from what i read on wikipedia, temperaturs vary between 100k and 700k, with the 100k representing the permanently dark side of the planet and the more common temperatures in the non-dark regions being around 400-500 K Temperature wise, i would much prefer Mars, which is (once again, according to wikipedia) -85 (~200K) to -5 (268K) degrees centigrade Both pretty much SUCK in terms of atmosphere, and mercury would win in terms of available (solar) energy, but i'd much rather bring some extra solar panels to mars (or a nuclear reactor..) then risk being boiled on mercury.
I agree though that we need to explore those rocks out there, titan and europa are interesting indeed, but as a first off-world settlement, i would think mars is a better place to start then mercury
Conscripts thrown off the boat onto Japan would have eventually killed every hostile man woman child and dog by hand.
which would encompas pretty much every living japanse male, and a majority of the women and children, making it pretty much genocide by conventional weapons, also killing hundreds of thousands of american soldiers in the process.
Nukes are terrible weapons, but in the case of japan, two nukes instead of a full scale invasion saved milions of lives
Meanwhile, your link points to a device with a 5 hour battery life. Enough said.
Meanwhile, the device you champion gives me 0 control over the actual system and what software i can run. Enough said.
Seriously, you are just cherry picking specs from the ipad to compete with anything other people suggest. Why the hell would 5 hours be insufficient? If is to be used for note-taking / studying, i dont think you would be away from an AC outlet for more then 5 hours
A nazi moonbase was the first thing to pop into my mind when reading the headline, i guess i have a weakspot for all the wacky stuff the germans were thinking up at the end of the war, rocketplanes, ICBMs, ultra-long range cannons, not to mention all the rumors/fiction about even more wacky stuff
Why would you want to stream MKVs? Why not just rip your BR discs to MP4 containers with x264? Or are you not getting those MKVs from your own masters, and you're too fucking lazy to put them in a different container?
why should the user be forced to format/container shift unless there is a sound technical reason too? Apple not allowing MKV streaming would be a completely arbitrary and artificial limitation on the device.
Sure, i love saying "yeah, i really need that octo-core machine to format shift all my media for my i-gizmo" just as much as the next high end hardware fetishist, but calling someone lazy because they rather not have artificial limitations that require real effort to work around... really?
you are probably right, but just pulling statements out of your ass without providing number from a reputable source is not interesting at all, never mind a "stat"
The iPad is incredibly cheap. This thing was widely expected to start at $1000+ last year and it started at half that. The iPad 2 is coming in at the same price points and is way cheaper than the competition. The Xoom 32GB goes for £499 in the UK. The iPad 2 32GB? £399.
your post was a bit long, so i stopped after the first section, but i just want to reply to this, ipad was expected to start at $999 AND DO MUCH MORE. the initial reaction after the anouncement was two-fold: 1) woah, only 500 dollars! and 2) it's just a ipod touch XL, lame.
Also, it doesnt matter what original expectations were, or how expensive the competition is, 500 bucks for the given functionality is still expensive, the fact that the xoom is more expensive doesnt suddenly make apple cheap or good value for money, it just makes the xoom worse value for money (assuming equal functionality, while the xoom presumably does much more), then the competing apple product
which doesnt allow you to plug in a USB stick or anything
Either way, the way iOS hides any concept of a filesystem would make it rather difficult to integrate internal storage into the user interface. The ipad isnt a computer, and the OS doesnt do computer things, so it isnt the device for me anyway...
thermalpaste still has a significantly worse thermal conductivity than alu/copper. The function of thermal paste is merely to fill in the gaps between the two surfaces (no matter how precisely milled, a heatsink will have groves/ridges on its contact surface). If you put a layer of paste just thin enough to full all the ridges, you will have the best cooling performance, adding a thicker layer of thermal paste just makes it worse
but... but... but... you could get a regular cooper S for less!
(fellow car-nut here, and i love the new mini, in fact i drove a cooper for a year, awesome car, but i think the countryman is just ugly and out of shape....)
Have fun with the new ride, i hope for you that the countryman still has the gokart-like handling of the normal mini
hell, if you factor in that if the ISP hadnt disconnected poor ol' pirate Bob, he might have stayed a customer for ever (and hands his cable modem down to his firstborn son etc...) that means the ISP loses 59 * INFINITY!!!!! pieces of eight
Honestly, i would LOVE to have ISPs countersue the MAFIAA for lost revenue, in the end it could somehow lead to a more fair pricing on media, since the MAFIAA would be directly faced with the cost of their current plan to fend off piracy, and might consider competing in different ways, such as actually providing value for money..
they probably do (at least for business workstations), but it is an option, so you have to actively look it up and select RAID, which still is something only a nerd would do.
Which then begs the question why dell even does it, since every self-respecting card carying geek would build his own rather then order a dell once you get into raid level machines (the daily browser for aunty em is a whole different matter, just order the cheapest dell and be done with it)
The only reason I didn't have them buy MacMini's is because they were likely to go walking at the data center since a mini weighs about 1KG and a Dell weighs about 10kg and can't be thrown into a backpack.
you have more serious issues then what your server weighs if this is any consideration
the point of having of your machines in a datacenter is to provide them with better support/security then managing it all yourself at the office. If theft is a serious factor at your current datacenter, i suggest moving your machines back into the broom-closset at the office, and putting a pad-lock on the door
the only place Apple beats it is the AMD Radeon HD 6490M graphics card - I only have an HD 5830M.
i'm not quite up to date with AMDs model numbers (havent heard of the 6490), but 6490 suggests that it is the fastest card (90) in the low end range (400) of the 6 series, while your card is the slowest card in the high end range of the 5 series, past experience has taught me that your card should be MUCH faster
looking up the specs reveals that the 6490 has only half the memory bandwidth, and 1 5th the amount of shaders, even though its clock speed is up to 50% faster, the 5830 will be MUCH faster
at which point the bottleneck will simply be your harddisk / the devices internal flash memory.
Modern SSDs are optimized for high data rates, flash memory in ipods/usb sticks, not so much. Even if you fix that, that slow HDD in your laptop will be the limiting factor.
i might be missing something, but i can replace all instance of LP/lightpeak in your post with "copper wire" and it still makes the same amount of sense.
Is lightpeak just copper wire with an interface chip driving it which can be programmed to handle any protocol? Sounds like an awesome way to confuse the fuck out of consumers.
Buy HPs new lightjet printer, equiped with Lightpeak technology!*
*HP proprietary LP protocol libraries needed, only available on HP sold computer systems
One thing that gets left out of the craptop issue.
The Apple product comes with a full blown non-crippled copy of the OS. The full copy of Windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^HLinux you need to add to make the comparison accurate costs an additional $25^H^H0.00.
i said the same thing several times about the mac mini (and the ipad), going "if they upgrade the base mini to X specs, i'll get one". They end up doing the upgrade, but also raising the price by 100 euros, reducing the price/performance ratio back to what it was, or worse, immediatly destroying my desire to get one
on the ipad launch, i was basically pretty smashed that all it was was an ipod touch maxi.
I did end up getting an ipod touch though, but next time when looking for an mp3 player, itunes is going to be a serious mark on any candidate (yeah, rythmbox handles it adequately these days, but i prefer my mp3 player to simply be a USB mountable volume)
Slashdot Mirror
from what i read on wikipedia, temperaturs vary between 100k and 700k, with the 100k representing the permanently dark side of the planet and the more common temperatures in the non-dark regions being around 400-500 K
Temperature wise, i would much prefer Mars, which is (once again, according to wikipedia) -85 (~200K) to -5 (268K) degrees centigrade
Both pretty much SUCK in terms of atmosphere, and mercury would win in terms of available (solar) energy, but i'd much rather bring some extra solar panels to mars (or a nuclear reactor..) then risk being boiled on mercury.
I agree though that we need to explore those rocks out there, titan and europa are interesting indeed, but as a first off-world settlement, i would think mars is a better place to start then mercury
Conscripts thrown off the boat onto Japan would have eventually killed every hostile man woman child and dog by hand.
which would encompas pretty much every living japanse male, and a majority of the women and children, making it pretty much genocide by conventional weapons, also killing hundreds of thousands of american soldiers in the process.
Nukes are terrible weapons, but in the case of japan, two nukes instead of a full scale invasion saved milions of lives
9000 MW (or just plain and simple 9 GW) would make sense, MWH wouldnt really, as it says nothing about the nominal output of the reactor
9 GW/H would imply that a theoretical1 MW reactor (which is very low by the way) has a lifetime of 9000 hours, which is just over 1 year.
Meanwhile, your link points to a device with a 5 hour battery life. Enough said.
Meanwhile, the device you champion gives me 0 control over the actual system and what software i can run. Enough said.
Seriously, you are just cherry picking specs from the ipad to compete with anything other people suggest. Why the hell would 5 hours be insufficient? If is to be used for note-taking / studying, i dont think you would be away from an AC outlet for more then 5 hours
Thank you for the link! that movie looks awesome
A nazi moonbase was the first thing to pop into my mind when reading the headline, i guess i have a weakspot for all the wacky stuff the germans were thinking up at the end of the war, rocketplanes, ICBMs, ultra-long range cannons, not to mention all the rumors/fiction about even more wacky stuff
i'm not sure what good a 9000 milli-Watt/hour reactor would be, might as well carry a laptop battery or two instead...
and from us dutchies, heineken.
If you ever find a dutch brand anywhere, itll be heineken, while it is absolute crap, and i wouldnt drink it if it were free..
Crazy foreigners always importing the wrong beer...
fondleslab
Just posting here to agree with gstoddart and congratulating you on this awesome word
If i had modpoints, you would have gotten +1 whatever you want, funny, insightfull, interesting, informative, i cant decide which would be best!
Why would you want to stream MKVs? Why not just rip your BR discs to MP4 containers with x264? Or are you not getting those MKVs from your own masters, and you're too fucking lazy to put them in a different container?
why should the user be forced to format/container shift unless there is a sound technical reason too? Apple not allowing MKV streaming would be a completely arbitrary and artificial limitation on the device.
Sure, i love saying "yeah, i really need that octo-core machine to format shift all my media for my i-gizmo" just as much as the next high end hardware fetishist, but calling someone lazy because they rather not have artificial limitations that require real effort to work around... really?
[citation needed]
you are probably right, but just pulling statements out of your ass without providing number from a reputable source is not interesting at all, never mind a "stat"
The iPad is incredibly cheap. This thing was widely expected to start at $1000+ last year and it started at half that. The iPad 2 is coming in at the same price points and is way cheaper than the competition. The Xoom 32GB goes for £499 in the UK. The iPad 2 32GB? £399.
your post was a bit long, so i stopped after the first section, but i just want to reply to this, ipad was expected to start at $999 AND DO MUCH MORE. the initial reaction after the anouncement was two-fold: 1) woah, only 500 dollars! and 2) it's just a ipod touch XL, lame.
Also, it doesnt matter what original expectations were, or how expensive the competition is, 500 bucks for the given functionality is still expensive, the fact that the xoom is more expensive doesnt suddenly make apple cheap or good value for money, it just makes the xoom worse value for money (assuming equal functionality, while the xoom presumably does much more), then the competing apple product
which doesnt allow you to plug in a USB stick or anything
Either way, the way iOS hides any concept of a filesystem would make it rather difficult to integrate internal storage into the user interface. The ipad isnt a computer, and the OS doesnt do computer things, so it isnt the device for me anyway...
thermalpaste still has a significantly worse thermal conductivity than alu/copper. The function of thermal paste is merely to fill in the gaps between the two surfaces (no matter how precisely milled, a heatsink will have groves/ridges on its contact surface). If you put a layer of paste just thin enough to full all the ridges, you will have the best cooling performance, adding a thicker layer of thermal paste just makes it worse
because aluminium is soooo 2008, just like white plastic is soooo 2005
part of the tricks manufacturers use to get people to buy new stuff, is to make the new stuff like different from the old stuff
but... but... but... you could get a regular cooper S for less!
(fellow car-nut here, and i love the new mini, in fact i drove a cooper for a year, awesome car, but i think the countryman is just ugly and out of shape....)
Have fun with the new ride, i hope for you that the countryman still has the gokart-like handling of the normal mini
hell, if you factor in that if the ISP hadnt disconnected poor ol' pirate Bob, he might have stayed a customer for ever (and hands his cable modem down to his firstborn son etc...) that means the ISP loses 59 * INFINITY!!!!! pieces of eight
Honestly, i would LOVE to have ISPs countersue the MAFIAA for lost revenue, in the end it could somehow lead to a more fair pricing on media, since the MAFIAA would be directly faced with the cost of their current plan to fend off piracy, and might consider competing in different ways, such as actually providing value for money..
they probably do (at least for business workstations), but it is an option, so you have to actively look it up and select RAID, which still is something only a nerd would do.
Which then begs the question why dell even does it, since every self-respecting card carying geek would build his own rather then order a dell once you get into raid level machines (the daily browser for aunty em is a whole different matter, just order the cheapest dell and be done with it)
The only reason I didn't have them buy MacMini's is because they were likely to go walking at the data center since a mini weighs about 1KG and a Dell weighs about 10kg and can't be thrown into a backpack.
you have more serious issues then what your server weighs if this is any consideration
the point of having of your machines in a datacenter is to provide them with better support/security then managing it all yourself at the office. If theft is a serious factor at your current datacenter, i suggest moving your machines back into the broom-closset at the office, and putting a pad-lock on the door
vista would make it even slower then winME
and off course make those shitty IBM deathstar disks (i raid 0 as suggested) squeel in pain with all the indexing
the only place Apple beats it is the AMD Radeon HD 6490M graphics card - I only have an HD 5830M.
i'm not quite up to date with AMDs model numbers (havent heard of the 6490), but 6490 suggests that it is the fastest card (90) in the low end range (400) of the 6 series, while your card is the slowest card in the high end range of the 5 series, past experience has taught me that your card should be MUCH faster
looking up the specs reveals that the 6490 has only half the memory bandwidth, and 1 5th the amount of shaders, even though its clock speed is up to 50% faster, the 5830 will be MUCH faster
at which point the bottleneck will simply be your harddisk / the devices internal flash memory.
Modern SSDs are optimized for high data rates, flash memory in ipods/usb sticks, not so much. Even if you fix that, that slow HDD in your laptop will be the limiting factor.
i might be missing something, but i can replace all instance of LP/lightpeak in your post with "copper wire" and it still makes the same amount of sense.
Is lightpeak just copper wire with an interface chip driving it which can be programmed to handle any protocol? Sounds like an awesome way to confuse the fuck out of consumers.
Buy HPs new lightjet printer, equiped with Lightpeak technology!*
*HP proprietary LP protocol libraries needed, only available on HP sold computer systems
One thing that gets left out of the craptop issue.
The Apple product comes with a full blown non-crippled copy of the OS.
The full copy of Windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^HLinux you need to add to make the comparison accurate costs an additional $25^H^H0.00.
there you go
i said the same thing several times about the mac mini (and the ipad), going "if they upgrade the base mini to X specs, i'll get one". They end up doing the upgrade, but also raising the price by 100 euros, reducing the price/performance ratio back to what it was, or worse, immediatly destroying my desire to get one
on the ipad launch, i was basically pretty smashed that all it was was an ipod touch maxi.
I did end up getting an ipod touch though, but next time when looking for an mp3 player, itunes is going to be a serious mark on any candidate (yeah, rythmbox handles it adequately these days, but i prefer my mp3 player to simply be a USB mountable volume)
i dont know man, but i'll take katee sackhoff over dirk benedict any day...