The reviewer doesn't measure the actual sound level that the psu generate under load. Instead, he takes the manufacturer's word for it that it's 14 dBa.
Mike Chin at www.silentpcreview.com writes a more credible review of a psu that has a 120 mm fan and it's cranking 22 dBa when the psu is drawing 215 watts. I find it very hard to believe that an 80 mm fan can move enough air to cool a loaded 300+ Watt psu while only generating 14dBa of noise.
This topic has barely 30 posts and several posts are already saying it's a Linux user who wrote it. That's a pretty amazing conclusion given the absence of any data.
Absence of data, hmmm....You guys wouldn't happen to work for sco would you?
Why on earth would you want to reverse engineer it yourself, do YOU have a set of probes ready to send?Because I'm curious about what information is being transferred back and forth across the net. What the heck do the null exception faults mean when there were 3 attempts to remotely execute local code? What ports does this app open and why? Minor questions of that ilk.
Why is the Maestro license so restrictive? De-compiling, reverse engineering, yada yada, are all disallowed by the license. Since the taxpayers paid for it, why isn't the software completely open?
My business partner has a Fujitsu P1100 Lifebook. It runs on Windows and takes quite awhile to boot up but once it's up, she never turns it off. When she's done using whatever program, she just closes the lid and it goes to sleep. When she needs to use it, she opens the lid and 10 seconds later she's back doing whatever she was when she last closed the lid. She bought the extra large battery so it'll run for 7 hours or so between charges. It's pretty neat.
The only downside is the screen is very small so if you're at all far sighted, it's hard to read. Not a problem for her so she's happy.
No you're right. Using tolls to pay for highways is not particularly clever. However, the downside to using gas taxes (or other taxes) to fund highways is that users view it as a free resource and use it accordingly. The London experiment is interesting in that it allows for the simplicity of tax funding to pay for the infrastructure and the concept of tolls to throttle usage.
You mention the Golden Gate. The bridge was built during the depression and funded by bonds which were to be repaid by tolls. The depression made it next to impossible to raise taxes so a self funded entity was needed. To make it possible for a public entity to sell bonds, the people behind the bridge construction formed a separate district whose sole purpose was to build and operate the bridge. The enabling legislation however, didn't provide for taxing authority - hence the tolls.
It's hard to imagine today but the bridge almost didn't get built because the district was having a difficult time during the depression finding an underwriter. The region north of the straits was pretty empty and there was a legitimate concern that there wouldn't be enough traffic to pay back the bonds. The organizers convinced Giannini, the founder of Bank of America and a San Francisco resident, to take the gamble. It took some guts on his part to do it.
Now that the bonds have been paid back, the money goes to fund maintenance as well as subsidize the ferry and bus lines. They continue to operate as a separate district unto themselves.
It's rather a unique concept, as everyone benifits from a good highway network, everyone payes in their little chunk. On the other hand, freeways get over crowded and there aren't enough funds to build more roads. Some of us value our time and are willing to pay for access to clear roadways.
In some places, you can't build more roads. London handled the congestion issue by charging a downtown toll. You drive into downtown London, you pay a fee. The idea appears to be working as congestion is down. Perhaps someone in London can comment?
You obviously haven't run a shipping department. I had two people pack every box that went out the door. One person packed, the other person checked counts. You would think one would do but people, being people, make mistakes. Counts would be off and the time it took to square things with the customer wasn't worth the labor savings of having just one person pack. We also had a crooked customer who scammed us a couple of times before we switched to double-person packing. The customer claimed we were short when the packer was sure she had double checked.
With RFID, the packer could have scanned the sealed box to verify that the box contained what it was supposed to and I could have assigned the second packer a different task. Our labor savings would have reduced our cost of goods which, believe it or not, in a competitive environment gets passed on to the customer.
You want cynicsm, try running a business and watch the government eat your cash balance. That makes you wonder why you bother.
You're right - three technologies were risky. Of the three, the only technology that failed was one of the two carbon-composite fuel tanks failed. The biggest carbon-composite structures ever made and one of them didn't work. The fact is that one of the tanks did work.
Aerospike worked and the heat shield tiles worked. Had there been funds for a 3rd fuel tank it's a 50/50 bet that the X-33 would have flown. That's a damn sight better than what we have now - zip.
You may think the X-33 was a piece of crap but I saw a good idea go down the tubes because it was underfunded. There were so many good ideas in that project:
Aerospike allowed for an ungimbaled engine mount. The X-33 was going to be steered by differental engine thrust.
The inconel heat shield tiles were easy to manufacture and mount.
The inconel heat shield tiles were tougher than the Shuttle's ceramic tiles
The lack of auxilliary stages meant a vastly reduced workforce was needed to turn the ship around for another flight. No need to go hunting for boosters, no need to refurbish boosters, no need to remount boosters.
The lack of boosters meant that there was zero chance of booster debris hitting the main ship.
To achieve all that required building a light ship so they went with a set of three conformal tanks that were going to be both the airframe and the fuel tanks. The tanks were to be tied together with carbon-composite spars which were unbelievably light. I held one and couldn't believe that it was strong enough until I saw it banged on a table. The table showed a dent but the spar was undamaged.
X-33 showed NASA can't build a shuttle replacement for the cost of a single shuttle launch. As long as NASA is chasing the ISS, that's money that could be used to build a cheaper rocket.
If you want a piece of crap, look no further than ISS. Pointless and worthless. Soon to be falling in an ocean near you. Check your local television listing - it'll be right after Hubble comes down in flames because NASA has its head screwed on backwards.
Moreover, Lockheed even decided that a SSTO program was too difficult right now, and that we need at least 2 stages to launch a manned shuttle-type craft into space.
X-33 was cancelled because the project didn't have enough money to cover a ruptured fuel tank. X-33 was funded on the assumption that every piece would work the first time. When the fuel tank blistered, there were no funds to try to build another fuel tank and the project was shit-canned. X-33's failure didn't prove that we can't yet build an SSTO, It proved that Goldin's cheaper-faster-better mantra wasn't going to work without being prepared to suffer inevitable setbacks when new tech breaks.
Had the X-33's fuel tank held together we just might have pulled it off. There were so many good ideas in that project that it was a shame to see it die. What we learned is NASA doesn't have the fortitude to see something through when the going gets tough.
You mean the O'Keefe who opened his speech to the JPL-Rover team with "We Did It!"? Did you notice the "Who's we white man?" response from the crowd? Nobody cheered becouse O'Keefe was claiming credit for something he had nothing to do with.
Maybe you meant the O'Keefe who held NASA accountable for refusing to look through a telescope to see if Columbia was damaged? Or maybe the O'Keefe who urged NASA to go 24/7 to get a rescue shuttle in place? Did you mean that O'Keefe?
Given his miserable performance on choosing the worthless ISS over the priceless Hubble, it's clear he'll gut JPL at the first opportunity. I'm so pissed at Bush for killing Hubble, pushing ABM, running a half trillion $ deficit that I would consider voting for Hillary - something I would have laughed at 2 years ago.
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The Americas were discovered and colonized due to economic factors. Spain financed Columbus in the hopes of finding a cheaper route to Asia. The Conquistadors were primarily exploring for wealth, which they found in abundance. Land, resources, power were all factors that drove the colonization of the New World. Until the Moon and Mars demonstrate that there are similar payoffs to be had, colonizing them is going to be a tough sell.
Some might say robots can do it for less. They would be partially right. Robots have a ways to go before they can move over and observe unfamiliar terrain as well as a trained human. One of the painful lessons JPL learned when they sent a prototype rover out to look for life was it missed a plant because the plant was just outside the rover's field of view.
One technique we used back in the 1800's was to give away land to whomever would go West. 160 acres to anyone who would build a house and occupy it. The Union Pacific and Central Pacific were driven by greed to build the transcontinental railroad. They not only got government backed financing, they also got land and anything on it. So while the Union is fighting the Civil War, it's also driving the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. The Union could do both because the railroad didn't cost the Union anything. The land had zero value because no one was there and the bonds got paid off by the railroads. California gold and free land were a huge incentive to risk your life crossing the Humboldt sink or Death Valley to look for that perfect piece of land to call home. Seems to me that if a nation made a similar offer of lunar soil and financing, we'd see a lot more activity than we have to date. We won't know what's of value on the Moon and on Mars until people have poked it all over.
Your answers are fine however there is the slight problem that the machine is going to die in the next 3 to 6 months. The original Mars landers went for 6-7 years instead of 6 months.
I would really like a clear explanation as to why they chose solar over nuclear for their power feed. With nuclear they could have taken their time AND gone looking for the Beagle. With solar, they'll be lucky to see much more than they can see right now. Plus, they wouldn't be wasting time with power budget meetings allocating the few watts they have. I get the feeling some committee was a little too Politically Correct.
My father had a large format Kodak Medalist. He took it to a Rose Bowl game one year and photographed the crowd on the other side of the field. When he developed the picture he enlarged the image until he could pick out individuals on the other side of the field. He told me that there was enough detail in the people's faces that you could recognize them if you knew them.
I'm sure the MPAA has audits of the process to prove that from creation to packaging nobody interfered with the disc, and from there put it in a tamper-evident seal that if it arived at the actor's address broken he should have reported immediately...
Try reading this screener's blog. DVD's left on doorsteps, arrive by regular mail, etc. Yep, the process is carefully audited alright.
It's not that Microsoft would be worried about losing sales to IBM so much as IBM's move is an endorsement of Linux. By extending Win/98 support, Microsoft hedges its bet by being able to offer price sensitive clients an option to XP. Conceivably, Microsoft could license Win/98 for free, or next to free, with an eye towards stemming the flow to Linux in places like Mexico or Peru. Once they stop supporting Win98, they wouldn't be able to give it away.
Twenty years ago, I worked as part of a large team on an air defense project. There was one guy on the team whose job was "software enforcer." He was supposed to make sure we adhered to this new fangled idea called structured programming. His job was about as close to a sinecure as I've come across.
He had so much free time (we already knew what was expected so we didn't really need his input) that he took to gambling. Card counting in blackjack was a new idea then so he spent most of his work time simulating various counting strategies. On the weekends, he'd fly to Vegas and test his various strategies. He got the house to fund his "research" by signing a chit for his chips. To cover what he was doing, he'd cash in his winnings for cash and then pay off his chit at the end of the month. As far as the casino was concerned, this guy was a goldmine because they didn't have a mechanism to see that he was taking cash out the door instead of settling his weekly bill. They just saw the money flow in at the end of the month when he settled. Net result was he got a lot of comped flights to Vegas. He didn't enjoy the gambling because it was monotonous but the positive cash flow was good enough to keep him going back for more.
Had the casinos had rfid embedded chips, they would have been able to track the money flow better and realized what he was up to a lot sooner than they eventually did.
Almost all non-manned projects will done away with or rolled into the manned program if appropriate.
The projects that have delivered the most bang for the buck will be the first ones to go. Compton's gone because Nasa didn't want to continue funding it. They took a lot of heat for that. Now NASA can blame bush when Hubble and Chandra come flaming out of the sky.
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Mike Chin at www.silentpcreview.com writes a more credible review of a psu that has a 120 mm fan and it's cranking 22 dBa when the psu is drawing 215 watts. I find it very hard to believe that an 80 mm fan can move enough air to cool a loaded 300+ Watt psu while only generating 14dBa of noise.
Unbelievable waste of a nice computer.
Absence of data, hmmm....You guys wouldn't happen to work for sco would you?
Why on earth would you want to reverse engineer it yourself, do YOU have a set of probes ready to send?Because I'm curious about what information is being transferred back and forth across the net. What the heck do the null exception faults mean when there were 3 attempts to remotely execute local code? What ports does this app open and why? Minor questions of that ilk.
Why is the Maestro license so restrictive? De-compiling, reverse engineering, yada yada, are all disallowed by the license. Since the taxpayers paid for it, why isn't the software completely open?
The only downside is the screen is very small so if you're at all far sighted, it's hard to read. Not a problem for her so she's happy.
You mention the Golden Gate. The bridge was built during the depression and funded by bonds which were to be repaid by tolls. The depression made it next to impossible to raise taxes so a self funded entity was needed. To make it possible for a public entity to sell bonds, the people behind the bridge construction formed a separate district whose sole purpose was to build and operate the bridge. The enabling legislation however, didn't provide for taxing authority - hence the tolls.
It's hard to imagine today but the bridge almost didn't get built because the district was having a difficult time during the depression finding an underwriter. The region north of the straits was pretty empty and there was a legitimate concern that there wouldn't be enough traffic to pay back the bonds. The organizers convinced Giannini, the founder of Bank of America and a San Francisco resident, to take the gamble. It took some guts on his part to do it.
Now that the bonds have been paid back, the money goes to fund maintenance as well as subsidize the ferry and bus lines. They continue to operate as a separate district unto themselves.
In some places, you can't build more roads. London handled the congestion issue by charging a downtown toll. You drive into downtown London, you pay a fee. The idea appears to be working as congestion is down. Perhaps someone in London can comment?
With RFID, the packer could have scanned the sealed box to verify that the box contained what it was supposed to and I could have assigned the second packer a different task. Our labor savings would have reduced our cost of goods which, believe it or not, in a competitive environment gets passed on to the customer.
You want cynicsm, try running a business and watch the government eat your cash balance. That makes you wonder why you bother.
Well that explains what the guy a few cubicles over was yelling about.
Wasn't there a Sony camera awhile back that could see through clothing because it was ir sensitive? Gave the up-skirt crowd a thrill.
Aerospike worked and the heat shield tiles worked. Had there been funds for a 3rd fuel tank it's a 50/50 bet that the X-33 would have flown. That's a damn sight better than what we have now - zip.
You may think the X-33 was a piece of crap but I saw a good idea go down the tubes because it was underfunded. There were so many good ideas in that project:
To achieve all that required building a light ship so they went with a set of three conformal tanks that were going to be both the airframe and the fuel tanks. The tanks were to be tied together with carbon-composite spars which were unbelievably light. I held one and couldn't believe that it was strong enough until I saw it banged on a table. The table showed a dent but the spar was undamaged.
X-33 showed NASA can't build a shuttle replacement for the cost of a single shuttle launch. As long as NASA is chasing the ISS, that's money that could be used to build a cheaper rocket.
If you want a piece of crap, look no further than ISS. Pointless and worthless. Soon to be falling in an ocean near you. Check your local television listing - it'll be right after Hubble comes down in flames because NASA has its head screwed on backwards.
X-33 was cancelled because the project didn't have enough money to cover a ruptured fuel tank. X-33 was funded on the assumption that every piece would work the first time. When the fuel tank blistered, there were no funds to try to build another fuel tank and the project was shit-canned. X-33's failure didn't prove that we can't yet build an SSTO, It proved that Goldin's cheaper-faster-better mantra wasn't going to work without being prepared to suffer inevitable setbacks when new tech breaks.
Had the X-33's fuel tank held together we just might have pulled it off. There were so many good ideas in that project that it was a shame to see it die. What we learned is NASA doesn't have the fortitude to see something through when the going gets tough.
Maybe you meant the O'Keefe who held NASA accountable for refusing to look through a telescope to see if Columbia was damaged? Or maybe the O'Keefe who urged NASA to go 24/7 to get a rescue shuttle in place? Did you mean that O'Keefe?
Given his miserable performance on choosing the worthless ISS over the priceless Hubble, it's clear he'll gut JPL at the first opportunity. I'm so pissed at Bush for killing Hubble, pushing ABM, running a half trillion $ deficit that I would consider voting for Hillary - something I would have laughed at 2 years ago.
Some might say robots can do it for less. They would be partially right. Robots have a ways to go before they can move over and observe unfamiliar terrain as well as a trained human. One of the painful lessons JPL learned when they sent a prototype rover out to look for life was it missed a plant because the plant was just outside the rover's field of view.
One technique we used back in the 1800's was to give away land to whomever would go West. 160 acres to anyone who would build a house and occupy it. The Union Pacific and Central Pacific were driven by greed to build the transcontinental railroad. They not only got government backed financing, they also got land and anything on it. So while the Union is fighting the Civil War, it's also driving the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. The Union could do both because the railroad didn't cost the Union anything. The land had zero value because no one was there and the bonds got paid off by the railroads. California gold and free land were a huge incentive to risk your life crossing the Humboldt sink or Death Valley to look for that perfect piece of land to call home. Seems to me that if a nation made a similar offer of lunar soil and financing, we'd see a lot more activity than we have to date. We won't know what's of value on the Moon and on Mars until people have poked it all over.
The Russians can get you to the ISS for 1/40th the cost of a Shuttle launch.
I would really like a clear explanation as to why they chose solar over nuclear for their power feed. With nuclear they could have taken their time AND gone looking for the Beagle. With solar, they'll be lucky to see much more than they can see right now. Plus, they wouldn't be wasting time with power budget meetings allocating the few watts they have. I get the feeling some committee was a little too Politically Correct.
My father had a large format Kodak Medalist. He took it to a Rose Bowl game one year and photographed the crowd on the other side of the field. When he developed the picture he enlarged the image until he could pick out individuals on the other side of the field. He told me that there was enough detail in the people's faces that you could recognize them if you knew them.
Try reading this screener's blog. DVD's left on doorsteps, arrive by regular mail, etc. Yep, the process is carefully audited alright.
It's not that Microsoft would be worried about losing sales to IBM so much as IBM's move is an endorsement of Linux. By extending Win/98 support, Microsoft hedges its bet by being able to offer price sensitive clients an option to XP. Conceivably, Microsoft could license Win/98 for free, or next to free, with an eye towards stemming the flow to Linux in places like Mexico or Peru. Once they stop supporting Win98, they wouldn't be able to give it away.
Wait until you have kids of your own and you try imposing your philosophy on them. It's an eye opener.
- Some government somewhere muttered "Anti-Trust..." or
- Overseas retailers started threatening a mass migration to some form of Linux or
- IBM's decision to migrate to Desktop Linux played a factor or
- Some other factors were involved.
Some might argue that Microsoft cares about their customers but then again, some people believe in the healing power of crystals.He had so much free time (we already knew what was expected so we didn't really need his input) that he took to gambling. Card counting in blackjack was a new idea then so he spent most of his work time simulating various counting strategies. On the weekends, he'd fly to Vegas and test his various strategies. He got the house to fund his "research" by signing a chit for his chips. To cover what he was doing, he'd cash in his winnings for cash and then pay off his chit at the end of the month. As far as the casino was concerned, this guy was a goldmine because they didn't have a mechanism to see that he was taking cash out the door instead of settling his weekly bill. They just saw the money flow in at the end of the month when he settled. Net result was he got a lot of comped flights to Vegas. He didn't enjoy the gambling because it was monotonous but the positive cash flow was good enough to keep him going back for more.
Had the casinos had rfid embedded chips, they would have been able to track the money flow better and realized what he was up to a lot sooner than they eventually did.
The projects that have delivered the most bang for the buck will be the first ones to go. Compton's gone because Nasa didn't want to continue funding it. They took a lot of heat for that. Now NASA can blame bush when Hubble and Chandra come flaming out of the sky.
What a bloody waste.
Gives new meaning to the term "Flash Memory."