Yet the self professed left wing of urban Europe (and the farthest left portions of the US) think we should all be living in cities, thus forcing upon us exactly the situation you describe even before you take debt into account? Spare me the holier-than-thou. The rest of the world isn't to the left of the US. They're just bigger hypocrites than us.
The quality of movie downloads is poor and almost certainly isn't cutting into DVD sales, where the quality of downloadable music was high. Pay-per-listen and limited time music downloads were never the choice of the industry (though they did try subscription models).
The fact of the matter is that studios are positioning downloads to grab the profits of the rental stores, and not as serious option for movie buyers. It may happen one day, but it isn't even on the industry's radar right now, much less the consumer's radar.
Perhaps you missed ITMS becoming the second largest music retailer behind Wal-Mart?
The whole debate is moot though. None of the studios are interested in the ITMS model for HD movies, and consumers have shown over and over that they are unwilling to move their dollars from a physical media to pay-per-use media. Downloads may kill the rental stores, but not the DVD market.
Please Americans, I love lots of what you stand for, now kill off the right-wing cancer that eats at your nation's heart.
Read your subject again, and then go do it.
When you've finished you can figure out what's wrong with your post. Hint: "right-wing" and "cuban embargo" are not really things that can be associated. It was started under one of our farthest left leaning administrations, and the most recent law upholding the embargo was signed into law by the previous democratic president, not the current administration. It is widely supported by politicians on both sides which want to pander to particular constituencies.
I actually consider the selection of actively seeded torrents on The Pirate Bay to be pretty poor. New releases are popular and easily available.. And a few classics... But other than that it's fairly weak.
More standalone BluRay players sold than standalone HD-DVD players. Not counting the PS3 at all. So, yes.
As for downloads, they are currently a fantasy. Downloads could succeed if there were an outlet for downloaded movies similar to online MP3 stores. Download from a vast library covering a huge portion of recorded video, and keep the file to watch as many times as you'd like essentially forever... But no such thing exists on a large enough scale. Most content that is available is for limited time use and a restricted number of viewings, and the availability of titles is small. BluRay has nothing to fear from download competition until this is worked out, and there is no sign of progress.
It seems to me that was a very progressive statement at the time. And if you look at what you quoted it doesn't say he wasn't racist. It says he was progressive.
The stereotypical members of both parties right now hold strong, and in my opinion highly immoral, prejudicial bias against more than one segment of our current free society. The line isn't drawn by skin color anymore in many cases (not that there isn't still plenty of racism), but there is just as much hate based on arbitrary cultural differences. In my experience, this is equally as true for democrats and republicans. They are just each opposed to different groups in hateful, harmful ways.
That's terrible! We haven't even figured out how to prevent these buildings that are out in the open and easily observable from public places from being seen by every day passers-by. And now we can see them on the internet too? What is the world coming to?
Oh, and open the borders, and photographers should have rights to take pictures of copyrighted works displayed in public.
I swear, I've seen people bitch that "oh, problem could've been busted on mythbusters if they just did the math and left it at that" and not realize that the follow through is to... DO THE EXPERIMENT.
So it's better not to do the math at all, have no idea what to expect, make some minor mistake in the experiment that causes it to go wrong, and then come to the wrong conclusion? You really should do both. Though if you're not making a TV show, and the math shows you have no chance of even coming close to success, there's really no reason to do the experiment too.
It's funny to watch Mythbusters. Sometimes they do the math and are wildly successful, and sometimes they throw caution to the wind... Generally followed by failure. The show was still successful in the earlier seasons before the "Warning: Science Content" sign, and when each myth was shown start to finish instead of chopped up and intermingled with other myths. You've got to wonder why they were so afraid to continue as a more intelligent show. You've got to wonder if they do the math behind the scenes, and choose to hide it when it disproves the myth before the experiment gets started... But then why not spend 2 minutes explaining the math at the end?
The support for existing DRM-protected media is the same if not better; that does NOT force DRM on you, just allows you to use media that some video bigwig thought needs the protection - if it weren't supported at all because MS tried to take a stance against it, then we'd just be complaining about the lack of support. DRM is not magically added to your existing media, though I expect the stupid default behavior dating back to WMP9 if not earlier to add copy protection to ripped CDs remains (as I use neither XP nor Vista, I can't comment for sure).
What is the point of this statement? It is completely unrelated to this discussion. A strawman.
The assertion here is that backwards compatibility support for XP drivers was broken in order to eliminate a DRM exploit. In other words, they're not saying that DRM is forced on you, or unsupported. They're saying *drivers* are unsupported in order to have better DRM support. They may have preferentially chosen to break support for their customer's hardware to pander to the media distribution industry.
Fans on the chipset are for decidedly mid-range or "budget performance" rigs.
High end motherboards almost universally have a heatpipe rig on the chipset that uses airflow from the CPU fan. On a good motherboard, the chipset fan is generally optional unless you're overclocking.
It's also usually ridiculously noisy because it has to be small and fast.
Go look on newegg at boards over $200. 19 out of every 20 have no moving parts.
I have a Ferrari 3400 that I bought for the same reason.
Unfortunately, the backlight doesn't come on unless I use the driver supplied by Acer, and they haven't updated it since the subsequent model came out. So I have a decent graphics chip and crappy old drivers. Thanks Acer!
(The machine is great otherwise; at least once the "car starting" noise is turned off at bootup... Durable, cool to the touch, slot loading, thin, light...)
I have never seen a 3.5" SATA drive that did less than 50MB/s.
That's because many manufacturers don't even sell their 5200RPM SATA drives on the retail market. They only go to OEMs. Plus, you've said yourself that you buy larger drives. Those drives typically perform better simply due to the increased bit density. I've got a pile of Dell Inspiron's at work from 2006 with 5200 RPM SATA disks in them that will hit 35MB/sec if you're reading from the outside sectors. Generally the performance is much lower than that.
I write storage drivers for a living. I see the high performance disks as soon as, or even before they're on the market. The 15k RPM fibre channel drives I was working with in 2001 could do 80MB/sec in sequential reads. I believe that they were on the market at the time, though a non-enterprise user would not have been buying them, and enterprise users would have been abstracted from the individual drive by an array... (Plus they were $1500 each, and only 18GB. We were actually using them for the low seek times, not the high transfer rates.)
It seems more likely to me that over the last five years you've learned enough about technology to realize how poor of a place is to come to learn about it.
This site is flamewars and geek-porn, and the occasional nugget of wisdom. Always has been.
On the contrary, had the headline not been so sensational, they would have attracted far fewer viewers to the new ad-laden comments section of this particular article. I think the editors have struck a balance between pissing people off enough to get them to click the story, and not pissing them off enough to leave (you're still here, after all).
You probably bought higher speed drives than the bottom of the line. Sure, you're getting 55MB/sec, but you're not using a low-end drive. Probably something more middle of the road. But buy a $299 Dell and test the speed of the drive that comes with...
When I run disk benchmarks, I don't use a filesystem. Since 2000, you've been able to buy drives that can hit over 80MB per second. You can also still buy SATA drives that have trouble hitting 30MB/sec. (3.5" drives. At 2.5" you can easily buy drives that have a hard time with 25MB/sec. You can also get 2.5" server drives that smoke...)
If you are losing 50% of your speed from a filesystem... Well.. You're not. It's not even worth contemplating.
GigE is really much faster than the other two, but it is suited to different kinds of traffic. FireWire and USB mass storage do small block transfers. GigE preforms optimally with larger packet sizes. You should use a protocol which takes this into account. Not SMB on Windows unless you want to do a *lot* of tuning... FTP with a client that supports a sliding window size (Not Internet Explorer, but almost every other FTP client), NFS, HTTP, SCP if you have a very low latency link and a fast CPU...
Consumer grade copper gigabit in crappy low-end PCs (made in the last 4 years) should be able to give you at least 300mbit of transferred data over TCP given 10 minutes of tuning, and using the correct cables.
Don't use a USB NIC. Don't transfer your data to/from a 4000rpm laptop hard drive... Etc..
You're not going to get 1Gbps though, 'cause your hard drive probably can't go that fast. The average low-end desktop drive isn't going to give you more than 30MB/sec. Depending on your system, the bus you have the NIC plugged into can't do 1000mbps. Your network can handle the advertised speed just fine though. If you've got high end gear (motherboard, disk array) you can peg a gigabit ethernet link in a point to point transfer... Right now it's not the ethernet holding consumer grade equipment back.
There are plenty of problems with hydrogen powered vehicles, but you really aren't hitting on them. Safety isn't the issue.
You talk about propane leaks, but propane is heavier than air and hydrogen is lighter. You aren't likely to asphyxiate from a hydrogen leak. It's not likely to accumulate in a low space and cause an explosion. Tank bursts are typically directional, and the force can be dampened; it's not like a bomb going off..
Other responders have already pointed out the inaccuracies with your pressure analysis.
You talk about the expense of distilling water, or piping distilled water around and neglect the fact that we power our vehicles with truck delivered distilled product right now. And that product is flammable during trucking and distillation.
Garages? Gasoline fumes are very explosive. That's why cars have one-way venting systems on their tanks, and boats have fume alarms. Yet we don't have gas stations and garages blowing up all the time, because we've engineered our way out of the problem.
Your alternatives are just as poorly thought out... Ethanol sounds great, but causing grain to be priced as energy won't work. There will be wars and famine (we're already well on the way in the latter department) before ethanol becomes our primary fuel. Photovoltaics are promising, but just plain not ready. They require a breakthrough large enough that we can't accurately predict how far away practicality is. You didn't mention wind, but others in the thread have... It has promise, but geographical and political concerns will keep it as a niche solution. Neither wind nor solar are transmission solutions either. They're just production. So how do you get the solar or wind power to your car anyway?
Corporate and academic sites provide their own e-mail services. Personal addresses would be applied for primarily from personal connections.
Even if that couldn't be assumed, you could whitelist certain IPs upon validated request from the site's administrator. The vast majority of IP addresses won't have NAT addresses behind them, even if the majority of internet users are behind NAT....
Or they could keep the CAPTCHA (man, I hate that acronym), and put a huge signup timeout on each IP. Signed up for an account? No more new gmail accounts for that IP for a day/week/month... A month is probably good. Most people won't need more than one a month, and if you've got a few users sharing an IP, a month isn't that long to wait in the life of an e-mail address.
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The natural place for a jack-of-all-trades to land is in his/her own business.
Yet the self professed left wing of urban Europe (and the farthest left portions of the US) think we should all be living in cities, thus forcing upon us exactly the situation you describe even before you take debt into account? Spare me the holier-than-thou. The rest of the world isn't to the left of the US. They're just bigger hypocrites than us.
It's hard to see the parallels.
The quality of movie downloads is poor and almost certainly isn't cutting into DVD sales, where the quality of downloadable music was high. Pay-per-listen and limited time music downloads were never the choice of the industry (though they did try subscription models).
The fact of the matter is that studios are positioning downloads to grab the profits of the rental stores, and not as serious option for movie buyers. It may happen one day, but it isn't even on the industry's radar right now, much less the consumer's radar.
Perhaps you missed ITMS becoming the second largest music retailer behind Wal-Mart?
The whole debate is moot though. None of the studios are interested in the ITMS model for HD movies, and consumers have shown over and over that they are unwilling to move their dollars from a physical media to pay-per-use media. Downloads may kill the rental stores, but not the DVD market.
Read your subject again, and then go do it.
When you've finished you can figure out what's wrong with your post. Hint: "right-wing" and "cuban embargo" are not really things that can be associated. It was started under one of our farthest left leaning administrations, and the most recent law upholding the embargo was signed into law by the previous democratic president, not the current administration. It is widely supported by politicians on both sides which want to pander to particular constituencies.
That sound is the joke going over your head at the speed of light.
I actually consider the selection of actively seeded torrents on The Pirate Bay to be pretty poor. New releases are popular and easily available.. And a few classics... But other than that it's fairly weak.
More standalone BluRay players sold than standalone HD-DVD players. Not counting the PS3 at all. So, yes.
As for downloads, they are currently a fantasy. Downloads could succeed if there were an outlet for downloaded movies similar to online MP3 stores. Download from a vast library covering a huge portion of recorded video, and keep the file to watch as many times as you'd like essentially forever... But no such thing exists on a large enough scale. Most content that is available is for limited time use and a restricted number of viewings, and the availability of titles is small. BluRay has nothing to fear from download competition until this is worked out, and there is no sign of progress.
It seems to me that was a very progressive statement at the time. And if you look at what you quoted it doesn't say he wasn't racist. It says he was progressive.
The stereotypical members of both parties right now hold strong, and in my opinion highly immoral, prejudicial bias against more than one segment of our current free society. The line isn't drawn by skin color anymore in many cases (not that there isn't still plenty of racism), but there is just as much hate based on arbitrary cultural differences. In my experience, this is equally as true for democrats and republicans. They are just each opposed to different groups in hateful, harmful ways.
That's terrible! We haven't even figured out how to prevent these buildings that are out in the open and easily observable from public places from being seen by every day passers-by. And now we can see them on the internet too? What is the world coming to?
Oh, and open the borders, and photographers should have rights to take pictures of copyrighted works displayed in public.
So it's better not to do the math at all, have no idea what to expect, make some minor mistake in the experiment that causes it to go wrong, and then come to the wrong conclusion? You really should do both. Though if you're not making a TV show, and the math shows you have no chance of even coming close to success, there's really no reason to do the experiment too.
It's funny to watch Mythbusters. Sometimes they do the math and are wildly successful, and sometimes they throw caution to the wind... Generally followed by failure. The show was still successful in the earlier seasons before the "Warning: Science Content" sign, and when each myth was shown start to finish instead of chopped up and intermingled with other myths. You've got to wonder why they were so afraid to continue as a more intelligent show. You've got to wonder if they do the math behind the scenes, and choose to hide it when it disproves the myth before the experiment gets started... But then why not spend 2 minutes explaining the math at the end?
What is the point of this statement? It is completely unrelated to this discussion. A strawman.
The assertion here is that backwards compatibility support for XP drivers was broken in order to eliminate a DRM exploit. In other words, they're not saying that DRM is forced on you, or unsupported. They're saying *drivers* are unsupported in order to have better DRM support. They may have preferentially chosen to break support for their customer's hardware to pander to the media distribution industry.
Fans on the chipset are for decidedly mid-range or "budget performance" rigs.
High end motherboards almost universally have a heatpipe rig on the chipset that uses airflow from the CPU fan. On a good motherboard, the chipset fan is generally optional unless you're overclocking.
It's also usually ridiculously noisy because it has to be small and fast.
Go look on newegg at boards over $200. 19 out of every 20 have no moving parts.
The school wants you to think of your profitable ideas while they still have some financial claim to them...
I have a Ferrari 3400 that I bought for the same reason.
Unfortunately, the backlight doesn't come on unless I use the driver supplied by Acer, and they haven't updated it since the subsequent model came out. So I have a decent graphics chip and crappy old drivers. Thanks Acer!
(The machine is great otherwise; at least once the "car starting" noise is turned off at bootup... Durable, cool to the touch, slot loading, thin, light...)
That's because many manufacturers don't even sell their 5200RPM SATA drives on the retail market. They only go to OEMs. Plus, you've said yourself that you buy larger drives. Those drives typically perform better simply due to the increased bit density. I've got a pile of Dell Inspiron's at work from 2006 with 5200 RPM SATA disks in them that will hit 35MB/sec if you're reading from the outside sectors. Generally the performance is much lower than that.
I write storage drivers for a living. I see the high performance disks as soon as, or even before they're on the market. The 15k RPM fibre channel drives I was working with in 2001 could do 80MB/sec in sequential reads. I believe that they were on the market at the time, though a non-enterprise user would not have been buying them, and enterprise users would have been abstracted from the individual drive by an array... (Plus they were $1500 each, and only 18GB. We were actually using them for the low seek times, not the high transfer rates.)
It seems more likely to me that over the last five years you've learned enough about technology to realize how poor of a place is to come to learn about it.
This site is flamewars and geek-porn, and the occasional nugget of wisdom. Always has been.
On the contrary, had the headline not been so sensational, they would have attracted far fewer viewers to the new ad-laden comments section of this particular article. I think the editors have struck a balance between pissing people off enough to get them to click the story, and not pissing them off enough to leave (you're still here, after all).
You probably bought higher speed drives than the bottom of the line. Sure, you're getting 55MB/sec, but you're not using a low-end drive. Probably something more middle of the road. But buy a $299 Dell and test the speed of the drive that comes with...
When I run disk benchmarks, I don't use a filesystem. Since 2000, you've been able to buy drives that can hit over 80MB per second. You can also still buy SATA drives that have trouble hitting 30MB/sec. (3.5" drives. At 2.5" you can easily buy drives that have a hard time with 25MB/sec. You can also get 2.5" server drives that smoke...)
If you are losing 50% of your speed from a filesystem... Well.. You're not. It's not even worth contemplating.
GigE is really much faster than the other two, but it is suited to different kinds of traffic. FireWire and USB mass storage do small block transfers. GigE preforms optimally with larger packet sizes. You should use a protocol which takes this into account. Not SMB on Windows unless you want to do a *lot* of tuning... FTP with a client that supports a sliding window size (Not Internet Explorer, but almost every other FTP client), NFS, HTTP, SCP if you have a very low latency link and a fast CPU...
Spend 5 minutes troubleshooting.
Consumer grade copper gigabit in crappy low-end PCs (made in the last 4 years) should be able to give you at least 300mbit of transferred data over TCP given 10 minutes of tuning, and using the correct cables.
Don't use a USB NIC. Don't transfer your data to/from a 4000rpm laptop hard drive... Etc..
You're not going to get 1Gbps though, 'cause your hard drive probably can't go that fast. The average low-end desktop drive isn't going to give you more than 30MB/sec. Depending on your system, the bus you have the NIC plugged into can't do 1000mbps. Your network can handle the advertised speed just fine though. If you've got high end gear (motherboard, disk array) you can peg a gigabit ethernet link in a point to point transfer... Right now it's not the ethernet holding consumer grade equipment back.
I agree, but you still need a method of storing the energy in your car.
Hydrogen is storage. But batteries are probably a better bet.
There are plenty of problems with hydrogen powered vehicles, but you really aren't hitting on them. Safety isn't the issue.
You talk about propane leaks, but propane is heavier than air and hydrogen is lighter. You aren't likely to asphyxiate from a hydrogen leak. It's not likely to accumulate in a low space and cause an explosion. Tank bursts are typically directional, and the force can be dampened; it's not like a bomb going off..
Other responders have already pointed out the inaccuracies with your pressure analysis.
You talk about the expense of distilling water, or piping distilled water around and neglect the fact that we power our vehicles with truck delivered distilled product right now. And that product is flammable during trucking and distillation.
Garages? Gasoline fumes are very explosive. That's why cars have one-way venting systems on their tanks, and boats have fume alarms. Yet we don't have gas stations and garages blowing up all the time, because we've engineered our way out of the problem.
Your alternatives are just as poorly thought out... Ethanol sounds great, but causing grain to be priced as energy won't work. There will be wars and famine (we're already well on the way in the latter department) before ethanol becomes our primary fuel. Photovoltaics are promising, but just plain not ready. They require a breakthrough large enough that we can't accurately predict how far away practicality is. You didn't mention wind, but others in the thread have... It has promise, but geographical and political concerns will keep it as a niche solution. Neither wind nor solar are transmission solutions either. They're just production. So how do you get the solar or wind power to your car anyway?
Corporate and academic sites provide their own e-mail services. Personal addresses would be applied for primarily from personal connections.
Even if that couldn't be assumed, you could whitelist certain IPs upon validated request from the site's administrator. The vast majority of IP addresses won't have NAT addresses behind them, even if the majority of internet users are behind NAT....
Or they could keep the CAPTCHA (man, I hate that acronym), and put a huge signup timeout on each IP. Signed up for an account? No more new gmail accounts for that IP for a day/week/month... A month is probably good. Most people won't need more than one a month, and if you've got a few users sharing an IP, a month isn't that long to wait in the life of an e-mail address.
The invitation system was better though.