5-series cards in stock. My computer uses a 380w power supply which will power my 8600gt, but I'd have to upgrade my power supply (Which probably means a new case as well) to get a modern 150w+ video card to run in there with no problem. I doubt I'd buy a new Nvidia until they release a new core that isn't just a variation of the 8800gts core. $150 buys you a lot of video card these days from ATI. Nvidia, not so much.
It's supposed to compete with the 100s of 7 and 10" netbook sized tablets that will be coming on the market here in the next 3-8 months by other manufacturers that have already been announced to some degree. Nobody will confirm exact specifics until apple announces theirs, since they want to be able to buy the B and C quality parts at a discount that don't pass the test to be included in the apple tablet. Once they have the parts, they buy time in the production schedule of factories set up on contract for overflow production of the iTablet, so they don't have to pay full price for tooling costs. It's official, tablets are coming on the market; the main thing is that nobody knows what you'll use them for, or if anyone will buy them.
Probably about double or triple the size of an iPhone's battery. I fully expect this to be a glorified 10" ipod touch/iphone running the same/a variant of the iPhone OS. They don't use a whole lot of power in standby mode.
am... am I reading this in 2010? does intel even sell core 1 anything anymore? Core 1 came and went in about six months. Back in 2006 or so. You can buy a core 2 solo on the budget end, but nowadays you can buy something like a Dell Zino for $350 in basically a mac mini formfactor that will push 1080p no problem. Where have you been the last two years? Core 1 Solos had no problem pushing 1080p with a proper video card, a Core2 solo (when you can find them) shouldn't have any problem either with a more midrange card. Your post is the most bizzare piece of FUD I've read in a long time.
The largest segment is technically 1280x1024 @ 21.2%, typically the highest resolution available on consumer CRTs. The next largest is 1680x1050 @ 19.98%, which is most definitely an LCD display. Technically it's not 1080p, but it's damn close for most applications. If you include all the resolutions from 1680x1050 all the way up to 1900x1200, HD, or "damn close HD" makes up a full third (36.69%) of the displays being used. The 8800 is no doubt a stellar card (I wish I'd bought one two years ago, instead of a "hold me over" 8600 until the next gen was released) but with a modern display, the 8800 is only mediocre at best for most people's gaming use.
I'm sort of the opinion that swap files are a sort of vegistal device left over from the pre-2004 days where >512mb or RAM was relatively uncommon. Nowadays most people's computers come with their motherboards maxed out at 2gb, and power users hunt for motherboards that will support north of 12GB (yeah 64 bit means a theroretical max of umpteen terabytes^64, but most motherboards still only do 2-4gb, some will do 8, and your options drop exponentially as you go above 12GB). For even the power user (Excluding graphic designers and physicists), 16 gb is difficult to fill in this day and age.
I think most of the FWD maintenance horror stories of saabs and other cars from that era is simply the auto industry cutting it's teeth on FWD designs. My neon required some specialized tool to just change the timing belt, which also powered the water pump and required a lot of what you mention. I think they would have changed it if they could have, but it takes a lot of money to redesign, retool, and then still support the previous design with replacement parts. In the last 15 years the newer designs show drastic improvements in serviceability. 1975-1987 or so were the dark ages for FWD engineering (unless you were the japanese for some reason).
HP makes the mini with a pci-e mini hardware acceleration card built in. It only works with some particular software, but it meets all your requirements, including manufacturer point of origin.
If swearing on nationally broadcast (i.e. not cable, sattelite, private networks) is the worst thing you can think of in terms of hindering free speech, I think we're doing pretty good. I'm proud that if you want to, you can walk to any intersection, hop on a soap box, crate, what have you, and rant about Obama is a secret muslim crypto-nazi sent by aliens from mars to destroy the USA or what have you, and the police will simply listen and laugh. After voting in the last presidential election and listening to both sides rant continuously, freely, seeing the Iranian elections hijacked and dissenters sacked, I am both proud of and appreciate what we have here.
If you disagree with the current politician's policies, run on your own platform. Simple as that. If the population agrees with you, change occurs and problem solved. If you're actively censored, you can retaliate with force, and you should ultimately be supported by the courts if your efforts fail. Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and all that. Bitching about being put down by the man is worthless. i.e. Put Up or Shut Up :)
Having subtitles appear in the foreground near where the actor is on screen, and then slowly "sinking" to the back of the depth of field before disappearing would be pretty damn cool. I'm sure if there was some sort of standardized system, the anime folk would have a hay-day with that technology (especially if you could separate the subtitles from the 2D animation).
I don't think you can resolve 3D space particularly well beyond 20 feet or so (you can, but it's much less effective, and your eyes would need to be much further apart to do so). I imagine it would be pretty disorienting to go from a closeup of a football game where the linebackers hiking to the QB, and then suddenly a wide angle shot (Which is basically 2D), and then zoom in on the 3D shot of the wide receiver catching the football in 3D, then to a 2D shot of the crowd going wild and so on. 3D sportscasting might be effectively limited to sports like boxing, or pool where the camera is only 10 feet or so (perceived) from the action, with lots of closeups. 120hz, 1080p fencing would be pretty cool to watch.
I'm from the US, and I was under the assumption that this was the case already, with Australia following closely behind the UK with their banning of various games and censoring of the internet. It's that sort of nanny state mentality that has me looking at places like New Zealand and Canada for studying abroad, rather than AUS or the UK. Your government's totalitarian censorship isn't just hurting your citizens; it's actively creating mental roadblocks in future businessmen/women who might consider doing business with your country in the future.
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So then Viking 1 and 2 were just built by Chuck Norris, so they'd be able to rocket through space and land on Mars with zero deacceleration and function perfectly and do good science. Back in the 1970s. Before the "airbag" invention used on the pathfinder mission.
p.s. you're a fucking idiot, i hope your account gets banned and you die a horrible death. at least reference random wikipedia articles so it looks like you know what you're BSing about. even a cursory glance at previous mars missions would have told you your assumptions are completely wrong. eat shit and die, and don't come back until you're willing to backup your shitty posts without at least negligible proof that you're not talking out of your ass.
here's your proof that you're wrong btw (note both parachute and thrusters were used, successfully, almost forty years ago) http://www.solarviews.com/eng/viking.htm
What are you talking about we have more trees now than we did 100 years ago. We have so many trees here we're chopping them up for fill material and shipping that off to asia in big giant boats because it's worthless (in price) here as lumber to build houses -- have you been to home depot recently to price out a 2x4???. We're a net positive tree exporting country. Of course we're in a position to bitch about the rainforest.
For a fairly accurate back of the napkin guesstimate, you could google for an illegal outdoor marijuana growing operation article in CA, figure out what the acreage was, the total product confiscated, and then double that amount (they only sell the flowers and leaves, right?). I'd wager that a hemp plant bred for fiber could produce the same amount of weight of fibrous material as the pot plants are bred for flowering material.
Typically the exchange rate is 1 family (two adults, two 12 year old kids, a dog) == 1 adult tree (30ft high). Most every house (not including AZ, NV, UT) seems to have at least one or two trees, so that covers your biological processes; anything after that presumably would count towards offsetting your morning commute (but probably no where near all of it)
So then why are trees still growing in Washington state after 3-5 clearcut cycles in the past century? How is it even possible for new trees to grow at all in clearcut old growth forests? Aren't all the nutrients "used up"? How come forestry companies don't fertilize their forest crops every year? Where have you ever read this be the case?
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Most "farmed forests" are full of wildlife. It's not like they burn everything to the ground after they clearcut an area, and they don't clearcut areas right next to each other. I'm not sure what kind of clearcut operations they're doing in Gainesville, FL but I can promise you I've driven through the "Farmed" areas in Washington State, and it's not uncommon to see deer and yes, even bald eagles from the road. Animals in the forested area migrate about a mile from the clearcut area, and after a year or so new animals relocate to the land they used to call home. The forest (both plant and animial) grows back incredibly fast. Every spring and summer we'd spend three days cutting back the forest that kept encroaching upon our back yard... there was about a 10' boundary where our yard met the forest, and every spring we'd clear it out, and by the end of summer it'd need clearing again. Wyerhauser (the main logging company in WA) is in the business of making money, and they've been foresting the area for probably 100 years with negligible problems with wildlife. Most wildlife problems in forest come from overhunting/fishing, not logging.