Couldn't agree more, though I can't explain it... Back in 1990, a friend of mine bought a (Used no less) Honda 4-door sedan that was a few years old... the damn thing got 45 mpg without even trying... And didn't the Honda CRX get 52 mpg? These were not sluggish-wimpy autos... they were actually fairly zippy and fun!
My question is "What the hell happened?" Isn't technology supposed to move forward as time goes on?
Okay, I remember scrimping and saving for a very long time to upgrade my Atari to the 1050 disk from the 1010 Tape recorder... 45 minute load times were KILLING me... I boxed it back up and haven't looked at it since...
Speed, eh? I'm wondering if someone will come out with "Raid-On-One-Drive" ('ROOD' ???). I mean 2 or more separate complete drive mechanisms hooked up to the same interface... If the bottleneck is actually reading and writing to the actual platters by the heads, why not make 2 to do it in parallel? If the bottleneck is the interface (ata/sata), then I suppose this won't help much... But yeah- that's a dumb acronym...rood...
I'm just now remembering some "Packet Radio" options in the linux Kernel or some such...
I wonder what kind of speed/distance you could get setting up a network with this kind of equipment? You'd need a sending and receiving unit for each node, I suppose... Anyone know if that would that even possibly surpass phone modem speeds at all?
Yep-For a large part, it Is a lock-in.
My company is standardized (at least for production work) on PDF format, which everything can make. The problem is getting things back out or editing such documents...
It seems that the only truly accurate interpreter is Adobe's Acrobat Software, but it 'just works' for the final output. Converting it to anything else useable doesn't seem to work vey well or reliable.
Editing these things is a bit of a pain, but it can be done, and we do for a chunk of the production----> but this is definitely beyond the capabilities of any of the PHB's or the multitudes of Customer reps/etc, so the 90% paperwork and other miscellaneous office/corporate documentation never sees PDF format. A lot of that gets done in MS Word/Excel. Oh well...
I find myself idly wondering/dreading what the next version of Acrobat is introducing...
Actually, that sounds extremely similar to a discovery-channel special I saw about "the big one" that hit Hawaii earlier last century... pretty horrific was the impression that I got, as nobody knew that was what was happening, and they all trundeled off to get their free fish-- "Oh what a lucky day!"
As far as "Common knowledge" goes, living in Iowa, I can honestly (and red-facedly) admit that until my early 20's, I didn't know the difference between a Hurricaine and a Tsunami. ------- Sorry, but it just never came up.
Knowing what I know now, though, if I'm ever visiting some sandy beach, and I see the tide go far away fairly quickly, you can bet I'll be beatin feet/stealing a car/swiping a moped in a big hurry...
I don't think you want to go there...
Isn't Aquafina the Coke (tm) company that poisoned a major english water supply? No wait... that's Daisani, ain't it? grrr...time to google...
"Analysts said there was a similar reaction in February when CSE said it had found unacceptable levels of pesticide in several bottled water brands, including Coke's Kinley and Pepsi's Aquafina."
in New Delhi...From (newspage)
or...HA- here's what i was thinking of...
Dasani...
From the rest of the google results, it looks like we're pretty screwed with most water stuff... Try a comparison with something more benign...like Pizza maybe...?
Well, apart from the "Duh- What else are you gonna use it for?" line, I suppose its nice to RE-distribute the info to those 3 or 4 around here that haven't heard of knoppix...And also nice that IBM is running the piece. That kinda lends some pointy-haired massive corporate legitimacy to the tool... But maybe I'm mistaken...Okay, then--- Quick Poll- Who HAS NOT heard of and tried a Knoppix disk?
Unfortunately, I think that is sadly very close to the case. Corporations are not people. And Mega-Corporations are about as far from human as you can get. They live for the 2 purposes of profiting and growth.
I'm really starting to think that we should abolish the perpetual corporation...Limited ones for specific purposes are fine, but SHEESH- Kill it off or we won't have to worry about who our next president is, or if we'll die from an under-researched disease- the Allmighty Corporation will make all our decisions and kill us off if we so much as look at it funny...
Actually, I'm reminded of the Suit-interface from the Book 'Starship Troopers'. It was described as a large sensor-suit that felt the pressures exereted by your human body, which then fed into the computer of the suit and produced a negative feedback---trying to relieve pressure on the sensor... and that was the mechanism for lifting your own leg and causing the suit to lift and amplify the force several times...
Woo-Hoo!! One more step towards my robo-suit!
Just a random snippet of memory from a cool book...
Okay, I'll definitely admit-- Cheats Bad. I WOULD like to actually play the game sometime while my system is still at least relatively current. Any news on the Linux port yet?
Nah- That shouldn't be a problem as soon as the light-based processors start...be-ing. (Cause they don't exist yet!)
I imagine there will be a power supply that provides juice to a single light source and whatever switches are needed. Fiber will carry the light pulse signals instead of traces on a motherboard. You probably wont need that big ol heatsink on the northbridge chipset... And you won't even need to add any of those freakish cathode lamps and other lighting gizmos to your windowed case... Anyone know if fiberoptic cable comes in cool colors?
I don't have one, and don't plan on grabbing one any time before the linux Doom3 pops out (THEN its system upgrade time...). The POINT here is that I've been doing a lot of research on just this and the overall theme I've come up with is that most cards are pretty darn near the same--with a couple of small exceptions.
The Big factor for me was when I heard about MSI's cooling fan being relatively quiet. (2 speed mode- normal 20 db and turbo 3?db-)
Actually, its not just that...there's one other part that needs improvement...the display. They could put a 9 ghz Opteron and Geforce 99999 in it, but watching on the dinky little screen would be a pain. I've read ebooks on a pda before and yes- it does work, but I'd really like to see some big innovation in display- like a small holograpic generator...I seem to recall seeing something about a micro projector that might work well even... combine that with that laser-traced displayed keyboard that you can display on any surface and use it, and there might be something pretty keen...Of course you'd have somewhere around 5 minutes of battery life... One problem at a time I guess.
Doesn't that only apply if you then take the panels down after the first day?
These things get cheaper the longer you use them, so it'll be.03kw-hr per day...Want your kw-hr to be $5.00? Use your panels for...umm....okay- its probably a long time, but you get the idea- do the math.
Ditto Here, but this is the first mention of it I've seen, so I'm almost wondering if there's something wrong with our flash settings..... Seems to work ok everywhere else, though...
Actually- Nope. (Purportedly) The project was started PRIOR to the X-Prize competition...Yes- its certainly icing on the cake, but it wasn't the original reason he started it all...
For those of you who find this comment obtuse... Its referring to a quote I first heard in relation to how the SETI project transferred all its data from the main telescope to its main processing facilities...
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes."
Just to make sure... The fan on the power supply is cranking air out the back, right? It used to be that most power supplies went the opposite way, and it was a meaningful 'mod' to crack open your power case and turn the fan around...though most ps's I've seen recently do have it pointed the correct way...
Don't worry- The movie hasn't been out a week yet- give it time to make a bigger bucket load of money and you'll probably see the sharks moving in... Yeah- I hope I'm kidding there-
Although I have seen a good sized rash of real people doing cartoony-style dumb stuff in television commercials trying to do Spiderman-type stuff...Like the kid with the web shooter who swings into the side of a building and gets flattened... Stupidity sells?
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Couldn't agree more, though I can't explain it... Back in 1990, a friend of mine bought a (Used no less) Honda 4-door sedan that was a few years old... the damn thing got 45 mpg without even trying... And didn't the Honda CRX get 52 mpg? These were not sluggish-wimpy autos... they were actually fairly zippy and fun!
My question is "What the hell happened?" Isn't technology supposed to move forward as time goes on?
Okay, I remember scrimping and saving for a very long time to upgrade my Atari to the 1050 disk from the 1010 Tape recorder... 45 minute load times were KILLING me... I boxed it back up and haven't looked at it since...
Speed, eh?
I'm wondering if someone will come out with "Raid-On-One-Drive" ('ROOD' ???). I mean 2 or more separate complete drive mechanisms hooked up to the same interface... If the bottleneck is actually reading and writing to the actual platters by the heads, why not make 2 to do it in parallel? If the bottleneck is the interface (ata/sata), then I suppose this won't help much...
But yeah- that's a dumb acronym...rood...
I'm just now remembering some "Packet Radio" options in the linux Kernel or some such...
I wonder what kind of speed/distance you could get setting up a network with this kind of equipment? You'd need a sending and receiving unit for each node, I suppose... Anyone know if that would that even possibly surpass phone modem speeds at all?
Yep-For a large part, it Is a lock-in.
My company is standardized (at least for production work) on PDF format, which everything can make. The problem is getting things back out or editing such documents...
It seems that the only truly accurate interpreter is Adobe's Acrobat Software, but it 'just works' for the final output. Converting it to anything else useable doesn't seem to work vey well or reliable.
Editing these things is a bit of a pain, but it can be done, and we do for a chunk of the production----> but this is definitely beyond the capabilities of any of the PHB's or the multitudes of Customer reps/etc, so the 90% paperwork and other miscellaneous office/corporate documentation never sees PDF format. A lot of that gets done in MS Word/Excel. Oh well... I find myself idly wondering/dreading what the next version of Acrobat is introducing...
Actually, that sounds extremely similar to a discovery-channel special I saw about "the big one" that hit Hawaii earlier last century... pretty horrific was the impression that I got, as nobody knew that was what was happening, and they all trundeled off to get their free fish-- "Oh what a lucky day!"
As far as "Common knowledge" goes, living in Iowa, I can honestly (and red-facedly) admit that until my early 20's, I didn't know the difference between a Hurricaine and a Tsunami. ------- Sorry, but it just never came up.
Knowing what I know now, though, if I'm ever visiting some sandy beach, and I see the tide go far away fairly quickly, you can bet I'll be beatin feet/stealing a car/swiping a moped in a big hurry...
I don't think you want to go there...
Isn't Aquafina the Coke (tm) company that poisoned a major english water supply? No wait... that's Daisani, ain't it? grrr...time to google...
"Analysts said there was a similar reaction in February when CSE said it had found unacceptable levels of pesticide in several bottled water brands, including Coke's Kinley and Pepsi's Aquafina."
in New Delhi...From (newspage)
or...HA- here's what i was thinking of... Dasani...
From the rest of the google results, it looks like we're pretty screwed with most water stuff... Try a comparison with something more benign...like Pizza maybe...?
Aw crap... Poison Pizza on google...
'640 processors is all the CPUs anybody would ever need on a computer.'
--Gill Bates
Probably, and yep, that's a decent translation. I'm a bit fown etik that way...
Well, apart from the "Duh- What else are you gonna use it for?" line, I suppose its nice to RE-distribute the info to those 3 or 4 around here that haven't heard of knoppix...And also nice that IBM is running the piece. That kinda lends some pointy-haired massive corporate legitimacy to the tool...
But maybe I'm mistaken...Okay, then--- Quick Poll- Who HAS NOT heard of and tried a Knoppix disk?
Unfortunately, I think that is sadly very close to the case. Corporations are not people. And Mega-Corporations are about as far from human as you can get. They live for the 2 purposes of profiting and growth.
I'm really starting to think that we should abolish the perpetual corporation...Limited ones for specific purposes are fine, but SHEESH- Kill it off or we won't have to worry about who our next president is, or if we'll die from an under-researched disease- the Allmighty Corporation will make all our decisions and kill us off if we so much as look at it funny...
Actually, I'm reminded of the Suit-interface from the Book 'Starship Troopers'. It was described as a large sensor-suit that felt the pressures exereted by your human body, which then fed into the computer of the suit and produced a negative feedback---trying to relieve pressure on the sensor... and that was the mechanism for lifting your own leg and causing the suit to lift and amplify the force several times...
Woo-Hoo!! One more step towards my robo-suit!
Just a random snippet of memory from a cool book...
Okay, I'll definitely admit-- Cheats Bad.
I WOULD like to actually play the game sometime while my system is still at least relatively current. Any news on the Linux port yet?
Nah- That shouldn't be a problem as soon as the light-based processors start...be-ing. (Cause they don't exist yet!)
I imagine there will be a power supply that provides juice to a single light source and whatever switches are needed. Fiber will carry the light pulse signals instead of traces on a motherboard. You probably wont need that big ol heatsink on the northbridge chipset... And you won't even need to add any of those freakish cathode lamps and other lighting gizmos to your windowed case... Anyone know if fiberoptic cable comes in cool colors?
5 Words:
"Nick Fury: Agent of Shield."
A complete travesty....what a waste.
I don't have one, and don't plan on grabbing one any time before the linux Doom3 pops out (THEN its system upgrade time...).
The POINT here is that I've been doing a lot of research on just this and the overall theme I've come up with is that most cards are pretty darn near the same--with a couple of small exceptions.
The Big factor for me was when I heard about MSI's cooling fan being relatively quiet. (2 speed mode- normal 20 db and turbo 3?db-)
??? WTF? Never heard of that one... I was thinking more along the lines of that cool wrist computer from the final fantasy movie...s /ffm3.jpg (Wrist shot)
http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/affw/ffmov/screen
Actually, its not just that...there's one other part that needs improvement...the display. They could put a 9 ghz Opteron and Geforce 99999 in it, but watching on the dinky little screen would be a pain.
I've read ebooks on a pda before and yes- it does work, but I'd really like to see some big innovation in display- like a small holograpic generator...I seem to recall seeing something about a micro projector that might work well even... combine that with that laser-traced displayed keyboard that you can display on any surface and use it, and there might be something pretty keen...Of course you'd have somewhere around 5 minutes of battery life... One problem at a time I guess.
Doesn't that only apply if you then take the panels down after the first day?
.03kw-hr per day...Want your kw-hr to be $5.00? Use your panels for...umm....okay- its probably a long time, but you get the idea- do the math.
These things get cheaper the longer you use them, so it'll be
Ditto Here, but this is the first mention of it I've seen, so I'm almost wondering if there's something wrong with our flash settings..... Seems to work ok everywhere else, though...
Using Linux-Mozilla 1.6
Kinda like "The Racing Stripes make it go faster!" ?
Actually- Nope. (Purportedly) The project was started PRIOR to the X-Prize competition...Yes- its certainly icing on the cake, but it wasn't the original reason he started it all...
For those of you who find this comment obtuse... Its referring to a quote I first heard in relation to how the SETI project transferred all its data from the main telescope to its main processing facilities...
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes."
Just to make sure... The fan on the power supply is cranking air out the back, right? It used to be that most power supplies went the opposite way, and it was a meaningful 'mod' to crack open your power case and turn the fan around...though most ps's I've seen recently do have it pointed the correct way...
Don't worry- The movie hasn't been out a week yet- give it time to make a bigger bucket load of money and you'll probably see the sharks moving in... Yeah- I hope I'm kidding there-
Although I have seen a good sized rash of real people doing cartoony-style dumb stuff in television commercials trying to do Spiderman-type stuff...Like the kid with the web shooter who swings into the side of a building and gets flattened... Stupidity sells?