What desktop systems run ARM, again? Last I checked, not a single Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Apple, Toshiba, or any other manufacturer I can think of off hand has even ONE desktop system running on ARM. The giant computer store down the road has lots of Intel and AMD processors, and not a single ARM processor, not one. Heck, there isn't even a viable desktop operating system that runs on ARM. Windows doesn't and neither does Mac. Linux is NOT a viable desktop OS, no matter what the fan boys claim. I've tried it, installed Gentoo and Debian. Built a linux-from-scratch. Tried Ubuntu and Fedora. I just don't have the time to spend weeks trying to get things to work the way they do pretty much out of the box on Windows.
Bottom line: ARM is good for running my microwave and DVR and phone, but it's positively NOT a desktop CPU.
What? The mercury? Incandescents "release" FAR FAR FAR more mercury over the lifetime of a single florescent. Unless you get your power from Hydro or something. My power comes from Coal. Burning coal releases mercury INTO THE AIR. A florescent tossed into a landfill adds about 10% as much mercury as the incandescent, including the mercury from the power used by the florescent. Now if you are talking about mercury in your home...well, don't break them, and if you do, just wipe down the area with a few paper towels. There's only a few tenths of a gram in a bulb anyway.
So the fixture just traps the heat forever? Amazing! There are more efficient ways to make heat from electricity than resistive heating, however, assuming your heating system is about equally efficient, incandescent bulbs are 100% efficient in winter. Whatever doesn't turn into light turns into heat, and even the light turns into heat, eventually. If the fixture absorbs heat, it will eventually also reach a point of equilibrium and shed heat as fast as it absorbs it, and continue to radiate heat after being turned off until every bit it absorbed is released.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_controller
Notice that AMD has had on-die memory controllers starting with the AMD64 line of CPUs? And Intel with only their i7? AMD has had on-die memory controllers for something like 7 years, Intel is more like 7 months.
How often do you use a CPU without a mobo? Not only are comparable AMD motherboards a fair bit cheaper, but AMD doesn't require a new socket every time they release a new processor.
Yeah, it really bothers me when supposed "tech" journalists refer to storage as memory. My extremely powerful workstation at home has 16GB of memory...
Memory and storage are TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things, and ARE NOT interchangeable, EVER.
Bayer would divide by 4, since you have GRGB, not just RGB. Thus, contrary to Bigjeff's erroneous claims, a 1920x1080 screen, using the 4th pixel as one of the GRGB subpixels for a camera, you'd have a resolution of 480x270, or 0.129 whopping megapixels.
It's more like putting a few drops of molten metal on a block of ice. But, assuming they are maintaining fusion, that wouldn't be a proper analogy. It'd be more like putting a few drops of molten metal on a block of ice, then as soon as the metal cools to solid, blasting it with electromagnetic energy or ultrasonic or whatever remote heating method you want to use to bring it back to molten and maintain it as molten.
Basically, since they will be pumping in energy to maintain the plasma, it will melt the container if not magnetically confined.
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Child processes inherit parent permissions, with flash then being child. At least I think that would make flash run as root, not sure, don't have a linux box handy, firefox might do some sort of wonky sandboxing to prevent such a thing.
Hopefully this "class" wasn't at a university. Shit like this is why I can't fucking stand the "higher education" system. How in the fuck can anyone justify spending somewhere between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars to take a "class" on shit that doesn't require a fucking class? Want to learn about film history? Buy a damn Netflix subscription, a few bags of popcorn and spend a few hours on Wikipedia/IMDB researching stuff. Nearly every "educated" person I know is FAR less knowledgeable about pretty much any subject than I am. Mostly because they wasted years of their life racking up tens of thousands of dollars of debt for what could have been learned just as easily from a few bucks worth of late fees at the local library mixed with a bit of critical thinking skills and study skills. I spend 2-3 hours a day learning new things, no university required. I enjoy it, it's what I do.
I've considered taking a year to study up on law so I can ace the bar exam to lobby against universities. Take a look at a random sampling of a few hundred job postings on Monster or any other job board. Notice how every single fucking one requires a 4-year degree? How many of those postings actually need a degree? Half? A quarter? Less? One should be required to be educated enough to perform their job duties, how they attain said education should not be important. Paying tens of thousands to a for-profit organization to "learn" things at a pace of the lowest common denominator should NOT be the only way. I refuse to go to college simply because I can't stand the snails-pace they teach at. I'm capable of learning what is taught in an average quarter in a week or less, why the hell should I have to suffer though "learning" it at a pace suited for all the fucking idiot 100-ish I.Q. people there?
No one cares about the 3% of people that use Macs. I think it's 4% or so now, but still irrelevant. Not to mention the gp stated "consumer" desktop OS, not "fanatic" desktop OS. Everyone I know who uses a Mac uses one for one of two reasons: one) they are too fucking stupid to realize "free mouse cursors" and "free screen savers" are fucking spyware and hose their computer, or two) they are too stupid to see through the marketing ploy and think Macs are easier to use because they are too fucking stupid to realize that it's operator error and not an issue with the system.
styli is not a word. Stylus is not Latin, at all. There is a word in Latin of stilus. For stylus to be even remotely pluralized correctly to styli, there'd have to be a word in Latin, which there isn't, of 'stylius'. As such, the only correct way to pluralize stylus is as styluses, anything else, no matter how commonly used in error, is still wrong. Just the same as viri and virii being wrong and 'alot' and 'noone' not being real words.
10mm is pretty thick for glass, and more than thick enough to make a fence from, and 25mm would be perfectly sufficient to hold up people. The stair treads at my local gym are made out of glass and about 25mm thick at most, and people run up and down them all day long.
That's assuming that each "sensor" is a full, bayer-filtered pixel. I doubt they'd put 3 pixels for the screen in a little square, then on the 4th quarter of that square put 4 more bayer-filtered pixels.
If you put 1/4th of a bayer filter based sensor at each pixels site, your resolution would only be 1/4 the resolution of your monitor. So a 1920x1080 monitor would be a 480x270 camera, and on 1360x768 netbook/small laptop screens, it'd be 340x192, which would be pathetic and look awful. I think I'll keep my 1.3MP built-in webcam rather than "upgrade" to something like this.
Go get a 1/4" sheet of hardened steel, cut it to a 16x9 ratio of any diagonal size you want, 10-14" would be a good size. Drop said sheet of steel on the floor. Make sure this isn't a nice floor, because it is going to leave a mark. Notice it didn't break? "Thick as a sheet of glass" doesn't imply "fragile as a sheet of glass".
And when little Johnny grows up to be a overly-sheltered pussy, then what? Guess what, when the kid turns 18 you cannot legally do a damn thing to restrict what they see. It's far better to have things introduced to them gradually, under your control, and guide them and educate them about such things. But if you want to try to shelter your kid and have them end up fucked up in the head when they turn 18, that's your choice I guess.
Now when Firefox starts up in something less than 45 seconds, I'll start caring if they have marginally faster javascript. Right now I can click on Chrome and within a second or two, it's started. Firefox, assuming it isn't updating something, takes 30-45 seconds. Toss in the frequent update before it starts (something Chrome manages to do in the background) and it's more like a minute or two. I couldn't care less how fast the javascript is when Chrome is more than fast enough and doesn't take 1-3 minutes to start up. On my powerful desktop at home, it's more like Chrome is instantaneous and FF takes 10-15 seconds, 30 if it's updating, but even at 10 seconds it's annoyingly slow to start up. On my work laptop I have time to go get coffee while FF starts up.
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DNS? You can't have 128 bits worth of address space without 128 bit addresses. Either deal with 128 bit addresses or NAT everything to hell and back.
What desktop systems run ARM, again? Last I checked, not a single Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Apple, Toshiba, or any other manufacturer I can think of off hand has even ONE desktop system running on ARM. The giant computer store down the road has lots of Intel and AMD processors, and not a single ARM processor, not one. Heck, there isn't even a viable desktop operating system that runs on ARM. Windows doesn't and neither does Mac. Linux is NOT a viable desktop OS, no matter what the fan boys claim. I've tried it, installed Gentoo and Debian. Built a linux-from-scratch. Tried Ubuntu and Fedora. I just don't have the time to spend weeks trying to get things to work the way they do pretty much out of the box on Windows. Bottom line: ARM is good for running my microwave and DVR and phone, but it's positively NOT a desktop CPU.
19th kid? No wonder it's premature, it probably just fell out! Jeez.
No, an electron is about 10 ^-22 meters across, or at least as best we can measure something that small.
What? The mercury? Incandescents "release" FAR FAR FAR more mercury over the lifetime of a single florescent. Unless you get your power from Hydro or something. My power comes from Coal. Burning coal releases mercury INTO THE AIR. A florescent tossed into a landfill adds about 10% as much mercury as the incandescent, including the mercury from the power used by the florescent. Now if you are talking about mercury in your home...well, don't break them, and if you do, just wipe down the area with a few paper towels. There's only a few tenths of a gram in a bulb anyway.
So the fixture just traps the heat forever? Amazing! There are more efficient ways to make heat from electricity than resistive heating, however, assuming your heating system is about equally efficient, incandescent bulbs are 100% efficient in winter. Whatever doesn't turn into light turns into heat, and even the light turns into heat, eventually. If the fixture absorbs heat, it will eventually also reach a point of equilibrium and shed heat as fast as it absorbs it, and continue to radiate heat after being turned off until every bit it absorbed is released.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_controller Notice that AMD has had on-die memory controllers starting with the AMD64 line of CPUs? And Intel with only their i7? AMD has had on-die memory controllers for something like 7 years, Intel is more like 7 months.
How often do you use a CPU without a mobo? Not only are comparable AMD motherboards a fair bit cheaper, but AMD doesn't require a new socket every time they release a new processor.
Yeah, it really bothers me when supposed "tech" journalists refer to storage as memory. My extremely powerful workstation at home has 16GB of memory...
Memory and storage are TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things, and ARE NOT interchangeable, EVER.
Bayer would divide by 4, since you have GRGB, not just RGB. Thus, contrary to Bigjeff's erroneous claims, a 1920x1080 screen, using the 4th pixel as one of the GRGB subpixels for a camera, you'd have a resolution of 480x270, or 0.129 whopping megapixels.
It's more like putting a few drops of molten metal on a block of ice. But, assuming they are maintaining fusion, that wouldn't be a proper analogy. It'd be more like putting a few drops of molten metal on a block of ice, then as soon as the metal cools to solid, blasting it with electromagnetic energy or ultrasonic or whatever remote heating method you want to use to bring it back to molten and maintain it as molten.
Basically, since they will be pumping in energy to maintain the plasma, it will melt the container if not magnetically confined.
sudo firefox right click Child processes inherit parent permissions, with flash then being child. At least I think that would make flash run as root, not sure, don't have a linux box handy, firefox might do some sort of wonky sandboxing to prevent such a thing.
Hopefully this "class" wasn't at a university. Shit like this is why I can't fucking stand the "higher education" system. How in the fuck can anyone justify spending somewhere between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars to take a "class" on shit that doesn't require a fucking class? Want to learn about film history? Buy a damn Netflix subscription, a few bags of popcorn and spend a few hours on Wikipedia/IMDB researching stuff. Nearly every "educated" person I know is FAR less knowledgeable about pretty much any subject than I am. Mostly because they wasted years of their life racking up tens of thousands of dollars of debt for what could have been learned just as easily from a few bucks worth of late fees at the local library mixed with a bit of critical thinking skills and study skills. I spend 2-3 hours a day learning new things, no university required. I enjoy it, it's what I do.
I've considered taking a year to study up on law so I can ace the bar exam to lobby against universities. Take a look at a random sampling of a few hundred job postings on Monster or any other job board. Notice how every single fucking one requires a 4-year degree? How many of those postings actually need a degree? Half? A quarter? Less? One should be required to be educated enough to perform their job duties, how they attain said education should not be important. Paying tens of thousands to a for-profit organization to "learn" things at a pace of the lowest common denominator should NOT be the only way. I refuse to go to college simply because I can't stand the snails-pace they teach at. I'm capable of learning what is taught in an average quarter in a week or less, why the hell should I have to suffer though "learning" it at a pace suited for all the fucking idiot 100-ish I.Q. people there?
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No one cares about the 3% of people that use Macs. I think it's 4% or so now, but still irrelevant. Not to mention the gp stated "consumer" desktop OS, not "fanatic" desktop OS. Everyone I know who uses a Mac uses one for one of two reasons: one) they are too fucking stupid to realize "free mouse cursors" and "free screen savers" are fucking spyware and hose their computer, or two) they are too stupid to see through the marketing ploy and think Macs are easier to use because they are too fucking stupid to realize that it's operator error and not an issue with the system.
So the walls of the containment vessels are capable of holding something that will be hundreds of thousands or millions of degrees? Amazing!
I think you meant having a Macintosh on your Macintosh. =)
The only primary color known to have it's own scent!
styli is not a word. Stylus is not Latin, at all. There is a word in Latin of stilus. For stylus to be even remotely pluralized correctly to styli, there'd have to be a word in Latin, which there isn't, of 'stylius'. As such, the only correct way to pluralize stylus is as styluses, anything else, no matter how commonly used in error, is still wrong. Just the same as viri and virii being wrong and 'alot' and 'noone' not being real words.
10mm is pretty thick for glass, and more than thick enough to make a fence from, and 25mm would be perfectly sufficient to hold up people. The stair treads at my local gym are made out of glass and about 25mm thick at most, and people run up and down them all day long.
That's assuming that each "sensor" is a full, bayer-filtered pixel. I doubt they'd put 3 pixels for the screen in a little square, then on the 4th quarter of that square put 4 more bayer-filtered pixels.
If you put 1/4th of a bayer filter based sensor at each pixels site, your resolution would only be 1/4 the resolution of your monitor. So a 1920x1080 monitor would be a 480x270 camera, and on 1360x768 netbook/small laptop screens, it'd be 340x192, which would be pathetic and look awful. I think I'll keep my 1.3MP built-in webcam rather than "upgrade" to something like this.
Go get a 1/4" sheet of hardened steel, cut it to a 16x9 ratio of any diagonal size you want, 10-14" would be a good size. Drop said sheet of steel on the floor. Make sure this isn't a nice floor, because it is going to leave a mark. Notice it didn't break? "Thick as a sheet of glass" doesn't imply "fragile as a sheet of glass".
And when little Johnny grows up to be a overly-sheltered pussy, then what? Guess what, when the kid turns 18 you cannot legally do a damn thing to restrict what they see. It's far better to have things introduced to them gradually, under your control, and guide them and educate them about such things. But if you want to try to shelter your kid and have them end up fucked up in the head when they turn 18, that's your choice I guess.
Now when Firefox starts up in something less than 45 seconds, I'll start caring if they have marginally faster javascript. Right now I can click on Chrome and within a second or two, it's started. Firefox, assuming it isn't updating something, takes 30-45 seconds. Toss in the frequent update before it starts (something Chrome manages to do in the background) and it's more like a minute or two. I couldn't care less how fast the javascript is when Chrome is more than fast enough and doesn't take 1-3 minutes to start up. On my powerful desktop at home, it's more like Chrome is instantaneous and FF takes 10-15 seconds, 30 if it's updating, but even at 10 seconds it's annoyingly slow to start up. On my work laptop I have time to go get coffee while FF starts up.
The point of having it evacuated is to avoid air resistance. Every last bit of energy lost to air resistance is energy gained in heat.