"The new camera, installed by the astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis in May, is not yet fully calibrated. While it is possible to obtain celestial images, the camera's full power has yet to be seen."
I don't know, but I am just imagining the same words being uttered on the Death Star, albeit in a slightly different context.
Just as I posted that I remembered that idle power draw on 3.5" drives isn't 1W, it's ~4W... I was thinking about 2.5" drives. This is compared to the 40W to 60W that a typical CPU will consume.
This is why I was suggesting a smart system that can deactivate cores or subsystems until they are actually needed. Most servers aren't designed with energy consumption considerations, so they still draw a fair amount of power even there are five users visiting the web site. If they could be made to use the least resources possible to get the job done, then it would probably end up saving a fair amount of money long term.
lame...a much better way of handling this is what datacenters are already doing: simply sell you power circuits, say 20 amps each for a set price. if they want to discourage power use, they simply have to raise the price. low tech, and works perfectly well. you can always get a good power strip with a ammeter on it if you want to know what your servers are drawing.
This is certainly an alternative. I think that either way we should see owners of devices examining how much processing power they really need and this may translate into computer companies selling hardware that is either more power efficient or smarter in the way it uses power. For example I can imagine smarter control on the which sub systems or cores are active based on a given server load.
With SSDs and the reduced issue of plater spin up, I can imagine servers that stand-by and wake up if there is any activity on a specified port. I am not thinking WoL, but hardware with a smart network card that wakes up the computer as necessary. At one point I was thinking of an embedded web server (something like http://www.webservusb.com/) that would respond to data and then wake up the main server when it had anything that it could not handle.
On the Linux side of things, what is available for achieving this sort of thing?
Sorry to sound like a jerk, but isn't this what you're paid to do?
While it might be, is that any reason not to want to find a software solution to make his life easier? Heck, I thought that was what software solutions were all about? Also, have you considered it might not be his only job?
I know that was meant to be a joke, but in reality that depends on how many people use your account, and whether the information in your account is correct. I can make certain assumptions, but only an investigation would prove the correctness of my assumptions.
The problem with IP addresses is that if it is static then it could either identify a subnet if NATed or a single computer and then who is to say there isn't more than one person using the machine? If it is dynamic then, depending on the duration of lease, over a time period it could be referencing different subnet or computers, in addition to the scenarios pointed out for static addresses.
Don't forget this was demo hardware from companies responding to a tender. At this point Opera was still evaluating the hardware. Two things seem to have happened:
- the software was implemented with an abort for Opera, either because QA was not done for Opera.
- the vendor didn't appear to know what the primary product of Opera was, and what the browser requirements of their admin interface were. While the first scenario is bad enough, the second is just unforgivable, since it shows to the customer that the vendor apparently made no attempt to know who their customer was.
He'd rented a sound system for 17 friends in a field? Well, I'm not going to judge before all the facts are in, but it seems a little excessive. And considering that local residents had complained about raves in the area before, it seems a little suspect.
The irony is that he would have probably had less issues had he simply put on the music on maximum in his back yard, until 11pm. What they got up to would have been the same, except for the location. This is what is ridiculous about this whole law.
surely using water motion to generate electricity would just create additional drag, so you'd end up with no net power gain?
I suppose the only place this would make sense is in a sail ship: Generate electricity while sailing, until the battery is charged, then remove the drag point (the turbine) from the water. When there is no wind or you are making your way into port you rely on an electrical propeller. Of course the battery could also be charged using a small wind turbine.
Companies that actively thwart interoperability and promote lock-in are incompatible with the best interests of their own customers.
True, but in this case Apple never designed iTunes to support third-party players, so it was likely to break at some point. The underhanded thing is making it break on purpose, on the other hand Palm was also underhanded in pretending their device was an iPod. Maybe they just want Palm to actually ask (pay) to be able to inter operate with iTunes? Does anyone know whether Palm actually requested Apple to be able to inter operate with iTunes?
What I would love to see is a decent iTunes alternative that support stores other than iTunes and devices other than the iPod, simply so we can give Apple a run for their money.
So they weren't getting multiply charged by a site that claimed to only charge once, and only if you cancelled after the trial period, even though you can cancelled before the end of the trial period. Just spaces huh, who would have though?
Yes I am ashamed I signed up innocently, now realising torrents are far safer.
The site need Silverlight to view the lectures, so one has to wonder whether Microsoft was looking for a 'killer application' to make people want to install the plug-in.
On a more optimistic note, does anyone have these lectures in MKV or MPEG4 format, or at least something using a more open format?
As a time-traveller from July 2010, I can assure you that this newly-launched product which hardly anyone in 2009 has even touched, does not, in fact, get wobbly after a year of use.
Is there anything else that you can tell us. Have we finally manage to bio engineer a pig to fly?
Actually I wasn't expecting anyone to have year's worth of experience with the portable, simply to know whether Asus had tried to use a better mount, or they are just using the same one used in other models.
Although the computer looks nice, I am a bit concerned as to the quality of the screen attachment. I have friend who has a computer with a similar configuration and after a year the screen would become wobbly, probably because of wear on the joint. Does anyone know whether Asus has taken care of this?
I would, but it keeps dying. Don't believe me? Ask Netcraft.
Hmm, surely by the time you reach undead status, you have reached a kind of immortality? So if that is the case, maybe it is the only operating system we should use?
For those who still survive it would be cool if they could document their time and Bletchley park, and then put under seal until such time the government accepts those experiences to go public. For me, if this is not done we lose an important part of our history and insight into what happened then. I would hope that after 60 years the government would be willing to allow this information to go public.
Everyone who participates in defending our freedoms deserves recognition, but the sad thing is that when it is not an armed force we are often unaware who did their part. Even if some of these figures seem do be doing very little, the resulting actions can be very important.
If the government's fear is about VoIP, why don't they just put equipment in place to block the protocol? Then again, if you think about it, it is less about VoIP and probably more of paying less to the state owned telecoms company. Its amazing, just when you think you know how totalitarian China is, you read something that makes you realise it is just a bit more.
Without hardware accelerated h.264 playback, I'm not going back to VLC.
People are looking into hardware accelerated codecs. Some of the approaches aren't cross-platform, but it is better to see some progress somewhere, than none at all. I holding out for solutions that can take advantage of stuff like OpenCL.
Another focus for getting hardware accelerated video into VLC is ffmpeg, though I am not sure what sort of effort if being done here?
True there are 8 months of winter, but if it is like some other places I have been to in the remaining four people use air-conditioning. The heat generated by th bulbs goes to increase energy use, since the a/c is also trying to remove heat generated by the bulbs.
In many ways it is better sense to spend the money on better insulation and better heating.
Well, unless the browser has the decoder necessary to display the video you might as well just be sending garbage. Imagine this:
- 20 different codecs to choose from
- provider uses 1 of them
- browser use 1 of them Unless the format is agreed upon you have a 1 in 20 chance of being to view the video. This is something that is likely to make a good number of users unhappy and writing up bug reports, or bitching and screaming in forums.
Anyone who chooses the solution that fails to balance the need for open and the need to make money has got it wrong. A device like the kindle should support both free and paid-for content. The real issue at stake is that of format. The book is a universal format and all you need is a press to make one, and a bit of effort to copy. An electronic device works on using specific data formats, and if you aren't careful risks locking you in to one solution.
The Kindle might be the first true electronic book reader, but there needs to be an approach that allows anyone to make a book reader, while taking into account the publisher's and author's investment into the work.
I appreciate open source as much as the next person, but I also understand that if we don't reward the authors of our favourite works we run the risk of discouraging them from writing the next book.
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"The new camera, installed by the astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis in May, is not yet fully calibrated. While it is possible to obtain celestial images, the camera's full power has yet to be seen."
I don't know, but I am just imagining the same words being uttered on the Death Star, albeit in a slightly different context.
Just as I posted that I remembered that idle power draw on 3.5" drives isn't 1W, it's ~4W... I was thinking about 2.5" drives. This is compared to the 40W to 60W that a typical CPU will consume.
This is why I was suggesting a smart system that can deactivate cores or subsystems until they are actually needed. Most servers aren't designed with energy consumption considerations, so they still draw a fair amount of power even there are five users visiting the web site. If they could be made to use the least resources possible to get the job done, then it would probably end up saving a fair amount of money long term.
lame...a much better way of handling this is what datacenters are already doing: simply sell you power circuits, say 20 amps each for a set price. if they want to discourage power use, they simply have to raise the price. low tech, and works perfectly well. you can always get a good power strip with a ammeter on it if you want to know what your servers are drawing.
This is certainly an alternative. I think that either way we should see owners of devices examining how much processing power they really need and this may translate into computer companies selling hardware that is either more power efficient or smarter in the way it uses power. For example I can imagine smarter control on the which sub systems or cores are active based on a given server load.
With SSDs and the reduced issue of plater spin up, I can imagine servers that stand-by and wake up if there is any activity on a specified port. I am not thinking WoL, but hardware with a smart network card that wakes up the computer as necessary. At one point I was thinking of an embedded web server (something like http://www.webservusb.com/) that would respond to data and then wake up the main server when it had anything that it could not handle.
On the Linux side of things, what is available for achieving this sort of thing?
Sorry to sound like a jerk, but isn't this what you're paid to do?
While it might be, is that any reason not to want to find a software solution to make his life easier? Heck, I thought that was what software solutions were all about? Also, have you considered it might not be his only job?
Some of the stuff that they do is as boring as public relations and kitchen supplies.
Why would they possibly need the latest kernel version?
They probably believe it provides the kitchen sink ;)
Is this psot personally inedifitable?
I know that was meant to be a joke, but in reality that depends on how many people use your account, and whether the information in your account is correct. I can make certain assumptions, but only an investigation would prove the correctness of my assumptions.
The problem with IP addresses is that if it is static then it could either identify a subnet if NATed or a single computer and then who is to say there isn't more than one person using the machine? If it is dynamic then, depending on the duration of lease, over a time period it could be referencing different subnet or computers, in addition to the scenarios pointed out for static addresses.
Don't forget this was demo hardware from companies responding to a tender. At this point Opera was still evaluating the hardware. Two things seem to have happened:
- the software was implemented with an abort for Opera, either because QA was not done for Opera.
- the vendor didn't appear to know what the primary product of Opera was, and what the browser requirements of their admin interface were.
While the first scenario is bad enough, the second is just unforgivable, since it shows to the customer that the vendor apparently made no attempt to know who their customer was.
He'd rented a sound system for 17 friends in a field? Well, I'm not going to judge before all the facts are in, but it seems a little excessive. And considering that local residents had complained about raves in the area before, it seems a little suspect.
The irony is that he would have probably had less issues had he simply put on the music on maximum in his back yard, until 11pm. What they got up to would have been the same, except for the location. This is what is ridiculous about this whole law.
surely using water motion to generate electricity would just create additional drag, so you'd end up with no net power gain?
I suppose the only place this would make sense is in a sail ship: Generate electricity while sailing, until the battery is charged, then remove the drag point (the turbine) from the water. When there is no wind or you are making your way into port you rely on an electrical propeller. Of course the battery could also be charged using a small wind turbine.
Before posting I decided to see if anyone else had though of this, and here is one person: http://www.stevproj.com/EMotorIdeas.html
Companies that actively thwart interoperability and promote lock-in are incompatible with the best interests of their own customers.
True, but in this case Apple never designed iTunes to support third-party players, so it was likely to break at some point. The underhanded thing is making it break on purpose, on the other hand Palm was also underhanded in pretending their device was an iPod. Maybe they just want Palm to actually ask (pay) to be able to inter operate with iTunes? Does anyone know whether Palm actually requested Apple to be able to inter operate with iTunes?
What I would love to see is a decent iTunes alternative that support stores other than iTunes and devices other than the iPod, simply so we can give Apple a run for their money.
So they weren't getting multiply charged by a site that claimed to only charge once, and only if you cancelled after the trial period, even though you can cancelled before the end of the trial period. Just spaces huh, who would have though?
Yes I am ashamed I signed up innocently, now realising torrents are far safer.
The site need Silverlight to view the lectures, so one has to wonder whether Microsoft was looking for a 'killer application' to make people want to install the plug-in.
On a more optimistic note, does anyone have these lectures in MKV or MPEG4 format, or at least something using a more open format?
As a time-traveller from July 2010, I can assure you that this newly-launched product which hardly anyone in 2009 has even touched, does not, in fact, get wobbly after a year of use.
Is there anything else that you can tell us. Have we finally manage to bio engineer a pig to fly?
Actually I wasn't expecting anyone to have year's worth of experience with the portable, simply to know whether Asus had tried to use a better mount, or they are just using the same one used in other models.
Although the computer looks nice, I am a bit concerned as to the quality of the screen attachment. I have friend who has a computer with a similar configuration and after a year the screen would become wobbly, probably because of wear on the joint. Does anyone know whether Asus has taken care of this?
Does it please you to believe that I sound angry tell you how I feel about this?
It depends whether it is the correct or 'correct' answer. Now back to my tea leaves.
With the number of ActiveX related security issues you would have thought they would simply drop it or at least sandbox it?
I would, but it keeps dying. Don't believe me? Ask Netcraft.
Hmm, surely by the time you reach undead status, you have reached a kind of immortality? So if that is the case, maybe it is the only operating system we should use?
Okay, I will stop trying to over think this.
Aren't they supposed to spontaneously self-destruct when this happens?
You are talking about the legal system and this is known to stand outside the normal laws of physics. ;)
If these RFID shields don't work, does anyone know something that does?
For those who still survive it would be cool if they could document their time and Bletchley park, and then put under seal until such time the government accepts those experiences to go public. For me, if this is not done we lose an important part of our history and insight into what happened then. I would hope that after 60 years the government would be willing to allow this information to go public.
Everyone who participates in defending our freedoms deserves recognition, but the sad thing is that when it is not an armed force we are often unaware who did their part. Even if some of these figures seem do be doing very little, the resulting actions can be very important.
If the government's fear is about VoIP, why don't they just put equipment in place to block the protocol? Then again, if you think about it, it is less about VoIP and probably more of paying less to the state owned telecoms company. Its amazing, just when you think you know how totalitarian China is, you read something that makes you realise it is just a bit more.
Without hardware accelerated h.264 playback, I'm not going back to VLC.
People are looking into hardware accelerated codecs. Some of the approaches aren't cross-platform, but it is better to see some progress somewhere, than none at all. I holding out for solutions that can take advantage of stuff like OpenCL.
Another focus for getting hardware accelerated video into VLC is ffmpeg, though I am not sure what sort of effort if being done here?
True there are 8 months of winter, but if it is like some other places I have been to in the remaining four people use air-conditioning. The heat generated by th bulbs goes to increase energy use, since the a/c is also trying to remove heat generated by the bulbs.
In many ways it is better sense to spend the money on better insulation and better heating.
and let the content providers decide.
Well, unless the browser has the decoder necessary to display the video you might as well just be sending garbage. Imagine this:
- 20 different codecs to choose from
- provider uses 1 of them
- browser use 1 of them
Unless the format is agreed upon you have a 1 in 20 chance of being to view the video. This is something that is likely to make a good number of users unhappy and writing up bug reports, or bitching and screaming in forums.
Anyone who chooses the solution that fails to balance the need for open and the need to make money has got it wrong. A device like the kindle should support both free and paid-for content. The real issue at stake is that of format. The book is a universal format and all you need is a press to make one, and a bit of effort to copy. An electronic device works on using specific data formats, and if you aren't careful risks locking you in to one solution.
The Kindle might be the first true electronic book reader, but there needs to be an approach that allows anyone to make a book reader, while taking into account the publisher's and author's investment into the work.
I appreciate open source as much as the next person, but I also understand that if we don't reward the authors of our favourite works we run the risk of discouraging them from writing the next book.