Virtual memory is an idea whose time has come and gone.
HDD swap is just a small part of memory virtualization. Virtual memory is here to stay, and it's a good thing.
Also, It's good to have swap space, even if you have tons of memory. You can never have too much memory, especially in linux. Linux will use as much of your memory as it can as a hard drive block cache. If you don't have swap, memory that could be used as cache to speed up the application you're currently using will be wasted storing a program that you've left unused but running. Having no swap won't reduce functionality, but unless you don't do any I/O intensive work, not having swap WILL reduce your performance. I'd consider that an ill effect.
Lead is toxic, but not in the tiny quantities that are likely to be left on your hands after you melt it into your car. Using the lead bar is cheap, easy, way more accurate than the snipoff weights, and the hazards from the lead itself are minimal. Just wash your hands when you're done. You should be far more worried about the dangers from the heat.
Besides, unless you pay extra, "lead" for stained glass isn't really 100% lead anymore. It's mostly tin. Same goes for fishing weights, which kids have been closing onto the line with their teeth for centuries. Don't swallow it and you'll have no trouble.
You can tell your kids that it's filler to make it more aerodynamic.
Lying to children is dispicible and counter productive. Be honest to your kids. They'll understand more than you give them credit for. If you tell them the truth about whay you're sealing it up, they'll remember it in the future, but if you lie to them they may think that melting lead is something fun to do when you're not around. Besides, they can tell when you're lying. They might not figure it out right away, but they will eventually. Then later you'll wonder why you have a defiant teenager.
While you're at it, don't lie to your kids about sex or drugs either. When you tell them (or the DARE office tells them) that smoking pot will kill you they'll know you're lying, and may not belive you when you tell them that heroin or crack will kill them. It certainly won't stop them from smoking pot.
Children (and teenagers) may lack wisdom and experience, but they don't lack intelligence. They depend on adults to help them gain wisdom and experience without having to learn the hard way. You're not protecting them by interfering with the process.
Finally, don't forget that the addition of lead will make the car a hazardous waste. Please don't throw the dead cars containing lead in the garbage. If they're trash, at least remove the lead before disposal.
I still have all three pinewood derby cars that I made (even the first one that lost miserably). If your son puts a significant amount of effort into building the car, it'll probably be something he saves for his whole life and brings out to show to the kids and grandkids when their pinewood derby comes around. I don't think you have to worry too much about them getting thrown out.
Walk by his office frequently until you catch him on a personal phone call. You'll be obligated to show him how stupid the new policy is. Better yet, if he fires you for pointing it out you'll probably have grounds for a lawsuit.
Well, the methods aren't covered by this patent but it is possible that the manufacturing methods he refers to are patented elsewhere. The structures he's talking about building in the surface of this device are bordering on nanotech. He talks about manipulating pieces of metal a few dozen atoms wide with an electron beam. We're just starting to be able to mass produce structures that small for a reasonable cost. I'm sure it was out of the question a few years ago. If he built a prototype of this device, it was probably jut one or two of these structures, and he probably did them by hand, potentailly using a scanning tunneling electron microscope.
This device may be fabricated upon a transparent slab by the deposition of one or more metal coatings in a known manner. The various rectifier elements are first prepared by opening appropriate windows in the metal coating utilizing an electron beam and suitably coating and doping the rectifying areas. An electron or ion beam cuts the shape and connections shown. The connections are completed after deposition of the insulating coating 9. The circuit is then the same as that shown in FIG. 1.
Assuming the applicant built a prototype and proved this device works, creating metal coatings in the exact thicknesses he mentions with the detail he describes is still something that would be very expensive to do now. That technology hasn't improved very drastically in the last decade or so.
I agree with the above with one exception. Melt the lead into a rectangular hole. Make it so that the weight is distributed evenly in the horizontal direction across the body. Don't burn yourself if you use a torch to melt the lead instead of an iron. I found the best way to do it without burning the wood was to use lead rod (you can get it at a crafts store in the stained glass section) and drip it in from a few inches above the car. Also, make sure you have an accurate scale and make your car as close to the maximum allowed weight as possible. The weight wins the race.
Also, mount the wheels in your drill and run them over some 220 grit sandpaper for a fraction of a second and then graphite the nails before you attach the wheels to the car. (I've heard of using oil like the parent mentions, but I had great luck with graphite).
As for cutting the wood, the fastest design I ever made was just to pass the block through the table saw with a tapering jig so it was almost full height at the rear and a sharp point at the front. The weight was 3/4 of the way back. I built the whole thing in an hour.
It's not okay because he cut his own pay too, it's okay because it means that now you're making $47k instead of $0. Would you prefer that nobody took a pay cut and you lost your job, because 90% of his salary doesn't even come close to the amount of money saved by not paying 6% of the rest of the companies salaries. His pay cut may be a drop in the bucket of his net worth, but his salary is a drop in the payroll bucket for the entire company.
You have a trademark on the name in association with a particular product or service. You cannot get a trademark on just a name, word or phrase. Just beacuse he is using the same name as you does not automatically mean he's infringing on your trademark. You might not have a leg to stand on for any price.
If everyone is skipping the ads, free TV is going to go away. Either you'll be forced to watch ads (like the unskipable previews on some DVDs) or you'll have to pay for your TV programming (e.g. HBO). There are no other solutions.
The probelm is not that "free" TV is going to go away, the problem is that we have to deal with all these broadcast industry idiots kicking and screaming on the way down. Let's face it: PVRs have the capability of destroying broadcast television as we know it, and eventually they will. Wouldn't it be great if they all just gave up now and we didn't have to oppose all these stupid laws they're trying to buy to maintain their obsolete business model?
From what I'm reading here, people aren't bitching about the possibility of free TV going away (they keep paying the cable bill every month and going to see movies no matter how many time the prices go up), they're bitching about the crap that is going on while the industry tries to survive. They should just give in and find a new business model that is compatible with current technology already. Not only would we be spared all these new restrictive laws, but maybe people would think for themselves more instead of doing what the commercials say.
Dell computers are not particularly less expensive than Apple computers. You'll spend between $700 and $5000 on a computer from either company. Sure, you can build a pretty good PC for around $400, but you can't get a full machine with monitor from dell for that cheap. They advertise a $449 machine on their site under "Hot deals" but by the time you get it into your cart it's basically stripped down and doesn't include any support or labor warranty. It also doesn't include a monitor.
Apple should dispense with the huge profit margin
Why? Aren't profits more important than market share? Who cares if you've only got 15% of the market as long as you're making money?
I think it's nice to have a company like Apple around. They're willing to take design risks and charge the high prices that allown them to take design risks simply because they only target a small portion of the market. If it makes you upset that you can't afford a mac, you can always pick up a used on for a fairly reasonable price.
I hate to post an opposing opinion, but I have had my Compaq TC1000 TabletPC for nearly a month now, and it has truly revolutionized the way I use computers. As a laptop, it is powerful enough to run SQL Server 2000, IIS and Visual Studio.Net, allowing me to have a full development environment with me wherever I go.
Wouldn't that environment be easier to use with a keyboard? Why didn't the just make a laptop with a touchscreen? You could make the screen flip around like on the Clie. Then it's $2000 price tag would be justified.
With no keyboard a TabletPC's value to me drops to the $2-300 range. I know for a fact that Microsoft hasn't figured out how to make all those things you just can't do with the windows GUI suddenly possible without a keyboard, and you can't honestly tell me that you enjoy writing code with the pen. What good is a development environment if you can't write code? It seems like a windows GUI with additional limitations to me... You still have the limitation of single dimensional interaction between pieces of data (there's only so much you can do with the drag and drop interface, which is the primary reason I can't stand windows), and now it's even harder to fall back to a command line interface (which allows multiple interactions between arbitrarily sized data sets in a single command) to do all those little things I'm used to being able to do in seconds rather than hours.
I don't think a video iPod would be a bad thing - personally, I'd like a Palm style PDA with the 5 to 20 G drive inside - that way, I can store all my ebooks (yes, 16 MB has now become too small - thanks, Tolkein and Rowling!), documents, etc.
I swear, the only reason the storage market hasn't died is because of the pack rat mentality. Do you really need all your ebooks in your pocket, or just the ones you're reading right now? I can just imagine a future where every device we own contains all the data we have in every other device because you never know when you might need it...
Note that the G4 powerbook has 5 hrs battery life; the 14" G3 iBook is rated at 6 hrs. G4 is a bad way to go for tablet where battery life is key.
Yeah, and the 12.1" iBook is rated at only 5 hours too. It has a smaller screen, which is what uses the most power in these things, not the PPC processor. What does this tell you? It tells you that the battery life is based in size, not on the processor type. There's more room in the 14" iBook for battery. The difference between the G3 and G4 at the same clock speed is less than 1 watt.
Doubtful for many reasons, not the least of which is that touchscreens assume there's only one point on the screen you want activated. Mush your hand on a touchscreen (I have one, 17" Mitsubishi CRT) or a Palm and see what happens.
Not all types of touchscreens have this limitation. Your experience is limited.
This is the killer. Everything listed above is doable, but putting it all on one device would be $4000.
Why? The expensive part is the screen, and apple busy enough of those to get a pretty good price...
No reason for them to go to the expense of combining power & firewire in this way. (Yes, I know FW ca carry power, but you don't want to run a whole computer off of it.)
They make other devices that are firewire powered. It wouldn't be a stretch to think they'd reuse the technology.
I agree that this is a total fabrication, but you provide silly and equaly contrived arguments...
Until we have holographic imaging that's indistinguishable from reality the cards aren't there yet.
That's an interesting comment to make considering that isn't the direction these cards are going in. They're speeding up two dimensional images (yes, I know they're called 3D cards, but they're rendering a two dimensional image). holographic imaging (assuming we figured out the display) would require exponentionally more power than these cards have. If that's what you think these improvements are working towards than in the grand scheme of things this card will be a baby step up from a TNT2.
THey also have specially written software and a memory buffer so that the hard drive is powered down most of the time. They don't just run the hard drive like it's a flash card.
BMCC had a problem with this, where they tracked your entry into various buildings and if you didn't entre certain buildings at certain times, in liu with your schedule, you'd lose financial aid.
This sounds like a rumour. It can't possibly be true. How would they account for two people going through the door at the same time? How about people swiping their card and then not entering the building. Sounds like something they tell the gullible freshman to scare the shit out of them.
All new equipment is being supplied with P4 cards. Any new activations requiring an access card will get a new P4 model.
That's recent then. I bought and had my reciever activated 3 months ago and they activated the HU card that came with it. I only have a P4 because my HU card decided to stop working after the power switched off and on seven or eight times in rapid succession during a lightning storm.
The arrogance...geez. So Colburn suspects that the Kennedy accident was due to the pilot fixating on a single gauge. He thinks that if there was a new display there's no way that there would have been a problem.
No kidding. I wonder if he thinks Kennedy would have died on a much earlier flight because he would have been more comfortable flying with even less experience and would have done something stupid that the gague couldn't fix simply because he didn't have the experience that comes with figuring out what all the gagues do and why.
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Virtual memory is an idea whose time has come and gone.
HDD swap is just a small part of memory virtualization. Virtual memory is here to stay, and it's a good thing.
Also, It's good to have swap space, even if you have tons of memory. You can never have too much memory, especially in linux. Linux will use as much of your memory as it can as a hard drive block cache. If you don't have swap, memory that could be used as cache to speed up the application you're currently using will be wasted storing a program that you've left unused but running. Having no swap won't reduce functionality, but unless you don't do any I/O intensive work, not having swap WILL reduce your performance. I'd consider that an ill effect.
Lead is toxic, but not in the tiny quantities that are likely to be left on your hands after you melt it into your car. Using the lead bar is cheap, easy, way more accurate than the snipoff weights, and the hazards from the lead itself are minimal. Just wash your hands when you're done. You should be far more worried about the dangers from the heat.
Besides, unless you pay extra, "lead" for stained glass isn't really 100% lead anymore. It's mostly tin. Same goes for fishing weights, which kids have been closing onto the line with their teeth for centuries. Don't swallow it and you'll have no trouble.
You can tell your kids that it's filler to make it more aerodynamic.
Lying to children is dispicible and counter productive. Be honest to your kids. They'll understand more than you give them credit for. If you tell them the truth about whay you're sealing it up, they'll remember it in the future, but if you lie to them they may think that melting lead is something fun to do when you're not around. Besides, they can tell when you're lying. They might not figure it out right away, but they will eventually. Then later you'll wonder why you have a defiant teenager.
While you're at it, don't lie to your kids about sex or drugs either. When you tell them (or the DARE office tells them) that smoking pot will kill you they'll know you're lying, and may not belive you when you tell them that heroin or crack will kill them. It certainly won't stop them from smoking pot.
Children (and teenagers) may lack wisdom and experience, but they don't lack intelligence. They depend on adults to help them gain wisdom and experience without having to learn the hard way. You're not protecting them by interfering with the process.
Finally, don't forget that the addition of lead will make the car a hazardous waste. Please don't throw the dead cars containing lead in the garbage. If they're trash, at least remove the lead before disposal.
I still have all three pinewood derby cars that I made (even the first one that lost miserably). If your son puts a significant amount of effort into building the car, it'll probably be something he saves for his whole life and brings out to show to the kids and grandkids when their pinewood derby comes around. I don't think you have to worry too much about them getting thrown out.
Walk by his office frequently until you catch him on a personal phone call. You'll be obligated to show him how stupid the new policy is. Better yet, if he fires you for pointing it out you'll probably have grounds for a lawsuit.
When a page goes away, it expires from the google cache some finite period of time afterward. It's not an archive, it's a cache.
Well, the methods aren't covered by this patent but it is possible that the manufacturing methods he refers to are patented elsewhere. The structures he's talking about building in the surface of this device are bordering on nanotech. He talks about manipulating pieces of metal a few dozen atoms wide with an electron beam. We're just starting to be able to mass produce structures that small for a reasonable cost. I'm sure it was out of the question a few years ago. If he built a prototype of this device, it was probably jut one or two of these structures, and he probably did them by hand, potentailly using a scanning tunneling electron microscope.
This device may be fabricated upon a transparent slab by the deposition of one or more metal coatings in a known manner. The various rectifier elements are first prepared by opening appropriate windows in the metal coating utilizing an electron beam and suitably coating and doping the rectifying areas. An electron or ion beam cuts the shape and connections shown. The connections are completed after deposition of the insulating coating 9. The circuit is then the same as that shown in FIG. 1.
Assuming the applicant built a prototype and proved this device works, creating metal coatings in the exact thicknesses he mentions with the detail he describes is still something that would be very expensive to do now. That technology hasn't improved very drastically in the last decade or so.
It doesn't matter if it compares to that. Cameras like that are both uncommon and impractical.
If you got an array of these sensors that was 8"x10" do you think your camera would compare to it?
I agree with the above with one exception. Melt the lead into a rectangular hole. Make it so that the weight is distributed evenly in the horizontal direction across the body. Don't burn yourself if you use a torch to melt the lead instead of an iron. I found the best way to do it without burning the wood was to use lead rod (you can get it at a crafts store in the stained glass section) and drip it in from a few inches above the car. Also, make sure you have an accurate scale and make your car as close to the maximum allowed weight as possible. The weight wins the race.
Also, mount the wheels in your drill and run them over some 220 grit sandpaper for a fraction of a second and then graphite the nails before you attach the wheels to the car. (I've heard of using oil like the parent mentions, but I had great luck with graphite).
As for cutting the wood, the fastest design I ever made was just to pass the block through the table saw with a tapering jig so it was almost full height at the rear and a sharp point at the front. The weight was 3/4 of the way back. I built the whole thing in an hour.
It's not okay because he cut his own pay too, it's okay because it means that now you're making $47k instead of $0. Would you prefer that nobody took a pay cut and you lost your job, because 90% of his salary doesn't even come close to the amount of money saved by not paying 6% of the rest of the companies salaries. His pay cut may be a drop in the bucket of his net worth, but his salary is a drop in the payroll bucket for the entire company.
At least he's making the gesture.
You have a trademark on the name in association with a particular product or service. You cannot get a trademark on just a name, word or phrase. Just beacuse he is using the same name as you does not automatically mean he's infringing on your trademark. You might not have a leg to stand on for any price.
If everyone is skipping the ads, free TV is going to go away. Either you'll be forced to watch ads (like the unskipable previews on some DVDs) or you'll have to pay for your TV programming (e.g. HBO). There are no other solutions.
The probelm is not that "free" TV is going to go away, the problem is that we have to deal with all these broadcast industry idiots kicking and screaming on the way down. Let's face it: PVRs have the capability of destroying broadcast television as we know it, and eventually they will. Wouldn't it be great if they all just gave up now and we didn't have to oppose all these stupid laws they're trying to buy to maintain their obsolete business model?
From what I'm reading here, people aren't bitching about the possibility of free TV going away (they keep paying the cable bill every month and going to see movies no matter how many time the prices go up), they're bitching about the crap that is going on while the industry tries to survive. They should just give in and find a new business model that is compatible with current technology already. Not only would we be spared all these new restrictive laws, but maybe people would think for themselves more instead of doing what the commercials say.
The iBook's base is as thick as the tiBook when it's closed. It's about 30% thicker than the tiBook.
Ok, that's cool. The tablets I've seen at CompUSA and at trade shows didn't have anything like that.
I think I'd loose my mind without a keyboard if I wanted to do any serious work on the machine.
I think you replied to the wrong comment.
seems to be working for Dell...
Dell computers are not particularly less expensive than Apple computers. You'll spend between $700 and $5000 on a computer from either company. Sure, you can build a pretty good PC for around $400, but you can't get a full machine with monitor from dell for that cheap. They advertise a $449 machine on their site under "Hot deals" but by the time you get it into your cart it's basically stripped down and doesn't include any support or labor warranty. It also doesn't include a monitor.
Apple should dispense with the huge profit margin
Why? Aren't profits more important than market share? Who cares if you've only got 15% of the market as long as you're making money?
I think it's nice to have a company like Apple around. They're willing to take design risks and charge the high prices that allown them to take design risks simply because they only target a small portion of the market. If it makes you upset that you can't afford a mac, you can always pick up a used on for a fairly reasonable price.
I hate to post an opposing opinion, but I have had my Compaq TC1000 TabletPC for nearly a month now, and it has truly revolutionized the way I use computers. As a laptop, it is powerful enough to run SQL Server 2000, IIS and Visual Studio.Net, allowing me to have a full development environment with me wherever I go.
Wouldn't that environment be easier to use with a keyboard? Why didn't the just make a laptop with a touchscreen? You could make the screen flip around like on the Clie. Then it's $2000 price tag would be justified.
With no keyboard a TabletPC's value to me drops to the $2-300 range. I know for a fact that Microsoft hasn't figured out how to make all those things you just can't do with the windows GUI suddenly possible without a keyboard, and you can't honestly tell me that you enjoy writing code with the pen. What good is a development environment if you can't write code? It seems like a windows GUI with additional limitations to me... You still have the limitation of single dimensional interaction between pieces of data (there's only so much you can do with the drag and drop interface, which is the primary reason I can't stand windows), and now it's even harder to fall back to a command line interface (which allows multiple interactions between arbitrarily sized data sets in a single command) to do all those little things I'm used to being able to do in seconds rather than hours.
I don't think a video iPod would be a bad thing - personally, I'd like a Palm style PDA with the 5 to 20 G drive inside - that way, I can store all my ebooks (yes, 16 MB has now become too small - thanks, Tolkein and Rowling!), documents, etc.
I swear, the only reason the storage market hasn't died is because of the pack rat mentality. Do you really need all your ebooks in your pocket, or just the ones you're reading right now? I can just imagine a future where every device we own contains all the data we have in every other device because you never know when you might need it...
Note that the G4 powerbook has 5 hrs battery life; the 14" G3 iBook is rated at 6 hrs. G4 is a bad way to go for tablet where battery life is key.
Yeah, and the 12.1" iBook is rated at only 5 hours too. It has a smaller screen, which is what uses the most power in these things, not the PPC processor. What does this tell you? It tells you that the battery life is based in size, not on the processor type. There's more room in the 14" iBook for battery. The difference between the G3 and G4 at the same clock speed is less than 1 watt.
Doubtful for many reasons, not the least of which is that touchscreens assume there's only one point on the screen you want activated. Mush your hand on a touchscreen (I have one, 17" Mitsubishi CRT) or a Palm and see what happens.
Not all types of touchscreens have this limitation. Your experience is limited.
This is the killer. Everything listed above is doable, but putting it all on one device would be $4000.
Why? The expensive part is the screen, and apple busy enough of those to get a pretty good price...
No reason for them to go to the expense of combining power & firewire in this way. (Yes, I know FW ca carry power, but you don't want to run a whole computer off of it.)
They make other devices that are firewire powered. It wouldn't be a stretch to think they'd reuse the technology.
I agree that this is a total fabrication, but you provide silly and equaly contrived arguments...
Yeah, I'm sure Apple would make tons of profit if they went after that "people with no money" market.
Until we have holographic imaging that's indistinguishable from reality the cards aren't there yet.
That's an interesting comment to make considering that isn't the direction these cards are going in. They're speeding up two dimensional images (yes, I know they're called 3D cards, but they're rendering a two dimensional image). holographic imaging (assuming we figured out the display) would require exponentionally more power than these cards have. If that's what you think these improvements are working towards than in the grand scheme of things this card will be a baby step up from a TNT2.
If you really wanted to heat your house in the winter you should find an old multi-CPU socket 7 board and go with a bunch of old Cyric PR266 CPUs.
Unfortunatly, they have no SMP support.
THey also have specially written software and a memory buffer so that the hard drive is powered down most of the time. They don't just run the hard drive like it's a flash card.
BMCC had a problem with this, where they tracked your entry into various buildings and if you didn't entre certain buildings at certain times, in liu with your schedule, you'd lose financial aid.
This sounds like a rumour. It can't possibly be true. How would they account for two people going through the door at the same time? How about people swiping their card and then not entering the building. Sounds like something they tell the gullible freshman to scare the shit out of them.
All new equipment is being supplied with P4 cards. Any new activations requiring an access card will get a new P4 model.
That's recent then. I bought and had my reciever activated 3 months ago and they activated the HU card that came with it. I only have a P4 because my HU card decided to stop working after the power switched off and on seven or eight times in rapid succession during a lightning storm.
The arrogance...geez. So Colburn suspects that the Kennedy accident was due to the pilot fixating on a single gauge. He thinks that if there was a new display there's no way that there would have been a problem.
No kidding. I wonder if he thinks Kennedy would have died on a much earlier flight because he would have been more comfortable flying with even less experience and would have done something stupid that the gague couldn't fix simply because he didn't have the experience that comes with figuring out what all the gagues do and why.