That vehicle would seem to be more in the spirit of the original Jeep than the Hummer is, though personally, in hostile situations, I would still want something like a body with armor.
I thought that was pretty short, but I wonder if it is a half-life, where the display is half its brightness. I would think that at 50% use, the life would be 10,000 hours as OLED displays should be easy to quickly shut off and turn on. A 25% on cycle would mean 20,000. If you use this at a full time job and actually bother to shut off the computer so as to not waste power, then it would easily last three years without shutting off. It still raises the issue of color shifting, as OLED blue reputably dies much more quickly than red and green.
But in kiosk use, it simply isn't going to work. Parts for kiosks should be designed to be capable of operating for many years of constant use. Based on that price, I don't think it is designed to survive.
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It's an ugly fact, but Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.
Ever heard of Windows?
The old Windows versions were bad, but when using WHQL drivers, the only time I had stability problems with Windows NT, 2000 or XP was with failing or faulty hardware. I suppose in all fairness, there are probably more copies of 98 or ME in use than there are of the entire Firefox installed base.
You're paying $200 because that's what the only legal producer of the book knows that enough students will pay when their only alternative is to go without the book.
That's the essential difference between a free market and a monopoly.
Having sole rights to a particular work doesn't really make a monopoly except in a rediculously narrow view. Not allowing an author some amount control of their work is not free market, but you seem to advocate stripping them of that priviledge. Free market does not prevent other publishers and authors from making similar books that teach the same thing with equivalent words and pictures.
The thing is, that doesn't matter, I don't think it does. It seems that it is generally the fundementalists that are trying to push the idea of creationism, but there is plenty of room for interpreting the creation accounts as metephorical. In fact, in Genesis, there are two creation accounts, if you take both as literal, then they contradict, so at least one must be a metaphor or non-literal. The Bible doesn't need to mention previous life because it isn't important to the story it is trying to tell.
I really wonder why the fundementalist movement as a whole doesn't also push for the idea that the earth is flat or that the universe circles the earth, because that would simply be another case that allows them to claim a metaphor as literal, but the evidence for that is harder to brush off.
I'm not sure if desktop systems will necessarily benefit to such a degree, servers probably to less of a degree, but dynamically cutting CPU clock on a server farm could net a significant savings.
At least using notebook systems can have other benefits, two of them are mobility and sound output.
Maybe it is different in certain countries that heavily tax petroleum products, but in many places, using electricity is not the cheapest way to heat, so it would be a bit of a waste.
I really don't think it is a huge deal, each TV might draw 5W on standby. It varies by TV, so check your manual. All my manuals for line-powered electronic products specify standby power and it's not much. There are plenty of good flourescent bulbs with higher frequency ballasts and a "warm" looking color output such that switching to flourescent should be a more important goal, there are now scarce excuses not to and so many reasons to do so.
The thing is, IIRC, acquiring and posessing child porn is alread against Federal law, possibly state law too. The only excuse I can think of is to drum up the charge to get a higher penalty. This guy was dumb to do this.
Because they could make a little MORE money if there was no second hand market!
Some may think this, but I don't think it is so simple. It may seem silly, but I am more willing to buy something at a high price if it has a good resale value. It seems too many people, including corporate types, assume that products are simply expendable. However, I am not so wasteful whenever I can help it. I am willing to buy used if it is in good shape and priced right, and I am willing to buy new as well.
I think the argument is silly, but try reversing the situation. Would you support Blizzard if they nixed "straight" guilds, should someone try making one? I don't think either would necessarily be helpful in creating peace and understanding, and I don't think this sort of segregation is a good idea.
It seems to be a bad thing to offer only two choices, rather than also allowing for neither or both. I have and use products that both men were involved in, and I really won't get caught up in some petty rivalry. I do think it is wonderful when people do give their money for selfless reasons, because it is people like those that generally improve the world that we live in.
The old Matrox video cards had a "write protect" DIP switch that would prevent or allow video BIOS flashing. It might have been something to prevent errant code from messing things up, I don't know.
Maybe it's just a joke, but I think people need to give it up. I own an Alpha but haven't used it in a couple years. I am not going back to it either.
Unfortunately, whether or not the tech was at fault, they aren't coming back. It costs an excessive amount of money to develop a chip and far more to develop and maintain the software that uses it to justify so many architectures. I mean, in something similar, I wish that Matrox was "coming back" because they have features I'd actually use, but the expense in maintaining a competitive 3D gaming chip is simply too high, so they had to specialize. Which is too bad as I've used their cards for a decade and never had an issue with them.
The glue is in the software, not in big fat chunks of expensive silicon.
The software doesn't necessarily work so well for efficiency. Even the Opteron systems need "big fat chunks of expensive silicon" to run more than eight physical processor chips (currently, 16 cores).
That was the best laugh I've had on Slashdot in a long while. I think someone should do a creative voice-over of that old Apple ad. Nah, the result would probably be too obscure to be funny for long.
JVC makes an HDV camcorder in the same price ranges as well. If you prefer 720p, then that would be the one to get. The Sonys are 1080i. There are pros and cons to both formats, the lower frame rate of progressive can means it is more liable to judder on pans. I haven't looked up the reviews on the JVC though.
I have a Sony HDV camcorder (HDR-HC1) and it is pretty nifty, I even make and sell a couple products for it.
Is target disk mode not feasible on the standard BIOS? I honestly don't know, I know BIOS is troublesome to architect around and may be a good thing to get rid of. Target disk mode is nice to have, but it isn't something I need to have more than once or twice in any particular machine's life.
I believe the primary reason they went EFI was to run TCPM or whatever hardware protection the new chipset uses to make OS X only run on Apple machines.
If this is what it is, I think it is sad. I don't want apps that go off on their own creating their own weird looks whenever they can, things are bad enough now, I prefer to have a relatively consistent look for every program within the OS. Sure, a completely custom UI will generally look better, but I'm not convinced that it helps computer usability when every program looks and behaves differently.
I guess I can understand what you mean though. It should also be clarified that it's not just any SCSI drive that you need, that it would need to be an array of 15k RPM drives if latency is the real issue because there do exist 10k RPM SATA drives with decent capacity that is more or less the same drive mechanicals with a different interface as a SCSI counterpart.
I think the problem is that so often, a sense of exploration and experimentation gets hammered out of the education. If one has a science class that is restrictive and doesn't at least try to appeal to the interests, then it will get boring. It is dumb to just make lots of explosions.
The big breakthroughs are often done by people that think "outside the box", are willing to take risks, even though most of the actual work is boring. In the same way all entrepeneurs fail, all scientists fail, even using correct practices, but a good one will will learn from it and try again, generally from a different perspective until something works.
Sparc probably would have been the wrong way to go as there never was a good portable version of the chips. Sure, there were some SparcBooks but IIRC, they never worked out well. PPC worked out a lot better as a general purpose architecture for longer.
My impression is that the Bush family is the most corrupt family every to have political power in the United States.
Bush family? Sad to say, Abraham Lincoln was more corrupt than all the Bushes combined. With GW, it isn't considered treason to say that the Gulf War II was wrong. In Abraham Lincoln's regime, it would have been. As unconstitutional as W's wiretapping efforts were, Lincoln wiped his arse with the constitution by suspending it completely.
You have a good idea, if you precool some sort of thermal ballast, this probably wouldn't be a problem. Air wouldn't do though, it would need to be water or maybe even a solid material to have acceptable thermal capacity. Water or some other liquid could be cooled in the evening and transferred at specific times through pumps to heat exchangers.
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That vehicle would seem to be more in the spirit of the original Jeep than the Hummer is, though personally, in hostile situations, I would still want something like a body with armor.
I thought that was pretty short, but I wonder if it is a half-life, where the display is half its brightness. I would think that at 50% use, the life would be 10,000 hours as OLED displays should be easy to quickly shut off and turn on. A 25% on cycle would mean 20,000. If you use this at a full time job and actually bother to shut off the computer so as to not waste power, then it would easily last three years without shutting off. It still raises the issue of color shifting, as OLED blue reputably dies much more quickly than red and green.
But in kiosk use, it simply isn't going to work. Parts for kiosks should be designed to be capable of operating for many years of constant use. Based on that price, I don't think it is designed to survive.
It's an ugly fact, but Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.
Ever heard of Windows?
The old Windows versions were bad, but when using WHQL drivers, the only time I had stability problems with Windows NT, 2000 or XP was with failing or faulty hardware. I suppose in all fairness, there are probably more copies of 98 or ME in use than there are of the entire Firefox installed base.
You're paying $200 because that's what the only legal producer of the book knows that enough students will pay when their only alternative is to go without the book.
That's the essential difference between a free market and a monopoly.
Having sole rights to a particular work doesn't really make a monopoly except in a rediculously narrow view. Not allowing an author some amount control of their work is not free market, but you seem to advocate stripping them of that priviledge. Free market does not prevent other publishers and authors from making similar books that teach the same thing with equivalent words and pictures.
The thing is, that doesn't matter, I don't think it does. It seems that it is generally the fundementalists that are trying to push the idea of creationism, but there is plenty of room for interpreting the creation accounts as metephorical. In fact, in Genesis, there are two creation accounts, if you take both as literal, then they contradict, so at least one must be a metaphor or non-literal. The Bible doesn't need to mention previous life because it isn't important to the story it is trying to tell.
I really wonder why the fundementalist movement as a whole doesn't also push for the idea that the earth is flat or that the universe circles the earth, because that would simply be another case that allows them to claim a metaphor as literal, but the evidence for that is harder to brush off.
I'm not sure if desktop systems will necessarily benefit to such a degree, servers probably to less of a degree, but dynamically cutting CPU clock on a server farm could net a significant savings.
At least using notebook systems can have other benefits, two of them are mobility and sound output.
Maybe it is different in certain countries that heavily tax petroleum products, but in many places, using electricity is not the cheapest way to heat, so it would be a bit of a waste.
I really don't think it is a huge deal, each TV might draw 5W on standby. It varies by TV, so check your manual. All my manuals for line-powered electronic products specify standby power and it's not much. There are plenty of good flourescent bulbs with higher frequency ballasts and a "warm" looking color output such that switching to flourescent should be a more important goal, there are now scarce excuses not to and so many reasons to do so.
The thing is, IIRC, acquiring and posessing child porn is alread against Federal law, possibly state law too. The only excuse I can think of is to drum up the charge to get a higher penalty. This guy was dumb to do this.
Because they could make a little MORE money if there was no second hand market!
Some may think this, but I don't think it is so simple. It may seem silly, but I am more willing to buy something at a high price if it has a good resale value. It seems too many people, including corporate types, assume that products are simply expendable. However, I am not so wasteful whenever I can help it. I am willing to buy used if it is in good shape and priced right, and I am willing to buy new as well.
I think the argument is silly, but try reversing the situation. Would you support Blizzard if they nixed "straight" guilds, should someone try making one? I don't think either would necessarily be helpful in creating peace and understanding, and I don't think this sort of segregation is a good idea.
It seems to be a bad thing to offer only two choices, rather than also allowing for neither or both. I have and use products that both men were involved in, and I really won't get caught up in some petty rivalry. I do think it is wonderful when people do give their money for selfless reasons, because it is people like those that generally improve the world that we live in.
The old Matrox video cards had a "write protect" DIP switch that would prevent or allow video BIOS flashing. It might have been something to prevent errant code from messing things up, I don't know.
Maybe it's just a joke, but I think people need to give it up. I own an Alpha but haven't used it in a couple years. I am not going back to it either.
Unfortunately, whether or not the tech was at fault, they aren't coming back. It costs an excessive amount of money to develop a chip and far more to develop and maintain the software that uses it to justify so many architectures. I mean, in something similar, I wish that Matrox was "coming back" because they have features I'd actually use, but the expense in maintaining a competitive 3D gaming chip is simply too high, so they had to specialize. Which is too bad as I've used their cards for a decade and never had an issue with them.
The glue is in the software, not in big fat chunks of expensive silicon.
The software doesn't necessarily work so well for efficiency. Even the Opteron systems need "big fat chunks of expensive silicon" to run more than eight physical processor chips (currently, 16 cores).
That was the best laugh I've had on Slashdot in a long while. I think someone should do a creative voice-over of that old Apple ad. Nah, the result would probably be too obscure to be funny for long.
JVC makes an HDV camcorder in the same price ranges as well. If you prefer 720p, then that would be the one to get. The Sonys are 1080i.
There are pros and cons to both formats, the lower frame rate of progressive can means it is more liable to judder on pans. I haven't looked up the reviews on the JVC though.
I have a Sony HDV camcorder (HDR-HC1) and it is pretty nifty, I even make and sell a couple products for it.
Is target disk mode not feasible on the standard BIOS? I honestly don't know, I know BIOS is troublesome to architect around and may be a good thing to get rid of. Target disk mode is nice to have, but it isn't something I need to have more than once or twice in any particular machine's life.
I believe the primary reason they went EFI was to run TCPM or whatever hardware protection the new chipset uses to make OS X only run on Apple machines.
If this is what it is, I think it is sad. I don't want apps that go off on their own creating their own weird looks whenever they can, things are bad enough now, I prefer to have a relatively consistent look for every program within the OS. Sure, a completely custom UI will generally look better, but I'm not convinced that it helps computer usability when every program looks and behaves differently.
So NCQ or whatever doesn't cut it?
I guess I can understand what you mean though. It should also be clarified that it's not just any SCSI drive that you need, that it would need to be an array of 15k RPM drives if latency is the real issue because there do exist 10k RPM SATA drives with decent capacity that is more or less the same drive mechanicals with a different interface as a SCSI counterpart.
There is a difference of opinion, then there's a blatant miscategorization in the posted example.
I think the problem is that so often, a sense of exploration and experimentation gets hammered out of the education. If one has a science class that is restrictive and doesn't at least try to appeal to the interests, then it will get boring. It is dumb to just make lots of explosions.
The big breakthroughs are often done by people that think "outside the box", are willing to take risks, even though most of the actual work is boring. In the same way all entrepeneurs fail, all scientists fail, even using correct practices, but a good one will will learn from it and try again, generally from a different perspective until something works.
Sparc probably would have been the wrong way to go as there never was a good portable version of the chips. Sure, there were some SparcBooks but IIRC, they never worked out well. PPC worked out a lot better as a general purpose architecture for longer.
It depends on what is desired. A bluetooth keyboard and mouse set would be cheaper than this wireless USB hub.
For storage and printing, I would think that puting them on the wireless network would be a better way to go.
My impression is that the Bush family is the most corrupt family every to have political power in the United States.
Bush family? Sad to say, Abraham Lincoln was more corrupt than all the Bushes combined. With GW, it isn't considered treason to say that the Gulf War II was wrong. In Abraham Lincoln's regime, it would have been. As unconstitutional as W's wiretapping efforts were, Lincoln wiped his arse with the constitution by suspending it completely.
You have a good idea, if you precool some sort of thermal ballast, this probably wouldn't be a problem. Air wouldn't do though, it would need to be water or maybe even a solid material to have acceptable thermal capacity. Water or some other liquid could be cooled in the evening and transferred at specific times through pumps to heat exchangers.