Also, portable DVD players seem to be going for $250-$400. Why an Archos video jukebox? Sure, you can store more videos on it but I can deal with saving nearly $500 instead.
Right now, I have a 1.5 year old (with 1.5 yrs left on the warranty, 14" SXGA+, 5lb laptop for $650 that I bought on eBay. And no, the Archos can't compare, doing less at a higher cost. It is smaller, but it looks larger than what would fit in a normal pocket (cargo pants don't count, IMO), so I'd still need to drag around a pouch or a bag.
I think a GBA with an afterburner is a better system than the GBA SP. Afterburner was a sidelight mod that effectively gives the GBA a brighter light than the SP's, and has the option of adjusting the light intensity too.
Also, SP felt creaky to me, looks cheap and the control buttons didn't have the same size or feel of the GBA. Before then, the only GB I had was the original "brick" GB. I bought an SP, I couldn't get past level 9 in Tetris. I then bought a plain GBA, shot right to level 16 in the first try or two. From that I decided to dig up an Afterburner mod and I've been far happier. I had returned the SP within a week of buying it.
I am betting that will take several years given the sheer installed base of PCI boards and systems. It is still easy to find the PCI Radeon 9200 in PCI form, although it is suboptimal, but currently it appears that PCIe is suboptimal given how few boards there are available for it. By the time PCIe boards overtake PCI in installed base, it might be worth replacing the system again anyway, even if you had bought a PCIe based motherboard.
The thing is, I'm pretty sure that antimatter has a positive mass. Electrons have mass, and protons have mass. All antimatter really is is the charge reversed between the two, making them positrons and erm.. negatrons?
Tell me what the same system draws when idling, the monitor is off and the computer is not running a 3D program? A graphics card does most of its power consumption when doing 3D rendering.
No, but I do consider it an intrude into and interrupto my personal life. While I can chose when to retrieve my email and my packages, I can't chose when people will call me. When I get calls I didn't ask for from companies that I did not give my phone number to, it is generally for something I don't want and it takes away from my time and energy to respond to it. I say this especially because many people might be expecting a particular call they wanted and dash to the phone from the shower, possibly wet and half naked only to find it is an unwanted peddler.
I say this legislation allows telephones to remain a convenience and not a nuisance.
The thing is, with any form of solid state data storage, a transistor is the basic unit of an IC, and a 32 megabit FLASH (or other NVRAM) chip is about as complex (in terms of number of transistors) to produce as a 32 megabit DRAM chip.
What that means is that the cost of NVRAM drives will always remain on the same order of magnitude of cost / capacity as RAM, whereas you need better than 1/100th of that cost/capacity to compete with hard drive storage. That $70 for one GB of FLASH storage simply doesn't stack up well when compared to spending the same $70 or so to get 80GB or more of storage.
Also, the speed needs to be improved markedly. Right now, I've seen CF cards rate themselves at 4x, I think to compare itself with CDs, that means a paltry 600kBps. Solid state storage in this case needs to improve by 100x as well.
In short, don't look for a solid state hard drive replacent for a good long while.
Nanoscale mechanics changes things. Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs) used in DLP projectors are aluminum mirrors that are meant to be cycled I think billions of times. They pulse maybe a couple hundred times a second, and are meant to last nearly a hundred thousand hours of such use without losing a pixel.
Tensile strain operates differently in microscopic mechanisms.
He probably also doesn't mind lying either as Windows had no such functioning DRM system for music. Maybe it is in WM9 but it still didn't prevent the posession and use of "stolen" MP3 music. And of course, the DRM system for Windows itself is effectively broken. If the music industry believes otherwise, I think they are in for a surprise.
I'd have to think that the people that used Windows would have quit using it if it didn't allow them to run Napter. If there was an update that prevented mp3 playback, they wouldn't install the update. If the system updated itself, then I can see people backing up their files and reinstalling to an older version of Windows.
I'm sure Microsoft knew better than to do something like that. At least Apple is smart enough to allow us to use mp3. And despite all this ballyhoing about iPod letting you play tracks that may or may not be copyright infringing, somehow Apple still manages to sell well over a million tracks, I forget how many they've sold so far.
One thing that remains is that Saddam seemed to play right into Bush's scheme.
A lot of people reasoned that if he really had destroyed all of his WMDs, he wouldn't have tried so hard to keep inspectors out for the last decade, pretend that papers were destroyed, only to submit them at the last moment, etc. Basically a lot of people thought that Saddam had WMDs solely on the fact that they saw him as acting like he had a lot of shit to hide.
I don't know if it has been repealed, but there used to be an export law that prohibited the export of technologies that use strong encryption.
IIRC, this had the effect of the companies doing the research overseas. It has also prevented the design of products with strong software encryption because companies didn't want to deal with making a separate version with weaker encryption for export use.
The thing is that the motivation for this largely centers around DRM. Yeah, people mention point of sale, kiosks and such, but those functions should be on embedded computers, not desktops.
I really don't see what "Trusted Computing" gains me as a user of desktop software. I don't see why this is necessary to lock down computers against worms, viruses, and spyware because those are an end product of bad software, not the lack of trusted computing. I don't want trusted computing to be used as a cover to coddle bad software and then give me an added bug called DRM.
The real thing in that the study found that only one cup of coffee was enough for a lot of people to start an addiction.
Even if something did seem obviously common knowledge, such as caffeine's addictive properties, it still must be properly studied. For example, there was a time when people laughed at the concept that the earth was round, because common knowledge said it was flat. Or that massive consumption of vitamin C helps colds, which isn't the case.
Heck, a lot of stuff that people seem to "know" is covered in snopes.com. The reason this stuff needs to be studied is to learn the real truth, rather than relying on rumor, gossip, heresay and anecdotes as proof of a truth.
The problem is that even AMC admits their digital projection doesn't stack up to film.
They also need QuadXGA or better projector resolutions to get as good fine detail than 35mm film projection currently gets, and the contrast ratio on the high lumen projectors simply isn't there yet, so black will still look slightly gray and not as black as film black.
I don't think the average theater goer really cares that much about the back end ('cept for the IMAX projection gallery), they rarely see the film spools. To match IMAX film resolutions, it looks like you need a projector that can do better (if not far better) than 4k x 3k pixels. A suggestion of just arraying projectors won't work here because optics always bends the edges of a picture slightly. It isn't normally an issue for most people, but the overlap area would stick out.
The problem is that Mac machines are too expensive for most home use.
The cheapeset Mac is eMac, at $799 for the basic model, with a CRT screen
Wheras it isn't hard to find any other brand computer for $500 or less.
As good as Apple Mac OS and PPC machines are, most people aren't going to spend $300 if they don't have to unless they get a _very_ convincing argument. Even if they wanted the eMac, it is hard to justify that much money. In fact, a lot of people simply don't have that much money to spare. Whereas gamers wouldn't blink at $200 for a new graphics card or monitor, $200 is a lot of money to some people. If you want an increased installed base, you also have to reach the people that can't afford much or can't justify that much for a computer they don't use much.
I know there is a value proposition where your expenses are, constant virus and spyware checks, and the cost of virus removal, but I haven't seen Apple promote this aspect well.
I don't see that as flawed reasoning. Creating jobs doesn't mean that jobs are necessarily lost elsewhere. That still seems to fit what I learned in an econ class a term something like scalability or speed of money, where $10 spent might mean $100 worth of taxable income in a year because that $10 might pass through ten different people in a year.
I think it might mean that it helps with unemployment to be considered in the picture.
If it is like the Top Thrill, I think it is kind of a waste of time. Even for its intensity, I expect a few minutes worth of a ride for waiting a freaking hour in the blazing sun, not to mention the hours it takes just to get to the park.
I guess it really doesn't matter, I won't bother with this kind of park.
Despite the assertations that EZ-Pass information wouldn't be divulged, it is apparently now routine that subpoenas are issued and that information handed out even for a simple divorce case. So am I supposed to believe that EZ-Pass users aren't tracked for a potentially sinister reason?
As much as I'd like to trust politicians when they plan these things, they seem to break that trust as a matter of routine.
Geologically, this is fascinating. For the last few weeks, high concentration of hurricanes (on both coasts), a few earthquakes (on both coasts), now dual volcano events.
Keep in mind that hurricanes fall under meteorology, not geology.
I guess I missed the earthquake news on the East Coast, I'm not sure what you mean.
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Also, portable DVD players seem to be going for $250-$400. Why an Archos video jukebox? Sure, you can store more videos on it but I can deal with saving nearly $500 instead.
Right now, I have a 1.5 year old (with 1.5 yrs left on the warranty, 14" SXGA+, 5lb laptop for $650 that I bought on eBay. And no, the Archos can't compare, doing less at a higher cost. It is smaller, but it looks larger than what would fit in a normal pocket (cargo pants don't count, IMO), so I'd still need to drag around a pouch or a bag.
That is why people installed the Afterburner mod.
I think a GBA with an afterburner is a better system than the GBA SP. Afterburner was a sidelight mod that effectively gives the GBA a brighter light than the SP's, and has the option of adjusting the light intensity too.
Also, SP felt creaky to me, looks cheap and the control buttons didn't have the same size or feel of the GBA. Before then, the only GB I had was the original "brick" GB. I bought an SP, I couldn't get past level 9 in Tetris. I then bought a plain GBA, shot right to level 16 in the first try or two. From that I decided to dig up an Afterburner mod and I've been far happier. I had returned the SP within a week of buying it.
In short, for me:
GBA + Afterburner > GBA SP
The PCI bus isn't going to die overnight though.
I am betting that will take several years given the sheer installed base of PCI boards and systems. It is still easy to find the PCI Radeon 9200 in PCI form, although it is suboptimal, but currently it appears that PCIe is suboptimal given how few boards there are available for it. By the time PCIe boards overtake PCI in installed base, it might be worth replacing the system again anyway, even if you had bought a PCIe based motherboard.
The thing is, I'm pretty sure that antimatter has a positive mass. Electrons have mass, and protons have mass. All antimatter really is is the charge reversed between the two, making them positrons and erm.. negatrons?
Low end centrinos idle in the low 60s. (watts)
No, Centrinos (just the Pentium M chip) run full-out at 7 to 25 watts:
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Tell me what the same system draws when idling, the monitor is off and the computer is not running a 3D program? A graphics card does most of its power consumption when doing 3D rendering.
No, but I do consider it an intrude into and interrupto my personal life. While I can chose when to retrieve my email and my packages, I can't chose when people will call me. When I get calls I didn't ask for from companies that I did not give my phone number to, it is generally for something I don't want and it takes away from my time and energy to respond to it. I say this especially because many people might be expecting a particular call they wanted and dash to the phone from the shower, possibly wet and half naked only to find it is an unwanted peddler.
I say this legislation allows telephones to remain a convenience and not a nuisance.
The thing is, with any form of solid state data storage, a transistor is the basic unit of an IC, and a 32 megabit FLASH (or other NVRAM) chip is about as complex (in terms of number of transistors) to produce as a 32 megabit DRAM chip.
What that means is that the cost of NVRAM drives will always remain on the same order of magnitude of cost / capacity as RAM, whereas you need better than 1/100th of that cost/capacity to compete with hard drive storage. That $70 for one GB of FLASH storage simply doesn't stack up well when compared to spending the same $70 or so to get 80GB or more of storage.
Also, the speed needs to be improved markedly. Right now, I've seen CF cards rate themselves at 4x, I think to compare itself with CDs, that means a paltry 600kBps. Solid state storage in this case needs to improve by 100x as well.
In short, don't look for a solid state hard drive replacent for a good long while.
Nanoscale mechanics changes things. Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs) used in DLP projectors are aluminum mirrors that are meant to be cycled I think billions of times. They pulse maybe a couple hundred times a second, and are meant to last nearly a hundred thousand hours of such use without losing a pixel.
Tensile strain operates differently in microscopic mechanisms.
He probably also doesn't mind lying either as Windows had no such functioning DRM system for music. Maybe it is in WM9 but it still didn't prevent the posession and use of "stolen" MP3 music. And of course, the DRM system for Windows itself is effectively broken. If the music industry believes otherwise, I think they are in for a surprise.
I'd have to think that the people that used Windows would have quit using it if it didn't allow them to run Napter. If there was an update that prevented mp3 playback, they wouldn't install the update. If the system updated itself, then I can see people backing up their files and reinstalling to an older version of Windows.
I'm sure Microsoft knew better than to do something like that. At least Apple is smart enough to allow us to use mp3. And despite all this ballyhoing about iPod letting you play tracks that may or may not be copyright infringing, somehow Apple still manages to sell well over a million tracks, I forget how many they've sold so far.
One problem is that the only people I see that have electric or gas powered scooters are the ones that shouldn't have them for health reasons.
I do agree that motorcycles, scooters and powered bikes are still better than cars, but they just aren't viable for daily transportation in my area.
One thing that remains is that Saddam seemed to play right into Bush's scheme.
A lot of people reasoned that if he really had destroyed all of his WMDs, he wouldn't have tried so hard to keep inspectors out for the last decade, pretend that papers were destroyed, only to submit them at the last moment, etc. Basically a lot of people thought that Saddam had WMDs solely on the fact that they saw him as acting like he had a lot of shit to hide.
I think you have a point. IIRC, the added safety features that get put into cars eventually have the effect of people driving more aggressively.
I don't know if it has been repealed, but there used to be an export law that prohibited the export of technologies that use strong encryption.
IIRC, this had the effect of the companies doing the research overseas. It has also prevented the design of products with strong software encryption because companies didn't want to deal with making a separate version with weaker encryption for export use.
The thing is that the motivation for this largely centers around DRM. Yeah, people mention point of sale, kiosks and such, but those functions should be on embedded computers, not desktops.
I really don't see what "Trusted Computing" gains me as a user of desktop software. I don't see why this is necessary to lock down computers against worms, viruses, and spyware because those are an end product of bad software, not the lack of trusted computing. I don't want trusted computing to be used as a cover to coddle bad software and then give me an added bug called DRM.
The real thing in that the study found that only one cup of coffee was enough for a lot of people to start an addiction.
Even if something did seem obviously common knowledge, such as caffeine's addictive properties, it still must be properly studied. For example, there was a time when people laughed at the concept that the earth was round, because common knowledge said it was flat. Or that massive consumption of vitamin C helps colds, which isn't the case.
Heck, a lot of stuff that people seem to "know" is covered in snopes.com. The reason this stuff needs to be studied is to learn the real truth, rather than relying on rumor, gossip, heresay and anecdotes as proof of a truth.
The problem is that even AMC admits their digital projection doesn't stack up to film.
They also need QuadXGA or better projector resolutions to get as good fine detail than 35mm film projection currently gets, and the contrast ratio on the high lumen projectors simply isn't there yet, so black will still look slightly gray and not as black as film black.
I don't think the average theater goer really cares that much about the back end ('cept for the IMAX projection gallery), they rarely see the film spools. To match IMAX film resolutions, it looks like you need a projector that can do better (if not far better) than 4k x 3k pixels. A suggestion of just arraying projectors won't work here because optics always bends the edges of a picture slightly. It isn't normally an issue for most people, but the overlap area would stick out.
The problem is that Mac machines are too expensive for most home use.
The cheapeset Mac is eMac, at $799 for the basic model, with a CRT screen
Wheras it isn't hard to find any other brand computer for $500 or less.
As good as Apple Mac OS and PPC machines are, most people aren't going to spend $300 if they don't have to unless they get a _very_ convincing argument. Even if they wanted the eMac, it is hard to justify that much money. In fact, a lot of people simply don't have that much money to spare. Whereas gamers wouldn't blink at $200 for a new graphics card or monitor, $200 is a lot of money to some people. If you want an increased installed base, you also have to reach the people that can't afford much or can't justify that much for a computer they don't use much.
I know there is a value proposition where your expenses are, constant virus and spyware checks, and the cost of virus removal, but I haven't seen Apple promote this aspect well.
Feel free to add him to your foe list.
Done. But does that hide his stories? He's not an editor, so I can't disable seeing his entries on the front page.
Only if you exclude the economic effects. Kyoto wasnt a plan to save the env, it was a plan to destroy the economy of the US.
This is the first I've heard of this. Sources? Reasoning? Why would all the other developed countries hurt themselves by signing it?
I don't see that as flawed reasoning. Creating jobs doesn't mean that jobs are necessarily lost elsewhere. That still seems to fit what I learned in an econ class a term something like scalability or speed of money, where $10 spent might mean $100 worth of taxable income in a year because that $10 might pass through ten different people in a year.
I think it might mean that it helps with unemployment to be considered in the picture.
If it is like the Top Thrill, I think it is kind of a waste of time. Even for its intensity, I expect a few minutes worth of a ride for waiting a freaking hour in the blazing sun, not to mention the hours it takes just to get to the park.
I guess it really doesn't matter, I won't bother with this kind of park.
Despite the assertations that EZ-Pass information wouldn't be divulged, it is apparently now routine that subpoenas are issued and that information handed out even for a simple divorce case. So am I supposed to believe that EZ-Pass users aren't tracked for a potentially sinister reason?
As much as I'd like to trust politicians when they plan these things, they seem to break that trust as a matter of routine.
Geologically, this is fascinating. For the last few weeks, high concentration of hurricanes (on both coasts), a few earthquakes (on both coasts), now dual volcano events.
Keep in mind that hurricanes fall under meteorology, not geology.
I guess I missed the earthquake news on the East Coast, I'm not sure what you mean.