You can't use resistors as your model of computer components- well you can, but you get unreasonable conclusions like the one above.
Take as an example CMOS tech, theres a pretty good run down of why any type of semiconductor doesn't act at all like a resistor when it comes to power dissipation.
FTR- I'm not saying P=I^2 R is wrong... Its certainly correct, the challenge is coming up with 'R' when you're talking about switching semiconductors (or anything else really).
(not 3.3V fed, 12V at a third the amperage, less heat)
P=IV
So I'm having a hard time reconciling how raising the voltage by 3x (roughly), and using a third less current changes power consumption at all. I'm pretty sure transmission distances and losses are pretty low inside a computer case.
Agree all the way around. In my opinion the most important part of an email address is the username- If I can get exactly what I want, I'll settle for most domains, as long as its: easy to read and say, and they offer imap.
Along those lines- I have a free AIM account dating way back thats a pretty decent name, and these days that translates into a free @aol.com email account.
AOL provides full ssl'd pop3/imap, and they've done that longer than gmail.
As far as spam filters... I don't get an appreciable amount in my inbox at gmail or aol, so its hard for me to judge.
Not suggesting everyone needs an AOL account, but I'm not sure what makes google automatically better. GMail isn't some secret enclave of intelligence- anyone and everyone has a gmail account now.
Doh! I could have sworn it said that... Apparently I falsified my reading to support my point.
I also never said anyone had to fake their data- not outright at least. Just throw away what you don't like and maybe 2nd or 3rd try will be close enough to keep the grant payers happy. Its hard to shame someone if they can claim they made a best effort- even if they didn't.
I really hope its not prevalent, but especially in the 'softer' sciences it'd be hard to tell, wouldn't it?
Which is why people who claim scientists only care about the truth are wrong. You only cared about the truth and were fired. Plenty of other people would have been looking out for their job first, and made sure their results confirmed what the department expected.
That said- the great thing about science is that eventually the truth will be discovered despite the pressure for money/jobs. It may not happen in a lifetime, but as long as science continues, it will happen.
Standards are standards and cheap readily available chips are a sound commercial decision. You will also notice however who many big Western companies use Motorola chips for instance.
What does that have to do with it? Or were you under the impression that Motorola was Japanese?
He stole company resources, time isn't free, consultants aren't free, vendor recovery isn't free. His actions have cost the tax payer a bloody fortune.
So every action I take that costs my company to spend money is theft? Including quitting my job, which would cause them to hire consultants and eventually replacements?
Thats an interesting world you live in- luckily its currently just a sick fantasy.
So you can call up an employee from 5 years ago and demand the solution to a problem? The solution is IP that he gained while working for you, so its yours, right?
I'm sure L Bob Rife will be along shortly with a solution.
But, in the end, it doesn't matter, because you have a preconceived notion that AGW doesn't exist and that scientists are lying sacks of shit, and therefore confirmation bias will ensure that you will accept only those quotes/emails/documents/etc that confirm your belief, and you will disregard or suitably twist any other information that doesn't fit that bias.
Applying that disingenuous label to anyone who questions your methods or motives is exactly why AGW is a religious movement- whether its true or not.
Newspapers and other media have an agenda too, whether it be political bias, or the desire to make more money. Most (all?) have comprised their reporting, and continue to do so on a regular basis. Traditional press isn't some holy box of pure information- its in the same ballpark as the bloggers, except with a lot of money behind them.
I agree that it would seem to be more difficult to determine truth when there are 1000 random voices vs 5 established ones telling you 'the way it is'. Its always been up to you to figure out the real story from all the slanted reports, now there are just a lot more of them.
When the system failed, it caused all signals to default to stand-alone operation, rather than the highly-tuned synchronization that usually serves to facilitate traffic flow during rush hours.
So now they work like the lights in Northern Virginia?
Modded as flamebait? Are you people fucking serious?
There are some people who disagree with the premise that 'this was a good idea'. Its a terrible idea. Driving a car is risky- if you can't deal with, stay in your basement.
Consider also- most crashes are avoidable with attentive defensive driving. How many of you people screaming about cellphones and radios have the first clue about safe driving in the first place. I find it a bit hard to believe that the.5% of the people on the road that are safe drivers are the ones screaming on slashdot about invading peoples cars. You want to be safer on the road? It starts with YOU.
I'm curious to know what it was you were looking for that didn't exist.
The iphone isn't 'must have', but its certainly nice to have- which isn't something I can say about any 'smart' phone previously. I haven't used android- maybe it is/will be better, but the iphone is already very good.
As opposed to Ron Moores method, writing a plot, dialog and roles, then randomly assigning characters without regard to anything else.
Seriously BSG is kind of cool, dialog is probably ok, but the plot and character development is among the worst things I've ever seen. I _really_ hope its not the model for new SciFi.
This is _exactly_ why we need to all get some immunity to H1N1 now- the vast majority of the population has no previous exposure to H1N1. Luckily whats currently circulating isn't that bad. If it mutated to a more deadly variety- and there was _no_ natural immunity and _no_ artificial immunity (via the vaccination) then things would be bad.
Only in danger if you're a 'fat slob'? Then you're a fucking idiot.
'global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but it is estimated that 10% to 20%'
I'm not panicking, but I'm going to take my 1 in a million chance of negative side effects and get the shot- not just for myself, but in the hope the world never sees 1918 again. We have the means to prevent it, its cheap, its simple, and it'd be a fucking travesty if morons like you were the vector for another occurrence.
What would Dell, Asus, Acer, etc do? Stop selling windows? Switch to linux? Write their own OS?
This is a tiny example of their monopoly power. If they decided to screw Dell, the best thing they could do would be to liquidate the company and payback the shareholders.
Yeah! The only people who should be allowed to drive are government employees who've gone through the special training!
I think this would fall under the TSA's charter. I can't wait until I'm being driven around on a government purchased and maintained bus by a former airport screener. That should fix everything.
Or maybe you should realize- the world is a dangerous place, its made more dangerous by distracted people driving, but at the end of the day you have to realize that you need to accept some risk when you go into public places.
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You can't use resistors as your model of computer components- well you can, but you get unreasonable conclusions like the one above.
Take as an example CMOS tech, theres a pretty good run down of why any type of semiconductor doesn't act at all like a resistor when it comes to power dissipation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS#Power:_switching_and_leakage
FTR- I'm not saying P=I^2 R is wrong... Its certainly correct, the challenge is coming up with 'R' when you're talking about switching semiconductors (or anything else really).
Which will be true for the cables to the disk, but neither a traditional HD or SSD are resistive loads.
(not 3.3V fed, 12V at a third the amperage, less heat)
P=IV
So I'm having a hard time reconciling how raising the voltage by 3x (roughly), and using a third less current changes power consumption at all. I'm pretty sure transmission distances and losses are pretty low inside a computer case.
Agree all the way around. In my opinion the most important part of an email address is the username- If I can get exactly what I want, I'll settle for most domains, as long as its: easy to read and say, and they offer imap.
Along those lines- I have a free AIM account dating way back thats a pretty decent name, and these days that translates into a free @aol.com email account.
AOL doesn't insert ads anymore.
AOL provides full ssl'd pop3/imap, and they've done that longer than gmail.
As far as spam filters... I don't get an appreciable amount in my inbox at gmail or aol, so its hard for me to judge.
Not suggesting everyone needs an AOL account, but I'm not sure what makes google automatically better. GMail isn't some secret enclave of intelligence- anyone and everyone has a gmail account now.
ROFL
Satellite internet isn't broadband.
Its a marginal upgrade from 56k for _some_ downloads. You can't stream, voip or game, and browsing is generally better over a modem.
Where did he say that he was fired?
Doh! I could have sworn it said that... Apparently I falsified my reading to support my point.
I also never said anyone had to fake their data- not outright at least. Just throw away what you don't like and maybe 2nd or 3rd try will be close enough to keep the grant payers happy. Its hard to shame someone if they can claim they made a best effort- even if they didn't.
I really hope its not prevalent, but especially in the 'softer' sciences it'd be hard to tell, wouldn't it?
Which is why people who claim scientists only care about the truth are wrong. You only cared about the truth and were fired. Plenty of other people would have been looking out for their job first, and made sure their results confirmed what the department expected.
That said- the great thing about science is that eventually the truth will be discovered despite the pressure for money/jobs. It may not happen in a lifetime, but as long as science continues, it will happen.
Standards are standards and cheap readily available chips are a sound commercial decision. You will also notice however who many big Western companies use Motorola chips for instance.
What does that have to do with it? Or were you under the impression that Motorola was Japanese?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorolla
He stole company resources, time isn't free, consultants aren't free, vendor recovery isn't free. His actions have cost the tax payer a bloody fortune.
So every action I take that costs my company to spend money is theft? Including quitting my job, which would cause them to hire consultants and eventually replacements?
Thats an interesting world you live in- luckily its currently just a sick fantasy.
So you can call up an employee from 5 years ago and demand the solution to a problem? The solution is IP that he gained while working for you, so its yours, right?
I'm sure L Bob Rife will be along shortly with a solution.
But, in the end, it doesn't matter, because you have a preconceived notion that AGW doesn't exist and that scientists are lying sacks of shit, and therefore confirmation bias will ensure that you will accept only those quotes/emails/documents/etc that confirm your belief, and you will disregard or suitably twist any other information that doesn't fit that bias.
Applying that disingenuous label to anyone who questions your methods or motives is exactly why AGW is a religious movement- whether its true or not.
And as far as I can tell, the wiki entry was created yesterday.
(I'm wiki challenged, so I may be wrong)
Newspapers and other media have an agenda too, whether it be political bias, or the desire to make more money. Most (all?) have comprised their reporting, and continue to do so on a regular basis. Traditional press isn't some holy box of pure information- its in the same ballpark as the bloggers, except with a lot of money behind them.
I agree that it would seem to be more difficult to determine truth when there are 1000 random voices vs 5 established ones telling you 'the way it is'. Its always been up to you to figure out the real story from all the slanted reports, now there are just a lot more of them.
When the system failed, it caused all signals to default to stand-alone operation, rather than the highly-tuned synchronization that usually serves to facilitate traffic flow during rush hours.
So now they work like the lights in Northern Virginia?
Modded as flamebait? Are you people fucking serious?
There are some people who disagree with the premise that 'this was a good idea'. Its a terrible idea. Driving a car is risky- if you can't deal with, stay in your basement.
Consider also- most crashes are avoidable with attentive defensive driving. How many of you people screaming about cellphones and radios have the first clue about safe driving in the first place. I find it a bit hard to believe that the .5% of the people on the road that are safe drivers are the ones screaming on slashdot about invading peoples cars. You want to be safer on the road? It starts with YOU.
Its applications were all irrelevant to me
All 100,000?
I'm curious to know what it was you were looking for that didn't exist.
The iphone isn't 'must have', but its certainly nice to have- which isn't something I can say about any 'smart' phone previously. I haven't used android- maybe it is/will be better, but the iphone is already very good.
Yes, but I have a plan.
As opposed to Ron Moores method, writing a plot, dialog and roles, then randomly assigning characters without regard to anything else.
Seriously BSG is kind of cool, dialog is probably ok, but the plot and character development is among the worst things I've ever seen. I _really_ hope its not the model for new SciFi.
Rapidly mutating
This is _exactly_ why we need to all get some immunity to H1N1 now- the vast majority of the population has no previous exposure to H1N1. Luckily whats currently circulating isn't that bad. If it mutated to a more deadly variety- and there was _no_ natural immunity and _no_ artificial immunity (via the vaccination) then things would be bad.
Only in danger if you're a 'fat slob'? Then you're a fucking idiot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
'Most of its victims were healthy young adults'
'global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but it is estimated that 10% to 20%'
I'm not panicking, but I'm going to take my 1 in a million chance of negative side effects and get the shot- not just for myself, but in the hope the world never sees 1918 again. We have the means to prevent it, its cheap, its simple, and it'd be a fucking travesty if morons like you were the vector for another occurrence.
What would Dell, Asus, Acer, etc do? Stop selling windows? Switch to linux? Write their own OS?
This is a tiny example of their monopoly power. If they decided to screw Dell, the best thing they could do would be to liquidate the company and payback the shareholders.
Thats buying into what the cell providers want: they offer a unique service _they're_ the end all be all.
Big picture: they're a commodity carrier, a pipe. The sooner they get treated as such the better.
Yeah! The only people who should be allowed to drive are government employees who've gone through the special training!
I think this would fall under the TSA's charter. I can't wait until I'm being driven around on a government purchased and maintained bus by a former airport screener. That should fix everything.
Or maybe you should realize- the world is a dangerous place, its made more dangerous by distracted people driving, but at the end of the day you have to realize that you need to accept some risk when you go into public places.
If its publicly funded, is it still private space travel?
Seriously- if we through 50 billion at Boeing they could build a 'private' rocket too.